Research Group Paleooceanography and climate

Dr. Yiming Wang

Research interests

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Education

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Grants & awards

• Alaska Quaternary Center Student Travel Grant (2007)
• UAF Graduate School Thesis Completion Fellowship (2007-2008)
• US Geological Survey (USGS)/National Institutes for Water Research (NIWR) water research grant (2007)
• Geological Society of America (GSA) Graduate Student Research Grant (2007)
• Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR) –International Polar Year (IPY) Student Traineeship Award (2006)
• UAF Graduate School Tuition Fellowship (2006)
• Alaska Quaternary Center David & Rachel Hopkins Student Research Fellowship (2006)
• Chancellor Graduate Fellowship, UAF (2004-2005)
• University of Alaska Fairbanks Graduate School Travel Grant (2003-2005)
• College of Science, Engineer and Mathematics Travel Grant, UAF (2002-2005)
• Global Change Student Research Grant, Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research (2004)
• Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant (2003)
• Global Change Student Research Grant, Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research (2002-2003)
• Alaska Quaternary Center Travel Grant (2002)

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Publications

• Wang, Y., Schiff, C., Finney, B., Kaufman, D.,Wooller, M. J. Tracking changes in moisture provenance in southwest Alaska using stable isotope analyses of precipitation and storm trajectory models. In preparation.
• Wang, Y., Finney, B., Bigelow, B., Wooller, M. J. Late Quaternary Climate Dynamics Inferred from the Stable Oxygen Isotope Composition of Aquatic Insects (Chironomidae: Diptera) from Idavain Lake, Southwest Alaska. In preparation.
• Wang, Y., O’Brien, D., Francis, D., Jensen, J. and Wooller, M. J., (2009) The influence of diet and water on the stable oxygen and hydrogen isotope composition of chironomids (Chironomidae: Diptera) with paleoecological implications. Oecologia. DOI 10.1007/s00442-009-1303-3
• Wang, Y. (2008) The development and application of stable oxygen and hydrogen isotope analyses of chironomidae (Diptera) as indicators of past environmental change. Doctorial Thesis. University of Alaska Fairbanks.
• Wang, Y., Francis, D., O’Brien, D., and Wooller, M. J., (2008) A protocol for preparing subfossil Chironomid head capsules (Diptera: Chironomidae) for stable isotope analysis in paleoclimate reconstruction and considerations of contamination sources. J. Paleolimnology, 40:771-781.
• Wooller, M.J., Wang, Y., Axford, Y. (2008) A multiple stable isotope record of Late Quaternary limnological changes and chironomid paleoecology from northeastern Iceland. Journal of Paleolimnology, 40:63-77.
• Wang, Y., Wooller, M.J. (2006) The stable isotopic (C and N) composition of modern plants and lichens from northern Iceland: with paleoenvironmental implications. Jokull, 56: 27-37.
• Wang, Y. (2004) Vegetation reconstruction and climate evolution of Lake Dood, Darhad Basin, Northern Mongolia, over the past 4,500 years. M.S. Thesis. University of Alaska Fairbanks.
• Wang, Y. (1999) Palynological assemblages and the habitat of the late Pliocene burrowing vertebrate, Hongya Section, Yangyuan, P. R.China. B.S. Thesis. Beijing University.

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Conference abstracts and presentations

• Wang, Y., O’Brien, D., Francis, D., and Wooller, M. J. (2008) The influence of diet and water on the stable oxygen and hydrogen isotope composition of chironomids (Chironomidae: Diptera) with paleoecological implications. The 6th International Confernece on Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Stuides Program with Abstracts.
• Wang, Y., Finney, B., Wooller, M. (2007) Late Quaternary Environmental Changes Inferred from the Stable Oxygen Isotope Composition of Aquatic Insects (Chironomidae: Diptera) and Stable Hydrogen Isotope Composition of bulk sediments from Idavain Lake, Southwest Alaska. AGU Fall Meeting program and Abstracts CD.
• Pringle, D., Alvarez-Aviles, L., Carlson, D., Druckenmiller, M., Harbeck, M., Newman, K., Petrich, C., Muller, D., Roberts, A., and Wang, Y. (2007) Wildlife, snow, coffee, and video: The IPY activities of the University of Alaska Young Researchers’ Network. AGU Fall Meeting program and Abstracts CD.
• Wang, Y., Wooller, M. J. (2006). A Habitat-Scale Field Survey of the Stable Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Composition of Aquatic Insects (Chironomidea: Diptera) in a Subarctic Lake Ecosystem with Paleoenvironmental Implications. The 5th International Conference on Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies Program with Abstracts.
• Wang, Y., Wooller, M.J. (2005). Factor influencing the stable oxygen and hydrogen isotopic compositions (18O and D) of a subarctic freshwater lake ecosystem. 2004 AGU Fall Meeting program and Abstracts CD.
• Wang, Y., Fowell, S.J. (2003). Mid to late Holocene vegetation and paleoclimate evolution of Lake Dood basin, northern Mongolia, based on palynological data. XVI INQUA Congress Programs with Abstracts, page 171.
• Fowell, S. J., Wang, Y., Peck, J. A., Khosbayar, P., Hansen, B.C.S. (2002). Palynological Indices dentify Mid to Late Holocene Changes in Moisture Availability at Lakes Telmen and Dood, Northern Mongolia. GSA Abstracts with Programs 34, Page 201-202.
• Wang, Y. (2005). The stable isotopic (C and N) composition of modern plants and lichens from northern Iceland: with paleoenvironmental implications—Iceland Cold and Warm Time Project Meeting Program with Abstracts .

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Field work experience

• Sampling primary consumers and their food sources as proxies carbon cycling in thermokarst areas, Brooks Range and Toolik Lake Field Station, Alaska
• Friends of Pleistocene (FOP) field trip, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
• Friends of Pleistocene (FOP) field trip, Copper River Basin, Alaska
• Friends of Pleistocene (FOP) field trip, Denali High Way, Alaska
• Lake surface sediment, lake water, aquatic plant/invertebrate sampling for stable oxygen and hydrogen isotopic composition of foodweb study, Smith Lake, Fairbanks, Alaska
• Accessed 27 lake sites across Alaska and collecting lake surface sediment samples, lake water samples, aquatic plant/invertebrate samples to establish the modern training set for examining the correlations between oxygen stable isotope composition (δ¹⁸O) of chironomid headcapules preserved in lake sediments and δ¹⁸O of lake water
• Collecting lake sediments cores to obtain climate archive and study Holocene climate change from northern and interior Iceland
• Tertiary stratigrahy unit measurement and palynological sampling in the Denali National Park, Alaska
• Dinosaur bone excavation for University of Alaska Museum of the North, Colville River, Brooks range, Alaska
• Pleistocene stratigrahy unit measurement, palynological sampling, and ground squirrel burrow excavation, Yangyuan, HeBei Province, P.R.China
• Biostratigraphic and paleontological field trip, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China
• Regional geological mapping, Liujiang, Hebei Provinve, P.R. China
• General Geological field trip, mountain areas of Beijing, P.R. China

Service

• Reviewer for Journal of Paleolimnology