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 interest centers around the interactions between climate and Earth surface processes, as well as their impacts on rates and patterns of landscape evolution. My work combines numerical models with geological, geomorphic, and remote sensing data to explore the sensitivity of landscape characteristics to variability in climate and surface processes. I am particularly interested in how changing climate alters the movement of ice, water, and sediments during glacial-interglacial cycles.

My past and ongoing research focuses on:

  • sensitivity of glacier dynamics and glacial erosion processes to climate forcings
  • impact of past glaciations on postglacial river processes
  • sediment dynamics in recently deglaciated mountains
  • drainage reorganization in glacial landscapes
  • impact of short-term extreme events (e.g., landslides) to long-term landscape evolution

Please visit my personal website and Google Scholar profile for more information about my research.

PhD opportunities: Currently, I do not have funded PhD positions available. However, I am happy to discuss potential PhD projects with students who have or intend to apply for external funding. Please get in touch if you have a research idea related to the broad theme of interactions between climate and 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