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Overview

Jimin Yu is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and has an extensive publication record within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their work covers a range of main topics, notably:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Jimin Yu has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Last glacial atmospheric CO2 decline due to widespread Pacific deep-water expansion, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Hydrological control of river and seawater lithium isotopes, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Global reorganization of deep-sea circulation and carbon storage after the last ice age, 2022, Science Advances
  • Sea level and deep-sea temperature reconstructions suggest quasi-stable states and critical transitions over the past 40 million years, 2021, Science Advances
  • Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2, 2023, Science

Their frequent coauthors include Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr, Yuhao Dai, Zhangdong Jin, Eelco J. Rohling, and Jerry F McManus.

Publishing venues most often featuring Jimin Yu's work are Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Communications, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Geophysical Research Letters, and Nature Geoscience.

Best Publications

  • Calibrations for benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca paleothermometry and the carbonate ion hypothesis

    H. Elderfield;J. Yu;P. Anand;T. Kiefer

  • Benthic foraminiferal B/Ca ratios reflect deep water carbonate saturation state

    Jimin Yu;Henry Elderfield

  • Geochemistry of Daihai Lake sediments, Inner Mongolia, north China: Implications for provenance, sedimentary sorting, and catchment weathering

    Zhangdong Jin;Fuchun Li;Junji Cao;Sumin Wang

  • Trace and rare-earth element geochemistry in tourmaline and cassiterite from the Yunlong tin deposit, Yunnan, China: implication for migmatitic-hydrothermal fluid evolution and ore genesis

    Shao-Yong Jiang;Ji-Min Yu;Ji-Min Yu;Jian-Jun Lu

  • B/Ca in planktonic foraminifera as a proxy for surface seawater pH

    Jimin Yu;Henry Elderfield;Bärbel Hönisch;Bärbel Hönisch

  • Loss of Carbon from the Deep Sea Since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Jimin Yu;Wally S. Broecker;Harry Elderfield;Zhangdong Jin

  • Bipolar seesaw control on last interglacial sea level.

    G. Marino;E. J. Rohling;L. Rodríguez-Sanz;K. M. Grant

  • Southern Hemisphere westerlies as a driver of the early deglacial atmospheric CO 2 rise

    L Menviel;L Menviel;Paul Spence;Jimin Yu;M A Chamberlain

  • Determination of multiple element/calcium ratios in foraminiferal calcite by quadrupole ICP-MS

    Jimin Yu;Jason Day;Mervyn Greaves;Henry Elderfield

  • Poorly ventilated deep ocean at the Last Glacial Maximum inferred from carbon isotopes: A data-model comparison study

    L Menviel;Jimin Yu;F. Joos;A.T. Mouchet;A.T. Mouchet;A.T. Mouchet

  • Trace element proxies for surface ocean conditions: A synthesis of culture calibrations with planktic foraminifera

    Katherine A. Allen;Katherine A. Allen;Bärbel Hönisch;Stephen M. Eggins;Laura L. Haynes

  • Preferential dissolution of benthic foraminiferal calcite during laboratory reductive cleaning

    Jimin Yu;Henry Elderfield;Mervyn Greaves;Jason Day

  • Mg/Ca in the benthic foraminifera Cibicidoides wuellerstorfi and Cibicidoides mundulus: Temperature versus carbonate ion saturation

    Jimin Yu;Henry Elderfield

  • Seawater carbonate ion-δ13C systematics and application to glacial–interglacial North Atlantic ocean circulation

    Jimin Yu;Henry Elderfield;Alexander M. Piotrowski

  • Planktic foraminifers as recorders of seawater Ba/Ca

    Bärbel Hönisch;Katherine A. Allen;Ann D. Russell;Stephen M. Eggins

  • An evaluation of benthic foraminiferal B/Ca and δ11B for deep ocean carbonate ion and pH reconstructions

    Jimin Yu;Gavin L. Foster;Henry Elderfield;Wallace S. Broecker

  • Atlantic‐Pacific seesaw and its role in outgassing CO2 during Heinrich events

    L Menviel;Matthew Heathcote England;K.J. Meissner;A.T. Mouchet;A.T. Mouchet

  • Reconstructing deglacial North and South Atlantic deep water sourcing using foraminiferal Nd isotopes

    Alexander Piotrowski;A Galy;J A L Nicholl;N Roberts

  • Sea level and deep-sea temperature reconstructions suggest quasi-stable states and critical transitions over the past 40 million years.

    Eelco J. Rohling;Jimin Yu;David Heslop;Gavin L. Foster

  • Differences between the last two glacial maxima and implications for ice-sheet, δ18O, and sea-level reconstructions

    Eelco J. Rohling;Eelco J. Rohling;Fiona D. Hibbert;Felicity H. Williams;Felicity H. Williams;Katharine M. Grant

  • Lake Qinghai sediment geochemistry linked to hydroclimate variability since the last glacial

    Zhangdong Jin;Zhangdong Jin;Zhisheng An;Zhisheng An;Jimin Yu;Fuchun Li

  • Deep-Sea Oxygen Depletion and Ocean Carbon Sequestration During the Last Ice Age

    Robert F. Anderson;Robert F. Anderson;Julian P. Sachs;Martin Q. Fleisher;Katherine A. Allen

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhangdong Jin
Zhangdong Jin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Eelco J. Rohling
Eelco J. Rohling Utrecht University
Henry Elderfield
Henry Elderfield University of Cambridge
Laurie Menviel
Laurie Menviel University of New South Wales
Bärbel Hönisch
Bärbel Hönisch Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Andrew P. Roberts
Andrew P. Roberts Australian National University
James William B Rae
James William B Rae University of St Andrews
Zhisheng An
Zhisheng An Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gianluca Marino
Gianluca Marino Universidade de Vigo
Mervyn Greaves
Mervyn Greaves University of Cambridge

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