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Prof. Gao Meng Prof. Gao Meng
Prof. GAO Meng (高蒙教授)

Professor

Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Modeling, Chemistry-Climate Interactions, Light-absorbing Particles

Office:AAB 1225
Tel:(852) 3411 7190
Fax:(852) 3411 5990
Email:mmgao2@hkbu.edu.hk
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
  • 2016-2019, Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University, USA (Advisor: Michael B. McElroy)
  • 2012-2015, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Iowa, USA (Advisor: Gregory R. Carmichael)
  • 2012-2015, M.Sc., Chemical Engineering, University of Iowa, USA
  • 2008-2012, B.Sc., Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND GROUP WEBSITE
TEACHING
  • Geography of Health and the Environment
  • Selected Topics in the Geography of China (Physical & Environmental Geography)
  • Advanced Climatology
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
  • Member, Physical Sciences Panel of the Research Grants Council (Hong Kong), 2023-present
  • Member, Global Air Quality Forecasting and Information System (GAFIS) Steering Committee, Global Atmosphere Watch, World Meteorological Organization, 2020-present
  • Member, International Global Atmospheric Chemistry, Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report, Phase II, East Asia Focus Working Group, 2021-present
  • Group Leader, Air Quality and Climate Change Working Group, Model Inter-Comparison Study for Asia Phase III & IV (MICS-Asia IV), 2016-present
  • Reviewer, Science, Nature, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., Sci. Adv., Nat. Clim. Chang., Nat. Energy, Nat. Commun., One Earth, Geophys. Res. Lett., etc., proposals for NOAA Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle and Climate (AC4) and Harvard CHAN-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health Pilot Project.
  • Associate Editor, Atmos. Meas. Tech., Urban CLim., and Sci. Total Environ.
AWARDS
  • 2024 Performance Award in Scholarly Work for the Faculty of Social Sciences, HKBU
  • 2024 Zijin Quanxing Environmental Award, Zijin Quanxing Environmental Foundation
  • 2023 Heywood Young Scientists Award, Hong Kong Meteorological Society
  • 2023 NSFC Excellent Young Scientists (Hong Kong and Macau)
  • 2023 Fellow, The Royal Meteorological Society, UK
  • 2022 Xie Yibing Youth Meteorological Science and Technology Award 
  • 2022 Tsinghua University-Inspur Group Computational Geoscience Young Talent Award
  • 2021 President’s Award for Outstanding Performance as Young Researcher, HKBU
  • 2021 Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 List, Healthcare and Science
  • 2020 Forbes China 30 Under 30 List, Science and Medical Health
  • 2020 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award, Atmospheric Sciences Division, European Geosciences Union    
  • 2017 Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists (ACCESS XIV), Department of Energy, USA (25 globally and biennially)
  • 2016 Karl Kammermeyer Outstanding Research Award, University of Iowa
  • 2015 Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Award, University of Iowa
  • 2012 Karl Kammermeyer Fellowship, University of Iowa
External Grants
  
  • Modeling aerosol formation and its interactions with weather and climate (42322902), National Natural Science Foundation of China, Excellent Young Scientist Scheme (Hong Kong and Macau)

  • Climate- and environment-conscious urban growth in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA): solutions and co-benefits (C2002-22Y), Research Grants Council (Hong Kong) CRF Young Collaborative Research Grant
  
Peer-Reviewed Publications
  

[1]  Wang, Y., Yang, Y., Yuan, Q.*, Li, T., Zhou, Y., Zong, L., Wang, M., Xie, Z., Ho, H.C., Gao, M., Tong, S., Lolli, S. and Zhang, L.*: Substantially underestimated global health risks of current ozone pollution, Nat. Commun., in press, 2024.

[2]  Wang, F. #, Gao, M.#,*, Liu, C., Zhao, R. and McElroy, M.B.: Uniformly elevated future heat stress in China driven by spatially heterogeneous response of water vapor changes. Nat. Commun., 2024, 15, 4522.

[3]  Wang, F., Xu, Y., Patel, P., Gautam, R., Gao, M.*, Liu, C.*, Ding, Y., Chen, H., Yang, Y., Zhou, Y., Carmichael, G. R. and McElroy, M. B.: Arctic amplification induced decline in West and South Asia dust warrants stronger anti-desertification towards carbon neutrality. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2024, 121(14): e2317444121.

[4]  Liu, X., Chu, B., Tang, R., Liu, Y., Liu, B., Gao, M., Li, X., Xiao, J., Sun, H.Z., Huang, X., Desai, A.R., Ding, A. and Wang, H.*: Air quality improvements can strengthen China's food security. Nat. Food, 2024:1-13.

[5]  Gao, M.#,*, Wang, F.#, Ding, Y., Wu, Z., Xu, Y., Lu, X., Wang, Z.*, Carmichael, G.R. and McElroy, M.B.: Large-scale climate patterns offer pre-seasonal hints on the co-occurrence of heat wave and O3 pollution in China. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2023, 120 (26) : e2218274120.

[6]  Lu, X., Ye, X., Zhou, M., Zhao, Y., Weng, H., Kong, H., Li, K., Gao, M., Zheng, B., Lin, J., Zhou, F., Zhang, Q., Zhang, L.* and Zhang, Y.*: The underappreciated role of agricultural soil nitrogen oxides emissions in ozone pollution regulation in North China. Nat. Commun., 2021, 12(1), pp.1-9.

[7]  Gao, M. *, Sherman, P., Song, S., Yu, Y., Wu, Z. and McElroy, M. B.*: Seasonal prediction of Indian wintertime aerosol pollution using the ocean memory effect. Sci. Adv., 2019,5(7), eaav4157.

[8]  Gao, M.*, Ding, Y., Song, S., Lu, X., Chen, X.* and McElroy, M. B.*: Secular decrease of wind power potential in India associated with warming in the Indian Ocean. Sci. Adv., 2018, 4(12), p.eaat5256.

[9]  Cheng, Y.*, Zheng, G., Wei, C., Mu, Q., Zheng, B., Wang, Z., Gao, M., Zhang, Q., He, K.*, Carmichael, G. R., Pschl, U.* and Su, H.*: Reactive nitrogen chemistry in aerosol water as a source of sulfate during haze events in China. Sci. Adv., 2016, 2(12), e1601530.