1992: B.S., Botany, Lanzhou University
1995: M.A., Ecology, Lanzhou University
2004: PhD., Physical Geography, Lanzhou University

Tree ring and Environmental change

1995.06-1997.10: Teaching Assistant, College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University
1997.11-1999.12: Lecturer, College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University
2000.01-2007.03: Associate Professor, Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (MOE), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University
2007.04- present: Professor, Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (MOE), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University
2016.11- present: Director, Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (MOE)
2017.07- present: Dean, College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University
2000.10-2001.04: Cooperative Study in London University, UK
2002.03-2003.07: Cooperative Study in Columbia University, USA
2005.09-2007.12: Cooperative Study in Tree-ring lab, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, USA
2011.04-2011.05: A visiting Scholar in University of Bergen, Norway
2013.07-2014.07: Cooperative Study in Tree-ring lab, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, USA

1. Teaching the Ecology and Terrestrial Ecosystem for the undergraduate
2.Teaching the Dendrochronology and Environmental Change for the graduate
3. Directed 10 research training programs for undergraduates
4.Training 6 PhDs and 10 graduates

1.Junzhou Zhang, Xiaohua Gou*, Ruben D. Manzanedo, Fen Zhang, and Neil Pederson. Cambial phenology and xylogenesis of Juniperus przewalskii over a climatic gradient is influenced by both temperature and drought. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2018, 260–261: 165–175.
2. Wenhuo Liu, Xiaohua Gou*, Jinbao Li, Yuxia Huo, Meixue Yang, Wei Lin. Separating temperature from precipitation signals encoded in tree-ring widths over the past millennium on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018, 193: 159–169.
3.Linlin Gao, Xiaohua Gou*, Yang Deng, Zhenqian Wang, Fu Gu, Fang Wang. Increased growth of Qinghai spruce in northwestern China during the recent warming hiatus. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2018, 260–261: 9–16.
4.Junzhou Zhang, Xiaohua Gou*, Neil Pederson, Fen Zhang, Haoge Niu, Shoudong Zhao, Fang Wang. Cambial phenology in Juniperus przewalskii along different altitudinal gradients in a cold and arid region. Tree Physiology, 2018, 38: 840–852.
5.Jiajia Su, Xiaohua Gou*, Yang Deng, Ruibo Zhang, Wenhuo Liu, Fen Zhang, Ming Lu, Yao Chen, Wuji Zheng. Tree growth response of Fokienia hodginsii to recent climate warming and drought in southwest China. International Journal of Biometeorology, 2017, 61: 2085–2096.
6.Yuxia Huo, Xiaohua Gou*, Wenhuo Liu, Jinbao Li, Fen Zhang, and Keyan Fang. Climate–growth relationships of Schrenk spruce (Picea schrenkiana) along an altitudinal gradient in the western Tianshan mountains, northwest China. Trees, 2017, 31: 429–439.
7.Linlin Gao, Xiaohua Gou*, Yang Deng, Meixue Yang, Fen Zhang. Assessing the influences of tree species, elevation and climate on tree-ring growth in the Qilian Mountains of northwest China. Trees, 2017, 31: 393–404.
8. Yang Deng, Xiaohua Gou*, Linlin Gao, Meixue Yang, Fen Zhang. Spatiotemporal drought variability of the eastern Tibetan Plateau during the last millennium. Climatic Dynamics, 2017, 49: 2077–2091.
9.Yang Deng, Xiaohua Gou*, Linlin Gao, Meixue Yang, Fen Zhang. Tree-ring recorded moisture variations over the past millennium in the Hexi Corridor, northwest China. Environmental Earth Sciences, 2017, 76: 272, doi: 10.1007/s12665-017-6581-1.
10.Junzhou Zhang, Xiaohua Gou*, Yongxiang Zhang, Ming Lu, Xiangyu Xu, Fen Zhang, Wenhuo Liu, Linlin Gao. Forward modeling analyses of Qilian Juniper (Sabina przewalskii) growth in response to climate factors in different regions of the Qilian Mountains, northwestern China. Trees, 2016, 30: 175–188.
11.Ruibo Zhang, Yujiang Yuan, Xiaohua Gou*, Qing He, Huaming Shang, Tongwen Zhang, Feng Chen, Bakytbek Ermenbaevc, Shulong Yu, Li Qin, Ziang Fan. Tree-ring-based moisture variability in western Tianshan Mountains since A.D. 1882 and its possible driving mechanism. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2016, 218–219: 267–276.
12.Yang Deng, Xiaohua Gou*, Linlin Gao, Fen Zhang, Xiangyu Xu, Meixue Yang. Tree-ring recorded drought variability in the northern Min Mountains of northwestern China. International Journal of Climatology, 2016, 36: 3550–3560.
13.Xiaohua Gou*, Yang Deng, Linlin Gao, Fahu Chen, Meixue Yang, Fen Zhang. Millennium tree-ring reconstruction of drought variability in the eastern Qilian Mountains, northwest China. Climatic Dynamics, 2015, 45: 1761–1770.
14. Xiaohua Gou*, Linlin Gao, Yang Deng, Fahu Chen, Meixue Yang, Christopher Still. An 850-year tree-ring based reconstruction of drought history in the western Qilian Mountains of northwestern China. International Journal of Climatology, 2015, 35: 3308–3319.
15.Wenhuo Liu, Xiaohua Gou*, Jinbao Li, Yuxia Huo, Keyan Fang. A method to separate temperature and precipitation signals encoded in tree-ring widths for the western Tien Shan Mountains, northwest China. Global and Planetary Change, 2015. 133: 141–148.
16. Linlin Gao, Xiaohua Gou*, Yang Deng, Meixue Yang, Fen Zhang. Dendroclimatic reconstruction of temperature in the eastern Qilian Mountains, northwestern China. Climate Research, 2015, 62: 241–250.
17.Xiaohua Gou*, Yang Deng, Fahu Chen, Meixue Yang, Linlin Gao, Atle Nesje, and Keyan Fang. Precipitation variations and possible forcing factors on the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau during the last millennium. Quaternary Research, 2014, 81: 508–512.
18.Gou XiaoHua*, Yang Tao, Gao Linlin, Deng Yang, Yang Meixue and Chen Fahu. A 457-year reconstruction of precipitation in the southeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China using tree-ring records. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2013, 58 (10): 1107–1114.
19. Yang Deng, Xiaohua Gou*, Linlin Gao, Zhiqian Zhao, Zongying Cao, Meixue Yang. Aridity changes in the eastern Qilian Mountains since AD 1856 reconstructed from tree-rings. Quaternary International, 2013, 283: 78–84.
20. Fen Zhang, Xiaohua Gou*, Wenhuo Liu, D. F. Levia and Yingjun Li. Individual and time-varying tree-ring growth to climate sensitivity of Pinus tabuliformis Carr. and Sabina przewalskii Kom. in the eastern Qilian Mountains, China. Trees, 2013, 27: 359–370.
21. Linlin Gao, Xiaohua Gou*, Yang Deng, Zhiqian Zhao and Zongying Cao. Climate–growth analysis of Qilian juniper across an altitudinal gradient in the central Qilian Mountains, northwest China. Trees, 2013, 27(2): 379–388.
22. Li, J., Xie, S., Cook, E. R., Morales, M. S., Christie, D. A., Johnson, N. C., Chen, F., D Arrigo, R., Fowler, A. M., Gou, X., Fang, K. El Nino modulations over the past seven centuries. Nature Climate Change, 2013, 3: 822–826.
23.Xiaohua Gou*, Fen Zhang, Yang Deng, Gregory J.Ettl, Meixue Yang, Linlin Gao, Keyan Fang. Patterns and dynamics of tree-line response to climate change in the eastern of Qilian Mountains, northwestern China. Dendrochronologia, 2012, 30: 121–126.
24.Keyan Fang, Xiaohua Gou*, Fahu Chen, Changzhi Liu, Nicole Davi, Jinbao Li, Zhiqian Zhao, Yingjun Li. Tree-ring based reconstruction of drought variability (1615-2009) in the Kongtong Mountain area, northern China. Global and Planetary Change, 2012, 80: 190–197.
25.Fang Keyan, Gou Xiaohua*, Chen Fahu, Cook Edward, Li Jinbao, Buckley Brendan, D'Arrigo Rosanne. Large-scale precipitation variability over Northwest China inferred from tree rings. Journal of Climate, 2011, 24: 3457–3468.
26.Yong Zhang, Qinhua Tian, Xiaohua Gou*, Fahu Chen, Steven W. Leavitt and Yousheng Wange. Annual precipitation reconstruction since AD 775 based on tree rings from the Qilian Mountains, northwestern China. International Journal of Climatology, 2011, 31: 371–381.
27.Gou Xiaohua*, Deng Yang, Chen Fahu, Yang Meixue, Fang Keyan, Gao Linlin, Yang Tao, Zhang Fen. Tree ring based streamflow reconstruction for the Upper Yellow River over the past 1234 years. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2010, 55(36): 4179–4186.
28.Fang Keyan, Gou Xiaohua*, Chen Fahu, Li Jinbao, D’Arrigo Rosanne, Cook Edward, Yang Tao, Davi Nicole. 2010. Reconstructed droughts for the southeastern Tibetan Plateau over the past 568 years and its linkages to the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean climate variability. Climate Dynamics, 2010, 35(4): 577–585.
29.Fang Keyan, Gou Xiaohua*, Chen Fahu, D’Arrigo Rosanne, Li Jinbao. Tree-ring based drought reconstruction for Guiqing Mountain (China): Linkage to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. International Journal of Climatology, 2010, 30: 1137–1145.
30. Keyan Fang, Xiaohua Gou*, Fahu Chen, Maosheng He, Yong Zhang, Qinhua Tian, Jianfeng Peng. Drought variation in eastern part of Northwest China over last two centuries: evidence from tree-ring. Climate Research, 2009, 38: 129–135.
31.Fang Keyan, Gou Xiaohua*, Chen Fahu, Peng jianfeng, D’Arrigo Rosanne, Wright William, Li Mai-He. Response of regional tree-line forests to climate change: evidence from the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Trees, 2009, 23: 1321–1329.
32.Wenhuo Liu, Xiaohua Gou*, Meixue Yang, Yong Zhang, Keyan Fang, Tao Yang, Liya Jin. Drought reconstruction in the Qilian mountains over the last two centuries and its implications for large-scale moisture patterns. Advance in Atmospheric Sciences, 2009, 26(4): 621–629.
33.Gou Xiaohua, Chen Fahu, Yang Meixue, Jacoby Gordon, Fang Keyan, Tian Qinhua & Zhang Yong. Asymmetric variability between maximum and minimum temperatures in Northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from tree rings. Science in China, 2008, 51(1): 41–55.
34.Xiaohua Gou, Fahu Chen, Gordon Jacoby, Edward Cook, Meixue Yang，Jianfeng Peng and Yong Zhang. Rapid tree growth with respect to the last 400 years in response to climate warming, northeastern Tibetan Plateau. International Journal of Climatology, 2007, 27: 1497–1503.
35.Xiaohua Gou, Fahu Chen, Edward Cook, Gordon Jacoby, Meixue Yang and Jinbao Li. Streamflow variations of the Yellow River over past 593 years in western China reconstructed from tree rings. Water Resources Research, 2007, 43, W06434, doi: 10.1029/2006WR005705.
36.Qinhua Tian, Xiaohua Gou*, Yong Zhang, Jianfeng Peng, Jinsong Wang and Tuo Chen. Tree-ring based drought reconstruction (A.D. 1855-2001) for the Qilian Mountains, northwestern China. Tree-ring Research, 2007,63(1): 27–36.
37.Jinbao Li, Xiaohua Gou*, Edward R. Cook, Fahu Chen. Tree-ring Based Drought Reconstruction for the Central Tien Shan area in northwest China. Geophysical Research Letters, 2006, 33, L07715, doi:10.1029/2006GL025803.
38.X. Gou, F. Chen, M. Yang, J. li, J. Peng, L. Jin. Climatic response of thick leaf spruce (Picea crassifolia) tree-ring width at different elevations over Qilian Mountains, northwestern China. Journal of Arid Environments, 2005, 61: 513–524.