Publications

Forthcoming

  1. Hayles, J. A., L. Y. Yeung, M. Homann, B. Shen, A. Banerjee, H. Jiang, and C. T. A. Lee, “Three-billion-year secular evolution of the triple oxygen isotope composition of marine chert," EarthArXiv preprint.
2022
  1. Yan, Y., A. Banerjee, L. T. Murray, X. Tie, and L. Y. Yeung, "Tropospheric ozone during the Last Interglacial," Geophys. Res. Lett. 49 (2022) e2022GL101113. doi: 10.1029/2022GL101113.
  2. Li, B., Hu, H., W. M. Berelson, J. F. Adkins, and L. Y. Yeung, "On the use of oxygen isotopologues as biogeochemical tracers in the northeast Pacific ocean," J. Geophys. Res. Oceans 127 (2022) e2022JC018617. doi: 10.1029/2022JC018617
  3. Grewal, D. S., T. Sun, S. Aithala, T. Hough, R. Dasgupta, L. Y. Yeung, and E. A. Schauble, “Limited nitrogen isotope fractionation during core-mantle differentiation in rocky protoplanets and planets,” Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. (2022) doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.10.025
  4. Banerjee, A., B. Riddell-Young, and U. Jongebloed, "Ice core records of atmospheric composition and chemistry," PAGES Magazine 30 (2022) 104-105. doi: 10.22498/pages.30.2.104
  5. Brügger, S. O.,† L. Kirkpatrick,† and L. Y. Yeung,† "Fire trapped in ice: an introduction to biomass burning records from high-alpine and polar ice cores," PAGES Magazine 30 (2022) 102-103. doi: 10.22498/pages.30.2.102. †Equal contributions
  6. Banerjee, A., L. Y. Yeung, L. T. Murray, X. Tie, J. E. Tierney, and A. N. LeGrande, “Clumped-isotope constraint on upper-tropospheric cooling during the Last Glacial Maximum," AGU Adv. 3 (2022) e2022AV000688. doi: 10.1029/2022AV000688. (Editor's Highlight; see also Viewpoint by Seltzer and Tyne and News from Science Magazine)
  7. Hu, J.,† Y. Yan,† L. Y. Yeung, and S. G. Dee, “Sublimation origin of negative deuterium excess in snow and ice samples from McMurdo Dry Valleys and Allan Hills Blue Ice Areas, East Antarctica,” J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 127 (2022) e2021JD035950. doi: 10.1029/2021JD035950. †Equal contributions
  8. Condit, C. B., M. E. French, J. A. Hayles, L. Y. Yeung, E. J. Chin, and C. T. A. Lee, “Rheology of metasedimentary rocks at the base of the subduction seismogenic zone,” Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 23 (2022) e2021GC010194. doi: 10.1029/2021GC010194.
2021
  1. Yeung, L. Y., L. T. Murray, A. Banerjee, X. Tie, Y. Yan, E. L. Atlas, S. M. Schauffler, and K. A. Boering,"Effects of ozone isotopologue formation on the clumped-isotope composition of atmospheric O2," J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 126 (2021) e2021JD034770. doi: 10.1029/2021JD034770.
  2. Bhattacharya, J., L. Y. Yeung, L. Cong, G. R. Dickens, and T. Sun, "Size-fraction specific isotopic variations as a framework for interpreting early Paleogene bulk sediment carbon isotope records," Paleoceanogr. Paleoclimatol. 36 (2021) e2020PA004132. doi: 10.1029/2020PA004132.
  3. Deme, S., L. Y. Yeung, T. Sun, and C. T. A. Lee, “Stable isotope (C, N, O, and H) study of a comprehensive set of feathers from two Setophaga citrina,” PLoS ONE 16 (2021) e0236536. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236536.
  4. Yeung, L. Y. and J. A. Hayles, "Climbing to the top of Mount Fuji: Uniting theory and observations of oxygen triple isotope systematics," Rev. Mineral. Geochem. 86 (2021) 97-137. doi: 10.2138/rmg.2021.86.03
2020
  1. Hassanzadeh, P., C.-Y. Lee, E. Nabizadeh, S. J. Camargo, D. Ma, and L. Y. Yeung, “Effects of climate change on the movement of future landfalling Texas tropical cyclones,” Nat. Commun. 11 (2020) 3319. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17130-7
  2. Ash, J. L., H. Hu, and L. Y. Yeung, "What fractionates oxygen isotopes during respiration? Insights from multiple isotopologues and theory," ACS Earth Space Chem. 4 (2020) 50-66. doi: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00230

2019

  1. Yeung, L. Y., L. T. Murray, P. A. Martinerie, H. Hu, A. Banerjee, E. Witrant, A. Orsi, and J. Chappellaz, “Isotopic constraint on the twentieth-century increase in tropospheric ozone,” Nature 570 (2019) 224-227. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1277-1 (News & Views by Mat Evans)
  2. Yeung, L. Y., J. A. Haslun, N. E. Ostrom, T. Sun, E. D. Young, M. A. H. J. van Kessel, S. Lücker, and M. S. M. Jetten, "In situ quantification of biological N2 production using naturally occurring 15N15N," Environ. Sci. Technol. 53 (2019) 5168-5175. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b00812 (2019 ES&T best paper award, first runner-up!)
  3. Li, B., L. Y. Yeung, H. Hu, and J. L. Ash, "Kinetic and equilibrium fractionation of O2 isotopologues during air-water gas transfer and implications for tracing oxygen cycling in the ocean," Mar. Chem. 210 (2019) 61-71. doi: 10.1016/j.marchem.2019.02.006

2018

  1. Yeung, L. Y., J. A. Hayles, H. Hu, J. L. Ash, and T. Sun, “Scale distortion from pressure baselines as a source of inaccuracy in triple-isotope measurements,” Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 32 (2018) 1811-1821. doi: 10.1002/rcm.8247

2017

  1. Yeung, L. Y., "Low oxygen and argon in the Neoproterozoic atmosphere at 815 Ma," Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 480 (2017) 66-74. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.09.044
  2. Yeung., L. Y., S. Li, I. E. Kohl, J. A. Haslun, N. E. Ostrom, H. Hu, E. A. Schauble, T. P. Fischer, and E. D. Young, “Extreme enrichment in atmospheric 15N15N,” Sci. Adv. 3 (2017) eaao6741. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aao6741
  3. Young, E. D., I. E. Kohl, B. Sherwood Lollar, G. Etiope, D. Rumble III, S. Li, M. A. Haghnegahdar, E. A. Schauble, K. A. McCain, D. I. Foustoukus, C. Sutclife, O. Warr, C. J. Ballentine, T. C. Onstott, H. Hosgormez, A. Neubeck, J. M. Marques, I. Pérez-Rodríguez, A. R. Rowe, D. E. LaRowe, C. Magnabosco, L. Y. Yeung, J. L. Ash, and L. T. Bryndzia, “The relative abundances of resolved 12CH2D2 and 13CH3D and mechanisms controlling isotopic bond ordering in abiotic and biotic methane gases,” Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 203 (2017), 235-264. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.12.041

2016

  1. Yeung, L. Y., L. T. Murray, J. L. Ash, E. D. Young, K. A. Boering, E. L. Atlas, S. M. Schauffler, R. A. Lueb, R. L. Langenfelds, P. B. Krummel, L. P. Steele, and S. D. Eastham, “Isotopic ordering in atmospheric O2 as a tracer of ozone photochemistry and the tropical atmosphere,” J. Geophys. Res. 121 (2016): 12,541-12,559. doi: 10.1002/2016JD025455 (Editor's Highlight)
  2. Lee, C. T. A., L. Y. Yeung, R. McKenzie, Y. Yokoyama, K. Ozaki, and A. Lenardic, “Two-step rise in atmospheric oxygen linked to the emergence of continents,” Nature Geosci. 9 (2016): 417-424. doi: 10.1038/ngeo2707
  3. Yeung, L. Y.,“Combinatorial effects on clumped isotopes and their significance in biogeochemistry,” Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 172 (2016): 22-38. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2015.09.020

2015

  1. Yeung, L. Y.,† J. L. Ash,† and E. D. Young, “Biological signatures in clumped isotopes of O2,” Science 348 (2015), 431-434. doi: 10.1126/science.aaa6284. †Equal contributions
  2. Yeung, L. Y., W. M. Berelson, D. E. Hammond, M. G. Prokopenko, C. Wolfe, and N. Rollins, “Upper-ocean gas dynamics from radon profiles in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific,” Deep-Sea Res. Pt. I. 99 (2015), 35-45. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2015.01.008.

Pre-Rice (2003 - 2014)

  1. Yeung, L. Y., J. L. Ash, and E. D. Young, “Rapid photochemical equilibration of isotopic bond ordering in O2,” J. Geophys. Res. 119 (2014), D021909. doi: 10.1002/2014JD021909.
  2. Young, E. D., L. Y. Yeung, and I. E. Kohl, “On the Δ17O budget of atmospheric O2,” Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 135 (2014), 102-125. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2014.03.026
  3. Yeung, L. Y., E. D. Young, and E. A. Schauble, “Measurements of 18O18O and 17O18O in the atmosphere and the influence of isotope-exchange reactions,” J. Geophys. Res. 117 (2012): D18306. doi: 10.1029/2012JD017992
  4. Yeung, L. Y., M. Okumura, J. Zhang, T. K. Minton, J. T. Paci, A. Karton, J. M. L. Martin, J. P. Camden, and G. C. Schatz, "O(3P) + CO2 collisions at hyperthermal energies: Dynamics of inelastic scattering, oxygen isotope exchange, and oxygen-atom abstraction," J. Phys. Chem. A. 116 (2012): 64-84. doi: 10.1021/jp2080379
  5. Yeung, L. Y., W. M. Berelson, E. D. Young, M. G. Prokopenko, N. Rollins, V. J. Coles, J. P. Montoya, E. J. Carpenter, D. K. Steinberg, R. A. Foster, D. G. Capone, and P. L. Yager, “Impact of diatom-diazotroph assemblages on carbon export in the Amazon river plume,” Geophys. Res. Lett. 39 (2012): L18609. doi: 10.1029/2012GL053356
  6. Prokopenko, M. G., O. Paulius, J. Granger, and L. Y. Yeung, “Exact evaluation of gross photosynthetic production from the oxygen triple-isotope composition of O2: Implications for the net-to-gross primary production ratios,” Geophys. Res. Lett. 38 (2011): L14603. doi: 10.1029/2011GL047652
  7. Huntington, K. W., J. M. Eiler, H. P. Affek, W. Guo, M. Bonafacie, L. Y. Yeung, N. Thiagarajan, B. Passey, A. Tripati, M. Daëron, R. Came, "Methods and limitations of 'clumped' CO2 isotope (Δ47) analysis by gas source isotope ratio mass spectrometry," J. Mass Spectrom. 44 (2009): 1318-1329. doi: 10.1002/jms.1002
  8. Yeung, L. Y.,† H. P. Affek,† K. J. Hoag, W. Guo, A. A. Wiegel, E. L. Atlas, S. M. Schauffler, M. Okumura, K. A. Boering, and J. M. Eiler, "Large and unexpected enrichment in stratospheric 16O13C18O and its meridional variation," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106 (2009): 11496-11501. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0902930106; Erratum †Equal contributions
  9. Robichaud, D. J., L. Y. Yeung, D. L. Long, M. Okumura, D. K. Havey, J. T. Hodges, C. E. Miller, and L. R. Brown, "Experimental Line Parameters of the b1Σg+ ← X3Σg- Band of Oxygen Isotopologues at 760 nm Using Frequency-Stabilized Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy,"; J. Phys. Chem. A 113 (2009): 13089-13099. doi: 10.1021/jp901127h
  10. Yeung, L. Y., M. Okumura, J .T. Paci, G. C. Schatz, J. Zhang, and T.K. Minton, "Hyperthermal O-Atom Exchange Reaction O2 + CO2 through a CO4 Intermediate," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131 (2009): 13940-13942. doi: 10.1021/ja903944k
  11. Robichaud, D. J., J. T. Hodges, P. Maslowski, L. Y. Yeung, M. Okumura, C. E. Miller, and L. R. Brown, "High-Accuracy Transition Frequencies for the O2 A-Band," J. Mol. Spec. 251 (2008): 27-37. doi: 10.1016/j.jms.2007.12.008
  12. Robichaud, D.J., J. T. Hodges, L. R. Brown, D. Lisak, P. Maslowski, L. Y. Yeung, M. Okumura, and C. E. Miller, "Experimental intensity and line shape parameters of the oxygen A-band using frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy," J. Mol. Spec. 248 (2008): 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.jms.2007.10.010
  13. Yeung, L. Y., M. J. Pennino, A. M. Miller, and M. J. Elrod, "Kinetics and mechanistic studies of the atmospheric oxidation of alkynes," J. Phys. Chem. A 109 (2005): 1879-1889. doi: 10.1021/jp0454671
  14. Babonneau, F., L. Yeung, N. Steunou, C. Gervais, A. Ramilia, and M. Vallet-Regi, "Solid state NMR characterization of encapsulated molecules in mesopourus silica," J. Sol-Gel Sci. Techn. 31 (2004): 219-223. doi: 10.1023/B:JSST.0000047991.73840.8b
  15. Miller, A. M., L. Y. Yeung, A. C. Kiep, and M. J. Elrod. "Overall rate constant measurements of the reactions of alkene-derived peroxy radicals with nitric oxide," Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 6 (2004): 3402-3409. doi: 10.1039/b402011j
  16. Yeung, L. Y. and M. J. Elrod. "Experimental and computational study of the kinetics of OH + pyridine and its methyl and ethyl-substituted derivatives," J. Phys. Chem. A 107 (2003): 4470-4477. doi: 10.1021/jp027389s