Publications

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* Mentee

Published peer-reviewed journals

L. Wang, M. Cao, Y. Lin, F. Wu, Y. Wang, H. Zhang; S. Shen, 2026. Thallium isotopes constrain the timing and tempo of oceanic deoxygenation across the end-Permian mass extinction, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2026.119937.

Y. Wang, R. Phillips, C. M. Hansel, and S. G. Nielsen, 2026. Thallium oxidative fractionation on hexagonal birnessites: insights from mineralogical and isotope analyses on long adsorption time series, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, doi: https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.gca.2026.04.005.

Y. Wang, G. A. Farfan, J. E. Post, H. Xu, C. M. Hansel, S. G. Nielsen, 2026. Thallium isotopic fractionation during adsorption onto natural manganese oxides: a comparison with synthesized analogs, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2026.01.023.

F. Qian*, Y. Wang, K. M. Costa, S. G. Nielsen, 2025. Sedimentary thallium isotopes as a proxy for reconstructing global oceanic oxygenation during the last deglaciation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2025.12.049.

Coggon, R. M., Carter, E. J., Grant, L. J., Evans, A. D., Lowery, C. M., Teagle, D. A., … & South Atlantic Transect IODP Expedition 390 & 393 Scientists, 2025. A geological carbon cycle sink hosted by ocean crust talus breccias. Nature Geoscience, 1-8.

Pacific Highs Working Group (including Y. Wang), Griffith, E.M. and Westerhold, T., 2025. Pacific Highs: A treasure trove of past warm climate archives. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 40(6), p.e2025PA005133.

F. Qian*, Y. Wang, K. M. Costa, S. G. Nielsen. Ocean oxygenation changes in the Arabian Sea Oxygen Minimum Zone during the Penultimate Glacial Cycle, 2025. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024PA005059.

Hoogakker, B. A., Davis, C., Wang, Y., Kusch, S., Nilsson-Kerr, K., Hardisty, D. S., … & Zhou, Y. Reviews and syntheses: Review of proxies for low-oxygen paleoceanographic reconstructions, 2025. Biogeosciences, 22(4), 863-957.

Qian*, F. Chang, D. Nürnberg, S. Zhang, Y. Wang, J. Zhang, L. Tang, and T. Li, Precessional Hydroclimatic Synchronicity Changes in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool Driven by the Intertropical Convergence Zone over the Past 450 Kyr, 2024. Geological Magazine,161: e9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756824000177.

Tegler*, T. Horner, V. Galy, S. M. Bent, Y. Wang, H. H. Kim, O. Z. Mete, S. G. Nielsen. Distribution and drivers of organic carbon sedimentation along the continental margins, 2024. AGU Advances, 5,e2023AV001000. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV001000.

L.Tegler*, S. G. Nielsen, Y. Wang, F. Scholz, J. D. Owens, L. Peterson, M. Auro, P. Lam, T. J. Horner. Refining the roles of productivity, redox, and remineralization on the cadmium isotope composition of marine sediments, 2024. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 372, 134-153, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2024.03.010.

Y. Wang, K. M. Costa, W. Lu, Sophia K.V. Hines, and S. G. Nielsen. Global oceanic oxygenation controlled by the Southern Ocean through the last deglaciation, 2024, Science Advances, 10(3), doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adk2506.

Published Peer Reviewed Reports

Y. Wang, C. Amadori, C. Borrelli, G. Christeson, E. Estes, L. Guertin, J. Hertzberg, M. Kaplan, R.K. Koorapati, A.R. Lam, C.M. Lowery, A. McIntyre, J. Reece, C. Robustelli Test, C. Routledge, P. Standring, J. Sylvan, M. Thompson, A. Villa, S.Y. Wee, T. Williams, J. Yeon, and IODP Expedition 390/393 Scientists. Data Report: X-Ray Fluorescence Scanning of Sediment Cores, Site U1556, South Atlantic Transect, Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 390/393: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.390393.206.2024.

Amadori, C. Borrelli, G. Christeson, E. Estes, L. Guertin, J. Hertzberg, M. Kaplan, R.K. Koorapati, A.R. Lam, C.M. Lowery, A. McIntyre, J. Reece, C. Robustelli Test, C. Routledge, P. Standring, J. Sylvan, M. Thompson, A. Villa, Y. Wang, S.Y. Wee, T. Williams, J. Yeon, and IODP Expedition 390/393 Scientists. Data Report: X-Ray Fluorescence Scanning of Sediment Cores, Site U1560, South Atlantic Transect, Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 390/393: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.390393.205.2024.

A.R. Lam, C. Amadori, C. Borrelli, G. Christeson, E. Estes, L. Guertin, J. Hertzberg, M. Kaplan, R.K. Koorapati, C.M. Lowery, A. McIntyre, J. Reece, C. Robustelli Test, C. Routledge, P. Standring, J. Sylvan, M. Thompson, A. Villa, Y. Wang, S.Y. Wee, T. Williams, J. Yeon, and IODP Expedition 390/393 Scientists. Data Report: X-Ray Fluorescence Scanning of Sediment Cores, Site U1583, South Atlantic Transect. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 390/393: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.390393.202.2024.

C.M. Lowery, C. Amadori, C. Borrelli, G. Christeson, E. Estes, L. Guertin, J. Hertzberg, M. Kaplan, R.K. Koorapati, A.R. Lam, A. McIntyre, J. Reece, C. Robustelli Test, C. Routledge, P. Standring, J. Sylvan, M. Thompson, A. Villa, Y. Wang, S.Y. Wee, T. Williams, J. Yeon, and IODP Expedition 390/393 Scientists. Data Report: X-Ray Fluorescence Scanning of Sediment Cores, Site U1557, South Atlantic Transect. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 390/393: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.390393.201.2024.

Robustelli T., C. Amadori, C. Borrelli, G. Christeson, E. Estes, L. Guertin, J. Hertzberg, M. Kaplan, R.K. Koorapati, A.R. Lam, C.M. Lowery, A. McIntyre, J. Reece, C. Routledge, P. Standring, J. Sylvan, M. Thompson, A. Villa, Y. Wang, S.Y. Wee, T. Williams, J. Yeon, and IODP Expedition 390/393 Scientists. Data Report: X-Ray Fluorescence Scanning of Sediment Cores, Site U1559, South Atlantic Transect. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 390/393: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.390393.204.2024.

Routledge, C. Amadori, C. Borrelli, G. Christeson, E. Estes, L. Guertin, J. Hertzberg, M. Kaplan, R.K. Koorapati, A.R. Lam, C.M. Lowery, A. McIntyre, J. Reece, C. Robustelli Test, P. Standring, J. Sylvan, M. Thompson, A. Villa, Y. Wang, S.Y. Wee, T. Williams, J. Yeon, and IODP Expedition 390/393 Scientists. Data Report: X-Ray Fluorescence Scanning of Sediment Cores, Site U1561, South Atlantic Transect. roceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 390/393: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.390393.207.2024.

Villa, C. Amadori, C. Borrelli, G. Christeson, E. Estes, L. Guertin, J. Hertzberg, M. Kaplan, R.K. Koorapati, A.R. Lam, C.M. Lowery, A. McIntyre, J. Reece, C. Robustelli Test, C. Routledge, P. Standring, J. Sylvan, M. Thompson, Y. Wang, S.Y. Wee, T. Williams, J. Yeon, and IODP Expedition 390/393 Scientists. Data Report: X-Ray Fluorescence Scanning of Sediment Cores, Site U1558, South Atlantic Transect. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 390/393: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.390393.203.2024

Prior to Tulane

F. Phillips*, Y. Wang, F. Klein, G. Farfan, C. M. Ostrander, H. Gadol, C. M. Hansel, and S. G. Nielsen. The role of manganese oxide mineralogy in thallium isotopic fractionation upon sorption, 2023. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 356, 83-92, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2023.07.011.

Heard**, Y. Wang**, C. M. Ostrander, M. Auro, D. Canfield, S. Zhang, H. Wang, X. Wang, and S. Nielsen. Coupled vanadium and thallium isotope constraints on Mesoproterozoic ocean oxygenation around 1.38-1.39 Ga, 2023. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 616, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118127. (**co-first author)

M. Costa, S. G. Nielsen, Y. Wang, W. Lu, S. Hines, A. W. Jacobel, and D. W. Oppo. Marine sedimentary uranium to barium ratios as a potential quantitative proxy for Pleistocene bottom water oxygen concentrations, 2023. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 343, 1-16, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.12.022.

R.M. Coggon, J.B. Sylvan, D.A.H. Teagle, J. Reece, G.L. Christeson, E.R. Estes, T.J. Williams and the Expedition 390 Scientists, 2022. Expedition 390 Preliminary Report: South Atlantic Transect 1. International Ocean Discovery Program. doi: 10.14379/iodp.pr.390.2022.

Y. Wang, S. Bodin, J. S. Blusztajn, C. Ullmann, and S. G. Nielsen, 2022. Orbitally paced global oceanic deoxygenation decoupled from volcanic CO₂ emission during the middle Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 1b (Aptian-Albian transition), Geology, doi: 10.1130/G50553.1.

Y. Wang, W. Lu, K. M. Costa, and S. G. Nielsen, 2022. Beyond anoxia: exploring sedimentary thallium isotopic compositions in paleo-redox reconstructions from a new core top collection, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 333, 347-361, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.07.022.

W. Lu, Y. Wang, D. Oppo, S. G. Nielsen, and K. M. Costa, 2022. Comparing paleo-oxygenation proxies (benthic foraminiferal surface porosity, I/Ca, authigenic uranium) on modern sediments and glacial Arabian Sea, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 331, 69–85.

Y. Wang, and I. L. Hendy, 2021. Reorganized atmospheric circulation during the Little Ice Age leads to rapid Southern California deoxygenation, Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094469, doi:10.1029/2021GL094469.

Y. Wang, I. L. Hendy, and J. Zhu, 2020. Extreme low-oxygen conditions in the early- to mid-Holocene associated with ventilation shifts in the Northeast Pacific, Quaternary Science Reviews, 238, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106326.

Y. Wang, I. L. Hendy, and R. Thunell, 2019. Local and remote forcing of denitrification in the Northeast Pacific for the last 2000 years. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34, doi:10.1029/2019PA003577.

Y. Wang, I. L. Hendy, J. C. Latimer, and D. Bilardello, 2019. Diagenesis and iron paleo-redox proxies: new perspectives from magnetic and iron speciation analyses in the Santa Barbara Basin, Chemical Geology, 519, 95-109, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.04.018.

Y. Wang, I. L. Hendy, and T. Napier, 2017. Climate and anthropogenic controls of coastal deoxygenation on interannual to centennial timescales, Geophysical Research Letters. 44, 11,528–11,536, doi: 10.1002/2017GL075443.