Cai Hongming
School
School of Earth System Science
Professional Title
Associate professor
Administrative Appointments
teaching and research
Discipline
地理学;地球化学
Contact Information
caihongming@tju.edu.cn
天津市南开区卫津路92号天津大学16教
Education Background
- Doctoral degree| Stockholm University| visiting scholar| 2015
- Doctoral degree| Institute of Geochemistry, CAS| Geochemistry| 2016
- Bachelor’s Degree| China West Normal University| Geography| 2010
Research Interests
- Isotopic geochemistry (Hg, Ba, Be)
Courses
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Professional Membership
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Positions & Employments
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2025.7-Now
地球系统科学学院 | 天津大学  -
2019.5-2025.7
地球系统科学学院 | Tianjin University  -
2017.12-2019.3
 Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (Université de Paris)  -
2016.12-2018.5
 Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
Academic Achievements
- Papers
- [1] Xin Gao, Yuchen An, Yang Wang, Xingmei Liu, Min Liu, Jiubin Chen, Hongming Cai*, Wang Zheng*, Isotopic tracing of mercury sources, subsurface migration, and re-emission in industrial legacy sites. Applied Geochemistry, 106714, 2026
- [2] Ma, Ruifang; Shu, Wei; Chen, Wei; Cai, Hongming; Huang, Jie; Colin, Christophe; Sépulcre, Sophie; Zhou, Xinquan; Chen, Jiubin; Kang, Shichang; Climatic regulation of mercury deposition in Cuona Lake from the central Tibetan Plateau during the last 13,000 years: New insights from mercury isotope records. Global and Planetary Change 105322 2026
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- [3] Cai, Hongming; Chen, Jiubin; Wang, Zhongwei; Yuan, Wei; Wang, Zhengrong; Teng, Hui Henry; Zhu, Xiangyu; Tu, Chenglong; Liu, Congqiang; Schott, Jacques; Mercury isotope fractionation during natural travertine formation. Chemical Geology 122973 2025
- [4] Liu, Wengang; Cai, Hongming*; Yuan, Wei; Zhou, Hongying; Chen, Jiubin; Rapid separation of Sr from carbonates for accurate 87Sr/86Sr isotope analysis by TIMS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 2025
- [5] Liang, Zhongxuan; Wang, Keyi*; Cai, Hongming*; Wang, Zhongwei; Yuan, Wei; Chen, Jiubin; Geochemical behaviors of metal elements during a single flood event in the natural Chishui River, Southwest China. Acta Geochimica 44 2 373-386 2025
- [6] Li, Chuanjin; Chen, Jiubin; Shi, Guitao; Sun, Ruoyu; Zheng, Wang; Angot, Hélène; Ding, Minghu; Cai, Hongming; Du, Zhiheng; Guo, Rui; Mercury sources between Zhongshan Station and Dome A, eastern Antarctica identified using mercury stable isotopes. Geophysical Research Letters 52 4 e2024GL112182 2025
- [7] Yuan, Wei; Gao, Ting; Wang, Zhengrong; Chen, Jiubin; Cai, Hongming; Zhang, Tong; Yu, Guanghui; Feng, Nana; Liu, Chengshuai; Liu, Congqiang; Gallium isotope fractionation during granite weathering: Insights from two profiles in contrasting climatic conditions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2025
- [8] Chang, Pei; Zhu, Xiangyu; Cai, Hongming; Zhang, Jianchao; Li, Siliang; Lu, Xiancai; Wang, Rucheng; Teng, Hui Henry; Ferric vs. ferrous arsenate amorphous precursors: Properties and controls on scorodite mineralization. American Mineralogist 110 4 537-546 2025
- [9] Ke, Yutian; Calmels, Damien; Bouchez, Julien; Noret, Aurélie; Massault, Marc; Chetelat, Benjamin; Cai, Hongming; Chen, Jiubin; Quantin, Cécile; Gaillardet, Jérôme; Regulation of particulate organic carbon by cascade mega‐reservoirs in the Changjiang basin: Enhanced sequestration and altered downstream composition. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 39 8 e2024GB008479 2025
- [10] Qu, Qinyuan; Wang, Zhongwei; Chetelat, Benjamin; Wang, Zhengrong; Liu, Qingchuan; Sun, Mei; Yuan, Wei; Cai, Hongming; Liu, Jianfeng; Gai, Pengxue; Lithogenic control on zinc stable isotopes in riverine systems: The importance of carbonate dissolution. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2025
- [11] 汪洋,高鑫,苏友达,等.固体样品无机汞形态分析方法及形态同位素组成[J].地球与环境,2025,53(03):449-464.
- [12] 陈玖斌,郑旺,刘羿,等.同位素地球化学与地球系统圈层相互作用和全球变化研究[J].地学前缘,2025,32(03):137-155.DOI:10.13745/j.esf.sf.2025.3.2.
- [13] 何晟,苏友达,蔡虹明*,等.西南地区某石油化工场地重金属与有机污染物复合污染特征研究[J/OL].地球与环境,1-11[2026-01-29].https://link.cnki.net/urlid/52.1139.P.20251226.1734.001.
- [14] 何晟,蔡虹明,袁玮,等.河流汞同位素研究进展[J].地学前缘,2025,32(03):375-391.DOI:10.13745/j.esf.sf.2025.3.34.
- [15] 张宇,葛非,刘哲,李薇,何勇,杨蕾,蔡虹明,周震强.2024年度气象联合基金项目评审简析[J].大气科学,2025,49(02):603-608.
- [16] He, Sheng; Cai, Hongming*; Sun, Ruoyu; Zheng, Wang; Yuan, Shengliu; Yuan, Wei; Wang, Yuchun; Zhang, Ke; An, Yuchen; Liu, Jianfeng; Pengfei Chen,Tong Zhang, Shichang Kang, Jiubin Chen* Stable Isotopes Reveal the Contribution of Glacier Melting to Mercury Budget in Tibetan Rivers. Environmental Science & Technology Letters 12 1 85-91 2024
- [17] Yuan, Wei; Wang, Zhengrong; Saldi, Giuseppe D; Cai, Hongming*; Zheng, Wang; Schott, Jacques; Chen, Jiubin*; Gallium isotope fractionation during precipitation of α-GaOOH from aqueous solution. Chemical Geology 646 121923 2024
- [18] Ke, Yutian; Calmels, Damien; Bouchez, Julien; Massault, Marc; Chetelat, Benjamin; Noret, Aurélie; Cai, Hongming; Chen, Jiubin; Gaillardet, Jérôme; Quantin, Cécile; Channel cross-section heterogeneity of particulate organic carbon transport in the Huanghe. Earth Surface Dynamics 12 1 347-365 2024
- [19] Zhen, Jiebo; Li, Tao; Cai, Hongming; Nie, Xiaoling; He, Sheng; Meng, Mei; Wang, Yan; Chen, Jiubin; Photoreduction and origin of dissolved and particulate mercury in cloud water: Insights from stable mercury isotopes. Journal of Hazardous Materials 474 134654 2024
- [20] WANG, YA; GAO, X; SU, Y; ZHANG, KE; FAN, X; CAI, H; CHEN, J; ZHENG, W; THE ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR INORGANIC MERCURY SPECIES AND SPECIES-SPECIFIC MERCURY ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS IN SOLID SAMPLES. EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT 2024
- [21] 李晔,何天豪,丁方方,等.区域场地土壤跨介质污染物多源清单:中国场地土壤污染防治的新策略(英文)[J].Science Bulletin,2024,69(05):566-569.
- [22] 帅旺财,刘文奇,马丽雅,等.典型有色金属冶炼场地重金属来源解析及生态健康风险评估[J].地球与环境,2024,52(06):756-770.
- [23] 李卫娜,蔡虹明,袁玮,等.土柱实验在土壤重金属污染研究中的应用进展与展望[J].地球与环境,2024,52(05):652-661.
- [24] 苏友达,张可,樊熊菲,等.基于热解技术的大气颗粒物形态汞同位素组成分析方法[J].地球与环境,2024,52(05):621-630.
- [25] Liu, Jincun; Chen, Jiubin; Wang, Zhengrong; Cai, Hongming; Yuan, Wei; Wang, Zhongwei; Huang, Fang; Liu, Congqiang; Magnesium isotope fractionation during natural travertine deposition from Baishuitai, SW China. Applied Geochemistry 157 105777 2023
- [26] 杜琪琪,李伯根,蔡虹明*,等.澜沧江梯级水库水化学特征及其对水-气界面CO2通量的影响[J].地球与环境,2023,51(01):36-46.DOI:10.14050/j.cnki.1672-9250.2022.50.069.
- [27] 王丽娟,孟梅,何晟,等.海洋汞同位素研究进展[J].地球科学,2023,48(07):2778-2806.
- [28] AuYang, David; Chen, Jiubin; Zheng, Wang; Lang, Yunchao; Wang, Yina; Wang, Zhongwei; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Liu, Yulong; Zhang, Ke; Cai, Hongming; Seasonal variations of the mercury multiple isotopic compositions of subrural and urban aerosols highlight an additional atmospheric Hg0 oxidation pathway. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9 773327 2022
- [29] Yuan, Shengliu; Chen, Jiubin; Hintelmann, Holger; Cai, Hongming; Yuan, Wei; He, Sheng; Zhang, Ke; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Liu, Yulong; Event-based atmospheric precipitation uncovers significant even and odd Hg isotope anomalies associated with the circumpolar vortex. Environmental Science & Technology 56 17 12713-12722 2022
- [30] AuYang, David; Chen, Jiubin; Zheng, Wang; Zhang, Yanxu; Shi, Guitao; Sonke, Jeroen E; Cartigny, Pierre; Cai, Hongming; Yuan, Wei; Liu, Liangzhi; South-hemispheric marine aerosol Hg and S isotope compositions reveal different oxidation pathways. National Science Open 1 2 20220014 2022
- [31] Wang, Yanni; Li, Yiren; Yang, Shiyan; Liu, Jian; Zheng, Wang; Xu, Jianming; Cai, Hongming; Liu, Xingmei; Source apportionment of soil heavy metals: A new quantitative framework coupling receptor model and stable isotopic ratios. Environmental Pollution 314 120291 2022
- [32] Ma, Mingming; Zhang, Wenfang; Zhao, Mengting; Qiu, Yudan; Cai, Hongming; Chen, Jiubin; Liu, Xiuming; Deccan traps volcanism implicated in the extinction of non‐avian dinosaurs in Southeastern China. Geophysical Research Letters 49 24 e2022GL100342 2022
- [33] Wang, Zhongwei; Chen, Jiubin; Cai, Hongming; Yuan, Wei; Yuan, Shengliu; Coprecipitation of metal ions into calcite: an estimation of partition coefficients based on field investigation. Acta Geochimica 40 1 67-77 2021
- [34] Moynier, Frederic; Jackson, Matthew G; Zhang, Ke; Cai, Hongming; Halldórsson, Sæmundur Ari; Pik, Raphael; Day, James MD; Chen, Jiubin; The mercury isotopic composition of Earth's mantle and the use of mass independently fractionated Hg to test for recycled crust. Geophysical Research Letters 48 17 e2021GL094301 2021
- [35] Song, Yilong; Zhang, Xu Yvon; Bouchez, Julien; Chetelat, Benjamin; Gaillardet, Jérôme; Chen, JiuBin; Zhang, Ting; Cai, Hongming; Yuan, Wei; Wang, Zhongwei; Deciphering the signatures of weathering and erosion processes and the effects of river management on Li isotopes in the subtropical Pearl River basin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 313 340-358 2021
- [36] Yuan, Wei; Chen, Jiubin; Teng, Henry; Chetelat, Benjamin; Cai, Hongming; Liu, Jincun; Wang, Zaicong; Bouchez, Julien; Moynier, Frederic; Gaillardet, Jérôme; A review on the elemental and isotopic geochemistry of gallium. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 35 9 e2021GB007033 2021
- [37] Zhang, Hua; Zhang, Feifei; Chen, Jiu-bin; Erwin, Douglas H; Syverson, Drew D; Ni, Pei; Rampino, Michael; Chi, Zhe; Cai, Yao-feng; Xiang, Lei; Felsic volcanism as a factor driving the end-Permian mass extinction. Science Advances 7 47 eabh1390 2021
- [38] Liu, Yulong; Chen, Jiubin; Liu, Jianfeng; Gai, Pengxue; Au Yang, David; Zheng, Wang; Li, Yanbin; Li, Dan; Cai, Hongming; Yuan, Wei; Coprecipitation of mercury from natural iodine-containing seawater for accurate isotope measurement. Analytical Chemistry 93 48 15905-15912 2021
- [39] Zhang, Yuanyuan; Chen, Jiubin; Zheng, Wang; Sun, Ruoyu; Yuan, Shengliu; Cai, Hongming; Yang, David Au; Yuan, Wei; Meng, Mei; Wang, Zhongwei; Mercury isotope compositions in large anthropogenically impacted Pearl River, South China. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 191 110229 2020
- [40] Moynier, Frédéric; Chen, Jiubin; Zhang, Ke; Cai, Hongming; Wang, Zaicong; Jackson, Matthew G; Day, James MD; Chondritic mercury isotopic composition of Earth and evidence for evaporative equilibrium degassing during the formation of eucrites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 551 116544 2020
- [41] Gou, Long-Fei; Jin, Zhangdong; Galy, Albert; Gong, Ying-Zeng; Nan, Xiao-Yun; Jin, Chenyang; Wang, Xiao-Dan; Bouchez, Julien; Cai, Hong-Ming; Chen, Jiu-Bin; Seasonal riverine barium isotopic variation in the middle Yellow River: Sources and fractionation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 531 115990 2020
- [42] Huang, Qiang; Chen, Jiubin; Huang, Weilin; Reinfelder, John R; Fu, Pingqing; Yuan, Shengliu; Wang, Zhongwei; Yuan, Wei; Cai, Hongming; Ren, Hong; Diel variation in mercury stable isotope ratios records photoreduction of PM 2.5-bound mercury. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19 1 315-325 2019
- [43] Yuan, Shengliu; Chen, Jiubin; Cai, Hongming; Yuan, Wei; Wang, Zhongwei; Huang, Qiang; Liu, Yujie; Wu, Xingyang; Sequential samples reveal significant variation of mercury isotope ratios during single rainfall events. Science of the Total Environment 624 133-144 2018
- [44] Cai, Hongming; Chen, Jiubin; Mass-independent fractionation of even mercury isotopes. Science bulletin 61 2 116-124 2016
- [45] Yuan, Wei; Chen, Jiu Bin; Birck, Jean-Louis; Yin, Zuo Ying; Yuan, Sheng Liu; Cai, Hong Ming; Wang, Zhong Wei; Huang, Qiang; Wang, Zhu Hong; Precise analysis of gallium isotopic composition by MC-ICP-MS. Analytical chemistry 88 19 9606-9613 2016
- [46] Huang, Qiang; Chen, Jiubin; Huang, Weilin; Fu, Pingqing; Guinot, Benjamin; Feng, Xinbin; Shang, Lihai; Wang, Zhuhong; Wang, Zhongwei; Yuan, Shengliu; Isotopic composition for source identification of mercury in atmospheric fine particles. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 16 18 11773-11786 2016
- [47] Chen, Jiubin; Hintelmann, Holger; Zheng, Wang; Feng, Xinbin; Cai, Hongming; Wang, Zhuhong; Yuan, Shengliu; Wang, Zhongwei; Isotopic evidence for distinct sources of mercury in lake waters and sediments. Chemical Geology 426 33-44 2016
- [48] Huang, Qiang; Liu, YuLong; Chen, JiuBin; Feng, XinBin; Huang, WeiLin; Yuan, ShengLiu; Cai, HongMing; Fu, XueWu; An improved dual-stage protocol to pre-concentrate mercury from airborne particles for precise isotopic measurement. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 30 4 957-966 2015
- [49] Wang, Zhuhong; Chen, Jiubin; Feng, Xinbin; Hintelmann, Holger; Yuan, Shengliu; Cai, Hongming; Huang, Qiang; Wang, Shuxiao; Wang, Fengyang; Mass-dependent and mass-independent fractionation of mercury isotopes in precipitation from Guiyang, SW China. Comptes Rendus Geoscience 347 7月8日 358-367 2015
- [50] Yuan, ShengLiu; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Chen, JiuBin; Kang, ShiChang; Zhang, Jian; Feng, Xinbin; Cai, Hongming; Wang, Zhuhong; Wang, Zhongwei; Huang, Qiang; Large variation of mercury isotope composition during a single precipitation event at Lhasa City, Tibetan Plateau, China. Procedia Earth and Planetary Science 13 282-286 2015
- [51] 袁圣柳,陈玖斌,蔡虹明,等.青藏高原降水中汞同位素质量分馏及非质量分馏研究[J].地质学报,2015,89(S1):122-123.
- [52] 陈玖斌,Holger Hintelmann,冯新斌,等.地表水环境Hg同位素质量分馏和非质量分馏[J].地球科学进展,2012,27(S1):330.
- [53] 王柱红,陈玖斌,冯新斌,等.Hg稳定同位素地球化学研究进展[J].地球与环境,2012,40(04):599-610.DOI:10.14050/j.cnki.1672-9250.2012.04.021.
- [54] 岳甫均,李思亮,刘丛强,等.利用反硝化细菌法测试水体硝酸盐氮氧同位素[J].生态学杂志,2012,31(08):2152-2157.DOI:10.13292/j.1000-4890.2012.0260.
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- [1] 环境重金属污染的同位素源解析,天津市自然科学一等奖
- [2] 中国科学院大学三好学生





