Yige Zhang

Selected Publications

2019

• Da, J., Zhang, Y.G., X., Meng, G. Li., and J. Ji, 2019: Low CO2 levels of the entire Pleistocene Epoch, Nature Commun., 10, 1-9.
• Zhang, Y.G., Pearson, A., Benthien, A., Dong, L., Huybers, P., Liu, X.* and Pagani, M., 2019: Refining the alkenone-pCO₂ method I: Lessons from the Quaternary glacial cycles, Geochimi. Cosmochimi. Acta, 260, 177-191.
• Zhuang, G., Zhang, Y.G., Hourigan, J., Ritts, B., Hren, M., Hou, M., Wu, M. and Kim, B.-S.*, 2019: Microbial and geochronologic constraints on the Neogene paleotopography of Northern Tibetan Plateau, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 1312-1319.
• Hollis, C. J., Dunkley Jones, T., Anagnostou, E., Bijl, P. K., Cramwinckel, M. J., Cui, Y., Dickens, G. R., Edgar, K. M., Eley, Y., Evans, D., Foster, G. L., Frieling, J., Inglis, G. N., Kennedy, E. M., Kozdon, R., Lauretano, V., Lear, C. H., Littler, K., Meckler, N., Naafs, B. D. A., Pälike, H., Pancost, R. D., Pearson, P., Royer, D. L., Salzmann, U., Schubert, B., Seebeck, H., Sluijs, A., Speijer, R., Stassen, P., Tierney, J., Tripati, A., Wade, B., Westerhold, T., Witkowski, C., Zachos, J. C., Zhang, Y. G., Huber, M., and Lunt, D. J., 2019: The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data, incorporating version 0.1 of the DeepMIP database, Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 3149-3206.

2018

• Zhang, Y.G., and Liu, X.*, 2018,: Export depth of the TEX₈₆ signal, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 33, 666-671.
• Shen, J., Pearson, A., Henkes, G., Zhang, Y.G., Chen, K., Li, D., Wankel, S.D., Finney, S.C., and Shen, Y., 2018: Improved efficiency of the biological pump as a trigger for the late Ordovician glaciation, Nature Geosci., 11, 510-514
• Pearson, P. and IODP Expedition 363 Scientific Party, 2018: A deep-sea agglutinated foraminifer tube constructed with planktonic foraminifer shells of a single species, Journal of Micropaleontology, 37, 97-104

2017

• Zhang, Y.G., Pagani, M., Henderiks, J., and Ren, H.,: A long history of equatorial deep-water upwelling in the Pacific Ocean: Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 467, 1-9. 
• Zhuang, G., Pagani, M. and Zhang, Y.G.,: Monsoonal upwelling in the western Arabian Sea since the middle-late Miocene, Geology, 45, 655-658.
• Zhang, Y.G., Compound-specific isotope analysis: Encyclopedia of Geochemistry, W. White edited, Springer, 1-4.

• Wang, J.-X., Xie, W., Zhang, Y.G., Meador, T.B., Zhang, C.L., Evaluating production of cyclopentyl tetraethers by Marine Group II Euryarchaeota in the Pearl River estuary and coastal South China Sea: Potential impact on the TEX₈₆ paleothermometer, Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, 2077. 

2016

• Pearson, A., Hurley, S.J., Shah Walter, S.R., Kusch, S., Lichtin, S., and Zhang, Y.G., 2016: Stable carbon isotope ratios of intact GDGTs indicate heterogeneous sources to marine sediments. Geochimi. Cosmochimi. Acta, 181, 18-35.
• Zhang, Y.G., Pagani, M., and Wang, Z., 2016: Ring Index: A new strategy to evaluate the integrity of TEX₈₆ paleothermometry: Paleoceanography, 31, 220-232.

2015

• Da, J.W., Zhang, Y.G., Wang, H.T., Balsam, W., and Ji, J.F., 2015: An early Pleistocene atmospheric CO₂ record based on pedogenic carbonate from the Chinese loess deposits: Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 426, 69-75.

2014

• Zhang, Y.G., Pagani, M., and Liu, Z., 2014: Response to comment on “A 12-million-year temperature history of the tropical Pacific Ocean”: Science, 346, 1467-b.
• Zhang, Y.G., Pagani, M., and Liu, Z., 2014: A 12-million-year temperature history of the tropical Pacific Ocean: Science, 343, 84-86.
• Kluge, T., Affek, H., Zhang, Y.G., Dublyansky, Y., Spötl, C., Immenhauser, A., and Richter, D.K., 2014: Clumped isotope thermometry of cryogenic cave carbonates: Geochimi. Cosmochimi. Acta, 126, 541-554.

2013

• Schouten, S. et al., (69 coauthors including Zhang, Y.G.), 2013: An interlaboratory study of TEX₈₆ and BIT analysis of sediments, extracts and standard mixtures, Geophys. Geochem. Geosyst., 14, 5263-5285.
• Zhang, Y.G., Pagani, M., Liu, Z., Bohaty, S., and DeConto, R., 2013: A 40-million-year history of atmospheric CO₂: Phil. Trans. Royal. Soc. A, 371, 20130096.

2011 and Earlier

• Zhang, Y.G., Zhang, C.L., Liu, X.-L., Li, L., Hinrichs, K.-U., and Noakes,J.E., 2011: Methane Index: A tetraether archaeal lipid biomarker indicator for detecting the instability of marine gas hydrates: Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 307, 525-534.
• Boyd, E.S., Pearson, A., Pi, Y.D., Li, W.-J., Zhang, Y.G., He, L., Zhang, C.L., and Geesey, G.G., 2011: Temperature and pH controls on glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipid composition in the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeote Acidilobus sulfurireducens: Extremophiles, 15, 59-65.
• Zhang, Y.G., Ji, J.F., Balsam, W.L., Liu, L.W. and Chen J., 2009: Mid-Pliocene Asian monsoon intensification and the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation: Geology, 37, 599-602.
• Zhang Y.G., Ji, J.F., Balsam, W.L. Liu, L.W. and Chen, J., 2007: High-resolution hematite and goethite record from ODP 1143, South China Sea: Co-evolution of monsoonal precipitation and El Niño over the last 600,000 years: Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 264, 136-150.