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Brief
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Phone: (610) 758-6751; Fax: (610) 758-3677; E-mail:
ziy2@lehigh.edu
Research interests:
Paleoclimatology and paleoecology; late
glacial and Holocene; pollen, stomatal and
macrofossil analysis of lake and wetland sediments; paleoclimatic
applications of stable isotopes and trace elements (from marl and ostracode/mollusk shells); peatland
carbon cycle dynamics and climatic connection.
Professional
preparation:
B.Sc. in Physical
Geography, Peking University
(Beijing, China), 1985
M.Sc. in Environmental
Geosciences, Peking University
(Beijing),
1988
M.Sc. in Botany (Paleoecology & paleohydrology), University of Toronto (Toronto,
Canada), 1992
Ph.D. in Botany (Paleoecology & paleoclimatology), University of Toronto (Toronto),
1997
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stable isotope geochemistry and paleoclimatology, Limnological Research
Center, University of Minnesota, 7/1997 - 7/98
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Peatland dynamics
modeling and Holocene climate change, University
of Alberta, Edmonton, 8/1998 - 6/2000
Appointments:
Assistant Professor, August
2001 – Present, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, PA
Instructor, July 1988 –
July 1991, Department of Geography, Peking
University, Beijing, China
Selected publications:
1. Yu, Z.C., J. McAndrews, and U. Eicher. 1997.
Middle Holocene dry climate caused by change in atmospheric circulation
patterns: Evidence from lake levels and stable isotopes. Geology, 25:
251-254.
2. Yu, Z.C. and U. Eicher.
1998. Abrupt climate oscillations during the last deglaciation
in central North America. Science, 282: 2235-2238.
3. Yu, Z.C. and E. Ito. 1999. Possible
solar forcing of century-scale drought frequency in the northern Great Plains. Geology, 27: 263-266.
4. Yu, Z.C. 2000. Ecosystem responses to late-glacial
and early-Holocene climate oscillations in the Great Lakes region of North America. Quaternary
Science Reviews, 19: 1723-1747.
5. Yu, Z.C. and H.E. Wright, Jr. 2001.
Response of interior North America to abrupt climate oscillations in the North Atlantic region during the last deglaciation. Earth-Science
Reviews, 52: 333-369.
6. Yu, Z.C., M.R. Turetsky,
I.D. Campbell and D.H. Vitt. 2001. Modelling long-term peatland
dynamics. II. Processes and rates as inferred from litter and peat-core data.
Ecological Modelling, 145: 159-173.
7. Yu, Z.C., E. Ito,
D.R. Engstrom, and S.C. Fritz. 2002. A 2100-year
trace-element and stable-isotope record at decadal resolution from Rice Lake
in the northern Great Plains,
USA. The
Holocene 12: 605-617.
8. Yu, Z.C. 2003. Late Quaternary dynamics
of tundra and forest vegetation of the southern Niagara Escarpment, Canada. New
Phytologist. 157: 365-390.
9. Yu, Z.C., I.D.
Campbell, C. Campbell, D.H. Vitt, G.C. Bond and
M.J. Apps. 2003. Carbon sequestration in peat highly sensitive to Holocene
wet–dry climate cycles at millennial time scales. The Holocene, 13:
801-80
10.
Yu, Z.C., Vitt, D.H., Campbell, I.D. and Apps, M.J. 2003. Understanding
Holocene peat accumulation pattern of continental fens in western Canada.
Canadian Journal of Botany, 81: 267-282.
11. Yu, Z.C. 2006. Power laws governing hydrology
and carbon cycle dynamics in northern peatlands. Global and Planetary Change 53:
169-175.
12. Li, Y.X., Z.C. Yu, K.P. Kodama, and R.E.
Moeller. 2006. A 14,000-year environmental change history revealed by mineral
magnetic data from White Lake,
New Jersey, USA.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
246: 27-40.
13. Yu, Z.C. Rapid response of forested vegetation to multiple climatic oscillations during the last deglaciation in the northeastern United States. Quaternary Research (in press).
14. Yu, Z.C. 2006. Holocene carbon accumulation
of fen peatlands in boreal western Canada: Complex ecosystem
response to climate variation and disturbance. Ecosystems (in press).
Synergistic
activities:
Associate Editor
(2002-2004)
WETLANDS, an
international journal published by the Society of Wetland Scientists.
Associate Editor
(2005-2006)
CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN, a semi-monthly international multidisciplinary journal published jointly by Science in China Press (China) and Springer (Germany).
Editorial
Board Member (2005-2007)
GEOLOGY, an international journal published monthly by the Geological Society of America.
Project Secretary (2004-2007), INTIMATE Project (INTegrating
Ice core, MArine and TErrestrial
records), INQUA Palaeoclimate Commission
Adjunct and Visiting Professor (2004-present), Centre for Arid Environment and Paleoclimate Research )CAEP), College
of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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