My name is Yuxin (pronounced you-SEEN). I'm a paleoclimate scientist in training, aspiring to combine quantitative methods, geochemical analysis, and sea-going campaigns to illuminate past and future variabilities of the climate system.
Currently, I'm a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I work as part of the CycloAstro Project, a multi-institutional project that integrates science from paleoclimatology, geophysics, and astronomy. My project focuses on using Bayesian methods to detect the astronomical forcing of the paleoclimate system during the past 66 million years. My postdoc advisor is Lorraine Lisiecki.
I hold a Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. My doctoral research involves the sedimentary reconstruction of ocean circulation and climate instability, focusing on the cause and response of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation perturbations. My research methods include uranium-series geochemistry and the compilation of existing uranium-series data. My Ph.D. advisor was Jerry F. McManus.
I hold a B.S. in Geological Sciences from the University of Southern California, with a minor in Computer Science. My undergraduate research activities include Suess Effect in benthic forams (with Delia Oppo and Jake Gebbie, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), mid-Holocene ENSO variation using forward modeling (with Julien Emile-Geay, University of Southern California), and mass balance and isostasy modeling (with Scott Paterson, University of Southern California).