Yi Ge Zhang----Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Name: Yi Ge Zhang

Title: Professor

Phone: 020-85292969

Email: zhangyige@gig.ac.cn

Resume:

Education:

PhD Yale University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences May 2015

Dissertation: Deciphering the "Doubthouse" climate change of the Cenozoic Era

Advisor: Mark Pagani

MPhil Yale University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences May 2012

MS University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences May 2009

Dissertation: Methane Index: A biomarker proxy for detecting the instability of marine gas hydrates

Advisor: Chuanlun Zhang

BS Nanjing University, Department of Earth Sciences May 2007

Appointments:

Professor 2024-Present

Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Associate Professor (with tenure) 2022-2024

Assistant Professor 2016-2022

Texas A&M University

Department of Oceanography

Ziff Environmental Fellow 2014-2016

Harvard University

Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences & Center for the Environment

Research Interests：

I am a geochemist and paleoclimatologist/paleoceanographer interested in studying the chemical evolution of Earth’s surficial systems and past climate changes. These studies help us to better understand and manage our future. My primary research tools are organic and isotope geochemistry, geochemical and climate modeling. My research is interdisciplinary, which often requires collaborations with chemists, biologists, physicists, and numerical modelers.

Recent Publications：

Google Scholar Page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JHoI_8wAAAAJ&hl=en

*denotes student advisees

CenCO₂PIP Consortium (84 co-authors including Zhang, Y.G.), 2023, Towards a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO₂, Science, 382, eadi5177.

Li, Z.-Y.*, Zhang, Y.G., Torres, M. and Mills, B.J.W., 2023, Neogene burial of organic carbon in the global ocean, Nature, 613, 90-95.

Kim, B.* and Zhang, Y.G., 2023, Methane Index: Towards a quantitative archaeal lipid biomarker proxy for reconstructing marine sedimentary methane fluxes, Geochimi. Cosmochimi. Acta, 354, 74-87.

Petrick, B., Reuning, L., Auer, G., Zhang, Y.G., Pfeiffer, M., and Schwark, L., 2023, Warm, not cold temperatures contributed to a Late Miocene reef decline in the Coral Sea, Sci. Rep., 13, 4015.

Zhang, Z.-X., Li, J., Lu, H., Yang, H., Zhang, Y.G., Tang, Y., Fu, M., and Peng, X., Bacterial glycerol tetraethers as a potential tool to trace marine methane cycling, Limnol. Oceanog., 69, 104-120.

Liu, X*., Huber, M., Foster, G., Leckie, R.M., Dessler, A. and Zhang, Y.G., 2022, Persistent high latitude amplification of the Pacific Ocean over the last 10 million years, Nature Comm., 13, 7310.

Wang, T.X., Wang Y., Auderset, A., Sigman D.M., Ren, H., Martínez-García, A., Haug, G.H., Su, Z., Zhang, Y.G., Rasmussen, B., Sessions, A.L., Fischer, W.W., 2022, Nutrient rise drove ocean deoxygenation over the past eight million years, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 119, e2204986119.

Shen, J., Zhang, Y.G., Yang, H., Xie, S., and Pearson, A., 2022, Early and late phases of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction marked by different atmospheric CO₂ regimes, Nature Geosci., 15, 839-844.

Rattanasriampaipong, R.*, Zhang, Y.G., Pearson, A., Hedlund, B., and Zhang, S., 2022, Archaeal lipids trace ecology and evolution of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 119, e2123193119.

Kim, B*. and Zhang, Y.G., 2022, Marine gas hydrate dissociation across the Oligocene – Miocene boundary, Nature Geosci., 15, 203-209.

Zhang, Y.G., 2022, Acceptance of the 2022 F.W. Clarke award to Yige Zhang, Geochimi. Cosmochimi. Acta, 337, 189.

Judd, E.J., Tierney, J.E., Huber, B.T., Wing, S.L., Lunt, D.J., Ford, H.L., Inglis, G.N., McClymont, E.L., O’Brien, C.L., Rattanasriampaipong, R.*, Si, W., Staitis, M.L., Thirumalai, K., Anagnostou, E., Cramwinckel, M.J., Dawson, R.R., Evans, D., Gray, W.G., Grossman, E.L., Henehan, M.J., Hupp, B.N., MacLeod, K.G., O’Connor, L.K., Sánchez Montes, M.L., Song H., and Zhang, Y.G., 2022, The PhanSST global database of Phanerozoic sea surface temperature proxy data, Sci. Data, 9, 753.

Liang, J.-Q., Leng, Q., Xiao, L., Hofig, D.F.*, Royer, D.L.,Zhang, Y.G., and Hong, Y., 2022, Early Miocene redwood fossils from Inner Mongolia: CO₂reconstructions and paleoclimate effects of a low Mongolian plateau,Rev. Palaeobot. & Paleonol., 305, 104743.

Liang, J.-Q., Leng, Q., Hofig, D.F.*, Niu, G., Wang, L., Royer, D.L., Burke, K., Xiao, L., Zhang, Y.G., and Hong, Y., 2022, Constraining conifer physiological parameters in leaf gas-exchange models for ancient CO₂ reconstruction, Global & Planet. Change, 209, 103737.

Lu, W., Barbosa, C., Rathburn, A., Xavier, P., Cruz, A.P., Thomas, E., Rickaby, R., Zhang, Y.G., and Lu, Z., 2021, Proxies for paleo-oxygenation: A downcore comparison between benthic foraminiferal surface porosity and I/Ca, Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 579, 110588.

Hofig, D.*, Zhang, Y.G., Giosan, L., Qin, L., Liang, J., Wu, M., Miller, B.V., and Yang, H., 2021, Annually-resolved sediments in the classic Clarkia lacustrine deposits during the middle Miocene Climatic Optimum, Geology, 49, 916-920.

Rae, J.W.B., Zhang, Y.G., Liu, X*., Foster, G.L., Stoll, H.M., and Whiteford, R.D.M., 2021, Atmospheric CO₂ over the last 66 million years from marine archives, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 49, 609-641.

Gao, C.*, Yang, Y., Zhang, Y.G., Lu, X., Wang, H., Yu, X., and Ruan, X., 2021, Different temperature dependence of marine-derived brGDGT isomers in a sediment core from the Chukchi Sea shelf, Org. Geochem., 152, 104169.

Tierney, J.E., Poulsen, C.J., Montanez, I.P., Bhattacharya, T., Feng, R., Ford, H.L., Honisch, B., Inglis, G.N., Petersen, S.V., Sagoo, N., Tabor, C.R., Thirumalai, K., Zhu, J., Burls, N.J., Foster, G.L., Godderis, Y., Huber, B.T., Ivany, L.C., Turner, S.K., Lunt, D.J., McElwain, J.C., Mills, B.J.W., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Ridgwell, A. and Zhang, Y.G., 2020, Past climates inform our future, Science, 370, eaay3701.

Da, J., Zhang, Y.G., Li, G. and Ji, J., 2020, Aridity-driven decoupling of δ¹³C between pedogenic carbonate and soil organic matter, Geology, 48, 981-985.

Zhang, Y.G., Henderiks, J. and Liu, X.*, 2020, Refining the alkenone-pCO₂ method II: Towards resolving the physiological parameter ‘b’, Geochimi. Cosmochimi. Acta, 281, 118-134.

Zhang, Y.G., Pearson, A., Benthien, A., Dong, L., Huybers, P., Liu, X*. and Pagani, M., 2019, Refining the alkenone-pCO₂ method I: Lessons from the Quaternary glacial cycles., Geochimi. Cosmochimi. Acta, 260, 177-191.

Da, J., Zhang, Y.G., Meng, X., Li. G., and Ji, J., 2019, Low CO₂ levels of the entire Pleistocene Epoch, Nature Comm., 10, 4342.

Zhuang, G., Zhang, Y.G., Hourigan, J., Ritts, B., Hren, M., Hou, M., Wu, M. and Kim, B-S.*, 2019, Microbial and geochronologic constraints on the Neogene paleotopography of Northern Tibetan Plateau, Geophy. Res. Lett., 46, 1312-1319.

Hollis, C. J. et al. (38 coauthors including Zhang, Y. G.), 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, Geosci. Model Dev. 12., 3149-3206.

Zhang, Y.G., and Liu, X.*, 2018, Export depth of the TEX₈₆ signal, Paleoceano. Paleoclimatol., 33, 666-671.

Shen, J., Pearson, A., Henkes, G., Zhang, Y.G., Chen, K., Li, D., Wankel, S.D., Finney, S.C., Shen, Y., 2018, Improved efficiency of the biological pump as a trigger for the late Ordovician glaciation, Nature Geosci., 11, 510-514.

Pearson, P. and IODP Expedition 363 Scientific Party (including Zhang, Y.G.), A deep-sea agglutinated foraminifer tube constructed with planktonic foraminifer shells of a single species, 2018, J. Micropalaeont., 37, 97-104.

Zhang, Y.G., Pagani, M, Henderiks, J. and Ren, H., 2017, A long history of equatorial upwelling in the Pacific Ocean. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 467, 1-9.

Zhuang, G., Pagani, M. and Zhang, Y.G., 2017, Monsoonal upwelling in the western Arabian Sea since the middle-late Miocene, Geology, 45, 655-658.

Wang, J.-X., Xie, W., Zhang, Y.G., Meador, T.B., and 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, 2077.

Pearson, A., Hurley, S. J., Shah Walter, S. R., Kusch, S., Lichtin, S., and Zhang, Y.G., 2016, Stable carbon isotope ratios of intact GDGTs indicate heterogeneous sources to marine sediments. Geochimi. Cosmochimi. Acta, 181, 18-35.

Zhang, Y.G., Pagani, M., and Wang, Z., 2016, Ring Index: A new strategy to evaluate the integrity of TEX₈₆ paleothermometry, Paleoceanography, 31, 220-232.

Da, J.W., Zhang, Y.G., Wang, H.T., Balsam, W., and Ji, J.F., 2015, An early Pleistocene atmospheric CO₂ record based on pedogenic carbonate from the Chinese loess deposits, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 426, 69-75.

Zhang, Y.G., Pagani, M., and Liu, Z., 2014, Response to comment on “A 12-million-year temperature history of the tropical Pacific Ocean”, Science, 346, 1467-b.

Zhang, Y.G., Pagani, M., and Liu, Z., 2014, A 12-million-year temperature history of the tropical Pacific Ocean, Science, 343, 84-86.

Kluge, T., Affek, H., Zhang, Y.G., Dublyansky, Y., Sp？tl, C., Immenhauser, A., and Richter, D.K., 2014, Clumped isotope thermometry of cryogenic cave carbonates, Geochimi. Cosmochimi. Acta, 126, 541-554.

Schouten, S. et al., (69 coauthors including Zhang, Y.G.), 2013, An interlaboratory study of TEX₈₆ and BIT analysis of sediments, extracts and standard mixtures, Geophys. Geochem. Geosyst., 14, 5263-5285.

Zhang, Y.G., Pagani, M., Liu, Z., Bohaty, S., and DeConto, R., 2013, A 40-million-year history of atmospheric CO₂, Phil. Trans. Royal. Soc. A, 371, 20130096.

Zhang, Y.G., Zhang, C.L., Liu, X.-L., Li, L., Hinrichs, K.-U., and Noakes, J.E., 2011, Methane Index: A tetraether archaeal lipid biomarker indicator for detecting the instability of marine gas hydrates, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 307, 525-534.

Boyd, E.S., Pearson, A., Pi, Y.D., Li, W.-J., Zhang, Y.G., He, L., Zhang, C.L., and Geesey, G.G., 2011, Temperature and pH controls on glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipid composition in the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeote Acidilobus sulfurireducens, Extremophiles, 15, 59-65.

Zhang, Y.G., Ji, J.F., Balsam, W.L., Liu, L.W. and Chen J., 2009, Mid-Pliocene Asian monsoon intensification and the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation: Geology, 37, 599-602.

Zhang Y.G., Ji, J.F., Balsam, W.L. Liu, L.W. and Chen, J., 2007, High-resolution hematite and goethite record from ODP 1143, South China Sea: Co-evolution of monsoonal precipitation and El Ni？o over the last 600,000 years, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 264, 136-150.