蔡演军 男，1974年4月生。中国科学院地球环境研究所研究员，博士生导师。先后承担和参与国家重点基础研究规划子课题、国家自然科学基金面上、重点和重大项目以及中国科学院重要方向性项目等研究项目。现任地球环境研究所所长助理。西安交通大学双聘教授。

1993年9月-1997年7月西北大学地质系，地质学专业学习，获理学学士学位。1997年9月-2003年6月 中国科学院地球环境研究所(硕博连读)，第四纪地质学专业，获博士学位。毕业后进入地球环境研究所工作，从事洞穴石笋与全球变化的研究工作。2002年7月-9月, 2006年2-8月先后在美国明尼苏达大学进行ICP-MS铀系测年的学习和访问研究工作。

主要从事岩溶石笋记录的气候环境变化，以及含人类化石洞穴地层及其铀系测年的研究工作。

（1）揭示南半球气候对冰期千年尺度印度季风的影响；发现印度季风降水变化具有冰期-间冰期旋回的变化，结合数值模拟，回答了东部季风区石笋δ18O记录与海洋和黄土等记录在冰期-间冰期尺度变化不同的问题；

（2）首次在青藏高原上开展洞穴石笋研究，对高原南部冰心氧同位素的解释和降水同位素古高度重建提出新认识；

（3）揭示全新世夏季风降水南北差异的变化特点，提出东亚大陆温度以及西太平洋海温通过调制副热带高压而对我国夏季风降雨产生重要影响；

（4）通过铀系定年，确定广西智人化石的埋藏年代不晚于10万年，为东亚最古老早期现代人的发现做出贡献。

（5）对湖南道县福岩洞开展洞穴地层和铀系测年研究，确定古人类牙齿化石的年龄为距今8-12万年

（6）通过新疆全新世石笋记录和数值模拟的对比分析，指出东地中海、黑海、里海以及周边区域再蒸发水汽贡献对我国新疆地区降水及其同位素组成的重要影响，为内陆干旱区石笋氧同位素解译提供了新认识。

1.2016年国家自然科学二等奖（第三完成人）

2.2010年陕西省“青年科技新星”称号

3.第五届中国青年科技工作者协会个人会员

4.2012年度中国科学院王宽诚西部学者突出贡献奖

5.2006年度陕西省科学技术一等奖（第十完成人）

现任中国第四纪科学研究会喀斯特与环境专业委员会副主任

中国矿物岩石地球化学学会理事会理事

《中国岩溶》编委会委员

2018

Tan L, Cai Y, Cheng H, et al. Centennial-to decadal-scale monsoon precipitation variations in the upper Hanjiang River region, China over the past 6650 years[J]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2018, 482: 580-590.

2017

Shi Z, Cai Y, Liu X, et al. Distinct responses of East Asian and Indian summer monsoons to astronomical insolation during Marine Isotope Stages 5c and 5e[J]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2017.

Deng L, Wang W, Cai Y, et al. A 70-year groundwater recharge record from sandy loess in northwestern China and its climatic implications[J]. Environmental Earth Sciences, 2017, 76(24): 820.

Cai Y*, Qiang X, Wang X, et al. The age of human remains and associated fauna from Zhiren Cave in Guangxi, southern China[J]. Quaternary International, 2017, 434: 84-91.

Tan L, Cai Y, An Z, et al. Decreasing monsoon precipitation in southwest China during the last 240 years associated with the warming of tropical ocean[J]. Climate Dynamics, 2017, 48(5-6): 1769-1778.

Cai Y*, Chiang J C H, Breitenbach S F M, et al. Holocene moisture changes in western China, Central Asia, inferred from stalagmites[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2017, 158: 15-28.

2016

Tan L, Song Y, Cai Y, et al. Preliminary Studies of Speleothem in Central Asia[J]. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 2016, 90(6): 2279-2280.

Zhang, H., Griffiths, M. L., Huang, J., Cai, Y., Wang, C., Zhang, F., ... & Xie, S. (2016). Antarctic link with East Asian summer monsoon variability during the Heinrich Stadial–Bølling interstadial transition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 453, 243-251.

Kathayat, G., Cheng, H., Sinha, A., Spötl, C., Edwards, R. L., Zhang, H., Li, X., Yi, L., Ning, Y., Cai, Y., Lui, W., Breitenbach, S. F. M. (2016). Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales. Scientific reports, 6, 24374.

2015

Liu W, Martinón-Torres M, Cai Y, et al. The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China[J]. Nature, 2015, 526(7575): 696-699.

Deng L, Wang W, Cai Y, et al. Groundwater Diffuse Recharge and its Response to Climate Changes in Semi-Arid Northwestern China[J]. Terrestrial, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, 2015, 26(4).

Zhang H, Cai Y*, Tan L, et al. Large variations of δ13C values in stalagmites from southeastern China during historical times: implications for anthropogenic deforestation[J]. Boreas, 2015, 44(3): 511-525.

Tan L, Cai Y, Cheng H, et al. Climate significance of speleothem δ 18 O from central China on decadal timescale[J]. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2015, 106: 150-155.

Cai Y*, Fung I Y, Edwards R L, et al. Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 y[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015, 112(10): 2954-2959.

Chiang, J. C., Fung, I. Y., Wu, C. H., Cai, Y., Edman, J. P., Liu, Y., ... & Labrousse, C. A. (2015). Role of seasonal transitions and westerly jets in East Asian paleoclimate. Quaternary Science Reviews, 108, 111-129.

Tan L, Cai Y, Cheng H, et al. Climate significance of speleothem δ 18 O from central China on decadal timescale[J]. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2015, 106: 150-155.

Tan L, Cai Y, An Z, et al. A Chinese cave links climate change, social impacts, and human adaptation over the last 500 years[J]. Scientific reports, 2015, 5.

Wu, Y., Tan, L., Liu, W., Wang, B., Wang, J., Cai, Y., & Lin, X. (2015). Profiling bacterial diversity in a limestone cave of the western Loess Plateau of China. Frontiers in microbiology, 6.

2014

Zhang Y, Jin C, Cai Y, et al. New 400–320 ka Gigantopithecus blacki remains from hejiang cave, chongzuo City, guangxi, South China[J]. Quaternary International, 2014, 354: 35-45.

Zhang H, Cai Y*, Tan L, et al. Stable isotope composition alteration produced by the aragonite-to-calcite transformation in speleothems and implications for paleoclimate reconstructions[J]. Sedimentary Geology, 2014, 309: 1-14.

Tan L, Shen C C, Cai Y, et al. Trace-element variations in an annually layered stalagmite as recorders of climatic changes and anthropogenic pollution in Central China[J]. Quaternary Research, 2014, 81(2): 181-188.

Breitenbach S F M, Cai Y, Kwiecien O, et al. A high-altitude cave as an example of active karstification in the eastern Tibetan Plateau[J]. Cave and Karst Science, 2014, 41(3): 132-137.

Tan, L., An, Z., Huh, C. A., Cai, Y., Shen, C. C., Shiau, L. J., ... & Edwards, R. L. (2014). Cyclic precipitation variation on the western Loess Plateau of China during the past four centuries. Scientific reports, 4.

Cai Y, Jin Z, Zhou W, et al. Asian monsoon variability recorded in other archives[M]//Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia. Springer Netherlands, 2014: 145-337.

An, Z., Sun, Y., Chang, H., Zhang, P., Liu, X., Cai, Y., ... & Shi, Z. (2014). Late Cenozoic climate change in monsoon-arid Asia and global changes. In Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia (pp. 491-581). Springer Netherlands.

2013

Tan L, Yi L, Cai Y, et al. Quantitative temperature reconstruction based on growth rate of annually-layered stalagmite: a case study from central China[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013, 72: 137-145.

Li, Y.Y., Pei, S.W., Tong, H.W., Yang, X.X., Cai, Y.J., Liu, W., & Wu, X.J. (2013). A preliminary report on the 2011 excavation at Houbeishan Fuyan Cave, Daoxian, Hunan Province. Acta Anthropol. Sinica, 32, 133-143.

2012

Cai Y*, Zhang H, Cheng H, et al. The Holocene Indian monsoon variability over the southern Tibetan Plateau and its teleconnections[J]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2012, 335: 135-144.

Cheng, H., Zhang, P. Z., Spötl, C., Edwards, R. L., Cai, Y. J., Zhang, D. Z., ... & An, Z. S. (2012). The climatic cyclicity in semiarid‐arid central Asia over the past 500,000 years. Geophysical Research Letters, 39(1).

An, Z., Colman, S. M., Zhou, W., Li, X., Brown, E. T., Jull, A. T., Cai, Y., ... & Song, Y. (2012). Interplay between the Westerlies and Asian monsoon recorded in Lake Qinghai sediments since 32 ka. Scientific reports, 2.

2011

An, Z., Clemens, S. C., Shen, J., Qiang, X., Jin, Z., Sun, Y., ... & Cai, Y. (2011). Glacial-interglacial Indian summer monsoon dynamics. Science, 333(6043), 719-723.

Tan L, Cai Y, An Z, et al. Climate patterns in north central China during the last 1800 yr and their possible driving force[J]. Climate of the Past, 2011, 7(3): 685.

Tan L, Cai Y, An Z, et al. Centennial-to decadal-scale monsoon precipitation variability in the semi-humid region, northern China during the last 1860 years: Records from stalagmites in Huangye Cave[J]. The Holocene, 2011, 21(2): 287-296.

Qiang, X., An, Z., Song, Y., Chang, H., Sun, Y., Liu, W., Ao, H., Dong, J., Fu, C., Wu, F., Lu, F., Cai, Y., Zhou, W., Cao, J., Xu, X., Ai, L. (2011). New eolian red clay sequence on the western Chinese Loess Plateau linked to onset of Asian desertification about 25 Ma ago. Science China Earth Sciences, 54(1), 136-144.

2010

Liu, W., Jin, C. Z., Zhang, Y. Q., Cai, Y. J., Xing, S., Wu, X. J., ... & An, Z. S. (2010). Human remains from Zhirendong, South China, and modern human emergence in East Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(45), 19201-19206.

Cai Y*, Cheng H, An Z, et al. Large variations of oxygen isotopes in precipitation over south-central Tibet during Marine Isotope Stage 5[J]. Geology, 2010, 38(3): 243-246.

Cai Y*, Tan L, Cheng H, et al. The variation of summer monsoon precipitation in central China since the last deglaciation[J]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2010, 291(1): 21-31.

2009

Jin, C., Pan, W., Zhang, Y., Cai, Y., Xu, Q., Tang, Z., ... & Edwards, R. L. (2009). The Homo sapiens Cave hominin site of Mulan Mountain, Jiangzhou District, Chongzuo, Guangxi with emphasis on its age. Chinese Science Bulletin, 54(21), 3848.

Tan L, Cai Y*, Cheng H, et al. Summer monsoon precipitation variations in central China over the past 750years derived from a high-resolution absolute-dated stalagmite[J]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2009, 280(3): 432-439.

2008

Tan L, Cai Y, Yi L, et al. Precipitation variations of Longxi, northeast margin of Tibetan Plateau since AD 960 and their relationship with solar activity[J]. Climate of the Past, 2008, 4(1): 19-28.

2001-2007

Tan L, Cai Y, Yi L, et al. Precipitation variations of Longxi, northeast margin of Tibetan plateau since AD 960 and its relationship with solar activity[J]. Climate of the Past Discussions, 2007, 3(5): 1037-1061.

Cai Y*, An Z, Cheng H, et al. High-resolution absolute-dated Indian Monsoon record between 53 and 36 ka from Xiaobailong Cave, southwestern China[J]. Geology, 2006, 34(8): 621-624.

Kelly, M. J., Edwards, R. L., Cheng, H., Yuan, D., Cai, Y., Zhang, M., ... & An, Z. (2006). High resolution characterization of the Asian Monsoon between 146,000 and 99,000 years BP from Dongge Cave, China and global correlation of events surrounding Termination II. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 236(1), 20-38.

An, Z., Huang, Y., Liu, W., Guo, Z., Clemens, S., Li, L., Prell, W., Ning Y., Cai, Y., Zhou, W., Lin, B., Zhang, Q., Cao, Y., Qiang, X., Chang, H., Wu, Z. (2005). Multiple expansions of C4 plant biomass in East Asia since 7 Ma coupled with strengthened monsoon circulation. Geology, 33(9), 705-708.

Xie, S., Huang, J., Wang, H., Yi, Y., Hu, C., Cai, Y., & Cheng, H. (2005). Distributions of fatty acids in a stalagmite related to paleoclimate change at Qingjiang in Hubei, southern China. Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences, 48(9), 1463-1469.

Hu, C., Huang, J., Fang, N., Xie, S., Henderson, G. M., & Cai, Y. (2005). Adsorbed silica in stalagmite carbonate and its relationship to past rainfall. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69(9), 2285-2292.

Dykoski, C. A., Edwards, R. L., Cheng, H., Yuan, D., Cai, Y., Zhang, M., ... & Revenaugh, J. (2005). A high-resolution, absolute-dated Holocene and deglacial Asian monsoon record from Dongge Cave, China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233(1), 71-86.

Cai Y*, Warren B, Peng Z, et al. Effect of dead carbon on the14C dating of the speleothem[J]. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2005, 50(8): 817-821.

Yuan, D., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Dykoski, C. A., Kelly, M. J., Zhang, M., Qing, J., Lin, Y., Wang, Y., Wu, J., Dorale, J. A., An, Z., Cai, Y. (2004). Timing, duration, and transitions of the last interglacial Asian monsoon. Science, 304(5670), 575-578.

Xie, S., Yi, Y., Huang, J., Hu, C., Cai, Y., Collins, M., & Baker, A. (2003). Lipid distribution in a subtropical southern China stalagmite as a record of soil ecosystem response to paleoclimate change. Quaternary Research, 60(3), 340-347.

Wang, Y., Wu, J., Liu, D., Wu, J., Cai, Y., & Cheng, H. (2002). A quick cooling event of the East Asian monsoon responding to Heinrich Event 1: Evidence from stalagmite δ 18 O records. Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences, 45(1), 88-96.

Cai Y*, Zhang M, Peng Z, et al. The δ 18 O variation of a stalagmite from Qixing Cave, Guizhou Province and indicated climate change during the Holocene[J]. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2001, 46(22): 1904-1908.

Liu, X., An, Z., Rolph, T., Qiang, X., Hesse, P., Lu, H., ... & Cai, Y. (2001). Magnetic properties of the Tertiary red clay from Gansu. Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences, 44(7), 635-651.