Scientific expeditions
- October, 2018: led an emergency relief team on a field expedition to ice collapse and river outburst site along the Yarlung Zangbo river range
- September-October, 2016: led a thirty-some-member team to the Dunde ice cap for ice core drilling
- August-October, 2015: led an international expedition team (including scientists from China, U.S., Russia, Italy and Peru) to the Guliya ice cap for ice core drilling
- June-July, 2013: field expedition to the Yellow River source region
- May-June, 2013: field trip to southwestern Tibetan Plateau
- July, 2012: field trip to the western Tibet
- July-August, 2012: field trip to the interior region of the Tibetan Plateau
- April-May, 2009: field trip to the Langtang Valley, Nepal
- September-November, 2006: field trip to Naimonanyi for ice core drilling
- August-September, 2004: reconnaissance trip to Naimonanyi, southwest Himalayas
- September-November, 2000: field trip to Puruogangri, central Tibetan Plateau for ice core drilling
- August-September, 1999: reconnaissance trip to Puruogangri, central Tibet
- 1997: ice core drilling on Dasuopu glacier (7200 m a.s.l.), southern Himalayas
- July-September, 1996: Field expedition to the Dasuopu glacier
- 1992: ice core drilling on Guliya ice cap
- 1991: reconnaissance trip to Guliya ice cap
- 1990: reconnaissance trip to Guliya ice cap
- 1986: China-US joint field trip to Dunde ice cap
- 1984: field expedition to Urumqi river, Tienshan
Research programs
- 2019-2023 PI, The Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) Program（Grant No.: 2019QZKK0000）
- 2018-2022 PI, Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences “Pan-Third Pole Environment (Pan-TPE)” (Grant No: XDA20000000)
- 2016-2020 PI, NSFC International (Regional) Collaboration and Exchange Program on “Impacts of Climate Change on Water Balance on the Third Pole” (Grant No.: 41611130049）
- 2016-2019 PI, NSFC International (Regional) Collaboration and Exchange Program on “Recent and Future Glacial Lakes Evolution in China: Spatial-Temporal Variety and Potential Threats”（Grant No.: 21661132003）
- 2012-2016 PI, Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences “Multisphere Interactions on the Tibetan Plateau and their Effects on Resources and Environment” (XDB03000000)
- 2012-2015 PI, NSFC Key Program “Multiphase Transformation of Water in Third Pole Earth Systems and its Impacts” (Grant No.: 41190080)
- 2009-2012 PI, NSFC Key Program “China Network of Isotopes in Rivers and Precipitation (CNIRP)”
- 2009-2012 PI, Chinese Academy of Sciences International Program “Third Pole Environment (TPE)”
- 2009-2011 PI, NSFC General Program “Integrated Study of Glaciers and Glacial-fed Lakes in South Tibetan Plateau”
- 2005-2010 PI, Ministry of Science and Technology of PRC “Tibetan Plateau Environmental Changes and their responses to global changes and human adaptation strategies” (Grant No.: 2005CB422000)
- 2002-2007 PI, NSFC General Program “Ice Core and Cold Region Environment” (Grant No.: 40121101)