Dr. Yongdong WANG
(Y.D.WANG)
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Research Professor
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Address in China:
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Dr. Yongdong WANG
Research Professor
Nanjing Institute of Geology & Palaeontology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nanjing 210008, P. R. CHINA
Tel. 86-25-3282221 (office), 3366349 (home)
Fax: 86-25-3357026
E-mail: y.d.wang@jlonline.com
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Current address in the United States:
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Dr. Yongdong WANG
Paleobotany Laboratory
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
Dickinson Hall, P.O.Box 117800
Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, U.S.A.
Tel.: (352) 392-1721 ext.232
Fax: (352) 392-2539
E-mail: ydwang@flmnh.ufl.edu
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Yongdong WANG received his B.S. of Geology in Lanzhou University (Lanzhou, China) in 1990 and M.S. of Geology and Palaeontology in Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993. After received his Ph.D. from Northwest University (Xi'an, China) in 1996, he pursued a two-years post doc research program on Paleobotany at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, CAS (NIGPAS), China. Since 1998, Dr. Wang had worked on paleobotany as Associate Research Professor (1998-2000) and Research Professor (2000- ) in NIGPAS, Nanjing. Since September of 2001, he worked as a senior visiting scholar research fellow (post doc) on paleobotany in Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, USA.
His main research interests are the Mesozoic mega- and micro floras, especially the reproductive structures and in situ spores of ferns, cuticular structures of gymnosperms (ginkgoaleans, cycadoaleans and bennettitaleans), and anatomy of fossil petrified wood and conifer cones as well. Currently he is in charge of several research projects on the Mesozoic plants supported by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In addition, he joined a couple of collaborative research programs with institutions and universities of France, The Netherlands, Germany, Japan and USA, covering a variety of research topics of paleobotany, including spore and cuticular ultrastructure, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, paleophytogeography and paleoclimate, as well as structurally preserved petrified plants. In addition, he is also a member of IGCP-434 project "Carbon Cycle and Bio-diversity change during the Cretaceous in Asia" and is mainly involved in the paleobotany and paleoclimate studies.
From 1997, he made active academic visits to University of Utrecht (The Netherlands), Université Claude -Bernard Lyon1 (France), Tuebingen University and Senckenburg Museum (Germany), Natural History Museum and Institute of Chiba, Institute of Natural History, Tokyo and Chuo University (Japan) as well as University of Florida, USA. And he participated several international conferences, such as 29th IGC (Kyoto, Japan), 30th IGC (Beijing, China), IOPC-VI (Qinghuangdao, China). He is professional members of the Botanical Society of America (Paleobotanical Section), Palaeontological Society of China, Paleobotanical Society of China, Palynological Society of China, as well as Palaeontological Society and Botanical Society of Jiangsu Province. In 1997, he received a "Second-Class Price Award for Progress in Science and Technology of the Ministry of Coal Industry, China" for the collaboration studies on "Jurassic coal-bearing strata and coal accumulation in Northwest China".
Recent years, Dr. Wang had published over 35 research articles in international
and Chinese professional journals, such as "International Journal of Plant Sciences"
(USA), "Review of Paleobotany and Palynology" (The Netherlands), "The Paleobotanist"
(India), as well as "Acta Botanica Sinica", "Chinese Science Bulletin" and "Acta
Palaeontologica Sinica", etc. As one of the co-authors, he had published two
monographs regarding to the Jurassic coal-bearing strata and coal accumulation
as well as the Late Jurassic floras in northeastern China.
The research project here in the Florida Museum of Natural History, University
of Florida is entitled "Comparative anatomy and fine structure of the representative
Mesozoic plants". It has three parts: 1) Further study of the structurally preserved
fossil wood from the Late Jurassic in Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China. 2). Investigations
of some reproductive material from the Early Cretaceous Dakota Formation of
Northern America, including fertile structures, fructifications and fruits .
3). Fine structures and anatomy of the Early Jurassic plants from southern China,
including a couple of genera belonging to three types of plants (ferns, bennettitaleans
and ginkgoaleans). Most of preliminary results have already been fulfilled in
China. The current work will emphasis on further comparison with relevant fossil
plants in Northern America and related extant plants so as to imply their evolutionary
and phylogenetic significances.