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Zhang, Yige Associate Professor
Positions
- Faculty Affiliate, Energy Institute, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)
- Associate Professor, Oceanography, College of Arts and Sciences
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".
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Cenozoic CO2 Proxy Integration Project (CenCO2PIP) Consortium*, .., Hnisch, B., Royer, D. L., Breecker, D. O., Polissar, P. J., Bowen, G. J., ... Zhang, L.
(2023).
Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2. Science.
382(6675), eadi5177.
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Li, Z., Zhang, Y. G., Torres, M., & Mills, B.
(2023).
Neogene burial of organic carbon in the global ocean. Nature.
613(7942), 90-95.
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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. Scientific data.
9(1), 753.
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Liang, J., Leng, Q., Xiao, L., Hofig, 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.
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Kim, B., & Zhang, Y. G.
(2022).
Methane hydrate dissociation across the Oligocene-Miocene boundary. Nature Geoscience.
15(3), 203-+.
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Rattanasriampaipong, R., Zhang, Y. G., Pearson, A., Hedlund, B. P., & Zhang, S.
(2022).
Archaeal lipids trace ecology and evolution of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
119(31), e2123193119.
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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.
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Shen, J., Zhang, Y. G., Yang, H., Xie, S., & Pearson, A.
(2022).
Early and late phases of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction marked by different atmospheric CO2 regimes. Nature Geoscience.
15(10), 839-+.
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Wang, X. T., Wang, Y., Auderset, A., Sigman, D. M., Ren, H., Martnez-Garca, A., ... Fischer, W. W.
(2022).
Oceanic nutrient rise and the late Miocene inception of Pacific oxygen-deficient zones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
119(45), e2204986119.
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Liu, X., Huber, M., Foster, G. L., Dessler, A., & Zhang, Y. G.
(2022).
Persistent high latitude amplification of the Pacific Ocean over the past 10 million years. Nature Communications.
13(1), 7310.
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Hofig, D., Zhang, Y. G., Giosan, L., Leng, Q., Liang, J., Wu, M., Miller, B., & Yang, H.
(2021).
Annually resolved sediments in the classic Clarkia lacustrine deposits (Idaho, USA) during the middle Miocene Climate Optimum. Geology (Boulder).
49(8), 916-920.
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Rae, J., Zhang, Y. G., Liu, X., Foster, G. L., Stoll, H. M., & Whiteford, R.
(2021).
Atmospheric CO2 over the Past 66 Million Years from Marine Archives. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science.
49(1), 609-641.
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Gao, C., Yang, Y. i., Yang, H., Zhang, Y. G., Lu, X., Wang, H., Yu, X., & Ruan, X.
(2021).
Different temperature dependence of marine-derived brGDGT isomers in a sediment core from the Chukchi Sea shelf. Organic Geochemistry.
152, 104169-104169.
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Lu, W., Barbosa, C. F., Rathburn, A. E., Xavier, P., Cruz, A., Thomas, E., ... Lu, Z.
(2021).
Proxies for paleo-oxygenation: A downcore comparison between benthic foraminiferal surface porosity and I/Ca. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
579, 110588-110588.
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Tierney, J. E., Poulsen, C. J., Montaez, I. P., Bhattacharya, T., Feng, R., Ford, H. L., ... Zhang, Y. G.
(2020).
Past climates inform our future. Science.
370(6517), 680-+.
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Da, J., Zhang, Y. G., Li, G., & Ji, J.
(2020).
Aridity-driven decoupling of delta C-13 between pedogenic carbonate and soil organic matter. Geology (Boulder).
48(10), 981-985.
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Zhang, Y. G., Henderiks, J., & Liu, X.
(2020).
Refining the alkenone-pCO(2) method II: Towards resolving the physiological parameter 'b'. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA.
281, 118-134.
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Zhuang, G., Zhang, Y. G., Hourigan, J., Ritts, B., Hren, M., Hou, M., Wu, M., & Kim, B.
(2019).
Microbial and Geochronologic Constraints on the Neogene Paleotopography of Northern Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters.
46(3), 1312-1319.
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Da, J., Zhang, Y. G., Li, G., Meng, X., & Ji, J.
(2019).
Low CO2 levels of the entire Pleistocene epoch. Nature Communications.
10(1), 4342.
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Zhang, Y. G., Pearson, A., Benthien, A., Dong, L., Huybers, P., Liu, X., & Pagani, M.
(2019).
Refining the alkenone-pCO(2) method I: Lessons from the Quaternary glacial cycles. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA.
260, 177-191.
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Hollis, C. J., Jones, T. D., Anagnostou, E., Bijl, P. K., Cramwinckel, M. J., Cui, Y., ... Lunt, D. J.
(2019).
The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data, incorporating version 0.1 of the DeepMIP database. Geoscientific Model Development.
12(7), 3149-3206.
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Zhang, Y. G., & Liu, X.
(2018).
Export Depth of the TEX86 Signal. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.
33(7), 666-671.
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Shen, J., Pearson, A., Henkes, G. A., Zhang, Y. G., Chen, K., Li, D., ... Shen, Y.
(2018).
Improved efficiency of the biological pump as a trigger for the Late Ordovician glaciation. 11(7), 510-+.
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Wang, J., Xie, W., Zhang, Y. G., Meador, T. B., & Zhang, C. L.
(2017).
Evaluating Production of Cyclopentyl Tetraethers by Marine Group II Euryarchaeota in the Pearl River Estuary and Coastal South China Sea: Potential Impact on the TEX86 Paleothermometer. Frontiers in Microbiology.
8(OCT), 2077.
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Zhuang, G., Pagani, M., & Zhang, Y. G.
(2017).
Monsoonal upwelling in the western Arabian Sea since the middle Miocene. Geology (Boulder).
45(7), 655-658.
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Zhang, Y. G., Pagani, M., Henderiks, J., & Ren, H.
(2017).
A long history of equatorial deep-water upwelling in the Pacific Ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
467, 1-9.
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Zhang, Y. G., Pagani, M., & Wang, Z.
(2016).
Ring Index: A new strategy to evaluate the integrity of TEX86 paleothermometry. Paleoceanography.
31(2), 220-232.
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Pearson, A., Hurley, S. J., Walter, S., Kusch, S., Lichtin, S., & Zhang, Y. G.
(2016).
Stable carbon isotope ratios of intact GDGTs indicate heterogeneous sources to marine sediments. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA.
181, 18-35.
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Da, J., Zhang, Y. G., Wang, H., Balsam, W., & Ji, J.
(2015).
An Early Pleistocene atmospheric CO2 record based on pedogenic carbonate from the Chinese loess deposits. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
426, 69-75.
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Zhang, Y. G., Pagani, M., & Liu, Z.
(2014).
Response to Comment on "A 12-million-year temperature history of the tropical Pacific Ocean". Science.
346(6216), 1467-1467.
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Zhang, Y. G., Pagani, M., & Liu, Z.
(2014).
A 12-million-year temperature history of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Science.
344(6179), 84-87.
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Kluge, T., Affek, H. P., Zhang, Y. G., Dublyansky, Y., Spoetl, C., Immenhauser, A., & Richter, D. K.
(2014).
Clumped isotope thermometry of cryogenic cave carbonates. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA.
126, 541-554.
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Schouten, S., Hopmans, E. C., Rosell-Mele, A., Pearson, A., Adam, P., Bauersachs, T., ... Damste, J.
(2013).
An interlaboratory study of TEX86 and BIT analysis of sediments, extracts, and standard mixtures. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
14(12), 5263-5285.
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Zhang, Y. G., Pagani, M., Liu, Z., Bohaty, S. M., & Deconto, R.
(2013).
A 40-million-year history of atmospheric CO(2). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.
371(2001), 20130096-20130096.
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Zhang, Y. G., Zhang, C. L., Liu, X., Li, L. i., Hinrichs, K., & Noakes, J. E.
(2011).
Methane Index: A tetraether archaeal lipid biomarker indicator for detecting the instability of marine gas hydrates. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
307(3-4), 525-534.
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Boyd, E. S., Pearson, A., Pi, Y., Li, W., Zhang, Y. G., He, L., Zhang, C. L., & Geesey, G. G.
(2011).
Temperature and pH controls on glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipid composition in the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Acidilobus sulfurireducens. Extremophiles.
15(1), 59-65.
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Zhang, Y. G., Ji, J., Balsam, W., Liu, L., & Chen, J.
(2009).
Mid-Pliocene Asian monsoon intensification and the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation. Geology (Boulder).
37(7), 599-602.
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Zhang, Y. G., Ji, J., Balsam, W. L., Liu, L., & Chen, J.
(2007).
High resolution hematite and goethite records from ODP 1143, South China Sea: Co-evolution of monsoonal precipitation and El Nino over the past 600,000 years. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
264(1-2), 136-150.
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Cenozoic CO2 Proxy Integration Project (CenCO2PIP) Consortium*, .., Hnisch, B., Royer, D. L., Breecker, D. O., Polissar, P. J., Bowen, G. J., ... Zhang, L.
(2023).
Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2. Science.
382(6675), eadi5177.
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chapter
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Zhang, Y. G.
(2018).
Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GEOCHEMISTRY: A COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCE SOURCE ON THE CHEMISTRY OF THE EARTH.
(pp. 300-302).
Springer Nature.
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Zhang, Y. G.
(2017).
Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series.
Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology.
(pp. 1-4).
Springer Nature.
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Zhang, Y. G.
(2018).
Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GEOCHEMISTRY: A COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCE SOURCE ON THE CHEMISTRY OF THE EARTH.
(pp. 300-302).
Springer Nature.
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institutional repository document
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Xu, Y., Ribar, N. P., Schade, G. W., Lockley, A. J., Zhang, Y. G., Sachnik, J., ... Velders, G.
(2023).
Possible Mitigation of Global Cooling due to Supervolcanic Eruption via Intentional Release of Fluorinated Gases
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Xu, Y., Ribar, N. P., Schade, G. W., Lockley, A. J., Zhang, Y. G., Sachnik, J., ... Velders, G.
(2023).
Possible Mitigation of Global Cooling due to Supervolcanic Eruption via Intentional Release of Fluorinated Gases
Research
principal investigator on
- Neogene burial of organic carbon in the global ocean awarded by American Chemical Society - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2019 - 2022
- P2C2 Collaborative Research: The Consumption Rate of a CO2 Pulse: Lessons from the Middle Miocene awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2018 - 2021
Teaching
teaching activities
- GEOS491 Research Instructor
- OCNG251 Oceanography Instructor
- OCNG330 Geological Oceanography Instructor
- OCNG430 Geological Oceanography Instructor
- OCNG491 Research Instructor
- OCNG680 Paleoclimate Instructor
- OCNG680 Paleoclimate - Gv Instructor
- OCNG681 Seminar Instructor
- OCNG689 Sptp: Paleoclimate Instructor
- OCNG691 Research Instructor
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics, Yale University - (New Haven, Connecticut, United States) 2014
- B.S. in Earth Sciences, Nanjing University - (Nanjing, China) 2007
- Harvard University - (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) , Postdoctoral Training 2016
awards and honors
Contact
first name
- Yige
has last name
- Zhang
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Oceanography
3146 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3146
USA
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In the News
- yige.zhang@tamu.edu