2009年9月-2015年12月：兰州大学，资源环境学院，博士 
2013年9月-2015年9月：美国俄勒冈州立大学，森林学院，联合培养博士
2005年9月-2009年6月：信阳师范学院，城市环境科学系，学士

树木年轮与全球变化，森林生态学

2019年12月-至今：兰州大学，资源环境学院，副研究员 
2024年8月-2025年7月：英国剑桥大学，地理系，访问学者
2018年9月-2019年12月：兰州大学，资源环境学院，讲师
2016年7月-2018年9月：兰州大学，资源环境学院，师资博士后

本科课程：《气象与气候学》、《生态学基础》、《计量地理学》、《环境科学概论》

研究生课程：《论文写作指导与专业英语》、《树木年轮与全球变化》、《水土保持与生态工程》

《地理科学》青年编委

1. 2024年，荣获“甘肃省自然科学一等奖（4/5）”；
2. 2024年，荣获“甘肃省技术标兵”；
3. 2024年，荣获兰州大学“隆基教学新秀奖”；
4. 2024年，荣获兰州大学“优秀班主任”；
5. 2023年，荣获“第六届甘肃省高校青年教师教学竞赛(工科组)二等奖”；
6. 2023年，荣获“2022年兰州大学毕业论文（设计）优秀指导教师”；
7. 2022年，荣获“兰州大学第六届青年教师教学竞赛理工科组三等奖”；
8. 2021年，荣获“国家级大学生创新创业训练计划”优秀指导老师；
9. 2020年，荣获西部环境教育部重点实验室“西部环境奖-青年教师创新奖”。

1.  主持国家自然科学基金委面上基金项目：过去千年青藏高原东部复合极端气候事件的树轮多指标记录研究，批准号：42571020，2026.01-2029.12 
2. 主持国家自然科学基金委面上基金项目：气候变化影响树木径向生长的树轮记录与模拟研究，批准号：42071057，2021.01-2024.12 
3. 主持国家自然科学基金委青年基金项目：基于3-PG模型的祁连山地区青海云杉树木生长模拟研究，批准号：41701048，2018.01-2020.12 
4. 参加国家重点研发计划项目：祁连山自然保护区生态环境评估、预警与监控关键技术研究，课题：人类活动和气候变化对祁连山自然保护区的影响，批准号：2019YFC0507401，2019.12-2022.11

1.	Xinyue Li, Linlin Gao*, Baolong Ma, Kai Wang, Yang Deng. June–September mean temperature variability in the eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau over the past 225 years based on high quality tree-ring records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2025, 113253
2.	Na Du, Shuhua Qiao, Baolong Ma, Xinyue Li, Linhan Si, Linlin Gao*, Yang Deng*. Earlywood blue intensity of Picea purpurea reveals June minimum temperature variability in Eastern Tibetan Plateau since 1671CE. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2025, 113220
3.	Xingying Shi, Linlin Gao*, Yang Deng, Yuhang Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Xiaohua Gou. A tree-ring based streamflow reconstruction for the Taohe River (Gannan Plateau, China) associated with the Asian-Pacific Oscillation since 1325 CE. Catena, 2024, 108027
4.	Yuhang Zhang , Linlin Gao *, Yang Deng , Qianling Huang , Yiyun Yuan , Xingying Shi , Xiaohua Gou. Seasonal aridity regulates drivers and temporal variability of wood phenology: A meta-analysis of dendrometer monitoring data across the Northern Hemisphere. Dendrochronologia, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.dendro.2024.126201
5.	Shuhua Qiao, Yang Deng*; Linlin Gao*, Yiyun Yuan, Qianling Huang, Xiaohua Gou. Asymmetric impacts of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on summer temperature over the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, as revealed by the blue intensity of Picea purpurea. Global and Planetary Change, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104381
6.	Gang Li, Linlin Gao*, Fengwen Liu, Menghan Qiu, Guanghui Dong*. Quantitative studies on charcoalification: Physical and chemical changes of charring wood. Fundamental Research, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.fmre.2022.05.014
7.	Yiyun Yuan , Yang Deng *, Linlin Gao *, Xiyue Fu , Yanjun Xu , Xiaohua Gou. Unprecedented recent warming as recorded by tree-ring in the western Qinling Mountains, China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112202
8.	Xiang Zhang, Linlin Gao*, Yu Luo, Yiyun Yuan, Baolong Ma, Yang Deng*. Finer topographic data improves distribution modeling of Picea crassifolia in the northern Qilian Mountains. Journal of Mountain Science, 2024, doi: 10.1007/s11629-024-8851-1
9.	Qian Li, Linlin Gao*, Yang Deng, Xiang Zhang, Yongkang Duan, Xiaohua Gou. A two-centennial perspective on spatially compounding hydroclimate events in arid and semi-arid north China. Quaternary Science Reviews,2023, 108314
10.	Shuangjuan Wang, Yang Deng*, Linlin Gao*, Yuhang Zhang, Xingying Shi, Xiaohua Gou.  Influence of monsoon anomalies on intra-annual density fluctuations of Chinese pine in the Loess Plateau. International Journal of Biometeorology, 2023, doi:10.1007/s00484-023-02459-7 
11.	Kai Wang, Xiaohua Gou*, Linlin Gao*, Wenhuo Liu, Haowen Fan, Weiguo Zhang, Haijiang Yang. Whether increased water‐use efficiency of Picea crassifolia promotes radial growth of trees in the eastern Qilian Mountains. International Journal of Climatology, 2022, 42:8201-8213. 
12.	Qian Li, Yang Deng*, Shuangjuan Wang, Linlin Gao*, Xiaohua Gou. A half-millennium perspective on recent drying in the eastern Chinese Loess Plateau. Catena, 2022, 212: 106087.
13.	Linlin Gao, Yang Deng, Xiaoya Yan, Qian Li, Yu Zhang, Xiaohua Gou. The unusual recent streamflow declines in the Bailong River, north-central China, from a multi-century perspective. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021, 260:106927
14.	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 period. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2018, 260: 9-16. 
15.	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-Structure and Function, 2017, 31(2): 393-404. 
16.	Linlin Gao, Xiaohua Gou, Yang Deng, Meixue Yang, Fen Zhang, Jin Li. Dendroclimatic reconstruction of temperature in the eastern Qilian Mountains, northwestern China. Climate Research, 2015, 62(3): 241-250. 
17.	Linlin Gao, Xiaohua Gou, Yang Deng, Wenhuo Liu, Meixue Yang, Zhiqian Zhao. Climate-growth analysis for Qilian juniper across an altitude gradient in the central Qilian Mountains, northwest China. Trees-Structure and Function, 2013, 27 (2), 379-388 
18.	Linlin Gao, Xiaohua Gou, Yang Deng, Zhiqian Zhao, Zongying Cao. Dendroclimatic response of Picea crassifolia along an altitudinal gradient in the eastern Qilian Mountains, northwest China. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2013, 45(4): 491–499. 
19.	高琳琳, 勾晓华, 邓洋, 杨梅学, 霍玉侠, 陈秋艳. 西北干旱区树轮气候学研究进展. 海洋地质与第四纪地质, 2013, 33(4): 25-35 
20.	高琳琳, 勾晓华, 邓洋, 张芬, 方克艳. 树轮气候学中分异现象的研究进展. 冰川冻土, 2011, 33(2): 453-460. 
21.	Yang Deng, Linlin Gao, Xiaohua Gou. Spatiotemporal drought variation in mid‐latitude East Asia over the past half millennium. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2023, doi: 10.1029/2022JD037793
22.	Xiaohua Gou, Linlin Gao, Yang Deng, Fahu Chen, Meixue Yang, Christoper 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 
23.	Richard H. Waring, Linlin Gao. Recent reduction in the frequency of frost accounts for most of the increased growth of a high elevation spruce forest in northwestern China. Trees-Structure and Function, 2016, 30: 1225-1236.