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Runsheng Yin is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses primarily on mercury impact and mitigation studies, involving detailed geochemical and elemental analysis within geological and ecological contexts.

Their body of work comprises numerous publications in prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include Chemical Geology, Nature Communications, Geology, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. These platforms illustrate the interdisciplinary and geochemical nature of their research.

Key topics in Runsheng Yin's research encompass mercury impact and mitigation studies, geochemistry and elemental analysis, geological and geochemical analysis, heavy metals in the environment, isotope analysis in ecology, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including Changzhou Deng, Bernd Lehmann, Zhendong Tian, An-Bo Luo, and Stephen E. Grasby. These collaborations span a variety of studies related to mercury isotopes and environmental geochemistry.

Noteworthy recent publications by Runsheng Yin and collaborators include:

  • "Mantle Hg isotopic heterogeneity and evidence of oceanic Hg recycling into the mantle" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Mercury stable isotopes for monitoring the effectiveness of the Minamata Convention on Mercury" (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "Intensified continental chemical weathering and carbon-cycle perturbations linked to volcanism during the Triassic-Jurassic transition" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Anomalous fractionation of mercury isotopes in the Late Archean atmosphere" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Mercury evidence for combustion of organic-rich sediments during the end-Triassic crisis" (2022, Nature Communications)

Their work often intersects subfields such as health, toxicology, and mutagenesis; geophysics; geochemistry and petrology; pollution; and ecology, reflecting the broad environmental implications of their research.

Best Publications

  • Mercury as a proxy for volcanic emissions in the geologic record

    Stephen E. Grasby;Theodore R. Them;Zhuoheng Chen;Runsheng Yin

  • Mercury in the marine boundary layer and seawater of the South China Sea: Concentrations, sea/air flux, and implication for land outflow

    Xuewu Fu;Xinbin Feng;Gan Zhang;Weihai Xu;Weihai Xu

  • Atmospheric mercury inputs in montane soils increase with elevation: evidence from mercury isotope signatures

    Hua Zhang;Run-sheng Yin;Xin-bin Feng;Jonas Sommar

  • Isotopic signatures of mercury contamination in latest Permian oceans

    Stephen E. Grasby;Stephen E. Grasby;Wenjie Shen;Runsheng Yin;Runsheng Yin;James D. Gleason

  • Stable mercury isotope variation in rice plants (Oryza sativa L.) from the Wanshan mercury mining district, SW China.

    Runsheng Yin;Xinbin Feng;Bo Meng

  • The beneficial and hazardous effects of selenium on the health of the soil-plant-human system: An overview

    Hui Yang;Xuefeng Yang;Zengping Ning;Sae Yun Kwon

  • Mercury stable isotopes for monitoring the effectiveness of the Minamata Convention on Mercury

    Sae Yun Kwon;Joel D. Blum;Runsheng Yin;Martin Tsz-Ki Tsui

  • Terrestrial sources as the primary delivery mechanism of mercury to the oceans across the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic)

    T.R. Them;C.H. Jagoe;A.H. Caruthers;B.C. Gill

  • Atmospheric gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) concentrations and mercury depositions at a high-altitude mountain peak in south China

    X. W. Fu;X. Feng;Z. Q. Dong;R. S. Yin

  • Mercury speciation and mercury isotope fractionation during ore roasting process and their implication to source identification of downstream sediment in the Wanshan mercury mining area, SW China

    Runsheng Yin;Xinbin Feng;Jianxu Wang;Ping Li

  • Mass-Dependent and -Independent Fractionation of Mercury Isotope during Gas-Phase Oxidation of Elemental Mercury Vapor by Atomic Cl and Br.

    Guangyi Sun;Jonas Sommar;Xinbin Feng;Che-Jen Lin

  • Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric Mercury in China: New Evidence for Sources and Transformation Processes in Air and in Vegetation.

    Ben Yu;Xuewu Fu;Runsheng Yin;Hui Zhang

  • Effects of mercury and thallium concentrations on high precision determination of mercury isotopic composition by Neptune Plus multiple collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Runsheng Yin;Runsheng Yin;David P. Krabbenhoft;Bridget A. Bergquist;Wang Zheng

  • Use of Stable Isotope Signatures to Determine Mercury Sources in the Great Lakes

    Ryan F. Lepak;Runsheng Yin;Runsheng Yin;David P. Krabbenhoft;Jacob M. Ogorek

  • Application of the stable-isotope system to the study of sources and fate of Hg in the environment: A review

    Runsheng Yin;Xinbin Feng;Wenfang Shi

  • Using Mercury Isotopes To Understand Mercury Accumulation in the Montane Forest Floor of the Eastern Tibetan Plateau.

    Xun Wang;Ji Luo;Runsheng Yin;Wei Yuan

  • Identifying the Sources and Processes of Mercury in Subtropical Estuarine and Ocean Sediments Using Hg Isotopic Composition

    Runsheng Yin;Xinbin Feng;Baowei Chen;Junjun Zhang

  • Mercury distributions and mercury isotope signatures in sediments of Dongjiang, the Pearl River Delta, China

    Jinling Liu;Xinbin Feng;Runsheng Yin;Wei Zhu

  • Effect of DBP/DEHP in vegetable planted soil on the quality of capsicum fruit.

    R Yin;X.G Lin;S.G Wang;H.Y Zhang

  • Mercury isotope variations between bioavailable mercury fractions and total mercury in mercury contaminated soil in Wanshan Mercury Mine, SW China

    Runsheng Yin;Xinbin Feng;Jianxu Wang;Zhengduo Bao

Frequent Co-Authors

Xinbin Feng
Xinbin Feng Chinese Academy of Sciences
James P. Hurley
James P. Hurley University of Wisconsin–Madison
Xuewu Fu
Xuewu Fu Chinese Academy of Sciences
David P. Krabbenhoft
David P. Krabbenhoft United States Geological Survey
Stephen E. Grasby
Stephen E. Grasby Geological Survey of Canada
Xiangdong Li
Xiangdong Li Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ruizhong Hu
Ruizhong Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Che-Jen Lin
Che-Jen Lin Lamar University
Xian-Wu Bi
Xian-Wu Bi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hua Zhang
Hua Zhang City University of Hong Kong

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