蔡秋芳，女，博士，中国科学院地球环境研究所研究员，主要从事树木年轮与全球变化研究。现任中国地理学会树木年轮研究分会秘书长，陕西关中平原区域生态环境变化与综合治理国家野外科学观测研究站副站长，中国地质大学（武汉）李四光学院地球科学菁英班联合培养本科生学务指导老师。2007年获得“中国科学院院长优秀奖”，2011年获陕西省科学院科技进步一等奖（第三完成人）和陕西省科学技术二等奖（第三完成人），入选2018年“陕西省中青年科技创新领军人才”，现任国际树轮研究旗舰期刊Dendrochronologia副编辑。

近年代表性论文目录：

1. Qiufang Cai*, Yu Liu, Congxi Fang, Mei Xie, Hanyu Zhang, Qiang Li, Huiming Song, Changfeng Sun, Ruoshi Liu, Taoyuan D, Erwen Sun, Yong Wang. Insight into spatial-temporal patterns of hydroclimate change on the Chinese Loess Plateau over the past 250 years, using new evidence from tree rings. Science of the Total Environment, 2022, 850, 157960. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157960

2. Qiufang Cai*, Hengjun Qian, Yu Liu^*, Congxi Fang, Hanyu Zhang, Qiang Li, Changfeng Sun, Huiming Song, Ruoshi Liu, Junyan Sun. Recent intensification of hydroclimatic change in the middle reaches of the Yangtz River Basin driven by PDO, ENSO and WPSH. Climate Dynamics, 2022, 58 (5-6): 1775-1790, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05990-8

3. Qiufang Cai*, Yu Liu*, Hanyu Zhang, Huiming Song, Qiang Li, Changfeng Sun, Lu Wang, Congxi Fang, Ruoshi Liu. Evolution of the dry-wet variations since 1834 CE in the Lüliang Mountains, north China and its relationship with the Asian summer monsoon. Ecological Indicators, 2021, 121, 107089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107089.

4. Qiufang Cai*, Yu Liu*, Congxi Fang, Hanyu Zhang, Huiming Song, Qiang Li, Changfeng Sun, Chun Wan, Ruoshi Liu. Ground surface temperature reconstruction for the Jinggangshan Mountains: Interpreting the hydro-thermal coupling pattern in southeastern China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020，249，106591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106591.

5. Qiufang Cai*, Yu Liu*, Hengjun Qian, Ruoshi Liu. Inverse effects of recent warming on trees growing at the low and high altitudes of the Dabie Mountains, subtropical China. Dendrochronologia, 2020, 59, 125649.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2019.125649

6. Qiufang Cai^*, Yu Liu^*, Bingchuang Duan, Changfeng Sun. Regional difference of the start time of the recent warming in Eastern China: prompted by a 165-year temperature record deduced from tree rings in the Dabie Mountains. Climate Dynamics, 2018, 50(5-6): 2157–2168. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3741-7

7. Qiufang Cai*, Yu Liu*, Bingchuang Duan, Qiang Li, Changfeng Sun, Lu Wang. Tree-ring δ¹⁸O, a tool to crack the paleo-hydroclimatic code in subtropical China. Quaternary International, 2018, 487: 3-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.10.038

8. Qiufang Cai^*, Yu Liu^*. Two centuries temperature variations over subtropical southeast China inferred from Pinus taiwanensis Hayata tree-ring width. Climate Dynamics, 2017, 48:1813–1825. DOI 10.1007/s00382-016-3174-8

9. Qiufang Cai^*, Yu Liu^*, Han Liu, Changfeng Sun, Yanchao Wang. Growing-season precipitation since 1872 in the coastal area of subtropical southeast China reconstructed from tree rings and its relationship with the East Asian summer monsoon system. Ecological Indicators, 2017, 82: 441-450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.07.012 

10. Qiufang Cai^*, Yu Liu^*, Yanchao Wang, Yongyong Ma, Han Liu. Recent warming evidence inferred from a tree-ring-based winter-half year minimum temperature reconstruction in northwestern Yichang, South Central China, and its relation to the large-scale circulation anomalies. International Journal of Biometeorology, 2016, 60: 1885–1896. DOI 10.1007/s00484-016-1175-2  

11. Qiufang Cai*, Yu Liu, Han Liu, Junli Ren. Reconstruction of drought variability in North China and its association with sea surface temperature in the joining area of Asia and Indian–Pacific Ocean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeogeoecology, 2015, 417,554–560.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.10.021

12. Qiufang Cai*, Yu Liu*, Ying Lei, Guang Bao, Bo Sun. Reconstruction of the March–August PDSI since 1703 AD based on tree rings of Chinese pine (Pinus tabulaeformis Carr.) in the Lingkong Mountain, southeast Chinese loess Plateau. Climate of the Past, 2014, 10(2): 509-521. DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-509-2014

13. Qiufang Cai, Yu Liu, Hua Tian. A dendroclimatic reconstruction of May-June mean temperature variation in north China since 1767 AD. Quaternary International, 2013,283: 3–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.03.034   

14. Qiufang Cai, Yu Liu. Climatic response of Chinese pine and PDSI variability in the middle Taihang Mountains, north China since 1873. Trees, 2013, 27(2)：419–427. DOI:10.1007/s00468-012-0812-6   

15. Qiufang Cai, Yu Liu. Climatic response of three tree species growing at different elevations in the Lüliang Mountains of Northern China. Dendrochronologia, 2013, 31(4):311–317.  DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2012.07.003    

16. Qiufang Cai*, Yu Liu, Guang Bao, Ying Lei, Bo Sun. Tree-ring-based mean temperature history for Lüliang Mountains, China, since 1836. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2010, 55(26)：3008–3014. DOI: 10.1007/s11434-010-3235-z

17. Qiufang Cai*, Yu Liu, Huiming Song, Junyan Sun. Tree-ring-based reconstruction of the April to September mean temperature since 1826 AD for north-central Shaanxi Province, China. Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences, 2008, 51(8):1099–1106. DOI: 10.1007/s11430-008-0084-6

18. Qiufang Cai*, Yu Liu. January to August temperature variability since 1776 inferred from tree-ring width of Pinus tabulaeformis in Helan Mountain.  Journal of Geographical Science, 2007, 17(3): 293–303. DOI: 10.1007/s11442-007-0293-5

19. Zhang Hanyu, Cai Qiufang*, Liu Yu*. Altitudinal difference of growth-climate response models in the north subtropical forests of China. Dendrochronologia, 2022, 72: 125935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2022.125935

20. Yu Liu*, Huiming Song, Zhisheng An*, Changfeng Sun, Valerie Trouet, Qiufang Cai, Ruoshi Liu, Steven W. Leavitt, Yi Song, Qiang Li, Congxi Fang, Weijian Zhou, Yinke Yang, Zhao Jin, Yunqiang Wang, Junyan Sun, Xingmin Mu, Ying Lei, Lu Wang, Xuxiang Li, Meng Ren, Linlin Cui, Xueli Zeng. Recent anthropogenic curtailing of Yellow River runoff and sediment load is unprecedented over the past 500 y. PNAS, 2020, 117(31): 18251-18257. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1922349117

21. Yu Liu*, Huiming Song, Changfeng Sun, Yi Song, Qiufang Cai, Ruoshi Liu, Ying Lei, Qiang Li. The 600-mm precipitation isoline distinguishes tree-ring width responses to climate in China. National Science Review, 2019, 6: 359–368. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwy101

22. Yu Liu*, Kim M. Cobb, Song Huiming, Li Qiang, Li Ching-Yao, Nakatsuka Takeshi, An Zhisheng, Zhou Weijian, Cai Qiufang, Li Jinbao, Steven W. Leavitt, Sun Changfeng, Mei Ruochen, Shen Chuan-Chou, Chan Ming-Hsun, Sun Junyan, Yan Libin, Lei Ying, Ma Yongyong, Li Xuxiang, Chen Deliang, Hans W. Linderholm. Recent enhancement of central Pacific El Ni？o variability relative to last eight centuries.Nature Communications, 2017, 8:15386. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15386;

23. Yu Liu*, Wenju Cai, Changfeng Sun, Huiming Song, Kim Cobb, Jianping Li, Steven Leavitt, Lixin Wu, Qiufang Cai, Ruoshi Liu, Benjamin Ng, Paolo Cherubini, Ulf Büentgen, Yi Song, Guojian Wang, Ying Lei, Libin Yan, Qiang Li, Yongyong Ma, Congxi Fang, Junyan Sun, Xuxiang Li, Deliang Chen, and Hans Linderholm. Anthropogenic aerosols cause recent pronounced weakening of Asian Summer Monsoon relative to last four centuries. Geophysical Research Letter, 2019, 46: 5469-5479.

24. 蔡秋芳*, 刘禹. 过去百年河南桐柏山气温变化历史及其与海气相互作用的联系. 第四纪研究, 2021, 41(2): 346-355.

25. 蔡秋芳*，刘禹，段丙闯. 2019. 树轮多指标研究在亚热带古气候重建中的作用——以桂林地区为例. 地球环境学报, 2019, 10(2): 141-148.

26. 蔡秋芳, 刘禹. 湖北麻城马尾松树轮宽度对气候的响应及1879 年以来6~9 月平均最高气温重建. 科学通报, 2013，58 (增刊): 169-177.

27. 蔡秋芳, 刘禹. 山西五鹿山油松树轮宽度年表的建立及过去百余年5-6月平均气温变化. 第四纪研究, 2013, 33(3): 511-517.

近年部分科研项目：

1. 参与中国科学院战略性先导科技专项（B类）“亚太多尺度气候环境变化动力学”项目一“第四纪多尺度亚太气候变化与变率”，主持课题三子课题2（XDB40010300），2020.1-2024.12，320万；

2. 主持国家自然科学基金面上项目：我国中部地区树木生长对20世纪增温的响应及过去250年气候重建（项目批准号41671212），70万元，2016-2020；

3. 主持国家自然科学基金面上项目：我国东南季风区树轮宽度及稳定C同位素对气候变化的响应及记录（项目批准号 41171170），80万元，2012-2015；

4. 主持中国科学院“西部之光”人才培养计划 一般项目“云贵高原东、北部不同生境针叶树种对气候变化的响应及记录”，30万元，2015-2017；

5. 参加中科院战略先导科技专项“过去2000年气候变化的记录、幅度、速率、周期、突变、原因”之“树轮记录的台湾地区过去1000年气候变化”（XDA05080202）子课题，2011-2015，科研骨干；

6. 参加国家自然科学基金重大项目《中国地区树轮及千年气候变化研究》第三课题“中国千年气候变化的树轮记录”（40890051），2009-2012，科研骨干。