Projects or program in progress

• Global warming and water cycle changes over the Tibetan Plateau, 2008-2010, NSFC, PI (Principle Investigator)
• Stable isotope studies based on a network of precipitation and river discharge, 2008-2011, NSFC, PI
• Tibetan Plateau: Formation-climate-ecosystems (TiP) project, 2008-2018, DFG, Chinese PI
• Third Pole Environment (TPE) program, 2009-2012, CAS, co-chair

Completed projects

• Tibetan environmental changes and adaptation, National Basic Research Program (or 973 Program), 2006-2010, the Ministry of Science and Technology, P. R. China, Chair Person of the program
• Stable oxygen isotopes and monsoon, 2007-2009, NSFC, PI
• Environmental changes in cold regions, 2003-2006, NSFC, PI
• Environmental reconstructions in the Mutztag Ata region, 2000-2002, the Ministry of Science and Technology, P.R.China, PI
• Carbon Cycle in Cold Regions and Climatic Change, 2001-2004, NSFC, PI
• Global Warming and Glacial Retreating, 2001-2002, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PI
• High resolution climatic record and its relating processes, 1999- 2003, the Ministry of Science and Technology, PI
• Climatic changes in the past 2000 years, 1997-99, NSFC, PI
• Climate and environment recorded at 7000m above sea level, 1996-99, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PI
• Oxygen isotope in precipitation and its relation to temperature, 1994-95, the Ministry of Science and Technology, PI
• Global warming and cryosphere evolution, 1992-93, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PI
• A study of ice core climate and environment record from the Guliya Ice Cap, 1990-94, NSFC, PI
• An investigation to glacial fluctuations in the Tibetan Plateau, 1989-91, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PI
• Environmental fluctuations recorded in the Dunde Ice Cap, 1984-87, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Co-PI