Funded by NSFC Creatvie Group Project, Prof. Meixun Zhao's team cooperated with Prof. Timothy Eglinton's team (ETH, ZURICH) and made progress on marine carbon cycle research in Chinese marginal seas. The research result was pulished in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (GCA).

Citation: Tao, S., Eglinton, T.I., Montluçon, D.B., McIntyre, C., Zhao, M.. Diverse origins and pre-depositional histories of organic matter in contemporary Chinese marginal sea sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016, 191, 70-88.