Research Interests

·   Quaternary paleoclimatology and paleoceanography

·   Ice core bubbles and paleoenvironmental reconstructions

·   Physical and chemical processes in the polar cryosphere

·   Biogeochemical cycles of carbon and oxygen

Publications

(* denotes corresponding author[s])

·   Yan, Y.*, Kurbatov, A.V., Mayewski, P.A., Shackleton, S., and Higgins, J.A.: Early- Pleistocene East Antarctic temperature in phase with local insolation, Nat. Geosci., 16(1), 50–55, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01095-x, 2023.

·   Yan, Y.*, Banerjee, A., Murray, L.T., Tie, X., and Yeung, L.Y.*: Tropospheric ozone during the Last Interglacial, Geophys. Res. Lett., 49(23), e2022GL101113. https://doi.org/ 10.1029/2022GL101113, 2022.

·   Hu, J.*, Yan, Y.*, Yeung, L.Y., and Dee, S.G.: Sublimation origin of negative deuterium excess observed in snow and ice samples from McMurdo Dry Valleys and Allan Hills Blue Ice Areas, East Antarctica, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 127(11), e2021JD035950, https:// doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035950, 2022.

·   Yan, Y.*, Brook, E.J., Kurbatov, A.V., Severinghaus, J.P., and Higgins, J.A.: Ice Core Evidence for Atmospheric Oxygen Decline Since the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, Sci. Adv., 7(51), eabj9341, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj9341, 2021.

·   Yan, Y.*, Spaulding, N.E., Bender, M.L., Brook, E.J., Higgins, J.A., Kurbatov, A.V., and Mayewski, P.A.: Enhanced Moisture Delivery into Victoria Land, East Antarctica During the Early Last Interglacial: Implications for West Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability, Clim. Past, 17(5), 1841–1855, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1841-2021, 2021.

·   Yeung, L.Y.*, Murray, L.T., Banerjee, A., Tie, X., Yan, Y., Atlas, E.L., Schauffler, S.M. and Boering, K.A.: Effects of Ozone Isotopologue Formation on the Clumped‐Isotope Composition of Atmospheric O2. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 126(14), e2021JD034770, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD034770, 2021.

·   Yan, Y.*: Recent Advances in Quaternary Paleoclimate Research Using Antarctic Blue Ice, Chin. Sci. Bull., 66(21), 2663–2670, https://doi.org/10.1360/TB-2020-1151, 2021 (in Chinese).

·   Yan, Y.*, Bender, M.L., Brook, E.J., Clifford, H., Kemeny, P., Kurbatov, A.V., Mackay, S., Mayewski, P.A., Ng, J., Severinghaus, J.P., and Higgins, J.A.: Two-million-year-old snapshots of atmospheric gases from Antarctic ice, Nature, 574(7780), 663–666, https:// doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1692-3, 2019.

·   Stolper, D.A.*, Bender, M.L., Dreyfus, G.B., Yan, Y. and Higgins, J.A.: A Pleistocene ice-core record of atmospheric O2 concentrations, Science, 353(6306), 1427-1430, https:// doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf5445, 2016.

·   Higgins, J.A.*, Kurbatov, A.V., Spaulding, N.E., Brook, E.J., Introne, D.S., Chimiak, L., Y. Yan, Mayewski, P.A., and Bender, M. L.: Atmospheric composition 1 million years ago from blue ice in the Allan Hills, Antarctica, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 112(22), 6887-6891, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1420232112, 2015.