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Overview

Yongsong Huang is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

Their research primarily addresses topics within Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Archaeology and Ancient Environmental Studies, and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Group 2i Isochrysidales produce characteristic alkenones reflecting sea ice distribution, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Climate change facilitated the early colonization of the Azores Archipelago during medieval times, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu, 2025, Nature Astronomy
  • Correlation between the ratio of 5-methyl hexamethylated to pentamethylated branched GDGTs (HP5) and water depth reflects redox variations in stratified lakes, 2020, Organic Geochemistry
  • Greenhouse Gas and Ice Volume Drive Pleistocene Indian Summer Monsoon Precipitation Isotope Variability, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

Yongsong Huang collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Sian Liao
  • Yuan Yao
  • Richard S. Vachula
  • James M. Russell
  • Karen J. Wang

The scientist has published multiple works in various publication venues such as:

  • Organic Geochemistry
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Nature Communications
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

The diverse array of research topics and publication outlets indicates a multidisciplinary approach focused on understanding environmental processes, paleoclimate dynamics, and geochemical markers in various ecosystems and geological contexts.

Best Publications

  • The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

    Erika J. Edwards;Colin P. Osborne;Caroline A.E. Strömberg;Stephen A. Smith

  • Interplay between the Westerlies and Asian monsoon recorded in Lake Qinghai sediments since 32 ka

    Zhisheng An;Zhisheng An;Steven M. Colman;Weijian Zhou;Xiaoqiang Li

  • Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years

    Jessica E. Tierney;James M. Russell;Yongsong Huang;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Climate change as the dominant control on glacial-interglacial variations in C3 and C4 plant abundance

    Y. Huang;F. A. Street-Perrott;S. E. Metcalfe;M. Brenner

  • Impact of lower atmospheric carbon dioxide on tropical mountain ecosystems

    F. Alayne Street-Perrott;Yongsong Huang;R. Alan Perrott;Geoffrey Eglinton

  • Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

    D. J. Charman;D. W. Beilman;M. Blaauw;R. K. Booth

  • Cyclic variation and solar forcing of Holocene climate in the Alaskan subarctic.

    Feng Sheng Hu;Darrell Kaufman;Sumiko Yoneji;David Nelson

  • Can sedimentary leaf waxes record D/H ratios of continental precipitation? Field, model, and experimental assessments

    Juzhi Hou;William J. D’Andrea;Yongsong Huang

  • Glacial–interglacial environmental changes inferred from molecular and compound-specific δ13C analyses of sediments from Sacred Lake, Mt. Kenya

    Yongsong Huang;F.Alayne Street-Perrott;R.Alan Perrott;Pierre Metzger

  • The organic content of the Tagish Lake meteorite.

    Sandra Pizzarello;Yongsong Huang;Luann Becker;Robert J. Poreda

  • Hydrogen isotope ratios of individual lipids in lake sediments as novel tracers of climatic and environmental change: a surface sediment test

    Yongsong Huang;Bryan Shuman;Yi Wang;Thompson Webb

  • Paleohydrologic reconstruction based on n-alkane distributions in ombrotrophic peat

    Jonathan E. Nichols;Robert K. Booth;Stephen T. Jackson;Elise G. Pendall

  • Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary

    Jessica E. Tierney;James M. Russell;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Yongsong Huang

  • Abrupt Holocene climate change as an important factor for human migration in West Greenland

    William J. D’Andrea;Yongsong Huang;Sherilyn C. Fritz;N. John Anderson

  • Hydrogen isotopic variability in leaf waxes among terrestrial and aquatic plants around Blood Pond, Massachusetts (USA)

    Juzhi Hou;William J. D’Andrea;Dana MacDonald;Yongsong Huang

  • Large-scale hydrological change drove the late Miocene C4 plant expansion in the Himalayan foreland and Arabian Peninsula

    Yongsong Huang;Steven C. Clemens;Weiguo Liu;Yi Wang

  • Hydrogen isotope ratios of palmitic acid in lacustrine sediments record late Quaternary climate variations

    Yongsong Huang;Bryan Shuman;Yi Wang;Thompson Webb

  • Origin and Evolution of Prebiotic Organic Matter As Inferred from the Tagish Lake Meteorite

    Christopher D. K. Herd;Alexandra Blinova;Danielle N. Simkus;Yongsong Huang

  • Summer monsoon intensity controls C4/C3 plant abundance during the last 35 ka in the Chinese Loess Plateau: Carbon isotope evidence from bulk organic matter and individual leaf waxes

    Weiguo Liu;Yongsong Huang;Zhisheng An;Steven C. Clemens

  • Compound specific D/H ratios and molecular distributions of higher plant leaf waxes as novel paleoenvironmental indicators in the Chinese Loess Plateau

    Weiguo Liu;Yongsong Huang

  • Mapping of C4 plant input from North West Africa into North East Atlantic sediments

    Yongsong Huang;Yongsong Huang;Lydie M Dupont;Michael Sarnthein;John M Hayes

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda A. Amaral-Zettler
Linda A. Amaral-Zettler University of Amsterdam
James M. Russell
James M. Russell Brown University
Geoffrey Eglinton
Geoffrey Eglinton University of Bristol
Bryan N. Shuman
Bryan N. Shuman University of Wyoming
Juzhi Hou
Juzhi Hou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Josef P. Werne
Josef P. Werne University of Pittsburgh
Steven C. Clemens
Steven C. Clemens Brown University
Roland Zech
Roland Zech Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Weiguo Liu
Weiguo Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Roland Bol
Roland Bol Forschungszentrum Jülich

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