Daidu Fan
Associate Professor
Marine Geology

Contact:
Tongji University
School of Ocean and Earth Science
1239 Siping Road
Shanghai 200092
China

ddfan@mail.tongji.edu.cn

Education

• B.S. China University of Geosciences, 1994, Earth Science
• Ph.D. Tongji University, 2001, Marine Geology

Research Interests

• Coastal sedimentology - developing basic sedimentation models for interpreting ancient sedimentary deposits, particularly tidal deposits;
• Paleo-tempestology - developing long-term records of intense storms from sedimentary and documentary archives;
• Stratigraphic records of Late Quaternary environmental change;
• Zircon Chronology - tracing evolution of source-to-sink systems, especially the evolution of the Yangtze River drainage basin since the Cenozoic India-Eurasia collision and the Tibet Plateau uplift.

Upcoming Events of Interest

Tidalites 2008, Seventh International Conference on Tidal Environments, Qingdao, China, September 21 - 24, 2008, First Circular