My research centers on the development of lipid biomarker 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. I employ and improve upon a full suite of advanced organic and isotopic analytical approaches to study lipid biomarkers and other complex organic molecules in geological samples, including samples from lake and ocean sediment cores, and abiotic organic molecules in carboneceous chondrites relevant to astrobiology. 

My ongoing research projects involve a set of sediment cores retrieved from Seward Peninsula, Alaska in 2019. We are extremely excited to have retrieved sediment cores (in Arpil, 2019) from Imuruk Lake that span the past 230,000 years, the longest continuous sedimentary record in Alaska and east Beringia (previous longest record in the region is ~ 40,000). Comprehensive analyses of the sediment samples are ongoing, with the objectives to reconstrust paleoclimatic (scanning XRF, paleomag, tephra, organic and inorgannic geochemical proxies), paleoecological (pollen, reconstruction of fires using charcoal and PAHs), and paleoanthropological (human fecal sterols) changes since marine isotope stage 7 (more than 2 complete glacial-interglacial cycles). Sediment cores from White Fish Lake has exceptionally high sedimentation rate over the Holocene and past 200 years, allowing high resolution reconstruction of carbon cycling in the Yedoma terrain. 

I received a major grant from NASA recently to analyze organics in asteroid Bennu samples, to be returned to Earth through NASA's OSIRIS-REX mission. This is the first time that NASA has obtained samples from a carbonaceous asteroid. Organic and isotopic compositions of Bennu will shed new lights to the prebiotic organic synthesis and origin of life on Earth. 

I have a broad interests in the use of molecular structures and isotopic ratios of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in compound-specific organic materials from lake sediments, ocean sediments, vegetation, and meteorites. My analytical skills and understanding of organic analytical chemistry and organic geochemistry have enabled me to conduct research in a wide variety of fields, ranging from paleoclimatology (emphasis on continental paleoclimatology), to analytical chemistry and astrobiology. My research projects range from understanding the fundamental mechanisms and impacts of rapid climate change to the major factors that control spatial and temporal changes in C3-C4 vegetation types, as well as developing new analytical and separation techniques to study complex organic mixtures. I have established a world-class laboratory to process and measure the organic biomarkers and isotopic ratios in a wide range of samples. Major instrumentation includes, GC, GC-MS, GCIRMS, HPLC-DAD-FLD-MS. My group has worked extensively on development and application of plant leaf wax arbon and hydrogen isotopic ratios as past vegetation and hydrological proxies since 2000. 

My research group has, since 2003, worked extensively on extending long chain alkenones as paleo-proxies. Alkenones are diagenetically highly stable biomarkers and only produced by Isochrysidales (an order of haptophyte algae). Unsaturation indices of alkenones have been widely and successfully applied for paleo- sea surface temperature reconstructions for ~ 40 years. By combining genomic analysis and developing novel analytical methods to separate alkenones with greatly improved chromatographic resolution, my group has systematically re-classified alkenone-producing Isochrysidales phylogenetically and chemotaxonomically into three major groups (and associated subclades) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.10.009). In particular, we discovered a novel lineage of Isochrysidales living in freshwater and oligohaline waters that we termed "Group 1" Isochrysidales. Group 1 Isochrysidales produce unusual tri-unsaturated alkenones with double bond positions differing from alkenones produced by Group 2 (common in saline lakes and estuaries) and Group 3 (ocean dwellers) Isochrysidales species (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.10.011). Alkenones from Group 1 Isochrysidales record spring water temperatures (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.04.002), making them unique and particularly valuable for paleoclimate research as majority of paleotemperature proxies record summer temperatures. In addition, chemotaxonomic changes in alkenones and alkenoates allow quantitative reconstruction of past salinity and hydrological changes (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116881), because different groups of Isochrysidales show strong preference in salinity niches. In addition to the discovery of Group 1 Isochrysidales, my research group has defined phylogenetically Group 2i Isochrysidales, which we have demonstrated to be a psychrophile (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2022.104512). We are also exploring characteristic alkenones produced by Group 2i Isochrysidales as the new quantitative proxy for reconstructing past sea ice changes (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20187-z). 

Geographically, my group is particularly interested in studying arctic climate change and impacts. My group is actively working on lake sediment cores from Seward Peninsula, Alaska (all lake sediments under study contain the "Group 1" alkenones that were first discovered by my research group).

Currently and Recently Funded Research projects (Complete list of research grants can be found in my CV):

NASA: Prebiotic synthesis of volatile organic compounds: molecular and compound-specific isotopic analyses of OSIRIS-REx return samples (9-2022 to 8-2025; PI)

NSF: Beyond the unsaturation ratios (UK37' or UK37) of long chain alkenones: unlocking the hidden treasure trove of alkenone-producing haptophytes (8-2018 to 8-2023; PI)

Department of Interior, National Park Service: Tracing the Ice Age Beringian Standstill using microfossils and lipid biomarkers in exceptionally long sedimentary records from Seward Peninsula, Alaska (9-2019 - 9-2023; Lead PI)

National Geographic Society: Demystifying the prevalent glacial Arctic Tundra Fires through long sedimentary records from Seward Peninsula, Alaska (2019-2020; PI)

NSF: Acquisition of a continuous flow isotope ratio mass spectrometer (IRMS) system for the Organic Geochemistry Core Facility at Brown University (2019- 2020; Lead PI)

NSF: Collaborative research: reconciling conflicting Arctic temperature and fire reconstructions using multi-proxy records from lake sediments north of the Brooks Range, Alaska (2015 - 2018; Lead PI)

 Refereed Publications:

 

For the latest list of pulications and citations, please visit the Google citation report: 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=xel8cGsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

 

Updated list on October 10, 2022 (*First author = YH’s graduate student advisee; #First author =  YH’s postdoctoral advisee)

1. #Zhao J., Victor C. Tsai, Yongsong Huang, (2022) A nonlinear model for resolving the temperature bias of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (brGDGT) temperature proxies, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 327, 158-169, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.04.022.
2. Wang, L., Yao, Y., Huang, Y., Cai, Y. and Cheng, H., 2022. Group 1 phylogeny and alkenone distributions in a freshwater volcanic lake of northeastern China: Implications for paleotemperature reconstructions. Organic Geochemistry, 172, p.104483.
3. *Novak J., Sarah M. McGrath, Karen Jiaxi Wang, Sian Liao, Steven C. Clemens, Wolfgang Kuhnt, Yongsong Huang, (2022) U38MEK’ Expands the linear dynamic range of the alkenone sea surface temperature proxy,Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.04.021.
4. *Vachula, R.S., Allison T. Karp, Elizabeth H. Denis, Nicholas L. Balascio, Elizabeth A. Canuel, Yongsong Huang, (2022) Spatially calibrating polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as proxies of area burned by vegetation fires: Insights from comparisons of historical data and sedimentary PAH fluxes, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 596, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110995.
5. *Liao, S, Huang, Y. Preferential formation of mono-dimethyl disulfide adducts for determining double bond positions of poly-unsaturated fatty acids. J Am Oil Chem Soc. 2022; 99: 279– 288. https://doi.org/10.1002/aocs.12561
6. Yamamoto, M., Clemens, S.C., Seki, O. Yuko Tsuchiya, Yongsong Huang, RO’ishi, A. Abe-Ouchi (2022) Increased interglacial atmospheric CO2 levels followed the mid-Pleistocene Transition. Nat. Geosci. 15, 307–313. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00918-1
7. #Yao Y., Yongsong Huang, Jiaju Zhao, Li Wang, Hai Cheng (2022) Lipid biomarkers in Lake Wudalianchi record abrupt environmental changes from the volcanic eruption in 1776, Organic Geochemistry 164, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2021.104349.
8. #Yao Y., Jiaju Zhao, Richard S. Vachula, Sian Liao, Gaoyuan Li, Emma J. Pearson, Yongsong Huang, (2022) Phylogeny, alkenone profiles and ecology of Isochrysidales subclades in saline lakes: Implications for paleosalinity and paleotemperature reconstructions, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 317, 472-487, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.11.001.
9. *Liao S, Sherman G, Huang Y. Elucidation of double-bond positions of polyunsaturated alkenes through gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis of mono-dimethyl disulfide derivatives. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry : RCM. 2022 Feb;36(3):e9228. DOI: 10.1002/rcm.9228. PMID: 34845773.
10. *Liao S., Karen J. Wang, Yongsong Huang, (2021) Extended chain length alkenoates differentiate three Isochrysidales groups, Organic Geochemistry 161, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2021.104303.
11. Raposeiro P.M., AHernández, S Pla-Rabes, V Gonçalves, R Bao, A Sáez, T Shanahan, Mario Benavente, E J. de Boer, N Richter, V Gordon, H Marques, PM. Sousa, M Souto, MG. Matias, Nicole Aguiar, Cátia Pereira, Catarina Ritter, María Jesús Rubio, Marina Salcedo, D Vázquez-Loureiro, O Margalef, LA. Amaral-Zettler, AC Costa, Y Huang, JF. N. van Leeuwen, P Masqué, R Prego, AC Ruiz-Fernández, JA Sanchez-Cabeza, R Trigo, S Giralt, (2021) Multiproxy evidence of widespread landscape disturbance in multiple Azorean lakes before the Portuguese arrival, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (41) e2108236118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108236118.
12. Daniels W.C., J.M. Russell, C. Morrill, W.M. Longo, A.E. Giblin, P. Holland-Stergar, J.M. Welker, X. Wen, A. Hu, Y. Huang (2021)Lacustrine leaf wax hydrogen isotopes indicate strong regional climate feedbacks in Beringia since the last ice age, Quaternary Science Reviews, 269, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107130.
13. #Yao, Y., Huang, Y., Zhao, J., Wang, L., Ran, Y., Liu, W., Cheng, H. (2021) Permafrost thaw induced abrupt changes in hydrology and carbon cycling in Lake Wudalianchi, northeastern China. Geology, DOI:10.1130/G48891.1.
14. *Liao, S., Wang, K.J., Xue, Y., Huo, J., Santos, E., Wang, J., Schubert, C.J., Huang, Y. (2021) Novel methyl-branched alkenones with up to five double bonds in saline lakes. Organic Geochemistry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2021.104243.
15. Richter, N., Russell, J. M., Garfinkel, J., and Huang, Y. (2021) Cold season warming in the North Atlantic during the last 2000 years: Evidence from Southwest Iceland, Clim. Past Discuss.  https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2020-84.
16. Liang, J., Rachel L. Lupien, Haichao Xie, Richard S. Vachula, Mark A. Stevenson, Bo-Ping Han, Qiuqi Lin, Yue He, Mingda Wang, Peng Liang, Yongsong Huang, Suzanne McGowan, Juzhi Hou, James M. Russell, (2021) Lake ecosystem on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau severely altered by climatic warming and human activity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 576, 110509, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110509.
17. Huang, Y., Zheng, Y., Heng, P., Liviu, G., Coolen, M.J.L. (2021) Black Sea paleosalinity evolution since the last deglaciation reconstructed from alkenone-inferred Isochrysidales diversity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116881.
18. *Liao, S., Dillon, J.T., Huang, C., Santos, E., Huang, Y. (2021) Silver (I)-dimercaptotriazine functionalized silica: A highly selective liquid chromatography stationary phase targeting unsaturated molecules. Journal of Chromatography A 1645, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2021.462122.
19. *Chen, X, Liu, X., Jia, H., Jin J., Kong W., Wang F., Huang Y. (2021) Inverse hydrogen isotope fractionation indicates heterotrophic microbial production of long-chain n-alkyl lipids in desolate Antarctic ponds. Geobiology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12441.
20. *McGrath, SM.,  Steven C. Clemens  Yongsong Huang,  Masanobu Yamamoto (2021) Greenhouse Gas and Ice Volume Drive Pleistocene Indian Summer Monsoon Precipitation Isotope Variability. Geophysical Research letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092249.
21. *Wang, Karen Jiaxi, Huang, Yongsong, Majaneva, Markus, Belt, Simon T., Liao, Sian, Novak, Joseph, Kartzinel, Tyler R., Herbert, Timothy D., Richter, Nora and Cabedo-Sanz, Patricia (2021) Group 2i Isochrysidales produce characteristic alkenones reflecting sea ice distribution. Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20187-z.
22. Richter, Nora and Russell, James M. and Garfinkel, Johanna and Huang, Yongsong (2021) Impacts of Norse settlement on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in Southwest Iceland. Journal of Paleolimnology 65 (2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-020-00169-3.
23. Dunlea, Ann G. and Giosan, Liviu and Huang, Yongsong (2020) Pliocene expansion of C₄ vegetation in the Core Monsoon Zone on the Indian Peninsula. Climate of the Past. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-2533-2020.
24. #Zhao J, Huang Y, Yao Y, An Z, Zhu Z, Lu H, Wang Z (2020) Calibrating branched GDGTs in bones to temperature and precipitation: Application to Alaska chronological sequences. Quaternary Science Reviews 240, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106371
25. *Liao S, Yao Y, Wang L, Wang KJ, Amaral-Zettler, Longo WM, Huang Y (2020) C₄₁ methyl and C₄₂ ethyl alkenones are biomarkers for Group II isochrysidales. Organic Geochemistry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104081 .
26. #Yao, Yuan and Zhao, Jiaju and Vachula, Richard S. and Werne, Josef P. and Wu, Jing and Song, Xueshu and Huang, Yongsong (2020) Correlation between the ratio of 5-methyl hexamethylated to pentamethylated branched GDGTs (HP5) and water depth reflects redox variations in stratified lakes. Organic Geochemistry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104076
27. #Yao, Yuan and Lan, Jianghu and Zhao, Jiaju and Vachula, Richard S. and Xu, Hai and Cai, Yanjun and Cheng, Hai and Huang, Yongsong (2020) Abrupt Freshening Since the Early Little Ice Age in Lake Sayram of Arid Central Asia Inferred From an Alkenone Isomer Proxy. Geophysical Research Letters,  https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089257
28. *Longo WM, Huang Y, Russell JM, Morrill C, Daniels WC, Giblin AE, Crowther J (2020) Insolation and greenhouse gases triggered Holocene cold season warming in Arctic Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106438.
29. *Vachula, RS, Huang Y, Russell JM, Abbott MB, Finkenbinder MS, O’Donnell JA (2020) Sedimentary biomarkers reaffirm human impacts on northern Beringan ecosystems during the last glacial period. Boreas, https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12449
30. Xia, Z., Zheng, Y., Stelling, JM, Loisel J., Huang, Y., Yu, Z. (2020) Environmental controls on the carbon and water (H and O) isotopes in peatland sphagnum mosses. Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta 277, 265-284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.03.034
31. Pereboom, EMB, Vachula, RS, Huang Y., Russell, J. (2020) The morphology of experimentally produced charcoal distinguishes fuel types in the Arctic tundra. The Holocene, https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683620908629
32. Neupane, Prabhat C., Gani, M. Royhan, Gani, Nahid D., Huang, Yongsong (2020) Neogene vegetation shift in the Nepalese Siwalik, Himalayas: A compound‐specific isotopic study of lipid biomarkers. The Depositional Record [20554877]
33. Dos Reis Souza, Michel Rubens; Santos, Ewerton; Suzarte, Jaiane Santos; do Carmo, Laiane Oliveira; Soares, Laiane Santos; Santos, Lukas Gomes Gadelha Vieira; Júnior, Antônio Rodrigues Vilela; Krause, Laiza Canielas; Frena, Morgana; Damasceno, Flaviana Cardoso; Huang, Yongsong; da Rosa Alexandre, Marcelo (2020) The impact of anthropogenic activity at the tropical Sergipe-Poxim estuarine system, Northeast Brazil: Fecal indicators. Marine Pollution Bulletin [0025326X].
34. #Yuan Yao, Jiaju Zhao, William M Longo, Gaoyuan Li, Xian Wang, Richard S Vachula, Karen J Wang, Yongsong Huang (2019) New insights into environmental controls on the occurrence and abundance of Group I alkenones and their paleoclimate applications: Evidence from volcanic lakes of northeastern China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 527, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115792.
35. *Chen X, Liu X., Wei Y, Huang Y. (2019) Production of long-chain n-alkyl lipids by heterotrophic microbes: New evidence from Antarctic lakes. Organic Geochemistry 138, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2019.103909.
36. *Vachula RS, Russell JM, Huang Y (2019) Climate exceeded human management as the dominant control of fire at the regional scale in California’s Sierra Nevada. Environmental Research Letters 14 (10), https://doi.org/10/1088/1748-9326/ab4669.
37. *Wang KJ, O’Donnell JA, Longo WM, Amaral-Zettler L, Li G., Huang Y (2019) Group I alkenones and Isochrysidales in the world’s largest maar lakes and their potential paleoclimate applications. Organic Geochemistry 138, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2019.103924.
38. #Wang, L, Longo WM, Dillon JT, Zhao J, Zheng Y, Moros M, Huang Y. (2019) An efficient approach to eliminate steryl ethers and micellaneous esters/ketones for gas chromatographic analysis of alkenones and alkenoates. J. Chromatography A, 1596, 175-182.
39. *Theroux S., Yongsong Huang, Jaime L Toney, Robert Andersen, Paul Nyren, Rick Bohn, Jeffrey Salacup, Leslie Murphy, Linda Amaral‐Zettler (2019) Successional blooms of alkenone‐producing haptophytes in Lake George, North Dakota: Implications for continental paleoclimate reconstructions. Limnology and Oceanography https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11311.
40. #Yao, Yuan and Zhao, Jiaju and Bauersachs, Thorsten and Huang, Yongsong Huang (2019) Effect of water depth on the TEX86 proxy in volcanic lakes of northeastern China. Org. Geochem. 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2019.01.014
41. *Richter N., Longo W.M., George S., Shipunova A., Huang Y., Amaral-Zettler L. (2019) Phylogenetic diversity in freshwater-dwelling isochrysidales haptophytes with implications for alkenone production. Geobiology, DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12330
42. *Vachula, Richard S. and Huang, Yongsong and Longo, William M. and Dee, Sylvia G. and Daniels, William C. and Russell, James M. (2019) Evidence of Ice Age humans in eastern Beringia suggests early migration to North America. Quaternary Science Reviews, 205, 35-44.
43. Kaiser, Jérôme and Wang, Karen J. and Rott, Derek and Li, Gaoyuan and Zheng, Yinsui and Amaral-Zettler, Linda and Arz, Helge W. and Huang, Yongsong (2019) Changes in long chain alkenone distributions and Isochrysidales groups along the Baltic Sea salinity gradient. Org. Geochem. 127, 92-103.
44. *Zheng, Yinsui and Heng, Patrick and Conte, Maureen H. and Vachula, Richard S. and Huang, Yongsong (2019) Systematic chemotaxonomic profiling and novel paleotemperature indices based on alkenones and alkenoates: potential for disentangling mixed species input. Org. Geochem. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.12.008
45. *Zhao J., Thomas EK, Yao Y., DeAraujo J., Huang Y. (2018) Major increase in winter and spring precipitation during the Little Ice Age in the westerly dominated northern Qinghai-Tibtan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews 199, 30-40.
46. *Richard S Vachula, James M Russell, Yongsong Huang, Nora Richter (2018) Assessing the spatial fidelity of sedimentary charcoal size fractions as fire history proxies with a high-resolution sediment record and historical data. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 508, 166-175.
47. *Richard S Vachula, Ewerton Santos, Marcelo R Alexandre, Yongsong Huang (2018) Comparison of black carbon chemical oxidation and macroscopic charcoal counts for quantification of fire by-products in sediments. Organic Geochemistry 125, 50-54.
48. *William C Daniels, Yongsong Huang, James M Russell, Anne E Giblin (2018) Effect of continuous light on leaf wax isotope ratios in Betula nana and Eriophorum vaginatum: Implications for Arctic paleoclimate reconstructions. Organic Geochemistry 125, 70-81.
49. *James T. Dillon, Sam Lash, Jiaju Zhao, Kevin P. Smith, Peter van Dommelen, Andrew K. Scherer, Yongsong Huang (2018) Bacterial tetraether lipids in ancient bones record past climate conditions at the time of disposal. J. Archaeological Science 96, 45-56.
50. *William M Longo, Yongsong Huang, Yuan Yao, Jiaju Zhao, Anne E Giblin, Xian Wang, Roland Zech, Torsten Haberzettl, Ludwig Jardillier, Jaime Toney, Zhonghui Liu, Sergey Krivonogov, Marina Kolpakova, Guoqiang Chu, William J D'Andrea, Naomi Harada, Kana Nagashima, Miyako Sato, Hitoshi Yonenobu, Kazuyoshi Yamada, Katsuya Gotanda, Yoshitsugu Shinozuka (2018) Widespread occurrence of distinct alkenones from Group I haptophytes in freshwater lakes: Implications for paleotemperature and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 492, 239-250.
51. *Li G., Torozo R., Longo W.M., Wang K.J., Huang Y. (2018) Microbial production of long-chain n-alkanes: implications for interpreting sedimentary leaf wax signals. Organic Geochemistry 115, 24-31.
52. *Zhao J., An C-B., Huang Y., Morrill C., Chen F.-H. (2017) Contrasting early Holocene temperature variations between monsoonal East Asia and westerly dominated Central Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews 178, 14-23.
53. *Daniels W.C., Russell J.M., Giblin A.E., Welker J.M., Klein E.S., Huang Y. (2017) Hydrogen isotope fractionation in leaf waxes in the Alaskan Arctic tundra. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 213, 216-236.
54. *Gao L., Huang Y., Shuman B., Oswald W.W., Foser D. (2017) A high-resolution hydrogen isotope record of behenic acid for the past 16 kyr in the northeastern United States. Quaternary International 449, 1-11.
55. *Richter N., Dillon J.T., Rott D.M., Lomazzo M.A., Seto C.T., Huang Y. (2017) Optimizing the yield of transient mono-dimethyl disulfide adducts for elucidating double bond positions of long chain alkenones. Organic Geochemistry https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.02.003
56. *Zheng, Y., Tarozo, R., Huang, Y., 2017. Optimizing chromatographic resolution for simultaneous quantification of long chain alkenones, alkenoates and their double bond positional isomers. Org. Geochem. 111, 136–143.
57. Hepp J., Zech R., Rozanski K., Tuthorn M., Glaser B., Greule M., Keppler F., Huang Y., Zech W., Zach M. (2017) Late Quaternary relative humidity changes from Mt. Kilimanjaro, based on a coupled 2H – 18O biomarker paleohygrometer approach. Quaternary International, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.03.059
58. *Thomas E.K., Clemens S.C., Sun Y., Huang, Y., Prell W., Chen G., Liu Z., Loomis S. (2017) Midlatitude land surface temperature impacts the timing and structure of glacial maxima. Geophysical Research Letters 44, 984-992.
59. *Thomas EK, Clemens SC, Sun Y, Prell WL, Huang Y, Gao L, Loomis S, Chen G and Liu Z (2016) Heterodynes dominate precipitation isotopes in the East Asian monsoon region, reflecting interaction of multiple climate factors. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 455, 196-206.
60. *Zheng Y., Dillon J. T., Zhang Y., Huang Y. (2016) Discovery of alkenones with variable methylene-interrupted double bonds: implications for the biosynthetic pathway. Journal of Phycology, DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12461.
61. *Hou J., Huang Y., Zhao J., Liu Z., Colman S., An Z. (2016) Large Holocene summer temperature oscillations and impact on the peopling of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067317.
62. *Longo W.M., Theroux S., Giblin A.E. , Zheng Y., Dillon J.T., Huang Y. (2016) Temperature calibration and phylogenetically distinct distributions for freshwater alkenones: Evidence from northern Alaskan lakes. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 180, 177-196.
63. *Zheng Y., Huang Y., Andersen R.A., Amaral-Zettler L.A. (2016) Excluding the di-unsaturated alkenone in the UK37 index strengthens temperature correlation for the common lacustrine and brackish-water haptophytes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 175, 36-46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.11.024.
64. *Elizabeth K Thomas, Jason P Briner, John J Ryan-Henry, Yongsong Huang (2016) A major increase in winter snowfall during the middle Holocene on western Greenland caused by reduced sea ice in Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea. Geophysical Research Letters DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068513.
65. *Thomas E.K., Huang Y., Clemens S.C., Colman S.M., Morrill C., Wegenew P., Zhao J. (2016) Changes in dominant moisture sources and the consequences for hydroclimate on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau during the past 32 kyr. Quaternary Science Reviews 131, 157-167. Doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.11.003.
66. *Dillon J.T., Longo W.M., Zhang Y., Torozo R. Huang Y. (2016) Identification of novel alkenone doublebond positional isomers in a lacustrine haptophyte. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 29, 1-7. Doi: 10.1002/rcm/7414.
67. Huang Y., Aponte JC, Zhao J., Tarozo R., Hallmann C. (2015) Hydrogen and carbon isotopic ratios of polycyclic aromatic compounds in two CM2 carbonaceous chondrites and implications for prebiotic organic synthesis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 426, 101-108.
68. Wang P. Li L., Li Q., Li, J., Wang H., Dong L., Huang Y. (2015) A hydroclimate regime shift around 270 ka in the western tropical Pacific inferred from a late Quaternary n-alkane chain-length record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 427, 79-88.
69. *Dillon J.T., Huang, Y. (2014) TEXPRESS v1.0: A MATLAB toolbox for efficient processing of GDGT LC-MS data. Organic Geochemistry, doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.11.009.
70. *Gao L., Edwards E.J., Zeng Y.,  Huang Y. (2014) Major evolutionary trends in hydrogen isotope fractionation of vascular plant leaf waxes. PLOS one, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112610.
71. *Gao L., Guimond J., Thomas, E., Huang Y. (2014) Major trends in leaf wax abundance, δ²H and δ¹³C along leaf venation in five species of C3 plants: physiological and geochemical implications. Organic Geochemistry doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.11.005.
72. *Zhao J., An C., Longo W.M., Dillon JT, Zhao Y., Shi C., Chen Y., Huang Y. (2014) Occurrence of extended chain length C₄₁ and C₄₂ alkenones in hypersaline lakes. Organic Geochemistry 75, 48-63.
73. *Thomas EK, Clemens SC, Prell WL, Herbert TD, Huang Y., Liu Z., Sinninghe Damsté JS, Sun Y., Wen X. (2014) Temperature and leaf wax d2H records demonstrate seasonal and regional controls on Asian monsoon proxies. Geology, doi:10.1130/G36289.1.
74. Liu X., Colman SM, Brown ET, An Z., Zhou W., Jull AJT, Huang Y., Cheng P., Liu W., Xu H. (2014) A climate threshold at the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060833.
75. Cisneros-Dozal L M., Huang Y., Heikoop J., Fawcett P., Fessenden J., Anderson S., Meyers P., Larson T., Perkins G., Toney J., Werne J., Goff. F., WoldeGabriel G., Allen C., Berke M. (2014) Assessing the strength of the monsoon during the late Pleistocene in southwestern United States. Quaternary Science Reviews 103, 81-90.
76. #Aponte JC, Tarozo R., Alexandre MR, Alexander C, O’D, Hallmann C, Summons ER, Huang Y. (2014) Chirality of meteoritic free and IOM-derived monocarboxylic acids and implications for prebiotic organic synthesis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 131, 1-12.
77. *Thomas E., Huang Y., Morrill C., Zhao J., Wegener P., Clemens S., Colman S. and Gao L. (2014) Abundant C4 plants on the Tibetan Plateau during the late glacial and early Holocene. Quternary Science Reviews, 87, 24-33.
78. Russell, JM, Vogel H., Konecky BL, Bijaksana S., Huang Y., Melles M., Wattrus N., Costa K., King J. (2014) Glacial forcing of central Indonesian hydroclimate since 60,000 years BP. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, doi: 10.1073/pnas. 1402373111.
79. *Gao L., Zheng M., Fraser M., Huang Y. (2013) Comparable hydrogen isotopic fractionation of plant leaf wax n-alkanoic acids in arid and humid subtropical ecosystems. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, DOI: 10.1002/2013GC005015.
80. Konecky B. Russell J., Huang Y., Vuille M., Cohen L., Street-Perrott F.A. (2013) Impact of monsoons, temperature, and CO₂ on the rainfall and ecosystems of Mt. Kenya during the Common Era. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.12.037.
81. Schouten, S., E. C. Hopmans, A. Rosell-Melé, A. Pearson, P. Adam, T. Bauersachs, E. Bard, S. M. Bernasconi, T. S. Bianchi, J. J. Brocks, L. T. Carlson, I. S. Castañeda, S. Derenne, A. D. Selver, K. Dutta, T. Eglinton, C. Fosse, V. Galy, K. Grice, K.-U. Hinrichs, Y. Huang, A. Huguet, C. Huguet, S. Hurley, A. Ingalls, G. Jia, B. Keely, C. Knappy, M. Kondo, S. Krishnan, S. Lincoln, J. Lipp, K. Mangelsdorf, A. Martínez-García, G. Ménot, A. Mets, G. Mollenhauer, N. Ohkouchi, J. Ossebaar, M. Pagani, R. D. Pancost, E. J. Pearson, F. Peterse, G.-J. Reichart, P. Schaeffer, G. Schmitt, L. Schwark, S. R. Shah, R. W. Smith, R. H. Smittenberg, R. E. Summons, Y. Takano, H. M. Talbot, K. W. R. Taylor, R. Tarozo, M. Uchida, B. E. van Dongen, B. A. S. Van Mooy, J. Wang, C. Warren, J. W. H. Weijers, J. P. Werne, M. Woltering, S. Xie, M. Yamamoto, H. Yang, C. L. Zhang, Y. Zhang, M. Zhao, and J. S. S. Damsté. (2013) An interlaboratory study of TEX86 and BIT analysis of sediments, extracts and standard mixtures. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems: DOI: 10.1002/2013GC004904.
82. *Longo WM, Dillon JT, Tarozo R., Salacup JM, Huang Y. (2013) Unpresedented separation of long chain alkenones by gas chromatography with a poly(trifluoropropylmethylpolysiloxan) stationay phase. Organic Geochemistry 65, 94-102.
83. *Dillon J.T., Aponte J.C., Tarozo R. and Huang Y. (2013) Purification of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids from fish oil using silver-thiolate chromatographic material and high performance liquid chromatography.  Journal of Chromatography A, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2013.08.064.
84. #Zech R., Zech M., Markovic S., Hambach U. and Huang Y. (2013) Humid glacials, arid interglacials? Critical thoughts on pedogenesis and paleoclimate based on multi-proxy analyses of the loess–paleosol sequence Crvenka, Northern Serbia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 387, 165–175.
85. *Theroux S., Toney J., Amaral-Zettler L.A., Huang Y. (2013) Production and temperature sensitivity of long chain alkenones in culture of Pseudoisochrysis paradoxa, nomen nudum. Organic Geochemistry 62, 68-73, DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.07.006.
86. #Aponte JC, Dillon, JT, Huang Y. (2013) The unique liquid chromatographic properties of Group 11 transition metals. Journal of Separation Science, doi: 10.1002/jssc.201300457.
87. Terwilliger V.J., Eshetu Z., Disner J-R., Jacob J., Adderley W.P., Huang Y., Alexandre M., Fogel M. (2013) Environmental changes and the rise and fall of civilizations in the northern Horn of Africa: An approach combining dD analyses of land-plant derived fatty acids with multiple proxies in soil. Geochem. Cosmochim Acta 111, 140-161.
88. Charman D.J., D. W. Beilman, M. Blaauw, R. K. Booth, S. Brewer, F. M. Chambers, J. A. Christen, A. Gallego-Sala, S. P. Harrison, P. D. M. Hughes, S. T. Jackson, A. Korhola, D. Mauquoy, F. J. G. Mitchell, I. C. Prentice, M. van der Linden, F. De Vleeschouwer, Z. C. Yu, J. Alm, I. E. Bauer, Y. M. C. Corish, M. Garneau, V. Hohl, Y. Huang, E. Karofeld, G. Le Roux, J. Loisel, R. Moschen, J. E. Nichols, T. M. Nieminen, G. M. MacDonald, N. R. Phadtare, N. Rausch, U. Sillasoo, G. T. Swindles, E.-S. Tuittila, L. Ukonmaanaho, M. Valiranta, S. van Bellen, B. van Geel, D. H. Vitt, and Y. Zhao (2013) Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium. Biogeosciences 10, 1-16. Doi:10.5194/bg-10-1-2013.
89. Nelson D.M., Henderson A.K., Huang Y., Hu F (2013) Influence of terrestrial vegetation on leaf wax dD of Holocene lake sediments. Organic Geochemistry 56, 106-110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.12.010.
90. *Gao L. and Huang Y. (2012) Inverse gradients in leaf wax dD and d¹³C values along the grass blades of Micanthus sinensis: implications for leaf wax reproduction and plant physiology. Oecologia, DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2506-6.
91. *Gao L, Tsai Y-J, Huang Y. (2012) Assessing the rate and timing of leaf wax regeneration in Fraxinus Americana using stable hydrogen isotope labeling. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 2012, 26, 2241-2250, DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6348.
92. *Theroux S., Huang Y., Amaral-Zettler L. (2012) Comparative molecular microbial ecology of the spring haptophyte bloom in a Greenland arctic oligosaline lake. Front. Microbio. 3: 415, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00415.
93. Konecky B.L., Russell J.M., Rodysill J.R., Vuille M., Bijaksana S., Huang Y. (2013) Intensification of southwestern Indonesian rainfall over the past millennium. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2012GL054331.
94. #Zech R., Gao L., Tarozo R. and Huang Y. (2012) Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in Pleistocene loess-paleosol sequences: three case studies. Organic Geochemistry, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.09.005.
95. An Z., Colman S.M., Zhou W., Li X., Brown E.T., Jull A.J. T., Cai Y., Huang Y., Lu X., Chang H., Song Y., Sun Y., Xu H., Liu W., Jin Z., Liu X., Cheng P., Liu Y., Ai L., Li X., Liu X., Yan :., Shi Z., Wang X., Wu F., Qiang X., Dong J., Lu F. and Xu X. (2012) Interplay between the Westerlies and Asian monsoon recorded in Lake Qinghai sediments since 32 Ka. Nature Scientific Reports 2: 619, DOI: 10.1038/srep00619.
96. Tierney J.E., Oppo D.W., LeGrande A.N., Huang Y., Rosenthal Y. and Linsley B.K. (2012) The influence of Indian Ocean atmospheric circulation on warm pool hydroclimate during the Holocene Epoch. J. Geophysical Research – Atmosphere, 117, D19108, doi:10.1029/2012JD018060.
97. Von Gunten L., D’Andrea W. J., Bradley R.S., Huang Y. (2012) Proxy-to-proxy calibration: increasing the temporal resolution of quantitative climate reconstructions. Nature Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/srep00609.
98. *Dillon JT, Aponte JC, Tsai Y-J, Huang Y. (2012) Thin Layer Chromatography in the Separation of Unsaturated Organic Compounds Using Silver-Thiolate Chromatographic Material. Journal of Chromatography A, 10.1016/j.chroma.2012.06.042.
99. *Dillon JT, Aponte JC, Tarozo R, Huang Y. (2012) Efficient liquid chromatographic analysis of mono-, di-, and triglycerols using silver thiolate stationary phase. Journal of Chromatography A, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2012.03.083.
100. #Aponte JC, Dillon JT, Tarozo R, Huang Y. (2012) Separation of unsaturated organic compounds using silver–thiolate chromatographic material. Journal of Chromatography A, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2012.03.082.
101. *Thomas EK, McGrane S, Briner JP, Huang Y. (2012) Leaf wax δD and varve-thickness climate proxies from proglacial lake sediments, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. J. Paleolimnology, 193-207, DOI: 10.1007/s10933-012-9584-7.
102. *Nichols J. and Huang Y. (2012) Hydroclimate of the northeastern United States is highly sensitive to solar forcing. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2011GL050720.
103. *Denis EH, Toney JL, Tarozo, R, Anderson RS, Roach LD, Huang Y. (2012) Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in lake sediments record historic fire events: Validation using HPLC-fluorescence detection. Organic Geochemistry 45, 7-17. (undergrad first author).
104. *Gao, L. , J. Nie , S. Clemens, W. Liu , J. Sun , R. Zech, and Y. Huang (2012) The importance of solar insolation on the temperature variations on Chinese Loess Plateau for the past 110 kyrs. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.12.021.
105. * Gao L., Burnier A., Huang Y. (2012) Quantifying instantaneous regeneration rate of plant leaf waxes using stable hydrogen isotope labeling. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 26, 115-122. DOI: 10.1002/rcm.5313.
106. * Toney JL, Theroux S, Andersen RA, Coleman A, Amaral-Zettler L, Huang Y. (2011) Culturing of the first 37:4 predominant lacustrine haptophyte: geochemical, biochemical, and genetic implications, Geochem. Cosmochim Acta 78, 51-64, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.11.024.
107. * Hou J., Huang Y., Shuman B.N., Oswald, W.W., Foster D.R. (2011) Abrupt Cooling Repeatedly Punctuated Early Holocene Climate in Eastern North America. Holocene, doi: 10.1177/0959683611427329.
108. Konecky B, Russell JM, Johnson TC, Brown ET, Berke M, Werne JP, Huang Y. (2011) Northward displacement of the southern Hadley circulation during the Pleistocene African Mega-drought. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 312, 318-326. Doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.10.020.
109. * D’Andrea W. J., Y. Huang, S. C. Fritz, N. J. Anderson (2011) Abrupt Holocene climate change as an important factor for human migration in West Greenland, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, doi/10.1073/pnas.1101708108.
110. * Toney J.L., Leavitt P.R., Huang Y. (2011) Alkenones are common in prairie lakes of Canada. Organic Geochemistry, doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.06.014.
111. Herd CDK, Blinova A, Simkus DN, Huang Y, Tarozo R, Alexander CMO’D., Gyngard F, Nittler LR, Cody GD, Fogel M, Kebukawa Y, Kilcoyne ALD, Hilts RW, Slater GF, Glavin DP, Dworkin JP, Callahan MP, Elsila JE, De Gregorio BT, Stroud RM (2011) Origin and Evolution of Prebiotic Organic Matter as Inferred from the Tagish Lake Meteorite. Science 332, 1304, DOI: 10.1126/science.1203290.
112. #Zech R., Huang Y., Zech M., Tarozo R. and Zech W. (2011) High carbon sequestration in Siberian permafrost loess-paleosols during glacial. Climate of the Past 7. 501-509. doi:10.5194/cp-7-501-2011.
113. *Gao L., J. Hou, J. Toney, D. Mcdonold, Y. Huang (2011) Mathematical modeling of the aquatic macrophyte inputs of mid-chain n-alkyl lipids to lake sediments: Implications for interpreting compound specific hydrogen isotopic records. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.04.008.
114. Tierney J.E., Russell J.M., Sinninghe Damsté, Y. Huang, D. Verschuren (2011) Late quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 798-807.
115. #Aponte J. C., M. R. Alexandre, Y. Wang, A. J. Brearley, C. M. O’D. Alexander and Y. Huang (2011) Effects of secondary alteration on the composition of free and IOM-derived monocarboxylic acids in carbonaceous chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 2309-2323, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.01.040.
116. Fawcett P.J., J. P. Werne, R. S. Anderson, J. M. Heikoop, E. T. Brown, M. A. Berke, S. Smith, F. Goff, L. Hurley, L. M. Cisneros-Dozal5, S. Schouten, J. S. S.Damsté, Y. Huang, J. Toney, J. Fessenden, G. W. Gabriel, V. Atudorei, J. W. Geissman, C. D. Allen (2011) Extended megadroughts in the southwestern United States during Pleistocene interglacials. Nature 470, 518-521, doi:10.1038/nature09839.
117. * Theroux S., D’Andrea W., Toney J., Amaral-Zettler L., Huang Y. (2010) Phylogenetic diversity and evolutionary relatedness of alkenone producing haptophyte algae in lakes: Implications for continental paleotemperature reconstructions. Earth and Planatary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.10.009.
118. Henderson A. K.;  D. M. Nelson, F. S. Hu, Y. Huang, B. N. Shuman and J. W. Williams (2010) Holocene precipitation seasonality captured by a dual hydrogen and oxygen isotope approach at Steel Lake, Minnesota. Earth and Planatary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.09.024.
119. * Hou J., Huang Y., Brodsky C., Alexandre M.R., McNichol A.P., King J.W., Hu F.S. and Shen J. (2010) Radiocarbon dating of individual lignin phenols: a new approach for establishing chronology of late Quaternary lake sediments. Analytical Chemistry, 10.1021/ac100494m.
120. Terwilliger V.J., Eshetu Z., Huang Y, Alexandre M., , Umer M., Gebru T. (2010) Local variation in climate and land use during the time of the major kingdoms of the Tigray Plateau in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Catena, doi:10.1016/j.catena.2010.08.003.
121. Edwards E. J., C. P. Osborne, C. A.E. Strömberg, S. A. Smith and C4 Grasses Consortium (22 authors including Y. Huang) (2010) The Evolutionary Origins of C4 Grasslands. Science 328, 587 – 591, DOI: 10.1126/science.1177216.
122. Tierney J. E., Russell J. M., Huang Y., (2010) A molecular perspective on Late Quaternary climate and vegetation change in the Lake Tanganyika basin, East Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.030.
123. * Toney, J.L., Huang, Y., Fritz, S.C., Baker, P.A., Grimm, E., Nyren, P., (2010) Climatic and environmental controls on the occurrence and distributions of long chain alkenones in lakes of the interior United States, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.11.021.
124. * Nichols J., Booth R.K., Jackson S.T., Pendall E.G. and Huang Y. (2010) Differential hydrogen isotopic ratios of Sphagnum and vascular plant biomarkers in ombrotrophic peatlands as a quantitative proxy for precipitation—evaporation balance. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.11.012.
125. * Nichols J.E., Walcott M., Bradley R., Pilcher J. and Huang Y. (2009) Quantitative assessment of precipitation seasonality and summer surface wetness using ombrotrophic sediments from an Arctic Norwegian peatland. Quaternary Research, doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2009.07.007.
126. Gebru T., Eshetu Z., Huang Y., woldemariam T., Strong N., Umer M., DiBlasi M., terwilliger V.J. (2009) Holocene paleovegetation of the Tigray Plateau in northern Ethiopia from charcoal and stable organic carbon isotopic analyses of gully sediments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 282, 67-80.
127. Russell J.M., McCoy S.J., Verschuren D., Bessems I., Huang Y. (2009) Human impacts, climate change and aquatic ecosystem response during the past 2000 yr at Lake Wandakara, Uganda. Quaternary Research, doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2009.06.008  
128. * Hou J., D’Andrea W. and Huang Y. (2008) Can Sedimentary Leaf Waxes record D/H ratios of Continental Precipitation? Field, Model and Experimental Assessments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72, 3503-3517.
129. Tierney J. E., Russell J. M., Huang Y., J. S. Sinninghe Damsté, E. C. Hopmans, A. S. Cohen (2008) Northern Hemisphere controls on tropical Southeast African climate during the last 60,000 years. Science 322, 252-255, DOI: 10.1126/science.1160485.
130. # Liu W. and Huang Y. (2008) Reconstructing in-situ vegetation dynamics using carbon isotopic composition of plant-derived macromolecules in the central Chinese Loess Plateau. Chemical Geology, 249, 348-356.
131. # Liu Z. and Huang Y. (2008) Hydrogen isotope ratios of plant leaf lipids are unaffected by a twofold pCO₂ change in growth chambers. Organic Geochemistry, 39, 478-482, doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2008.01.020.
132. # Liu Z., Henderson A., and Huang Y. (2008) Regional Moisture Source Changes Inferred from Late Holocene Stable Isotope Records. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 25, 1-8.
133. Pizzarello S., Huang Y., Alexandre M.R. (2008) Molecular asymmetry in extraterrestrial chemistry: Novel insights from a pristine meteorite. PNAS, 105, 3700-3704, 10.1073/pnas.0709909105.
134. * Nichols J.E. and Huang Y. (2007) C₂₃ to C₃₁ n-alkan-2-ones are biomarkers for genus Sphagnum in Freshwater Peatlands. Organic Geochemistry 38, 1972-1976. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.07.002.
135. * Hou J., Huang Y., Oswald W.W., Foster D.R., Shuman B. (2007) Centennial-scale compound-specific hydrogen isotope record of Late Pleistocene - Holocene climate transition from southern New England. Geophycial Research Letters, 34, L19706, doi:10.1029/2007GL030303.
136. P. A. Barker, M. J. Leng, F. Gasse, Y. Huang (2007) Century-to-millennial scale climatic variability in Lake Malawi revealed by isotope records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 261, 93-103.
137. Street-Perrott F.A., Baker P.A., Swain D.L., Ficken K.J., Wooler M.J., Olago D.O., Huang Y. (2007) Late Quaternary changes in carbon cycling on Mt. Kenya, East Africa: a landscape-ecological perspective based on multi-proxy lake-sediment influxes. Quaternary Science Reviews 26, 1838-1860.
138. * Hou J., D’Andrea W.J., MacDonald D., Huang Y. (2007) Evidence for water use efficiency as an important factor in determining the δD values of tree leaf waxes. Organic Geochemistry 38, 1251-1255.
139. Huang Y., Alexandre M.R. and Wang Y. (2007) Structure and isotopic ratios of aliphatic side chains in the insoluble organic matter of the Murchison carbonaceous chondrite. Earth and Planatary Science Letters 259, 517-525.
140. * Hou J., D’Andrea W., MacDonald D., Huang Y. (2007) Hydrogen isotopic variability in leaf waxes among terrestrial and aquatic plants around Blood Pond, Massachusetts. Organic Geochemistry 38, 977–984.
141. # Jacob J., Huang Y., Disnar J.R., Sifeddine A., Boussafir M., Albuquerque A.L.S. and Turcq B. (2007) Abrupt paleohydrological change during the last deglaciation in Northern Brazil. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, 1004-1015.
142. Levin E.M., Bud’ko S.L., Mao J.D., Huang Y. and Schmidt-Rohr K. (2007) Effect of magnetic particles on NMR spectra of Murchison meteorite organic matter and a polymer-based model system. Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 31, 63-71, doi:10.1016/j.ssnmr.01.002.
143. Huang Y., Clemens S.C., Liu W., Wang Y. and Prell W.L. (2007) Large scale hydrological change drove the late Miocene C₄ plant expansion in the Himalayan foreland and Arabian Peninsula. Geology 35, 531-534; doi: 10.1130/G23666A.
144. * D’Andrea W., Liu Z., Alexandre M., Wattley S., Herbert T., Huang Y. (2007) An efficient method for isolating individual long-chain alkenones for compound-specific hydrogen isotope analysis. Analytical Chemistry 79, 3430-3435, doi: 10.1021/ac062067w.
145. Lindbladh M., Oswald W.W., Foster D.R., Faison E.K., Hou J., Huang Y. (2007) A late-glacial transition from Picea glauca to Picea mariana in southern New England. Quaternary Research 67, 502–508.
146. Hostettler F.D., Wang Y., Huang Y., Cao W., Bekins B.A., Rostad C. E., Kulpa C.F., Laursen A. (2007) Forensic Fingerprinting of Oil-Spill Hydrocarbons in a Methanogenic Environment, Mandan, ND and Bemidji, MN. Environmental Forensics 8, 139-153.
147. Shuman B., Huang Y., Newby P. and Wang Y. (2006) Compound-Specific Isotopic Analyses Track Changes in the Seasonality of Precipitation in the Northeastern United States at ca. 8200 cal yr BP. Quaternary Science Reviews 25, 2992-3002.
148. Hu F., Nelson D.M., Clarke G.H., Rühland K.M., Huang Y., Kaufman D.S., and Smol J.P. (2006) Abrupt climatic events during the last glacial-interglacial transition in Alaska. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L18708, doi: 10.1029/2006GL027261.
149. *  Nichols J.E., Booth R.K., Jackson S.T., Pendall E.G. and Huang Y. (2006) Paleohydrologic reconstruction based on n-alkane distributions in ombrotrophic peat, Organic Geochemistry 37, 1505-1513.
150. Jackson S.T., Booth R.K., Huang Y., Pendall E.G., Nichols J.E., Minckley T.A. and Taylor M. (2006) Late Holocene Hydrological variability in ombrotrophic peatlands of eastern North America. PAGES 14, 26-28.
151. * D’Andrea W.J., Lage M., Hughes J.B., Laatsch A.D., Amaral-Zettler L.A., Sogin M.L. and Huang Y. (2006) Alkenone producers inferred from well-preserved 18S rDNA in Greenland lake sediments. Journal of Geophysical Research, Biogeoscience 111, G03013, doi: 10.1029/2005JG000121.
152. Fang J., Chan O., Joeckel R.M., Huang Y., Wang Y., Bazylinski D.A., Moorman T.B. and Clement B. J.A. (2006) Biomarker analysis of microbial diversity in sediments of a saline groundwater seep of Salt Basin, Nebraska. Organic Geochemistry 37, 912-931.
153. Huang Y., Shuman B., Wang Y., Webb T., Grimm E.C., and Jacobson G.L. (2006) Climatic and environmental controls on the variation of C₃ and C₄ plant abundances in central Florida for the past 62,000 years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaecology 237, 428-435.
154. * Hou J., Huang Y., Wang Y., Shuman B., Oswald W., Faison E., Foster D. (2006) Postglacial climate reconstruction based on compound-specific D/H ratios of fatty acids from Blood Pond, New England. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 7, Q03008, doi:10.1029/2005GC001076.
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156. Lee X., Feng Z., Guo L., Wang L., Jin L., Huang Y., Chopping M., Huang D., Jiang W., Jiang Q., Cheng H. (2005) Carbon isotope of bulk organic matter: A proxy for precipitation in the arid and semiarid central East Asia. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 19, doi: 10.10292004GB002303.
157. An Z., Huang Y., Liu W., Guo Z., Clemens S., Li L., Prell W., Ning Y., Cai Y., Zhou W., Lin B., Zhang Q., Cao Y., Qiang X., Chang H. and Wu Z.  (2005) Multiple expansions of C₄ plant biomass in East Asia since 7 Ma coupled with strengthened monsoon circulation. Geology 33, 705-708.
158. * D’Andrea W.J. and Huang Y. (2005) Long-chain alkenones in Greenland lake sediments: Low d¹³C values and exceptional abundance. Organic Geochemistry 36, 1234-1241.
159. # Liu W., Huang Y., An Z., Clemens S.C., Li L., Prell W.L. and Ning Y. (2005) 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. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaecology 220, 243-254.
160. # Liu W. and Huang Y. (2005) Compound-specific D/H ratios and molecular distributions of higher plant leaf waxes as novel paleoenvironmental indicators in the Chinese Loess Plateau. Organic Geochemistry, 36, 851-860.
161. # Wang Y., Huang Y., Alexander C.M.O’D, Fogel M. and Cody G. (2005) Molecular and compound-specific hydrogen isotope analysis of insoluble organic matter from different carbonaceous chondrite groups. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 69, 3711-3721.
162. Huang Y., Wang Y., Alexandre M.R., Lee T., Rose-Petruck C., Fuller M. and Pizzarello S. (2005) Molecular and compound specific isotopic characterization of monocarboxylic acids in carbonaceous meteorites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 69, 1073-1084.
163. Pizzarello S. and Huang Y. (2005) The deuterium content of individual Murchison and Murray amino acids: A case for the presolar distribution of biomolecular precursors. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 69, 599-605.
164. Tang Y., Huang Y., Ellis G.S., Wang Y., Kralert P.G., Gillaizeau B., Ma Q. and Hwang R. (2005) A kinetic model for thermally-induced hydrogen and carbon isotopic fractionation of individual n-alkanes in crude oil. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 69. 4505–4520, 2005.
165. Yang, H., Huang, Y., Leng, Q., LePage, B.A., Williams, C.J. (2005) Biomolecular preservation of Tertiary Metasequoia fossil Lagerstatten revealed by comparative pyrolysis analysis. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 134, 237-256.
166. Pizzarello S., Huang Y. and Fuller M. (2004) The carbon isotopic distribution of Murchison amino acids. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 68, 4963-4969.
167. # Wang Y., Huang Y., Huckins J.N., Petty J.D. (2004) Compound-Specific Carbon and Hydrogen Isotope Analysis of Sub-ppb Level Waterborne Petroleum Hydrocarbons. Environmental Science and Technology 38, 3689-3697.
168. Zhang C. L., Fouke B.W., Bonheyo B.T., Peacock A.D., White D.C., Huang Y. and Romanek C.S. (2004) Lipid biomarkers and carbon-isotopes of modern travertine deposits (Yellowstone National Park, USA): Implications for biogeochemical dynamics in hot-spring systems. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 68, 3157-3169.
169. Shuman, B., P. Newby, Y. Huang, and T. Webb III. (2004) Evidence for the close climatic control of New England vegetation history. Ecology 85, 1297-1310.
170. Street-Perrott F.A., Ficken K.J., Huang Y. and Eglinton G. (2004) Late Quaternary changes in carbon cycling on Mt. Kenya, East Africa: an overview of the d¹³C record in lacustrine organic matter. Quaternary Science Reviews 23, 861-879.
171. Huang Y., Shuman B., Wang Y., and Webb III T. (2004) Hydrogen isotope ratios of individual lipids in lake sediments as novel tracers of climatic and environmental change: a surface sediment test. Journal of Paleolimnology 31, 363-375.
172. Yang H. and Huang Y. (2003) Preservation of lipid hydrogen isotope ratios in Miocene lacustrine sediments and plant fossils at Clarkia, northern Idaho, USA. Org. Geochem. 34, 413-423.
173. # Wang Y. and Huang Y. (2003) Hydrogen isotopic fractionation of petroleum hydrocarbons during vaporization: implications for assessing artificial and natural remediation of petroleum contamination. Applied Geochemistry 18, 1641-1651.
174. Hu F., Kaufman D., Yoneji S., Nelson D., Shemesh A., Huang Y., Tian J., Bond G., Clegg B. and Brown T. (2003) Cyclic Variation and Solar Forcing of Holocene Climate in the Alaskan Subarctic. Science 301, 1890-1892.
175. Xie S., Chen F., Wang Z., Wnag H., Gu Y. and Huang Y. (2003) Lipid distributions in loess-paleosol sequences from northwest China. Organic Geochemistry 34, 1071-1079.
176.  * Fuller M. and Huang Y. (2003) Quantifying hydrogen-deuterium exchange of meteoritic dicarboxylic acids during aqueous extraction. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 38, 357-363.
177. Huang Y., Shuman B., Wang Y. and Webb III T. (2002) Hydrogen isotope ratios of palmitic acid in lacustrine sediments record late –Quaternary climate variations. Geology 30, 1103-1106.
178. * Pond K.L., Huang Y., Wang Y. and Kulpa C.F. (2002) Hydrogen isotopic compositions of individual n-alkanes as an intrinsic tracer for bioremediation and source identification of petroleum contamination. Environmental Science and Technology 36, 724-728.
179. Zhang C., Li Y., Wall J.D., Larsen L., Sassen R., Huang Y., Wang Y., Peacock A., White D., Horita J. and Cole D.R. (2002) Lipid and carbon isotopic evidence of methane-oxidizing and sulfate-reducing bacteria in association with gas hydrates from the Gulf of Mexico. Geology 30, 239-242.
180. Pizzarello S. and Huang Y. (2002) Molecular and isotopic analyses of Tagish Lake alkyl dicarboxylic acids. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 37, 687-696.
181. Zhang, C. L., Q. Ye, D. Goetz, A.L. Reysenbach, A. Peacock, D. C. White, J. Horita, D. R. Cole, J. Fong, L. Pratt, J. Fang, Y. Huang. (2002) Carbon isotopic fractionations associated with thermophilic bacteria Thermotoga maritima and Persephonella marina. Environ. Microbiol. 4, 58-64.
182. Huang Y., Street-Perrott F.A., Metcalfe S.E., Brenner M., Moreland M. and Freeman K.H. (2001) Climate change as the dominant control on glacial-interglacial variations in C₃ and C₄ plant abundance. Science 293, 1647-1651.
183. Pizzarello S., Huang Y., Becker L., Poreda R.J., Nieman R.A., Cooper G. and Williams M. (2001) The organic content of the Tagish Lake Meteorite. Science 293, 2236-2239.
184. Li M., Huang Y., Obermajer M., Jiang C., Snowdon L. and Fowler M.G. (2001) Hydrogen isotopic compositions of individual alkanes as a new approach for petroleum corrrelation: case studies from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. Organic Geochemistry 32, 1387-1399.
185. # Wang Y. and Huang Y. (2001) Hydrogen isotope fractionation of low molecular weight n-alkanes during progressive vaporization. Organic Geochemistry 32, 991-998.
186. Huang Y., Dupont L., Sarnthein M., Hayes J.M. and Eglinton G. (2000) Mapping of C₄ plant input from North West Africa into the North East Atlantic sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64, 3505-3513.
187. Huang Y., Freeman, K.H., Wilkin R.T., Arthur M.A. and Jones A.D. (2000) Black Sea chemocline oscillations during the Holocene: molecular and isotopic studies of marginal sediments. Org. Geochem. 31, 1525-1531.
188. Barker P.A., Perrott R.A., Street-Perrott, F.A., Huang Y. (2000) Evolution of the carbon cycle at Lake Kimilili, Mt Elgon, Kenya during the last 14,000 years. In: Paleoecology of Africa and Surrounding Island, V. 27 (Eds, K. Heine & J. Runge), Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 77 – 94 (Book Chapter).
189. Mandernack K.W., Kinney C., Coleman D., Huang Y., Freeman K., Bogner J. (2000) The biogeochemical controls of N₂O production and emission in landfill cover soils: the role of methanotrophs in the nitrogen cycle. Env. Microbiolgy 2, 298-309.
190. Huang Y., Street-Perrott F.A., Perrott F.A., P. Metzger and Eglinton G. (1999) Glacial - interglacial environmental changes inferred from the molecular and compound - specific d13C analyses of sediments from Sacred Lake, Mt Kenya. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 63, 1383-1404.
191. Huang Y., Freeman K.H., Eglinton T.I., Street-Perrott F.A. (1999) d13C analyses of individual lignin phenols in the lacustrine environment: a novel proxy for deciphering the past terrestrial vegetation changes.  Geology 27, 471-474.
192. Huang Y., Li B., Bryant C., Bol R. and Eglinton G. (1999) Radiocarbon dating of aliphatic hydrocarbons: a new approach for dating the passive fraction carbon in soil horizons. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 63,1181-1187.
193. Huang Y., Eglinton G., Ineson P., Bol R. and Harkness D.D. (1999) The effects of nitrogen fertilisation and elevated CO₂ on the lipid biosynthesis and carbon isotopic discrimination in birch seedlings (Betula pendula). Plant and Soil 216, 35.
194. Holmes J., Street-Perrott F.A., Perrott R.A., Stokes S., Walker M.P., Huang Y., Eglinton G. and Ivanovich M. (1999) Holocene landscape evolution of the Manga Grasslands, north-wastern Nigeria: evidence from palaeolimnology and dune chronology. Journal of the Geological Society of London 156, 357-368.
195. Bol R., Harkness D.D., Huang Y. and Howard D.M. (1999) Influence of soil processes on carbon turnover and isotopic distribution in the British uplands. European J. of Soil Science 50, 41-51.
196. Huang Y., Stankiewicz A., Eglinton G., Snape C.E., Evans B., Latter P.M. and Ineson P. (1998) Monitoring biomacromolecular degradation in a 23 yr. decomposition experiment with Calluna Vulgaris by solid state 13C NMR and py-GC/MS. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 30, 1517-1528.
197. Street‑Perrott F.A., Huang Y., Perrott A. and Eglinton G. (1998) Carbon isotopes in lake sediments and peats of the last glacial age: implications for the global carbon cycle. In: Stable isotopes and integration of biological, ecological and geochemical process (H. Griffiths ed.), Bios Scientific Publisher, Oxford, 381-396. (Book Chapter)
198. Huang Y., Eglinton G., Hage E., Boon J.J., Bol R., Harkness D.D., Ineson P.  (1998) An integrated study of dissolved organic matter and its parent grass upland soil horizons by analytical pyrolysis techniques.  European J. of Soil Science 49, 1-15.
199. Street-Perrott F.A., Huang Y., Perrott A., Eglinton, G., Baker P., Khelifa L., Harkness D.D. and Olago D. (1997) The impact of lower atmospheric CO2 on tropical mountain ecosystems. Science 278, 1422-1426.
200. Huang Y., Peakman, T.M. and M. Murray (1997) 8b,9a,10b-rimuane, a novel, optically active, tricyclic hydrocarbon of algal origin.  Tetrahedron Letters 38, 5363-5366.
201. Huang Y., Eglinton G., Ineson P., Latter P.M., Bol R. and Douglas D.D. (1997) Absence of carbon isotope fractionation of individual n-alkanes in a 23 year field decomposition experiment with Calluna Vulgaris. Organic Geochemistry 26, 497-501.
202. Huang Y., Murray M., Metzger P. and Eglinton G. (1996) Novel unsaturated triterpenoid hydrocarbons from sediments of Sacred Lake, Mt. Kenya, Kenya. Tetrahedron 52. 6973‑6982.
203. Huang Y., Bol R., Harkness D.D., Ineson P. and Eglinton G. (1996) Post‑glacial variations in distributions, 13C and 14C contents of aliphatic hydrocarbons and bulk organic matter in three types of British acid upland soils. Organic Geochemistry 24, 273-287.
204. R.Bol, Huang Y., Meredith J., Eglinton G., Harkness D.D. and Ineson P. (1996) ¹⁴C age and residence time of organic matter and its lipid constituents in a stagnohumic gley soil. European Journal of Soil Sciences 47, 215‑222.
205. Huang Y., Lockheart M.J., Logan G. and Eglinton G. (1996) Isotope and molecular evidence for the diverse origins of carboxylic acids in leaf fossils and sediments from the Miocene Lake Clarkia Deposit, Idaho, USA. Organic Geochemistry 24, 289‑299.
206. Huang Y., Murray M., Metzger P. and Eglinton G. (1995) Sacredicene. a novel monocyclic C33 hydrocarbon from sediment of Sacred Lake, a tropical freshwater Lake, Mount Kenya. Tetrahedron Letters 36, 5973‑5976.
207. Huang Y., Lockheart M., Collister J.W. and Eglinton G. (1995) Molecular and isotopic biogeochemistry of the Miocene Clarkia Formation: Hydrocarbons and Alcohols. Organic Geochemistry 23, 785‑801.
208. Huang Y. and Murray M. (1995) Identification of 1,6,17,21‑octahydrobotryococcene in a sediment. J .Chem. Soc. Chem. Comm. 335‑336.
209. Huang Y., Li T., Lockheart M. J., Peakman T. M. and Eglinton G. (1994) C26 to C32 1,3‑alkanediols, a novel series of biological markers identified in Miocene (17‑20 Ma) leaf fossils and sediment. Natural Product Letters 4, 15‑20.
210. Huang Y., Fu J., Sheng G., Geng A. and Cheng Y. (1992) The investigation of characteristics of biomarker assemblages and their precursors in Damintun ultra‑high wax oils and related source rocks. Organic Geochemistry 19, 29‑39.

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American Geophysics Union, American Chemical Society, Geological Society of America, European Association of Organic Geochemists

Teaching

• EEPS 1370: Environmental Geochemistry
• EEPS 1380: Environmental Stable Isotopes
• EEPS 2920: Introduction to Organic Geochemistry

ADVISING

Current Graduate Students (October, 2022)

Desmond Yeo

 

Current Postdoctoral researchers (October, 2022)

Ewerton Santos


Former Graduate Students:

• Karen Wang, Ph.D. '22
• Sian Liao, Ph.D. '22
• Sarah McGrath, Ph.D. '22 (co-advising with Steve Clemens)
• Richard Vachula, Ph.D. 19
• William Longo, Ph.D. '17
• William Daniels, Ph.D. 17 (Co-advising with James Russell)
• Yinsui Zheng, Ph.D. '18
• James Dillon, Ph.D. '16
• Elizabeth Thomas, Ph.D. '14 (Co-advising with Steve Clemens)
• William D'Andrea, Ph.D. '08
• Li Gao, Ph.D. '13
• Juzhi Hou, Ph.D. '08
• Jonathon Nichols, Ph.D. '10
• Susie Theroux, Ph.D. '13 (Co-advising with Linda Amaral-Zettler)
• Jaime Toney, Ph.D. '11
• Jiaju Zhao, Ph.D., '15 (joint student with Lanzhou University)
• Xin Chen, Ph.D. '20 (Jioint student with Univ. Sci and Tech. China)
• Haichai Xie, Ph.D., '20 (joint student with Institute Of Tibetan Plateau, CAS)
• Kristy Pond, Sc.M. '02
• Megan Fuller, Sc.M. '03

Former Postdoctoral Researchers:

• Zhonghui Liu (2005-2007)
• Yi Wang (2000 to 2005)
• Weiguo Liu (2002 to 2003)
• Jeremy Jacob (2003 to 2003)
• Jose Aponte (2011 to 2014)
• Roland Zech (2010-2012)
• Li Li (2013-2014)
• Yuan Yao (2018-2021)
• Li Wang (2017-2018)
• Fei Guo (2019-2021)