Modern Environment Division, using the records of tree ring, pollen, stalagmite, coral, and archaeological literature, with the abrupt event as the breakthrough point, studies modern extreme climate events and its change rate in short time scales; explores the instability characteristic of the East Asian monsoon and the inland arid climate variations, also the influences of sea- land-atmosphere interaction; identifies the environmental effect of human activities; predicts the precipitation trend of semi- arid area in china.  

 Modern Environment Division is composed of six laboratories.

• Tree Ring Lab
• Speleothem Lab 
• Luminescence Dating Laboratory
• Limnological Environments and Processes Lab
• Pollen and Tropical Climate Change Lab         
• Historical Climate Change Lab 

Director：Pro. TAN Liangcheng