·     2007.09-2011.06: China University of Geosciences, Beijing, Geology, B. Sc

·     2014.08-2015.10: University of Wisconsin–Madison, joint PhD. student

·     2011.09-2016.06: China University of Geosciences, Beijing, Geological Resources and Geological Engineering, Ph.D

·     2019.01-now: School of Ocean and Earth Science, Tongji University, Research Associate

·     2016.05-2019.01: School of Ocean and Earth Science, Tongji University, Postdoctoral researcher

Research Interests

·     Deep-sea sedimentary processes of the South China Sea during the Oligocene to Miocene

·     Earth-surface material cycle during the Oligocene to Miocene and its tectonic and climatic implications

Projects

·     Formation of the red-green sandstone cycles in the Oligocene South China Sea and their palaeoceanographic significance (21ZR1466800), 2021-2024, 200k RMB, Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai, PI;

·     Sub-project of Study of knowledge graph and knowledge evolution based on oceanic sediments (42050102), 2021-2023, 700k RMB, Natural Science Foundation of China, sub-project PI;

·     Sedimentary process and mechanisms of the deep South China Sea during the Oligocene-Miocene boundary (MG20207), 2021-2021, 100k RMB, Research Fund provided by the State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, PI;

·     Sedimentary response to Oligocene tectonic evolution of the continent-ocean transition zone in the northern South China Sea (41806053), 2019-2021, 260k RMB, National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI;

·     Controlling tectonic and climatic evnets in central Tibet with high-resolution stratigraphy of the Lunpola Basin (7ZR1432400), 200k RMB, 2017-2019, Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai, PI;

·     Identification of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum in the lacustrine record of the Lunpola Basin, central Tibetan Plateau and its environmental implications (2017M610274), 2017-2018, 80k RMB, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, PI;

·     Chemical weathering features of the Oligocene sediments recovered at ODP site 1148, South China Sea (MG20160409), 2016-2017, 100k RMB, Research Fund provided by the State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, PI;

Publications

Papers

·     Ma, P., Liu, Z., Tuo, S., Jiang, J., Xu, Y., Hu, X., 2021. Present Status🌇，Characteristics🍐，and Compilation Significance for the Data of Scientific Ocean Drilling. Advances in Earth Science in press.

·     Ma, P., Liu, Z., Huang, B., Zhao, Y., Shu, W., Li, Y., 2020. Oligocene evolution of the outermost continental margin in response to breakup and early spreading of the South China Sea. Marine Geology 427, 106241.

·     Ma, P., Li, Y., Wang, C., Zheng, L., Lv, D., Zou, Y., Li, S., 2018. Oligocene-Miocene source rocks of the Zhongcang Basin: Implications for hydrocarbon potential differentiation between lake basins in Central Tibet. International Journal of Coal Geology 199, 124-137.

·     Ma, P., Wang, C., Meng, J., Ma, C., Zhao, X., Li, Y., Wang, M., 2017. Late Oligocene-early Miocene evolution of the Lunpola Basin, central Tibetan Plateau, evidences from successive lacustrine records. Gondwana Research 48, 224-236.

·     Wen, Y., Ma, P.*, Ma, C., Li, Y., Hu, B., Liu, Z., 2016. Identifying the Dingqinghu tuff layer along well logs in the Cenozoic Lunpola Basin, Tibetan Plateau. China Mining Magazine 25, 148-153. (in Chinese)

·     Ma, P., Wang, C., Wang, L., Li, Y., Hu, J., 2015a. Sedimentology and organic properties of lower Tertiary lacustrine source rocks, Lunpola Basin, central Tibetan Plateau: implications for hydrocarbon potential. Marine and Petroleum Geology 66, 1029-1041.

·     Ma, P., Wang, C., Lv, D., Li, Y., Yi, L., 2015b. Controls on deposition of aquatic and terrestrial organic matter in the lacustrine Namling–Oiyug basin (Oligocene–Miocene, southern Tibet). International Journal of Coal Geology 149, 108-117.

·     Ma, P., Wang, L., Wang, C., Wu, X., Wei, Y., 2015c. Organic-matter accumulation of the lacustrine Lunpola oil shale, central Tibetan Plateau: Controlled by the paleoclimate, provenance, and drainage system. International Journal of Coal Geology 147–148, 58-70.

·     Ma, P., Wang, L., Ran, B., 2013. Subsidence analysis of the Cenozoic Lunpola basin, central Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Acta Petrologica Sinica 29, 990-1002. (in Chinese)

Chapters

·     Liu, Z., Ma, P., Wu, J., 2018. History of Ocean Drilling. In: .International Ocean Discovery Program，China-Office (Ed). Fifty Years of Ocean Drilling. Tongji University Press, Shanghai, 1-49 pp. (in Chinese)

·     Liu, Z., Yang, S., Zhao, Y., Ma, P., de Boer, P., 2020. Source-to-sink systems: from orogenic belts to marginal sea basins. In: Wang, C., Immenhauser, A., Ogg, J., et al. (Eds). A roadmap of sedimentology in China until 2030: Sedimentology at the crossroad of new frontiers. International Association of Sedimentologists, 33-46 pp.