Jing Gao
Associate Editors, Trans-Himalaya Earth System Science
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Ressearch, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Ressearch, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Gao Jing is a Professor at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment. She is a recipient of the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund and an Outstanding Member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS. In 2021, she was honored with the Tibetan Plateau Young Science and Technology Award, and in 2019, she received the Shi Yafong Cryosphere and Environment Fund Young Scientist Award. She is a member of the Council of the International Glaciological Society, a Standing Director of the Chinese Society for Cryospheric Sciences, and a committee member of the Isotope Hydrology Committee of the Chinese National Committee for the International Association of Hydrological Sciences.
Her research leverages atmospheric water stable isotopes to elucidate moisture transport mechanisms and climate dynamics, with foundational contributions to resolving Westerlies–monsoon interactions across the Tibetan Plateau. Her principal scientific breakthroughs include identifying and validating a "three-mode" moisture transport paradigm over the Plateau, deciphering the atmospheric circulation fingerprints preserved in ice core paleoclimate records, and pioneering extreme-altitude tethered-balloon observation platforms to construct a three-dimensional water vapor isotope network spanning from the tropics to the Arctic. Her findings are widely published in high-impact journals, including Nature, PNAS, and Reviews of Geophysics.