CURRICULUM VITAE YONGSONG HUANG Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI02912, USA EDUCATION Ph.D. (5/1997) Organic School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK Geochemistry Ph.D. Petroleum Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (10/1990) Geochemistry M.S. (6/1987) Analytical Department of Chemistry, Sichuan University Chemistry B.Sc. Geochemistry Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of Science (6/1984) and Technology of China PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 7/1/2012- Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University 1/1/2006- Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University 1/1/2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University 4-6/1999 & Guest Investigator, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole 10-11/1997 Oceanographic Institution (Collaborator: Dr. T. I. Eglinton) 5/1997- Research Associate, Biogeochemistry Group, Department of Geosciences, 12/1999 Pennsylvania State University (Advisor: Prof. K.H. Freeman) 10/1993- Visiting scientist, Biogeochemistry Laboratories, Indiana University, Bloomington, 11/1993 USA (Advisor: Prof. John M. Hayes) 10/1991- Research Assistant, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol (Advisor: Prof. 5/1997 Geoffrey Eglinton, FRS) 7/1990- Research Scientist, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences 9/1991 RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP I. GOOGLE CITATION REPORT Citation indices All Since 2013 Citations 9316 4575 h-index 55 37 i10-index 134 116 Total Number of citations in 2017 = 898 1 II. Refereed Publications (*First author is/was my graduate student; #First author is/was my postdoc) 1. *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. 2. *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. 3. *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. 4. *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. 5. *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 6. *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. 7. 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 8. *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. 9. *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. 10. *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. 11. *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. 12. *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. 13. *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 2 reduced sea ice in Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea. Geophysical Research Letters DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068513. 14. *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. 15. *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. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. *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. 19. *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. 20. *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. 21. *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. 22. *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. 23. 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. 24. 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. 25. #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. 3 26. *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. 27. 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. 28. *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. 29. 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. 30. 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.