PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

The 2nd grade of Natural Science Award on 2007 Science and Technology Award, MOE, China 2008

Principles and Applications of Stratigraphy Spring 2013-2015

Modern Stratigraphy Spring 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011

Historical Geology (Paleozoic) Spring 2010, 2012

Field Excursions on Geosciences Summer 2006-2008, 2011

Facies Analysis and Sedimentary Cycles Spring 2004-2015

Biogeochemistry and Biomineralization Spring 2004-2009, 2011

Methodology of Paleontology Spring 2002-2015

Associate editor-in-chief, Journal of Palaeogeography (Chinese version) 2010-present

Edotor, Journal of Palaeogeography (English version) 2013-present

Member, Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry 2006-present

Deputy secretary-general, Palaeontological Society of China 2006-present

Member of Palaeontological Society of China

Member, SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology, USA)

Member, IAS (International Association of Sedimentologists)

2013-2016 National Natural Science Foundation Research Grant (PI Jianbo LIU)

2010-2012 National Natural Science Foundation Research Grant (PI Jianbo LIU)

2008-2011 State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy

2007-2009 China Petroleum Chemical Corporation

2006-2010 National Key Basic Research Program (973) (one of the sub-projects, Ordovician Radiation of South China)

2005-2009 A Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of PR China

2005-2007 National Natural Science Foundation Research Grant

2003-2006 National Natural Science Foundation Research Grant

2002-2003 Fund of National S&T Infrastructure Platform Special Program from Ministry of Science and Technology of P.R. China

2000-2005 National Key Basic Research Program (973)

2000-2002 National Natural Science Foundation Research Grant

1998-1999 Special Research Fund for Young Scientists returned from abroad

In press

Yan Z., Liu J.*, Sun Y., Wang H., Huang B. submitted. Sedimentary characteristics and origins of late Carboniferous–early Permian carbonate mud-mounds at the Shangdan section, Inner Mongolia. Palaeoworld.

Yan Z, Liu J*, Ezaki Y, Adachi N, and Du S. 2016. Stacking patterns and growth models of multiscopic structures within Cambrian Series 3 thrombolites at the Jiulongshan section, Shandong Province, northern China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.07.009.

2016

Xue J., Deng Z., Huang P, Huang K, Benton M. J., Cui Y., Wang D., Liu J., Shen B., Basinger J. F., and Hao S., 2016. Belowground rhizomes in paleosols: The hidden half of an Early Devonian vascular plant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(34): 9451-9456.

Wu R, and Stouge S, Zhan R, Liu J, and Liang Y. 2016. Conodont faunal dynamics across the Middle and Upper Ordovician boundary in the Yichang area, western Hubei Province, South China. Canadian Journal of Earth Science, 53(8): 856-864. Doi: 10.1139/cjes-2015-0217

Zhan R, Jin J, Liu J, Corcoran P, Luan X, and Wei X. 2016. Meganodular limestone of the Pagoda Formation: A time-specific carbonate facies in the Upper Ordovician of South China: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 448: 349-362. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.07.039.

Dong, X-p, Vargas, K., Cunningham, J. A., Zhang, H., Liu, T., Chen, F., Liu, J., Bengtson, S., and Donoghue, P. C.J.*, 2016. Developmental biology of the Early Cambrian cnidarian Olivooides. Palaeontology, 59(3): 387-407.

2015

Li J, Liu J, Sun Y, Yan Z, Wu R, Zhan R. 2015. On the Lower Ordovician Lunshan Formation in Lower Yangtze Region, South China: Its petrology, stratigraphy, paleogeography. Journal of Palaeogeography, 18(3): 411-423. (in Chiaese with English Abstract)

Jing Yuxuan, Liu Jianbo*, Yan Zhen, Sun Yongchao, Xu Zhenqing. 2015. Reconstructing changes in sea-level based on types of storm deposits: The Middle and Upper Cambrian at Western Hills, Beijing, North China. Journal of Palaeogeography, 17(5): 653-668. (in Chinese with English Abstract)

Adachi N, Kotani A, Nakai T, Ezaki Y, Liu J.2015. Cambrian Series 3 lithistid sponge–microbial reefs in Shandong Province, North China: Reef development after the disappearance of archaeocyaths. Lethaia, 48(3): 405-416.

Luan Xiaocong, Liu Jianbo, Zhan Renbin, Wu Rongchang. 2015. Microfacies and sea-level changes in the Lower to Middle Ordovician Zitai Formation of southern Anhui. Journal of Palaeogeography, 17(2): 249-264. (in Chinese with English Abstract)

2014

Adachi N, Ezaki Y, Liu J. 2014. The late early Cambrian microbial reefs immediately after the demise of archaeocyathan reefs, Hunan Province, South China: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 407, 45-55.

Adachi N, Nakai T, Ezaki Y, Liu J. 2014. Late Early Cambrian archaeocyath reefs in Hubei Province, South China: modes of construction during their period of demise: Facies, 60(2): 703-717.

Ding N., Liu J*, Zhan R. 2013. Reliability of Ordovician echinoderm skeleton geochemistry as a proxy for seawater Mg/Ca ratio. Chinese Science Bulletin, 59(10): 924-935. (in Chinese with English Abstract)

Zhan, R., Huang, B., Wang, G., Jin, J., Liang, Y., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., Li, R., Liu, J., and Wu, R., 2014, Discovery of the late Middle Ordovician Saucrorthis fauna (Brachiopoda) from the Sibumasu palaeoplate, western Yunnan, SW China: GFF, v. 136, no. 1, p. 320-326.

Zhan R, Harper D A T, Jin J, Liang Y, Liu J, Stemmerik L, and Stouge S. 2014. Middle Ordovician Aporthophyla brachiopod fauna from the roof of the World, southern Tibet: Palaeontology, 57(1): 141-170. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12058.

Jing H, Lai X, Sun Y, Wignall P B, Liu J, Yan C. 2014. Permian-Triassic conodonts from Dajiang (Guizhou, South China) and their implication for the age of microbialite deposition in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction. Journal of Earth Science, 25(3): 413-430.

2013

Adachi, N., Liu, J., and Ezaki, Y., 2013, Early Ordovician reefs in South China (Chenjiahe section, Hubei Province): deciphering the early evolution of skeletal-dominated reefs: Facies, 59(2): 411-466.

Liu Jianbo, Yang Shouren, Xue Jinzhuang, Ma Xueping, Sun Zuoyu, 2013. Chapter 20 Palaeontology and sedimentary environments. In: Chinese Sedimentology (2nd Version). Petroleum Industry Publishing House, Beijing, p. 1227-1305.

Liao Han-qing, Liu Jian-bo, Wu Rong-chang, Sun Yong-chao and Zhan Ren-bin, 2013. Diachronous changes in the top of the Lower Ordovician Hunghuayuan Formation in the Upper Yangtze region, South China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 52(1): 15-31. (in Chinese with English Abstract)

Yuan X, Liu J, 2013. Characteristics and its palaeoenvironmental significance of the Middle-Upper Cambrian dolostones of Gudongkou section at Xingshan, Hubei Province. Journal of Palaeogeography, 13(3): 363-382. (in Chinese with English Abstract)

Zhan R, Jin J, Liu J. 2013. Investigation on the great Ordovician biodiversification event (GOBE): Review and prospect. Chinese Science Bulletin, 58(33): 3357-3371. (in Chinese with English Abstract)

Wang G, Zhan R, Deng Z, Liu J. 2013. Paleoecological associations of middle Llandovery (Silurian) corals from Huaying Mountain, eastern Sichuan Province. Science China Earth Sciences, 56(4): 640-646.

Dong, X.-P., Cunningham, J. A., Bengtson, S., Thomas, C.-W., Liu, J., Stampanoni, M., and Donoghue, P. C. J., 2013, Embryos, polyps and medusae of the Early Cambrian scyphozoan Olivooides: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, v. 280, no. 1757, p. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.0071

Before 2013

Fang L, Liu J*, and Zhan R. 2012. Temporal distribution of piperocks in Cambrian and Ordovician: A coevolutionary process with changes of paleoenvironment. SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, 55(1): 26-38.

Ezaki Y., Liu J.B., Adachi N. 2012. Lower Triassic stromatolites in Luodian County, Guizhou Province, South China: evidence for the protracted devastation of the marine environments. Geobiology, 10(1): 48-59.

Liu J, Zhan R, Dai X, Liao H, Ezaki Y, and Adachi N. 2011. Demise of Early Ordovician oolites in South China: Evidence for paleoceanographic changes before the GOBE. In: Gutiérrez-Marco, JC, Rábano I, and García-Bellido, D. (eds.), Ordovician of the World. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 14. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, p. 309-317.

Liu J, Ezaki Y, Adachi N, and Zhan R. 2010. Evidence for decoupling of relative abundance and biodiversity of marine organisms in initial stage of GOBE: A preliminary study on Lower Ordovician shellbeds of South China. Journal of Earth Science, 21(Special Issue): 44–48.

Liu J, and Zhan R, 2009. Temporal distribution of diagnostic biofabrics in the Lower and Middle Ordovician in North China: Clues to the geobiology of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. Acta Geologica Sinica, 83(3): 801-811.

Liu J. 2009. Marine sedimentary response to the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Examples from North China and South China. Paleontological Research, 13(1): 9-21.

Liu J, 2006. Sea-level changes during the Early-Mid Ordovician radiation of South China. In: Rong J, Fang Z, Zhou Z, Zhan R, Wang X, Yuan X. (editors). Originations, Radiations and Biodiversity Changes – Evidences from the Chinese Fossil Record. Science Press, Beijing, p. 335-360, 875-877 (in Chinese with English summary).

Liu J, Ezaki Y, Yang S, Wang H, and Adachi N. 2007. Age and sedimentology of microbialites after the end-Permian mass extinction in Luodian, Guizhou Province. Journal of Palaeogeography, 9(5): 473-486. (in Chinese with English abstract)