1) 生物有机地球化学循环
2) 古海洋与古气候
3) 深部生物圈

纵向项目：
1) 国家自然科学基金 面上项目：海洋奇古菌完整极性细胞膜脂GDGTs与氨氧化速率关系研究（42072332）, 2021.1-2024.12, 负责人（在研）
2）科技部重点研发计划 “全球变化”专项  全球变化下近海微型生物脱氧过程与碳汇效应 子课题:课题名称：近海脱氧环境微型生物代谢对碳源汇的影响(2020YFA06083002), 2020.11-2025.10, 子课题负责人 （在研）
3）上海交通大学青年教师启动基金：探索建立古菌氨氧化速率的替代性指标（AF0800065），2018.12-2021.12， 负责人（在研）
4) 热带海洋环境国家重点实验室开放课题：间冰期热带海洋表层-次表层海水温度解耦机制（BD0800012）， 2018.7-2020.6，负责人 （在研）
5) 国家自然科学青年基金：运用氘同位素标定技术验证沉积物中古菌对 GDGTs 的再利用（编号：41606047）， 2017.1-2020.1, 负责人（已结题）
6) 上海交通大学海洋工程国家重点实验室自主研究课题：深海嗜压古菌细胞膜脂组成随压力的变化及其地学意义的探究（编号：GKZD010074）：以 Pyrococcus yayanosii A1 模式菌株为例，2018.9-2019.3,  负责人（已结题）
7) 中国博士后科学基金面上项目（一等）：探究海洋氨氧化古菌在南海晚第四纪氮循环中的作用（编号： 2016M600330）, 2017.1-2018.4, 负责人（已结题）

第一作者或通讯作者*论文
1) Zhou, J., & Dong, L*. 2023. Molecular dynamics simulations reveal methylation in Me-GDGTs as a microbial low-temperature adaptation. Chemical Geology, 121844.
2）Zhou J, Zhao X, Chen X,  & Dong L*. 2023. Comparing extraction methods for analyzing n-alkyl lipids in shelf sediments from the China Sea. Organic Geochemistry, 183, 104645.
3) Chen M#, Zhao X#, Li D. W., & Dong L*. 2022. Mesoscale eddy effects on nitrogen cycles in the northern South China Sea since the last glacial. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10， 815.doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.886200
4）ZHAO X, WU Y, DONG L*, ZHANG T, HU B, LI Q, & WANG F*. (2021). Reconstruction of terrestrial input changes in sediments in the Western Pacific warm pool using bacterial membrane lipids. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 41(1), 52-60. 赵小小, 吴玥汀, 董良*, 章陶亮, 胡邦琦, 李清, & 王风平*. (2021). 细菌细胞膜脂记录的西太平洋暖池约 4 Ma 以来沉积物风尘陆源输入变化. 海洋地质与第四纪地质, 41(1), 52-60. (in Chinese with English abstract)
5）Dong L, Zhang X, Jia G*, Du Y*, Li Q，Li L，2020. CO2‐induced decoupling of tropical surface and thermocline water temperature at the onset of interglacials. Geophysical Research Letters, e2020GL088805.
6) Dong L, Jia G*, Li Z, 2019. Archaeal ammonia oxidation plays a part in late Quaternary nitrogen cycle in the South China Sea, Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters, 509, 38-46.
7) Dong L, Jia G*, Li Q, Shi J, Li L, Zhang L C, 2018. Intact polar glycosidic GDGTs in sediments settle from water column as evidenced from downcore sediment records, Chemical Geology, 501, 12-18.
8) Dong L, Li L*, Li Q*, Liu J, Chen Y, He J, Wang H, 2015. Basin-wide distribution of phytoplankton lipids in the South China Sea during intermonsoon seasons, Deep Sea Research II, 98, 94-101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.07.005i.
9) Dong L, Li L*, Li Q*, Wang H, Zhang L C, 2015. Hydro-climate implications of thermocline (UK’37 and TEXH86) variability in the southern South China Sea over the past 180,000 years, Quaternary Research, 2(83): 370-377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2014.12.003.
10) Dong L, Li Q*, Li L*, Zhang L C, 2015. Glacial-interglacial contrast in MBT/CBT proxies in the South China Sea: Implications for marine production of branched GDGTs and continental teleconnection. Organic Geochemistry, 79:74-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.12.008.
11) Dong L, Li L, Wang H, et al., 2012. Assessment of phytoplankton distribution in western tropical Pacific by lipid biomarkers and the environmental impacts. Marine Geology and Quaternary, 2(1): 51-59 (in Chinese with English abstract). 董良, 李丽, 王慧 , 2012. 2008年冬季西太平洋表层海水浮游藻类分布特征-分子有机地球化学研究. 海洋地质与第四纪地质, 2(1): 51-59 (in Chinese with English abstract).
共同作者论文
1) Zhang Y, Pearson A, Benthien A, Dong L, Huybers P, Liu X, Pagani M, 2019. Refining the alkenone-pCO2 method I: Lessons from the Quaternary glacial cycles, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 260, 177-191.
2) Wu, W., Xu, Y., Hou, S., Dong, L., Liu, H., Wang, H., Liu, W. and Zhang, C., 2019. Origin and preservation of archaeal intact polar tetraether lipids in deeply buried sediments from the South China Sea. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 152, p.103107.
3) He Y, Hu B, Li J., Lu H., Yan H., Dong L, & Zhou X, 2018. Late-Holocene variation in vertical thermal gradient from the coastal East China Sea: Links to monsoon climate and coastal upwelling. The Holocene, 0959683618810399.
4) Zou L, Hu B, Li J, Dou Y, Xie L, & Dong L, 2018. Middle Holocene Organic Carbon and Biomarker Records from the South Yellow Sea: Relationship to the East Asian Monsoon. Journal of Ocean University of China, 17(4):1-12.
5) Jia G, Wang X, Guo W, Dong L, 2017. Seasonal distribution of archaeal lipids in surface water and its constraint on their sources and the TEX86 temperature proxy in sediments, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122.
6) Ge H, Zhang L C, Versteegh G J, Chen L, Fan D, Dong L, Liu, J, 2016. Evolution of the East China Sea sedimentary environment in the past 14 ka: new insights from tetraethers-based proxies, Science China Earth Sciences, 5: 927-938.
7) Li L, Li Q, Li J, Wang H, Dong L, Huang Y, Wang P, 2015. Late Quaternary n-alkane chain length record indicates a regime shift in the mean hydrological states around 270 ka in the western tropical Pacific, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 427: 79-88.
8) Ge H, Zhang L C, Li J, Versteegh G J, Hu B, Zhao J, Dong L, 2014. Tetraether lipids from the southern Yellow Sea of China: Implications for the variability of East Asia Winter Monsoon in the Holocene. Organic Geochemistry, 70: 10-19.
9) Li J T, Sun Y N, Fang J S, Xie W, Peng X T, Dong L, Wu Z J, Zhou H Y, 2014. Aerobic and Anaerobic Ammonia-Oxidizing Microorganisms in Low Temperature Hydrothermal Fe-Si-rich Precipitates, Geomicrobiology Journal, 31(1): 42-52.
10) Wei Y, Wang J, Liu J, Dong L, et al., 2011. Spatial Variation in archaeal lipids of surface water and core-top sediments in the South China Sea: implications for paleoclimate studies. Applied Environmental Microbiology, 77(21): 7479-7489.