Dr Jingtao Lai

  • Research Scientist (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)

email: Jingtao.Lai@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

Room 403, East Quadrangle, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9745-150X

Biography

I received my Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2020 and my B.Sc. in Geology from Peking University in 2015. Prior to moving to Glasgow, I was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher at the GFZ Potsdam.

Research interests

My research examines the evolution of Earth’s topography and how it interacts with climate and solid Earth. I combine numerical models with observational data to quantify the rates and patterns of landscape evolution. I am particularly interested in characterizing how glaciers and rivers change Earth’s topography during glacial-interglacial cycles.

  • Feedbacks between climate, tectonics and surface processes
  • Fluvial and glacial geomorphology
  • Numerical modeling of Earth surface processes

Publications

Prior publications

ORCiD

Jingtao Lai, Kimberly Huppert, (2024) Climate‐Driven Topographic Asymmetry Enhanced by Glaciers: Implications for Drainage Reorganization in Glacial Landscapes Geophysical Research Letters (doi: 10.1029/2024GL109087); source: Crossref

Jingtao Lai, Kimberly Huppert, (2023) Asymmetric glaciation, divide migration, and postglacial fluvial response times in the Qilian Shan Geology (doi: 10.1130/G51086.1); source: Crossref

Lin Gao, Chuanqi He, Gang Rao, Ci-Jian Yang, Xiaoping Yuan, Jingtao Lai, Pengcheng Tang, Lei Wu, (2023) Numerical examination of the geomorphic indicators for lateral fold growth Geomorphology (doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108702)(issn: 0169-555X); source: Jingtao Lai

Alison Anders, Jingtao Lai, Stephen Marshak, (2022) Development of Foreland Intracratonic Plateaus (Ozark Plateau and Appalachian Plateaus): A Consequence of Topographic Inversion Due To Erosion of Adjacent Fold‐Thrust Belts Tectonics (doi: 10.1029/2021tc006957)(issn: 0278-7407)(issn: 1944-9194); source: Jingtao Lai

Cecilia Cullen, Alison M. Anders, Jingtao Lai, Jennifer L. Druhan, (2022) Numerical modeling of groundwater‐driven stream network evolution in low‐relief post‐glacial landscapes Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (doi: 10.1002/esp.5278); source: Crossref

Jingtao Lai, Alison M. Anders, (2021) Climatic controls on mountain glacier basal thermal regimes dictate spatial patterns of glacial erosion Earth Surface Dynamics (doi: 10.5194/esurf-9-845-2021); source: Crossref

Jingtao Lai, Alison M. Anders, (2020) Tectonic controls on rates and spatial patterns of glacial erosion through geothermal heat flux Earth and Planetary Science Letters (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116348); source: Crossref

Jingtao Lai, Alison M. Anders, (2018) Modeled Postglacial Landscape Evolution at the Southern Margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Hydrological Connection of Uplands Controls the Pace and Style of Fluvial Network Expansion Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (doi: 10.1029/2017JF004509); source: Crossref