Kai Hu

University of Wisconsin-Madison

PhD Candidate

Department of Geoscience

Weeks Hall for Geological Sciences

1215 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53705

Email: kai.hu@wisc.edu Website: kaihux.com

EDUCATION

PhD student University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience | 2019 - present

Thesis research: Variation of soil chemical erosion rates along altitudinal transects at San Jacinto Peak, California and implications for climatic control on silicate weathering

Research advisor: Ken Ferrier


M.Sc. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research | 2011-2015

Thesis: Cosmogenic 10Be-derived basin-averaged erosion rates of the Qilian Shan, NE Tibet

Research advisor: Xiaomin Fang


B.Sc. Lanzhou University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences | 2007-2011

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Graduate Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience | 2020 - present

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant , University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience | 2019

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences | 2018

  • Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences | 2017

Research advisor: Ken Ferrier

  • Visiting student, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | 2016 & 2013-2014

Research advisor: Darryl Granger

  • Graduate Research Assistant, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 2011-2015

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Course TAed:

GEOSCI 106 Environmental Geology (2019 Fall)

EAS 1601 Habitable Planet (2018 Fall)

EAS 4814 Geomorphology (2018 Spring)

HONORS AND AWARDS

2021: Graduate Student Outstanding Paper Award, Department of Geoscience, UW-Madison

2019: Graduate Summer Research Award, Department of Geoscience, UW-Madison

2018: Graduate Conference Travel Award, Student Government Association, Georgia Tech

College of Sciences Doctoral Student Travel Supplement Award, Georgia Tech

2012: Outstanding Student Award, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

2011: Outstanding Graduate Award, Lanzhou University

2010: Outstanding Student Scholarship (1st class), Lanzhou University

2009: Special Prize (top 1 ‰) of 2009 National English Contest for College Students (NECCS)

Outstanding Participant Award of 2009 Summer Camp of NECCS

Outstanding Student Scholarship (1st class), Lanzhou University

2008: Outstanding Student Scholarship (2nd class), Lanzhou University

2007: Outstanding Student Scholarship (3rd class), Lanzhou University


SERVICE

Invited science talk at the Geology Club at the Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin, April 2022

Reviewer for professional journals: Geomorphology (2022)

Faculty Liaison, Geoscience Graduate Student Association (GGSA), UW-Madison, 2020-2021

Student volunteer, UW-Madison Science Expeditions - Rock Wall and Dazzling Display of Wisconsin Rocks, 2019