International  Center  for  Isotope  Effects  Research

Nanjing University

ABOUT US

  ICIER is a cross-college and cross-discipline research hub. It is currently based off and growing out of the College of Earth Sciences and Engineering at Nanjing University. All of our faculty members are affiliated with different colleges in Nanjing University, including but not limited to Earth Sciences, Planetary Sciences, Chemistry, Environmental Sciences, Geography and Oceanography, Atmospheric Sciences, Medical School, and Life Sciences. 

2022-08-19 Pro. Wei Li from School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University gave us a talk entitled  "Zn isotope fractionation at mineral/water interface".
2022-07-05 Dr. Naizhong Zhang from Tokyo Tech  gave us a talk entitled  "Abiotic methane formation in nature: information from clumped isotope analysis of laboratory synthesized methane".
2022-06-14 Dr. Bryan Killingsworth from USGS gave us a talk entitled  "A d18O perspective on SO4-H2O-O2 triple oxygen isotopes".
2022-06-08 Prof. Shohei Hattori won the "Hirata Award (平田賞)" for the Japanese Society of Snow and Ice (日本雪氷学会). The award ceremony and presentation will be given in October 4th, 2022.
2022-05-30 Prof. Huiming Bao attended ISI + Isotopes joint conference in Zurich, Switzerland.   ISI + Isotopes 2022 conference organizer Dr. Joachim Mohn (EMPA, Switzerland) was giving a welcome speech on the ...
2022-05-17 Dr. Junbo Ren from Jilin University gave us a talk entitled "Stable isotopes of Cenozoic mummified fossil wood cellulose and their paleoclimatic implications".
2022-05-10 Dr. Mimi Chen from PKU gave us a talk entitled "When atmospheric S met hydrothermal S in Archean deep ocean".              
2022-04-15 Prof. Shohei Hattori received the Asahi Group Environmental & Sustainability Research Award by the Asahi Group Foundation.
2022-03-09 Dr. Yuzhen Yan from Rice University gave us a talk entitled "Ice core evidence for atmospheric oxygen decline since the Mid-Pleistocene transition".
2021-12-29 The first laser fluorination vacuum line at ICIER yielded high precision triple oxygen isotope data. Repeated measurements of the same silicate standards generated a reproducibility of several ppm.
2021-10-13 Thermo Fisher Instrument training, which had been suspended for more than two months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has resumed.
2021-10-09 ICIER first external sample measuring sercive for the n-alkanes hydrogen Isotope from Prof. Youping Zhou group of Shanxi University of Science and Technology.

Itahashi, S., Hattori, S., Ito, A., Sadanaga, Y., Yoshida, N. and Matsuki, A.: Role of Dust and Iron Solubility in Sulfate Formation during the Long-Range Transport in East Asia Evidenced by 17O-Excess Signatures. Environmental Science & Technology, 56, 19, 13634–13643 (2022)