Ph.D  Professor

School of Marine Science and Engineering, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210046, China

Email: yyang@njnu.edu.cn

 

 

Education and Professional experiences

Professor, Nanjing Normal University (Sep 2023—Present)

Associate Professor, Nanjing Normal University (Nov 2020—Sep 2023)

Post-doctoral fellow, Bedford Institute of Oceanography (Dec 2018—Sep 2020)

Post-doctoral fellow, East China Normal University (Feb 2017—Nov 2020)

Ph.D. in Marine Geology, Nanjing University, China (Sep 2013—Dec 2016)

 

Editorial Position

Associate Editor          Frontiers in Marine Science  

Editorial Board Members   Discover Oceans    

Executive Guest Editor     Marine Geology

 

Selected Publications (* corresponding author)

1. Yang, Y., Maselli, V., Zhou, L., Gao, J.H., Gao, Y., Wang, Y.P., Jia, J.J., Gao, S., 2024. Anomalously weak intensity of tropical cyclones striking eastern China over the past two millennia. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 10.1038/s41612-024-00656-8.
2. Yang, Y., Piper, D.J.W., Xu, M., Gao, J.H., Jia, J.J., Normandeau, A., Chu, D.D., Zhou, L., Wang. Y.P., Gao, S., 2022. Northwestern Pacific tropical cyclone activity enhanced by increased Asian dust emissions during the Little Ice Age. Nature Communications,13:1712
3. Yang, Y., Piper, D.J.W., Normandeau, A., Zhou, L., Jia, J.J., Wang. Y.P., Gao, S., 2022. A late Holocene shift in typhoon activity pattern recorded by coastal sedimentary archives. Sedimentology, 69, 954–969.
4. Yang, Y., & Piper, D. J., 2021. Alongflow variability of the Labrador Current during the Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 267, 107110.
5. Yang, Y., Xu, M., Jia, J.J., Gao, J.H., Zhao, Y.F., Zhou, L., Wang. Y.P., 2021. Human-induced asynchronous sedimentary records between the north and south of the Changjiang distal mud belt since 2005 CE. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 262, 107578.
6. Yang, Y., Maselli, V., Normandeau, A., Piper, D.J.W., Li, M. Z., Campbell, D. C., Gregory, T., Gao, S., 2020. Latitudinal response of storm activity to abrupt climate change during the last 6,500 years. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL089859.
7. Yang, Y., Jia, J.J., Zhou, L., Gao, J.H., Gao, W.H., Shi, B.W., Li, Z.H., Wang. Y.P., Gao, S., 2020. Quantitative reconstruction of Holocene sediment sources contributing to the central Jiangsu coast, China: new insights into source-to-sink processes. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45(11), 2463-2477.
8. Yang, Y., Zhou, L., Alexandre Normandeau, Jia, J.J., Yin, Q.J., Wang. Y.P., Shi, B.W., Gao, S., 2020. Exploring records of typhoon variability in eastern China over the last 2000 years. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 132 (11-12),2243-2252.
9. Yang, Y., Gao, S., Wang, Y.P., Jia, J., Xiong, J. Zhou, L., 2019. Revisiting the problem of sediment motion threshold. Continental Shelf Research, 187, 103960, 1-14.
10. Yang, Y., Jia, J., Zhou, L., Gao, W., Shi, B., Li, Z.H., Wang, Y.P., Gao, S., 2019. Human-induced changes in sediment properties and amplified endmember differences: Possible geological time markers in the future. Science of The Total Environment, 661, 63-74.
11. Yang, Y., Gao, S., Zhou, L., Wang, Y. W., Li, G. C., Wang, Y. P., Han, Z. C., Jia, P. H., 2017. Classifying the sedimentary environments of the Xincun Lagoon, Hainan Island, by system cluster and principal component analyses. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 36(4), 64-71.
12. Yang, Y., Wang, Y. P., Gao, S., Wang, X. H., Shi, B. W., Zhou, L., Wang, D. D., Dai, C., Li, G. C., 2016. Sediment resuspension in tidally-dominated coastal environments: new insights into the threshold for initial movement. Ocean Dynamics, 66, 401-417.
13. Yang, Y., Wang, Y. P., Li, C. Y., Gao, S., Shi, B. W., Zhou, L., Wang, D. D., Li, G. C., Dai, C., 2016. On the variability of near-bed floc size due to complex interactions between turbulence, SSC, settling velocity, effective density and the fractal dimension of flocs. Geo-Marine Letters, 36, 135-149.
14. Zhou, L., Hao, R., Li, M., Su, Y., Gao, S., Yang, Y*., Shen, Z., Jia, J., Wang, Y., 2024. Spatio-temporal patterns of intense tropical cyclones in the Western North Pacific over the past 1600 years. Marine Geology, 107283.
15. Zhao, P., Yang, Y*., Jia, J., Zhao, N., Zhang, W. and Gao, S*., 2024.Typhoon and flooding occurrences on Chongming Island, Changjiang Estuary, as revealed by a newly acquired sedimentary record. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, .1366676.
16. Zhou, L., Yang, Y*., Gao, S., Li, G.C*., Tong, C.L., 2023. OSL dating of coastal dunes on the southeastern coast of Hainan Island, China. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10:1165551.
17. Yao, Q., Liu, K.B., Zhang, Z.Q., Rodrigues, E, Cohen, M., Maiti, K., Yang, Y*., 2023. What are the most effective proxies in identifying storm-surge deposits in paleotempestology? A quantitative evaluation from the sand-limited, peat-dominated environment of the Florida Coastal Everglades. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24, e2022GC010708.
18. Zhou, L., Yang, Y., Wang, Z., Jia, J., Mao, L., Li, Z., Fang, X. Gao, S., 2019. Investigating ENSO and WPWP modulated typhoon variability in the South China Sea during the mid–late Holocene using sedimentological evidence from southeastern Hainan Island, China. Marine Geology, 416, 105987.