M.Sc. Siying Chen

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Research

My interdisciplinary research focuses on climate change and human adaptation during historical periods, with a particular emphasis on extreme climate. As a member of the STORIES research project (https://www.erc-stories.com/), I am currently investigating flood resilience in Southwest China from the 14th to the 20th century. This research encompasses both the analysis of typical flood cases and the exploration of long-term changes in flood risk and resilience.

Publications

• Chen, S., Y. Su, X. Chen & L. E. Yang (2024): The spatio-temporal evolution of the Chongzhen drought (1627–1644) in China and its impact on famine, Climate of the Past, 20(10), pp. 2287-2307. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2287-2024

• Chen, S., Y. Su, X. Fang & J. He (2020): Climate records in ancient Chinese diaries and their application in historical climate reconstruction – a case study of Yunshan Diary, Climate of the Past, 16(5), pp. 1873–1887. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1873-2020

• Chen, S. & Y. Su (2020): The severe winter of 1308/1309 in the Taihu Lake Basin recorded in Yunshan Diary, Quaternary Sciences, 40(5), pp. 1193-1202 (in Chinese with English abstract), https://doi.org/10.11928/j.issn.1001-7410.2020.05.09

Biography

I joined the Human-Environment Relations working group at LMU in 2023 to pursue a PhD. Before this, I completed my bachelor's and master's degrees at Beijing Normal University in China. My educational background is in physical geography, with a primary research focus on reconstructing historical extreme weather and climate events and analyzing their interactions with human societies, particularly in the context of droughts, floods, and cold extremes. I have extensive experience conducting both qualitative and quantitative research using historical documents. Additionally, I possess research and practical experience in geographic education.