Biography:Yongsong Huang

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Short description: American organic geochemist, biogeochemist, paleoclimatologist, astrobiologist and academic
Yongsong Huang
Alma materUniversity of Science and Technology of China (B.Sc.)
Sichuan University (M.S.)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (Ph.D.)
University of Bristol (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsOrganic geochemistry, paleoclimatology, astrobiology
InstitutionsUniversity of Bristol
Pennsylvania State University
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Brown University
Doctoral advisorGeoffrey Eglinton

Yongsong Huang is a Chinese-American organic geochemist, biogeochemist and astrobiologist, and is a professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University.[1] He researches the development of lipid biomarkers and their isotopic ratios as quantitative proxies for paleoclimate and paleoenviromental studies and subsequent application of these proxies to study mechanisms controlling climate change and environmental response to climate change at a variety of time scales.

Education

Huang received a B.Sc. in geochemistry from University of Science and Technology of China in 1984,[2] then received a M.S. in Analytical Chemistry from Sichuan University.[2] He earned his first Ph.D. in petroleum geochemistry from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1990,[2] and earned a second Ph.D. in organic geochemistry from the University of Bristol in 1997, as a student of Geoffrey Eglinton.[2]

Career and research

Huang is an organic geochemist, biogeochemist and astrobiologist.[3][4] After graduating from the University of Bristol, he joined the lab of Katherine H. Freeman at Pennsylvania State University as a postdoctoral research associate.[2] He periodically worked as a guest investigator with Timothy Eglinton at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution during his postdoc.[2] In 2000, Huang joined the faculty of Brown University, where he was awarded tenure in 2012.[2]

Huang's primary fields are organic geochemistry, geochemistry, and paleoclimatology. He is particularly well known for his work developing organic geochemical proxies of climate change and reconstructing climates sediments.[5][6][7]

According to Scopus, he has published 187 research articles so far with 9681 citations and has an H-index of 55.[8]

Notable student advisees

  • Juzhi Hou (Ph.D. 2008)
  • William D'Andrea (Ph.D. 2008)
  • Jonathan Nichols (Ph.D. 2009)
  • Jaime Toney (Ph.D. 2011)
  • Elizabeth Thomas (Ph.D. 2014)[2]

Editorial activities

  • 2000 to present: Member of the editorial board for the Journal of Paleolimnology.[2]

Academic honors

  • 1991-1992: British Royal Society Queen's Fellowship.[2]
  • 2001: Salamon Award, Brown University[2]
  • 2009: Hans Fellow, Germany[2]
  • 2011-2012: Teagle Fellow, Brown University[2]

Selected works

Journal articles

  • Northern hemisphere controls on tropical southeast African climate during the past 60,000 years.[9]
  • Climate change as the dominant control on glacial-interglacial variations in C3 and C4 plant abundance.[10]

References

  1. "Huang, Yongsong" (in en). https://vivo.brown.edu/display/yohuang. 
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 "Yongsong Huang CV" (in en). https://vivo.brown.edu/docs/y/yohuang_cv.pdf?dt=112210191. 
  3. "Yongsong Huang" (in en-US). https://vivo.brown.edu/display/yohuang#. 
  4. "Yongsong Huang" (in en). https://www.brown.edu/academics/institute-environment-society/people/details/yongsong-huang. 
  5. "Cold Snap Drove Vikings From Greenland, Study Suggests" (in en). https://www.livescience.com/14381-ice-age-viking-departure-greenland.html. 
  6. "A history of snowfall on Greenland, hidden in ancient leaf waxes" (in en). http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2016/05/044.html. 
  7. "Ancient Indonesian climate shift linked to glacial cycle" (in en). https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140324154009.htm. 
  8. "Scopus preview - Scopus - Author details (Huang, Yongsong)". https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57201890438. 
  9. Tierney, J. E.; Russell, J. M.; Huang, Y.; Damste, J. S. S.; Hopmans, E. C.; Cohen, A. S. (2008-10-10). "Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years". Science 322 (5899): 252–255. doi:10.1126/science.1160485. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 18787132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1160485. 
  10. Huang, Y.; Street-Perrott, F. A.; Metcalfe, S. E.; Brenner, M.; Moreland, M.; Freeman, K. H. (2001), "Climate change as the dominant control", Science 293 (5535): 1647–1651, doi:10.1126/science.1060143, PMID 11533488, https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1060143, retrieved 2020-08-06