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Key publications

Paleoclimatology

An, Z., Colman, S.M., Zhou, W., Li, X., Brown, E.T., Jull, A.T., Cai, Y., Huang, Y., Lu, X., Chang, H. and Song, Y., 2012. Interplay between the Westerlies and Asian monsoon recorded in Lake Qinghai sediments since 32 ka. Scientific Reports, 2(1), p.619.

Edwards, E.J., Osborne, C.P., Strömberg, C.A., Smith, S.A., C4 Grasses Consortium, Bond, W.J., Christin, P.A., Cousins, A.B., Duvall, M.R., Fox, D.L. and Freckleton, R.P., 2010. The origins of C4 grasslands: integrating evolutionary and ecosystem science. Science, 328(5978), pp.587-591.

Tierney, J.E., Russell, J.M., Huang, Y., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Hopmans, E.C. and Cohen, A.S., 2008. Northern hemisphere controls on tropical southeast African climate during the past 60,000 years. Science, 322(5899), pp.252-255.

Zhisheng, A., Yongsong, H., Weiguo, L., Zhengtang, G., Clemens, S., Li, L., Prell, W., Youfeng, N., Yanjun, C., Weijian, Z. and Benhai, L., 2005. Multiple expansions of C4 plant biomass in East Asia since 7 Ma coupled with strengthened monsoon circulation. Geology, 33(9), pp.705-708.

Hu, F.S., Kaufman, D., Yoneji, S., Nelson, D., Shemesh, A., Huang, Y., Tian, J., Bond, G., Clegg, B. and Brown, T., 2003. Cyclic variation and solar forcing of Holocene climate in the Alaskan subarctic. Science, 301(5641), pp.1890-1893.

Huang, Y., Street-Perrott, F.A., Metcalfe, S.E., Brenner, M., Moreland, M. and Freeman, K.H., 2001. Climate change as the dominant control on glacial-interglacial variations in C3 and C4 plant abundance. Science, 293(5535), pp.1647-1651.

Huang, Y., Street-Perrott, F.A., Perrott, R.A., Metzger, P. and Eglinton, G., 1999. Glacial–interglacial environmental changes inferred from molecular and compound-specific δ13C analyses of sediments from Sacred Lake, Mt. Kenya. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 63(9), pp.1383-1404.

Ocean, Land, Ice and Atmosphere

Wang, K.J., Huang, Y., Majaneva, M., Belt, S.T., Liao, S., Novak, J., Kartzinel, T.R., Herbert, T.D., Richter, N. and Cabedo-Sanz, P., 2021. Group 2i Isochrysidales produce characteristic alkenones reflecting sea ice distribution. Nature Communications, 12(1), p.15.

Street-Perrott, F.A., Huang, Y., Perrott, R.A., Eglinton, G., Barker, P., Khelifa, L.B., Harkness, D.D. and Olago, D.O., 1997. Impact of lower atmospheric carbon dioxide on tropical mountain ecosystems. Science, 278(5342), pp.1422-1426.

Geochimica et Cosmochimic Acta
Liao, S., Liu, X.L., Manz, K.E., Pennell, K.D., Novak, J., Santos, E. and Huang, Y., 2023. Comprehensive analysis of alkenones by reversed-phase HPLC-MS with unprecedented selectivity, linearity and sensitivity. Talanta, 260, p.124653. 

Hou, J., D’Andrea, W.J. and Huang, Y., 2008. Can sedimentary leaf waxes record D/H ratios of continental precipitation? Field, model, and experimental assessments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72(14), pp.3503-3517.

Huang, Y., Shuman, B., Wang, Y. and Webb, T., 2004. Hydrogen isotope ratios of individual lipids in lake sediments as novel tracers of climatic and environmental change: a surface sediment test. Journal of Paleolimnology, 31, pp.363-375.

Pizzarello, S., Huang, Y., Becker, L., Poreda, R.J., Nieman, R.A., Cooper, G. and Williams, M., 2001. The organic content of the Tagish Lake meteorite. Science, 293(5538), pp.2236-2239.