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Zhang, Yige

Associate Professor

Positions:

Faculty Affiliate, Energy Institute, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), Division of Research
Associate Professor, Oceanography, College of Arts and Sciences

Research Areas:

Organic geochemistry, Paleoclimatology, Isotope geology, Paleoceanography

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yige.zhang@tamu.edu

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Websites

Geochemistry and Paleoceanography

ORCID

0000-0001-7331-1246

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Research Areas:

Organic geochemistry, Paleoclimatology, Isotope geology, Paleoceanography

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overview

I'm a paleoclimatologist/paleoceanographer interested in using geochemistry, geochemical and climate modeling as tools to study past changes in climate and global biogeochemical cycles, with the goal of learning lessons for our future. We run an organic geochemistry lab equipped with gas chromatography, liquid chromatography and isotope ratio mass spectrometry that are specialized at measuring the composition and stable isotopes of lipid biomarkers or "molecular fossils".

education and training

Harvard University - (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States), Postdoctoral Training
Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics, Yale University - (New Haven, Connecticut, United States) 2014
B.S. in Earth Sciences, Nanjing University - (Nanjing, China) 2007

selected publications

Academic Articles37

Li, Z., Zhang, Y. G., Torres, M., & Mills, B. (2023). Neogene burial of organic carbon in the global ocean.. Nature. 613(7942), 90-95.
Judd, E. J., Tierney, J. E., Huber, B. T., Wing, S. L., Lunt, D. J., Ford, H. L., ... Zhang, Y. G. (2022). The PhanSST global database of Phanerozoic sea surface temperature proxy data.. Sci Data. 9(1), 753.
Rattanasriampaipong, R., Zhang, Y. G., Pearson, A., Hedlund, B. P., & Zhang, S. (2022). Archaeal lipids trace ecology and evolution of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 119(31), e2123193119.
Liang, J., Leng, Q., Hofig, D. F., Niu, G., Wang, L. i., Royer, D. L., ... Yang, H. (2022). Constraining conifer physiological parameters in leaf gas-exchange models for ancient CO2 reconstruction. GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE. 209, 103737-103737.
Liang, J., Leng, Q., Xiao, L., Hfig, D. F., Royer, D. L., Zhang, Y. G., & Yang, H. (2022). Early Miocene redwood fossils from Inner Mongolia: CO2 reconstructions and paleoclimate effects of a low Mongolian plateau. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 305, 104743-104743.

Chapters2

Zhang, Y. G. (2018). Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GEOCHEMISTRY: A COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCE SOURCE ON THE CHEMISTRY OF THE EARTH. 300-302. Springer Nature.
Zhang, Y. G. (2017). Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis. Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology. 1-4. Springer Nature.