Research Interests  

1. Continental weathering and climate change. Weathering, erosion, and chemical fluxes of the large river catchments in the Tibetan Plateau and their linkage to atmospheric CO₂ reservoirs and isotope evolution of seawater.

2. The Critical Zone research. Focusing on regolith and small watershed in the basaltic and granitic regions. Chemical weathering rates of small mono-lithological watershed and controlling factors.

3. Mechanism research of heavy metal pollutions in the farmland with high background value: Surficial migration and quantification of heavy metals with geological provenance.

Degrees  

2004-2009, MS and PhD, ‘Geochemical study of the river waters and sediments in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau’

School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University  

Professional Experience  

1. 2014.9–2015.9  Visiting scholar, collaborator: Professor Noah Planavsky, Department Geology and Geophysics, Yale University  

2.2011.9–present   Associate Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering,      Nanjing University

3.  2009.7–2011.5    Post-doctor, School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University

Honors and Awards  

1. 2007-2008    Excellent Scholarship for Graduate Students

2.2008-2009    The first-class Zhao Anzhong Scholarship for Graduate Students

3.2009         Excellent Doctor Degree Dissertation of Nanjing University

Selected Projects  

1. 2011-2013   Chemical weathering and atmospheric CO₂ consumption of the   endorheic river catchments in the Northern Tibetan Plateau (The Natural Science Foundation of China, Project No.40473009), PI  

2. 2014-2017   Weathering rates, mechanism, and influence factors of silicate minerals: studies from the granitoid regolith and small watersheds in the Jiuhua Mountain (The Natural Science Foundation of China, Project No.41373003), PI  

Selected Publications  

1.        Weihua Wu*, Shuyi Qu, Werner Nel, Junfeng Ji, 2020. The impact of natural weathering and mining on heavy metal accumulation in the karst areas of the Pearl River Basin, China. Science of the Total Environment, 139480.

2.        Shuyi Qu, Weihua Wu*, Werner Nel, and Junfeng Ji, 2020. The behavior of metals/metalloids during natural weathering: a systematic study of the mono-lithological watersheds in the upper Pearl River Basin, China. Science of the Total Environment, 134572.

3.        Weihua Wu*, Mingzhao Sun, Xiang Ji, Shuyi Qu, 2019. Sr isotopic characteristics and fractionation during weathering of a small granitic watershed system in the Jiuhua Mountains (eastern China). Journal of Hydrology 568: 135–146.

4.        Mingzhao Sun, Weihua Wu,* Xiang Ji, Xiangli Wang, Shuyi Qu, 2019. Silicate weathering rate and its controlling factors: A study from small granitic watersheds in the Jiuhua Mountains. Chemical Geology, 504: 253–266.

5.        Laifeng Li, Jun Chen, Tianyu Chen, Yang Chen, D. W. Hedding, Gen Li, Le Li, Tao Li, L. F. Robinson, A. J. West, Weihua Wu, Chen-Feng You, Liang Zhao, Gaojun Li*, 2018. Weathering dynamics reflected by the response of riverine uranium isotope disequilibrium to changes in denudation rate. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 500: 136–144.

6.        Le Li, Jun Chen, Yang Chen, David William Hedding, Tao Li, Laifeng Li, Xiangjun Liu, Fangming Zeng, Weihua Wu, Liang Zhao, and Gaojun Li*, 2018. Uranium isotopic constraints on the provenance of dust on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Geology, 46: 747–750.

7.        Weihua Wu*, Xiangli Wang, Christopher T. Reinhard, Noah J. Planavsky, 2017. Chromium isotope systematics in the Connecticut River. Chemical Geology, 456: 98–111.

8.        Weihua Wu*, 2016. Hydrochemistry of inland rivers in the north Tibetan Plateau: Constraints and weathering rate estimation, Science of The Total Environment, 541: 468-482.

9.        Mengying He, Hongbo Zheng*, Peter D. Clift, Ryuji Tada, Weihua Wu, Chao Luo, 2015. Geochemistry of fine-grained sediments in the Yangtze River and the implications for provenance and chemical weathering in East Asia. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2: 32.

10.    Weihua Wu*, Hongbo Zheng, Jianhua Cao, Jiedong Yang, 2014. Sr isotopic characteristics in two small watersheds draining typical silicate and carbonate rocks: implication for the studies on seawater Sr isotopic evolution. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 18: 559-573.

11.    Chao Luo, Hongbo Zheng*, Ryuji Tada, Weihua Wu, Tomohisa Irino, Shouye Yang, Keita Saito, 2014. Tracing Sr isotopic composition in space and time across the Yangtze River basin. Chemical Geology, 388: 59–70.

12.    Weihua Wu*, Hongbo Zheng, Jiedong Yang, Chao Luo, Bin Zhou, 2013. Chemical weathering, atmospheric CO2 consumption, and the controlling factors in a subtropical metamorphic-hosted watershed. Chemical Geology, 356: 141-150.

13.    Weihua Wu*, Hongbo Zheng, Shijin Xu, Jiedong Yang, Wen Liu, 2013. Trace element geochemistry of riverbed and suspended sediments in the upper Yangtze River. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 124: 67–78.

14.    Weihua Wu*, Hongbo Zheng, Shijin Xu, Jiedong Yang, Hongwei Yin, 2012. Geochemistry and provenance of bed sediments of the large rivers in the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayan region. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 101: 1357–1370.

15.    Weihua Wu*, Shijin Xu, Huayu Lu, Jiedong Yang, Hongwei Yin, Wen Liu. 2011. Mineralogy, major and trace element geochemistry of riverbed sediments in the headwaters of the Yangtze, Tongtian River and Jinsha River. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 40: 611–621.

16.    Weihua Wu, Shijin Xu, Jiedong Yang*, Hongwei Yin, Huayu Lu, Kaijun Zhang, 2010. Isotopic characteristics of river sediments on the Tibetan Plateau. Chemical Geology, 269: 406–413.

17.    Weihua Wu, Jiedong Yang*, Shijin Xu, Gaojun Li, Hongwei Yin, Xiancong Tao, 2009. Sr fluxes and isotopic compositions of the eleven rivers originating from the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and their contributions to 87Sr/86Sr evolution of seawater. Science in China SeriesD–Earth Sciences, 52(8): 1059–1067.

18.    Weihua Wu*, Shijin Xu, Jiedong Yang, Hongwei Yin, 2009. Sr fluxes and isotopic compositions in the headwaters of the Yangtze River, Tongtian River and Jinsha River originating from the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Chemical Geology, 260: 63–72.

19.    Weihua Wu*, Jiedong Yang, Shijin Xu, Hongwei Yin, 2008. Geochemistry of the headwaters of the Yangtze River, Tongtian He and Jinsha Jiang: Silicate weathering and CO2 consumption. Applied Geochemistry, 23: 3712–3727.

20.    Weihua Wu*, Shijin Xu, Jiedong Yang, Hongwei Yin, 2008. Silicate weathering and CO2 consumption deduced from the seven Chinese rivers originating in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. Chemical Geology, 249: 307–320.