Current Research Interests:

• Remediation of heavy metal (Lead, Zinc, Arsenic et al. ) contaminated industrial sites (Iron and steel industries, nonferrous metal smelters), focusing on additives of solidification/stabilization of heavy metals)
• Arsenic transformation in terrestrial and aquatic system

Academic Awards: 

Award of Science and Technology Beijing 2014, First Prize

Award of Natural Sciences Guangxi 2012, Second Prize

Society Appointments:

Formerly Editorial Board, Environmental and Experimental Botany (2008-2014)

Committee member of the Chinese Natural Resource Society

Member of the Chinese Geographical Society

Member of the Chinese Fern Society  

Representative Publications:

Xie SW, Feng HX Yang F, Zhao ZD, Hu XD, Wei CY*, Liang T, Li HT, Geng YB. Does dual reduction in chemical fertilizer and pesticides improve nutrient loss and tea yield and quality? A pilot study in a green tea garden in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018, online first, DOI: 10.1007/s11356-018-3732-1 

Xie SW, Liu JX, Yang F, Feng HX, Wei CY*, Wu FC. Arsenic uptake, transformation, and release by three freshwater algae under conditions with and without growth stress. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018, 25(20)19413-19422

Yang F, Xie SW, Wei CY*, Liu JX, Zhang HZ, Chen T, Zhang J. Arsenic characteristics in the terrestrial environment in the vicinity of the Shimen realgar mine, China, Science of the Total Environment,2018, 626: 77-86

Yang F, Xie SW, Wei CY*, Liu JX, Zhang HZ, Chen T, Zhang J. Arsenic concentrations and speciation in wild birds from an abandoned realgar mine in China, Chemosphere, 2018, 193:777-784

Shi QT, Terracciano, A, Zhao Y, Wei CY, Christodoulatos C, Meng XG*. Evaluation of metal oxides and activated carbon for lead removal: Kinetics, isotherms, column tests, and the role of co-existing ions. Science of the Total Environment, 2018,648:176-183

Ren J，Fan W*，Wang X，Ma Q，Li X，Xu Z，Wei C，Influences of size-fractionated humic acids on arsenite and arsenate complexation and toxicity to Daphnia magna，Water Research, 2017, 108：68-77.

Yang F，Zhang N， Wei CY *，Liu JX，Xie SW.  Arsenic speciation in organisms from two large shallow freshwater lakes in China，Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology，2017，98（2）：226-233

Yang F, Geng D, Wei CY*, Ji HB, Xu H. Distribution of arsenic between the particulate and aqueous phases in surface water from three freshwater lakes in China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2016, 23 (8) : 7452-7461 

Zhu XD, Wei CY*, Liang Tao, Yang Fen, Bioaccessibility of heavy metals in soils cannot be predicted by a single model in two adjacent areas. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2016, 38(1): 233-241

Zhu XD, Wei CY*, Yang Fen, Factors influencing the heavy metal bioaccessibility in soils were site dependent from different geographical locations. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2015, 22(18) 13939-13949

Fan W*, Ren J, Li X, Wei CY, Xue F, Zhang N. Bioaccumulation and oxidative stress in Daphnia magna exposed to arsenite and arsenate. Environ Toxicol Chem , 2015, 34(11):2629-35.

Wei CY*, Ge ZF, Chu WS, Feng RW. Speciation of antimony and arsenic  in the soils and plants in an old antimony mine. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2015, 109: 31-39

Feng RW, Wang XL, Wei CY*, Tu SX. The accumulation and subcellular distribution of arsenic and antimony in four fern plants. International Journal of Phytoremediation, 2015,17 (4): 348-354 

Zhang N, Wei CY*, Yang LS. Occurrence of arsenic in two large shallow freshwater lakes in China and a comparison to other lakes around the world. Microchemical Journal, 2013,110: 169-177.

Feng RW, Wei CY*, Tu SX et al. The uptake and detoxification of antimony by plants: a review. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2013, 96:28-34. 

Ge ZF, Wei CY*.Simultaneous analysis of SbIII, SbV and TMSb by high performance liquid chromatography-inductively coupled plasma- mass spectrometry detection: application to antimony speciation in soil samples. Journal of Chromatographic Science, 2013, 51:391-399.

Feng RW, Wei CY*, Tu SX, Liu ZQ. Interactive effects of selenium and antimony on the uptake of selenium, antimony and essential elements in paddy-rice. Plant and Soil, 2013, 365:375-386.

Fu S, Wei CY*. Multivariate and spatial analysis of heavy metal sources and variations in a large old antimony mine, China. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2013, 13:106-116.

Wei, CY*, Zheng, H, Yu, JP. Arsenic in the rhizosphere soil solution of ferns. International Journal of Phytoremediation, 2012, 14(10): 950-965.

Wei CY*, Zhang N. Arsenic Variation in Two Basins of Lake Dianchi. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2012, 88: 605-610.

Wei CY*, Wen HL. The geochemical baseline of heavy metals in the sediments of two large fresh water lakes in China: implications for estimation of contamination character and history. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2012, 34:737-748.

Wei CY*, Zhang N, Yang LS. The fluctuation of arsenic levels in lake Taihu. Biological Trace Element Research, 2011, 143:1310-1318.

Wei CY*, Deng QJ , Wu FC*, Fu ZY, Xu LB. Arsenic, antimony and bismuth uptake and accumulation by plants in an old antimony mine, China. Biological Trace Element Research, 2011, 144: 1150-1158.

Feng RW, Wei CY*, Wu FC, Tang SR, Tu SX. Simultaneous hyperaccumulation of arsenic and antimony in Cretan brake fern: Evidence of plant uptake and subcellular distributions. Microchemical Journal, 2011, 97:38-43.

Feng RW, Wei CY*, Wu FC, Tang SR, Tu SX. Detoxification of antimony by selenium and their interaction in paddy rice under hydroponic condition. Microchemical Journal, 2011, 97:57-61.

Feng RW, Wei CY*, Tu SX, Wu FC, Yang LS. 2009. Antimony accumulation and antioxidative responses in four fern plants. Plant and Soil, 317: 93-101.

Feng RW, Wei CY*, Tu SX, Wu FC. 2009. Effect of selenium on the uptake of nutrient elements in Pteris vittata L. Plant and Soil ,325:123-132.

Feng RW, Wei CY*, Tu .X, Sun X. 2009. Interactive effect of Se and As on their uptake by Pteris vittata. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 65:363-368.

Zhu YM, Wei CY*, Yang LS. 2010. Rehabilitation of a tailing dam at Shimen County, Hunan Province: effectives assessment. Acta Ecologica Sinica，30(3) 178-183

Wei CY*, Wang C and Yang LS. 2009. Characterizing spatial distribution and sources of heavy metals in the soils  from mining-smelting activities in Shuikoushan, Hunan Province, China. Journal of Environmental Science ，21（9）1230-1236

Wei CY*, Yang LS. 2009. A bio-remediation method for arsenic tailings and dumps. Chinese patent application No. 200910169715.9

Wei CY*, Sun X, Wang C, Wang WY. 2006. Factors influencing arsenic accumulation by Pteris vittata: a comparative field study at two sites. Environmental Pollution, 141: 488-493.

Wei CY*, Chen T.B. 2006. Arsenic accumulation by two brake ferns growing on an arsenic mine and their potential in phytoremediation. Chemosphere, 63:1048-1053.

Wei CY*, Wang C, Sun X, Wang WY. 2007. Arsenic accumulation by ferns: a field survey in southern China. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 29:169-177.

Wei CY*, Zhang ZY. 2007. Multivariate analysis of elements in Chinese brake fern as determined using neutron activation analysis. Biological Trace Element Research 115:277-290.

Chen TB*, Wei CY, Huang ZC, Fan ZL, Huang QF, LU QG. 2002. Arsenic hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata L. and its arsenic accumulation. Chinese Science Bulletin, 47(11)902-905.

Major Research Projects:

1. Chemical remediation of industrial contaminated sites (XDA23000000, Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, major participants, 2019.01-2023.12)

2. The temporal-spatial pattern and change of water environment in key watersheds of China (XDA19040102, Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, major participants, 2018.01-2022.12)

3. Fractionation of colloidal arsenic in the surface water in changing environment around an arsenic mine: process and mechanisms (National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI, 2019.01-2022.12)

Office Address:

Room 714, Building No. 3, IGSNRR

11A Da Tun Road

An Wai, Beijing 100101

People’s Republic of China

Telephone: 86-10-6488-9465

Fax: 86-10-6488-1544

Email: weicy@igsnrr.ac.cn

Updated on Aug. 27, 2019