International  Center  for  Isotope  Effects  Research

Nanjing University

Yang Xu

Position：Postdoctoral Researcher

Office：B-313, Modern Engineering Plaza

E-mail：yangqu@nju.edu.cn

 

Research interests

My research interests focus on marine geochemistry and past climate changes. My PhD project is about marine mercury cycle.

Education

2014. 09 – 2018. 06, B.Sc, Geology, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University

2018. 09 – 2025. 09, Ph.D., Marine geochemistry, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University

  

Publications

3）Qu, Y., Sun, R., Li, S., Yang, Y., Hu, R., Yang, X., Zheng, J., Chen, X., Hong, Q., Cao, Z., Shi, D., Chen, J., & Chen, T. (2025). Mercury isotopes in North Pacific sediments reveal vegetation expansion in warm climates. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 36, 48–53. https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.2534

2）Qu, Y., Zhong, H., Liu, X., Zhang, W., & Chen, T. (2024). Coupling and Decoupling Between Sedimentary Mercury and Organic Carbon Preservation in the Oxygenated Marine Environment. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(4), e2023GC011201. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GC011201

1）Qu, Y., Xu, K., Li, T., Wang, M., Zhong, H., & Chen, T. (2021). Deep-sea coral evidence for dissolved mercury evolution in the deep North Pacific Ocean over the last 700 years. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 39(5), 1622–1633. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-021-0474-6