2002年-2006年：青岛大学旅游与地理科学学院地理系（本科）；

2006年-2011年：中国科学院青藏高原研究所（硕博连读）；

2009年-2010年：德国耶拿大学水文与地理信息系统系（联合培养博士）；

冰冻圈水文；碳循环与冰冻圈环境；河流碳循环

2014年至今：兰州大学

本科课程：
（1）气候变化科学概论
（2）寒区水文学

研究生课程：
（1）冰冻圈科学前沿

1. 主持国家自然基金面上项目“青藏高原冰川区甲烷释放过程及其对冰川退缩的响应”，编号：42271132，（2023-2026）；

2. 参与第二次青藏高原综合科学考察研究任务六“人类活动与生存环境安全”专题五“跨境污染物调查与环境安全”，编号：2019QZKK0605，（2019-2024）；
 
3. 主持中央高校基本科研业务费-定向探索项目（优秀青年教师科研创新项目），编号：lzujbky-2021-74，祁连山热融滑塌及其碳释放研究，（2021-2022）；

4. 主持国家自然科学青年基金：“纳木错流域冰川物质平衡变化对径流热量的影响研究”，编号：415010063，（2016-2018）；

5. 主持中国博士后科学基金：“气候变化对黑河上游河流水质的影响”，编号：2015M582721，（2016-2017）；

6. 参与国家自然科学重点基金：“黑河上游多年冻土区地表水、地下水相互作用”，编号：913252001，（2014-2017）；

2021
(1) Gao, T., Kang, S., Chen, R., Wang, X., Yang, J., Luo, X., ... & Zhang, Y. (2021). Characteristics of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in precipitation in the northern Tibetan Plateau. Science of The Total Environment, 776, 145911. （）
(2) Gao, T., Wang, X., Wei, D., Wang, T., Liu, S., & Zhang, Y. (2021). Transboundary water scarcity under climate change. Journal of Hydrology, 598, 126453.
(3) Gao, T., Zhang, Y., Kang, S., Abbott, B. W., Wang, X., Zhang, T., ... & Gustafsson, Ö. (2021). Accelerating permafrost collapse on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Research Letters, 16(5), 054023.
(4) Zhang, Y., Kang, S., Wei, D., Luo, X., Wang, Z., & Gao, T.* (2021). Sink or source? Methane and carbon dioxide emissions from cryoconite holds, subglacial sediments, and proglacial river runoff during intensive glacier melting on the Tibetan Plateau. Fundamental Research.
(5) 张太刚, 高坛光*, 刁文钦, 张玉兰 (2021). 祁连山区雪冰反照率变化及其对冰川物质平衡的影响, 冰川冻土 43 (1), 145-157
(6) Wang, Z., Zhang, Y., Kang, S., Yang, L., Shi, H., Tripathee, L., & Gao, T. (2021). Research progresses of microplastic pollution in freshwater systems. Science of The Total Environment, 148888.
(7) Zhang, T., Wang, W., Gao, T., & An, B. (2021). Simulation and Assessment of Future Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in the Poiqu River Basin, Central Himalayas. Water, 13(10), 1376.
(8) Zhang, Y., Gao, T., Kang, S., Shangguan, D., & Luo, X. (2021). Albedo reduction as an important driver for glacier melting in Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas. Earth-Science Reviews, 103735.
(9) Wei, D., Zhang, Y., Gao, T., Wang, L., & Wang, X. (2021). Reply to Song and Wang: Terrestrial CO2 sink dominates net ecosystem carbon balance of the Tibetan Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(46).
(10) Zhang, Y., Gao, T., Kang, S., Allen, S., Luo, X., & Allen, D. (2021). Microplastics in glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau: Evidence for the long-range transport of microplastics. Science of The Total Environment, 758, 143634.
(11) Zhang, T., Wang, W., Gao, T., An, B., & Yao, T. (2022). An integrative method for identifying potentially dangerous glacial lakes in the Himalayas. Science of the Total Environment, 806, 150442.

2020
1) Gao T, Kang S, Zhang Y, Sprenger M, Wang F, Du W, et al. Characterization, sources and transport of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen from a glacier in the Central Asia. Sci Tot Environ. 2020;725:138346.
2) Gao T, Kang S, Zhang Y, Sprenger M, Wang F, Du W, et al. Data on DOC and N from the Muz taw glacier in Central Asia. Data in Brief. 2020;30:105556.
3) Gao T, Liu J, Zhang T, Kang S, Liu C, Wang S, et al. Estimating interaction between surface water and groundwater in a permafrost region of the northern Tibetan Plateau using heat tracing method. Sci Cold Arid Reg. 2020;12(2):71-82. 
4) Zhang Y, Gao T, Kang S, Allen S, Luo X, Allen D. Microplastics in glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau: Evidence for the long-range transport of microplastics. Sci Tot Environ. 2020:143634.
5) Zhang Y, Gao T, Kang S, Sprenger M, Tao S, Du W, et al. Effects of black carbon and mineral dust on glacial melting on the Muz Taw glacier, Central Asia. Sci Tot Environ. 2020;740:140056.
6) Zhang Y, Kang S, Gao T, Sprenger M, Dou T, Han W, et al. Dissolved organic carbon in Alaskan Arctic snow: concentrations, light-absorption properties, and bioavailability. Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology. 2020;72(1):1-19.
7) 高坛光.融化的大地[J]. 大自然, 2020(01): 36-39.
8) 高坛光.多年冻土退化，会是下一个“后天”吗？[J].自然杂志, 2020, 42(05):421-424.

2019
1) Gao, T., Kang, S., Chen, R., Zhang, T., Zhang, T., Han, C., ... & Zhang, Y. (2019). Riverine dissolved organic carbon and its optical properties in a permafrost region of the Upper Heihe River basin in the Northern Tibetan Plateau. Science of the total environment, 686, 370-381.
2) Zhang, Y., Gao, T., Kang, S., & Sillanpää, M. (2019). Importance of atmospheric transport for microplastics deposited in remote areas. Environmental Pollution, 254, 112953.
3) Zhang, Y., Kang, S., Gao, T., Schmale, J., Liu, Y., Zhang, W., ... & Sillanpää, M. (2019). Dissolved organic carbon in snow cover of the Chinese Altai Mountains, Central Asia: Concentrations, sources and light-absorption properties. Science of the total environment, 647, 1385-1397.

2018
1) Gao, T., Zhang, T., Guo, H., Hu, Y., Shang, J., & Zhang, Y. (2018). Impacts of the active layer on runoff in an upland permafrost basin, northern Tibetan Plateau. PloS one, 13(2), e0192591.

2017
1) Gao, T.G., Kang, S. C., Zhang, T. J., Yang, D. Q., Shang, J. G., & Qin, X. (2017). Stream temperature dynamics in Nam Co basin, southern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Mountain Science, 14(12), 2458-2470.

2016
1) Gao, T., Zhang, T., Cao, L., Kang, S., & Sillanpää, M. (2016). Reduced winter runoff in a mountainous permafrost region in the northern Tibetan Plateau. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 126, 36-43.
2) Gao, T., Zhang, T., Wan, X., Kang, S., Sillanpää, M., Zheng, Y., & Cao, L. (2016). Influence of microtopography on active layer thaw depths in Qilian Mountain, northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Earth Sciences, 75(5), 382.

2015
1) Gao, T., Kang, S., Zhang, T., Zhou, S., Cuo, L., Sillanpää, M., & Zhang, Y. (2015). Summer hydrological characteristics in glacier and non-glacier catchments in the Nam Co Basin, southern Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Earth Sciences, 74(3), 2019-2028.
2) Tanguang Gao, Shichang Kang, Lan Cuo, et al., 2015. Simulation and analysis of glacier runoff and mass balance in the Nam Co basin, southern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Glaciology, 61(227): 447-461. 
3) Tanguang Gao, Shichang Kang, Peter Krause, et al., 2012. A test of J2000 model in a glaciated catchment in central Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Earth Science, 65: 1651-1659.
4) 高坛光, 张廷军, 康世昌等, 2015. 冰川径流温度研究进展[J]. 水科学进展. 26(6), 886-893. 

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