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 Paleo oceanography
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08.12.2010
 

Forschungsgruppe Paläoozeanographie und -klima

Dr. Yiming Wang


Institut für Geowissenschaften,
Abteilung Geologie
Universität Kiel

Ludewig-Meyn-Str. 10
D-24118 Kiel, Germany

Tel.: +49 (0)431 880 2861
Fax.: +49 (0)431 880 1912
E-mail: yw[@]gpi.uni-kiel.de

Raum 7


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Forschungsinteressen

  • stabile Isotopen als Biomarker
  • holozäne Klimavariabilität in niedrigen Breiten & Polarregionen
  • hydrologischer & atmosphärischer Kreislauf

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Ausbildung

2008

PhD Geology

Ph.D. Geology University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), USA


2004

M. S. Geology,

University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA


1999

B. S. Geology

Beijing University, P. R. China



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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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Publikationen

 

  • 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. 160:225-233.
  • 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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Konferenzen: Präsentationen und Abstracts

  • 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

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Gremienarbeit & ehrenamtliche Tätigkeiten

  • Reviewer for Journal of Paleolimnology