PhD Physical Geography, Lanzhou University, 2007-2014, Supervisors: Prof Baotian Pan

Visiting student, University of California Berkeley, 2011-2013, Supervisors: Prof William E. Dietrich

BSc Geography, Lanzhou University, 2003-2007

Seeking the mechanistic, quantitative understanding of climatic influence on erosional processes and resulting landforms. I am also interested in climate-tectonic interaction during mountain building, and attempting to develop models to simulate the long-term landscape evolution.

Professor, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, 2022-present

Associate professor, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, 2017-2022

Lecture, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, 2014-2017

1.         Teaching the “Geomorphology” for the undergraduate

2.         Teaching the “Numerical Modeling in geomorphology” for the graduate

National Natural Science Foundation of China for Excellent Young Scholars, Landscape evolution and numerical simulation, 2024-2026, Host, ¥ 2,000,000.

National Natural Science Foundation of China, Feedback mechanism between weathering and landslide processes and its response to tectonics and climatic regimes, 2020-2023, Host, ¥ 620,000.

The Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and research program (STEP), Historical events and coupling processes of Glacial-River-Lake evolution in the Brahmaputra River Basin, 2019-2023, Participate, ¥ 38,180,000.

Selected Publications (* corresponding author)
1.	Yunbo Zhang, Haopeng Geng*, Shun Cai, Baotian Pan. Tan DEM-X preserves the relationship between hilltop curvature and erosion rate in the Qilian Shan. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 2023, DOI: 10.1029/2023JF007118.
2.	Haopeng Geng, Wanying Xu, Weishan Zheng, Xiaolei Gao, Baotian Pan. A hybrid mechanism for the initiation and expansion of loess caves across the Chinese Loess Plateau. Land Degradation & Development, 2023, 34(11): 3329-3339. doi: 10.1002/ldr.4686
3.	Jian Zhang, Ralf Hetzel, Baotian Pan, Haopeng Geng, Reinhard Wolff, Dianbao Chen. A 10Be-based paleo-erosion record for the Qilian Shan (NE Tibet) over the past 4.2 Ma from a drillcore in the Hexi Corridor, Geomorphology, 2023, 430: 108657. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorphology.2023.108657
4.	Haopeng Geng, Jian Zhang, Rong Xie, Songbo Dai, Baotian Pan. The constancy of chemical weathering intensity on hillslopes in the arid to semiarid Qilian Mountains, NE Tibetan Plateau. Science of The Total Environment, 2023, 870: 161946. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161946
5.	Meiqin Han, Gary Brierley, Baotian Pan, Haopeng Geng, Yan Shi. An approach to evaluate the dominant river biogeomorphic succession phase at the reach-scale, CATENA, 2022, 217: 106455. doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2022.106455
6.	Haopeng Geng, Yang Hong, David G. Milledge, Baotian Pan, Yu Guo. Frost cracking dictated landslide distribution in response to temperature change since Last Glacial Maximum across the Eastern Qilian Mountains. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2022,47: 3163-3179. doi: 10.1002/esp.5450.
7.	Jian Zhang, Haopeng Geng*, Baotian Pan, Junsheng Nie, Xiaofei Hu, Qiming Zhao, Dianbao Chen, Rong Xie. Coupling of tectonic uplift and climate change as influences on drainage evolution: A case study at the NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau. CATENA, 2022, 216PB: 106433. doi: 10.1016/J.CATENA.2022.106433.5450
8.	Haopeng Geng, Shun Cai, Honghua Lu, Baotian Pan. How can a youthful mountain survive in a foreland setting? - Constraining the uplift threshold rate by numerical simulation. Science Bulletin, 2022, 67(12): 1230-1232. doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2022.03.002
9.	Haopeng Geng, Ru Liu, Weishan Zheng, Yunbo Zhang, Rong Xie, Yu Guo, Baotian Pan. Interaction between animal burrowing and loess cave formation in the Chinese Loess Plateau. Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021, 9: 806921. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.806921
10.	Baotian Pan, Shun Cai, Haopeng Geng*. Numerical simulation of landscape evolution and mountain uplift history constrain—A case study from the youthful stage mountains around the central Hexi Corridor, NE Tibetan Plateau. Science China Earth Sciences, 2021, 64(3): 412-424. doi: 10.1007/s11430-020-9716-6
11.	Jian Zhang, Haopeng Geng*, Baotian Pan, Xiaofei Hu, Liping Chen, Wei Wang, Dianbao Chen, Qiming Zhao. Climatic zonation complicated the lithology controls on the mineralogy and geochemistry of fluvial sediments in the Heihe River Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary International, 2020, 537: 33-47. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.01.016
12.	Shun Cai, Haopeng Geng*, Baotian Pan, Yang Hong, Liping Chen. Topographic controls on the annual runoff coefficient and implications for landscape evolution across semiarid Qilian Mountains, NE Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Mountain Science, 2020, 17(2): 464-479. doi: 10.1007/s11629-019-5584-7
13.	Dianbao Chen, Baotian Pan, Jinfeng Ma, Xiaofei Hu, Haopeng Geng, Hongli Pang. Paleoclimatic record from the clay mineralogy of Quaternary sediments of drill core DWJ from Jiudong subbasin (western Hexin Corridor), NW China. Quaternary Research, 2020, 93: 124-138. doi: 10.1017/quan.2019.50
14.	Haopeng Geng, Baotian Pan, Bo Huang, Bo Cao, Hongshan Gao. The spatial distribution of precipitation and topography in the Qilian Shan Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Geomorphology, 2017, 297: 43–54. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.08.050
15.	Xiaofei Hu, Baotian Pan, Yuxin Fan, Jun Wang, Zhenbo Hu, Bo Cao, Qingyang Li, Haopeng Geng. Folded fluvial terraces in a young, actively deforming intramontane basin between the Yumu Shan and the Qilian Shan Mountains, NE Tibet. Lithosphere, 2017, 9(4): 545-560. doi: 10.1130/L614.1
16.	Xiaofei Hu, Baotian Pan, Eric Kirby, Hongshan Gao, Zhenbo Hu, Bo Cao, Haopeng Geng, Qingyang Li, Guoliang Zhang. Rates and kinematics of active shortening along the eastern Qilian Shan, China, inferred from deformed fluvial terraces. Tectonics, 2015, 34(12): 2478-2493. doi: 10.1002/2015TC003978
17.	Haopeng Geng, Baotian Pan, David G. Milledge, Bo Huang, Guoliang Zhang. Quantifying sheet wash erosion rates in a mountainous semi-arid basin using environmental radionuclides and a stream power model. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2015, 40: 1814-1826. doi: 10.1002/esp.3741
18.	Baotian Pan, Qiong Li, Xiaofei Hu, Haopeng Geng, Hongshan Gao. Bedrock channels response to differential rock uplift in eastern Qilian Mountain along the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2015, 40(13): 1814-1826. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2014.12.009
19.	Baotian Pan, Qingyang Li, Xiaofei Hu, Haopeng Geng, Zibian Liu, Shaofei Jiang, Wanming Yuan. Cretaceous and Cenozoic cooling history of the eastern Qilian Shan, north-eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: evidence from apatite fission-track analysis. Terra Nova, 2013, 25(6): 431-438. doi: 10.1011/ter/12052
20.	Jie Wang, Baotian Pan, Guoliang Zhang, Hang Cui, Bo Cao, Haopeng Geng. Late Quaternary glacial chronology on the eastern slope of Gongga Mountain, eastern Tibetan Plateau, China. Science China Earth Sciences, 2013, 56(3): 354-365. doi: 10.1007/s11430-012-4514-0
21.	Baotian Pan, Xiaofei Hu, Hongshan Gao, Zhenbo Hu, Bo Cao, Haopeng Geng, Qingyang Li. Late Quaternary river incision rates and rock uplift pattern of the eastern Qilian Shan Mountain, China. Geomorphology, 2013, 184: 84-97. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.11.020
22.	Xiaofei Hu, Baotian Pan, Eric Kirby, Qingyang Li, Haopeng Geng, Jifeng Chen. Spatial differences in rock uplift rates inferred from channel steepness indices along the northern flank of the Qilian Mountain, northeast Tibetan Plateau. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2010, 55(27-28): 3205-3214. doi: 10.1007/s11434-010-4024-4
23.	Pan Baotian, Geng Haopeng*, Hu Xiaofei, Ranhao Sun, Chao Wang. The topographic controls on the decadal-scale erosion rates in Qilian Shan Mountains, N. W. China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2010, 292: 148-157. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.01.030

Selected Publications in Chinese：
24.	Yang Hong, Haopeng Geng, Baotian Pan. Frost cracking controlled scree spatial distribution in the Qilian Mountains. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology, 2022, 44(4): 1347-1356. 
25.	Weishan Zheng, Haopeng Geng*, Guoqiang Gu, Baotian Pan. The study of the Distribution Characteristics and Erosion Threshold of Loess Cave at Yujia Mountain in Dingxi. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 2020, 34(4): 112-117+123.
26.	Weishan Zheng, Haopeng Geng*, Baotian Pan. The erosion threshold of loess sinkholes at Qingshui Valley in Lanzhou. Journal of Lanzhou University: Natural Sciences, 2020, 56(3): 326-332.
27.	Xilin Cao, Haopeng Geng*, Baotian Pan, Xiaofei Hu. 	Development of Transverse Drainages and Formation of Wind Gaps on Actively Growing Fold: Review and Case Study. SEISMOLOGY AND GEOLOGY, 2020, 42(4): 670-687.
28.	Shun Cai, Haopeng Geng*, Weishan Zheng, Baotian Pan. Valley spacing charater information and its influencing factors based on the Fourier transform. Journal of Geo-information Science, 2020, 22(3): 399-409.
29.	Liping Chen, Haopeng Geng*, Jian Zhang, Qiming Zhao, Baotian Pan. Spatial distribution of bedrock rebound value (Schmidt Hammer) across the Heihe River basin and its implication. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology, 2019.41(2): 364-373.
30.	Jing Chang, Zhengchuang Hui, Haopeng Geng, Xiaofei Hu, Baotian Pan. Modern Pollen Transportation Process in the Middle Reach of the Heihe River. Scientia Geographica Sinica, 2017, 37(12): 1925-1932. 
31.	Jian Zhang, Xiaofei Hu, Haopeng Geng, Dianbao Chen, Baotian Pan. Drainage Evolution History in Jiudong Basin Since the Pleistocene Inferred from Heavy Characteristics in Cores and Modern Fluvial Deposits. Scientia Geographica Sinica, 2016, 36(10): 1595-1604.
32.	Haopeng Geng, Baotian Pan*, Chao Wang, Bo Huang. Soil erosion of Yuzhong County based on GIS and RS. Journal of Lanzhou University (Natural Sciences), 2009, 45(6): 8-13.