团队目前围绕印太暖池区及太平洋海盆，利用包括大洋钻探在内的各种岩芯物性、元素、同位素及各种生物标志物等替代性指标，结合地球系统模式和箱式模式，开展构造和轨道尺度上的古海洋、古环境研究，侧重新生代关键气候态转型期的洋流和季风重建，从高低纬过程的相互作用出发，对阐述地表气候地球轨道驱动的米兰科维奇理论和经典的大洋传送带热盐环流模式进行再思考。

        团队目前有教授3名，博士后1名，博士研究生及硕士研究生十数人。

1、国家自然科学基金重点项目-“探索晚新生代太平洋中深层经向翻转流与气候演变冰期旋回的关系”，2021.1-2025.12;

2、国家自然科学基金面上项目-“：晚中新世大洋碳位移事件的成因机制及其古环境效应”,2018.1-2021.12;

3、国家杰出青年科学基金-“古海洋学””晚新近纪南海和太平洋碳酸盐补偿深度变化及其古气候意义”，2016.1-2020.12；

4、国家自然科学基金重大计划“南海深部计划”重点项目-“晚第三纪重大冰盖生长期南海深部洋流变迁”，2012.1-2015.12；

5、国家自然科学基金面上项目-“蒙特利碳位移”末期太平洋中深层水团重组”,2010-1-2012.12；

6、国家自然科学基金面上项目-“氧同位素5期以来热带西非季风气候的高分辨率海洋记录”,2008.1-2010.12；

7、国家自然科学基金面上项目-“北极冰盖形成期南沙表层海水对地球轨道周期变化的响应”,2005.1-2007.12；

8、国家自然科学青年基金项目-“地球轨道驱动的半岁差周期及其在南沙海区的响应”，2004.1-2004.12；

9、教育部新世纪优秀人才支持计划项目-“中中新世太平洋中、深层水团变化与全球变冷”,2009-1-2011.12；

10、全国百篇优秀博士论文作者专项基金-“70,000年以来千年尺度上的东亚季风演化–来自南沙的气候记录”，2006.1-2010.12；

11、上海市青年科技启明星项目-“氧同位素5期东亚季风与印度尼西亚穿越流的对比研究”，2006.9-2008.9；

12、上海市青年科技启明星跟踪项目-“末次冰期旋回中西非气候变化的海陆响应”，2010.3-2012.3；

13、第十一届霍英东高等院校青年教师基金-“晚更新世热带西大西洋千年尺度的季风气候”,2008.1-2010.12;

14、上海市曙光人才项目-“千年尺度上热带季风系统与高纬过程的相位”，2012.1-2015.1。

15、上海市人才发展资金项目-“新近纪轨道尺度上开放太平洋和边缘海上层海水结构变化的异同点极其气候意义”,2014/01-2016/12.

16、上海市优秀学术带头人项目-“新近纪南海碳酸盐补偿深度变化及其古气候意义”, 2016/05-2019/04.

17、第四批万人计划科技创新领军人才资助项目-“晚新生代太平洋古海洋学”。

1、国家自然科学基金重点项目-“探索晚新生代太平洋中深层经向翻转流与气候演变冰期旋回的关系”，2021.1-2025.12;

2、国家自然科学基金面上项目-“：晚中新世大洋碳位移事件的成因机制及其古环境效应”,2018.1-2021.12;

3、国家杰出青年科学基金-“古海洋学””晚新近纪南海和太平洋碳酸盐补偿深度变化及其古气候意义”，2016.1-2020.12；

4、国家自然科学基金重大计划“南海深部计划”重点项目-“晚第三纪重大冰盖生长期南海深部洋流变迁”，2012.1-2015.12；

5、国家自然科学基金面上项目-“蒙特利碳位移”末期太平洋中深层水团重组”,2010-1-2012.12；

6、国家自然科学基金面上项目-“氧同位素5期以来热带西非季风气候的高分辨率海洋记录”,2008.1-2010.12；

7、国家自然科学基金面上项目-“北极冰盖形成期南沙表层海水对地球轨道周期变化的响应”,2005.1-2007.12；

8、国家自然科学青年基金项目-“地球轨道驱动的半岁差周期及其在南沙海区的响应”，2004.1-2004.12；

9、教育部新世纪优秀人才支持计划项目-“中中新世太平洋中、深层水团变化与全球变冷”,2009-1-2011.12；

10、全国百篇优秀博士论文作者专项基金-“70,000年以来千年尺度上的东亚季风演化–来自南沙的气候记录”，2006.1-2010.12；

11、上海市青年科技启明星项目-“氧同位素5期东亚季风与印度尼西亚穿越流的对比研究”，2006.9-2008.9；

12、上海市青年科技启明星跟踪项目-“末次冰期旋回中西非气候变化的海陆响应”，2010.3-2012.3；

13、第十一届霍英东高等院校青年教师基金-“晚更新世热带西大西洋千年尺度的季风气候”,2008.1-2010.12;

14、上海市曙光人才项目-“千年尺度上热带季风系统与高纬过程的相位”，2012.1-2015.1。

15、上海市人才发展资金项目-“新近纪轨道尺度上开放太平洋和边缘海上层海水结构变化的异同点极其气候意义”,2014/01-2016/12.

16、上海市优秀学术带头人项目-“新近纪南海碳酸盐补偿深度变化及其古气候意义”, 2016/05-2019/04.

17、第四批万人计划科技创新领军人才资助项目-“晚新生代太平洋古海洋学”。

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   2. 2.Du, J., Ye, Y., Zhang*, X., Völker, C., & Tian*, J. (2022). Southern control of interhemispheric synergy on glacial marine carbon sequestration. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(16), e2022GL099048.pdf
   3. 3.Du*, J., Tian*, J., & Ma, W. (2022). The Late Miocene Carbon Isotope Shift driven by synergetic terrestrial processes: A box-model study. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 584, 117457.pdf
   4. 4.Ma*, X., Ma, W., Tian*, J., Yu, J., & Huang, E. (2022). Ice sheet and terrestrial input impacts on the 100-kyr ocean carbon cycle during the Middle Miocene. Global and Planetary Change, 208, 103723.pdf
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   9. 9.Huang, E.*, Chen, Y., Schefuß, E., Steinke, S., Liu, J., & Tian, J., et al. 2018. Precession and glacial-cycle controls of monsoon precipitation isotope changes over east asia during the pleistocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 494, 1-11.pdf
   10. 10.Ma, X.L.*, Tian, J.*, Ma, W.T., Li, K., and Yu, J.M., 2018. Changes of deep Pacific overturning circulation and carbonate chemistry during middle Miocene East Antarctic ice sheet expansion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 484:253–263.pdf
   11. 11.Li D, Zhao M*, Tian J., 2017. Low-high latitude interaction forcing on the evolution of the 400 kyr cycle in East Asian winter monsoon records during the last 2.8 Myr. Quaternary Science Reviews, 172:72-82.pdf
   12. 12.Tian, J.*, Ma, X.L., Zhou, J.H., and Wang, W.J., 2017. Subsidence of the northern South China Sea and formation of the Bashi Strait in the latest Miocene: paleoceanographic evidences from 9-Myr high resolution benthic foraminiferal d18O and d13C records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 466: 382–391, PALAEO8076.pdf
   13. 13.Ma W*, Wang P, Tian J., 2017. Modeling 400–500-kyr Pleistocene carbon isotope cyclicity through variations in the dissolved organic carbon pool. Global & Planetary Change, 152:187-198.pdf
   14. 14.Drury, A.* J., Westerhold, T., Frederichs, T., Tian, J., Wilkens, R., & Channell, J. E. T., et al., 2017. Late miocene climate and time scale reconciliation: accurate orbital calibration from a deep-sea perspective. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 475:254-266.pdf
   15. 15.Wilkens, R. H.*, Westerhold, T., Drury, A. J., Lyle, M., Gorgas, T., & Tian, J.,2017. Revisiting the ceara rise, equatorial atlantic ocean: isotope stratigraphy of odp leg 154 from 0 to 5 ma. Climate of the Past, 13, 779-793.pdf
   16. 16.Huang, Enqing*, Tian, J., Qiao, P.J., Wan, S., Xie, X., and Yang, W.G., 2015. Early interglacial carbonate-dilution events in the South China Sea: Implication for strengthened typhoon activities over subtropical East Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews,125:61-77. pdf
   17. 17.Huang, Enqing*, Tian, J., and Liu, JingJing, 2015. Dynamics of the Australian–Indonesian monsoon across Termination II: Implications of molecular-biomarker reconstructions from the Timor Sea. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 423:32–43. pdf
   18. 18.Tian, J.*, Wentao Ma, Mitchell Lyle, Julia Shackford, 2014. Synchronous mid-Miocene upper and deep oceanic d13C changes in the east equatorial Pacific linked to ocean cooling and ice sheet expansion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 406:72-80. pdf
   19. 19.Ma,W.T., Chai, F., Xiu, P., Xue, H.J., and Tian, J., 2014. Simulation of export production and biological pump structure in the South China Sea. Geo-Marine Letters, DOI 10.1007/s00367-014-0384-0. pdf
   20. 20.Ma, W.T., and Tian, J., 2014. Modeling the contribution of dissolved organic carbon to carbon sequestration during the last glacial maximum. Geo-Mar Lett, 34:471-482.pdf
   21. 21.Ma, W.T., Fei Chai, Peng Xiu, Huijie Xue, and Jun Tian, 2013.Modeling the long-term variability of phytoplankton functional groups and primary productivity in the South China Sea. Journal of Oceanography, 69:527-544.pdf
   22. 22.Tian, J.*, 2013. Coherent variations of the obliquity components in global ice volume and ocean carbon reservoir over the past 5 Ma. Science China Earth Sciences, 56(12):2160-2172. pdf
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   24. 24.Huang Enqing* and Tian Jun*,2012. Sea-level rises at Heinrich stadials of early Marine Isotope Stage 3: Evidence of terrigenous n-alkane input in the southern South China Sea. Global and Planetary Change, 94-95:1-12.pdf
   25. 25.Tian, J.*, X. Xie, W. Ma, H. Jin, and P. Wang, 2011. X-ray fluorescence core scanning records of chemical weathering and monsoon evolution over the past 5 Myr in the southern South China Sea, Paleoceanography, 26, PA4202, doi:10.1029/2010PA002045. pdf
   26. 26.Ma Wentao, Tian Jun, Li Qianyu and Wang Pinxian, 2011. Simulation of long eccentricity (400‐kyr) cycle in ocean carbon reservoir during Miocene Climate Optimum: Weathering and nutrient response to orbital change. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L10701, doi:10.1029/2011GL047680. pdf
   27. 27.Huang Enqing*, Tian Jun*, Steinke S., 2011. Millennial-scale dynamics of the winter cold tongue in the southern South China Sea over the past 26 ka and the East Asian winter monsoon. Quat. Res., 75:196–204. pdf
   28. 28.Tian C.C., and Tian Jun*, 2010. Warming magnitude of Indonesian Throughflow during the penultimate deglaciation (Termination II) and its relationship with climate change in high-latitude regions. Chinese Science Bulletin,  55 (32): 3709-3717. pdf
   29. 29.Tian J.*, Enqing Huang, Dorothy K.Pak, 2010. East Asian winter monsoon variability over the last glacial cycle: Insights from a latitudinal sea-surface temperature gradient across the South China Sea. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 292:319–324. pdf
   30. 30.Wang P., Tian J., Lourens L. (2010): Obscuring of long eccentricity cyclicity in Pleistocene oceanic carbon isotope records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 290:319-330. pdf
   31. 31.Ma W.*, Tian J.*, and Li Q., 2010. Astronomically modulated late Pliocene equatorial Pacific climate transition and Northern Hemisphere ice sheet expansion. Chinese Science Bulletin, 55(2):212-220. pdf
   32. 32.Tian J.*, Amelia Shevenell , Pinxian Wang, Quanhong Zhao, Qianyu Li, Xinrong Cheng, 2009. Reorganization of Pacific Deep Waters linked to middle Miocene Antarctic cryosphere expansion: A perspective from the South China. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 284:375-382. pdf
   33. 33.Tian J.*, Quanhong Zhao, Pinxian Wang, Qianyu Li, Xinrong Cheng, 2008. Astronomically modulated Neogene sediment records from the South China Sea, Paleoceanography, 23, PA3210, doi:10.1029/2007PA001552. pdf
   34. 34.Huang E.*, Tian J.*, 2008. Melt-Water-Pulse (MWP) events and abrupt climate change of the last deglaciation. Chinese Science Bulletin. 53(18), 2867-2878. pdf
   35. 35.Tian J.*, Dorothy K. Pak., P.X. Wang, David Lea, Xinrong Cheng, Quanhong, Zhao (2006): Late Pliocene Monsoon Linkage in the Tropical South China Sea, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 252, 72-81. pdf
   36. 36.Tian J.*, P. Wang, R. Chen, and X. Cheng, 2005. Quaternary upper ocean thermal gradient variations in the South China Sea: Implications for east Asian monsoon climate. Paleoceanography, 20, PA4007, doi:10.1029/2004PA001115. pdf
   37. 37.Tian J.*, Wang Pinxian, Cheng Xinrong, Wang Rujian, Sun Xiangjun, 2005. Forcing mechanism of the Pleistocene east Asian monsoon variations in a phase perspective. Science in China (D), 48(10), 1708-1717. pdf
   38. 38.Wehausen R., Tian J., Hans-Jürgen Brumsack et al., 2005. Geochemistry of Pliocene sediments from ODP Site 1143 (southern South China Sea). Proc. ODP, Sci. Results 184: College Station, TX. (Ocean Drillin Program). pdf
   39. 39.Tian J.*, Wang Pinxian, Cheng Xinrong, 2004. Responses of foraminiferal isotopic variations at ODP Site 1143 in the southern South China Sea to orbital forcing. Science in China (D) 47(10), 943-953. pdf
   40. 40.Tian J.*, Wang Pinxian, Cheng Xinrong, 2004. Pleistocene Precession forcing of the upper ocean structure variations in the southern South China Sea. Progress in Natural Science 14(11), 1004-1009. pdf
   41. 41.Tian J.*, Wang Pinxian, Cheng Xinrong, 2004. Time-frequency variations of the Plio-Pleistocene foraminiferal isotopes: A case study from the southern South China Sea. Earth Sciences-Journal of China University of Geosciences 15(3), 283-289. pdf
   42. 42.Wang P., Tian, J., Xinrong Cheng, Chuanlian Liu, and Jian Xu, 2004. Major Pleistocene stages in a carbon perspective: The South China Sea record and its global comparison. Paleoceanography 19, doi:10.1029/2003PA000991, PA4005 1-16. pdf
   43. 43.Tian J.*, Wang P.X., Cheng X.R., 2004. Development of the East Asian monsoon and Northern Hemisphere glaciation: oxygen isotope records from the South China Sea. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23:2007-2016. pdf
   44. 44.Wang P., Tian J., Cheng X., Liu C., Xu J., 2003. Carbon reservoir changes preceded major ice-sheets expansion at the mid-Brunhes event. Geology, 31: 239-242. pdf
   45. 45.Wang P., Tian J., Cheng X., Liu C., Xu J., 2003. Exploring cyclic changes of the ocean carbon reservoir. Chinese Science Bulletin 48(23): 2536-2548. pdf
   46. 46.Tian J.*, Wang P.X., Cheng X.R., Li Q.Y., 2002. Astronomically tuned Plio-Pleistocene benthic d18O records from South China Sea and Atlantic-Pacific comparison. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 203: 1015-1029. pdf
   47. 47.Wang P., Tian J., Cheng X., 2001. Transition of Quaternary glacial cyclicity in deep-sea records at Nansha, South China Sea. Science in China (Ser. D) 44, 926-933. pdf