Handong Yang

Biography

Employment

2000 to present: Research Assistant, Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Principal Research Fellow: Environmental Change Research Centre (ECRC), University College London (UCL)
1995 – 1996: Deputy Director: Research Centre of Environment and Land Use, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics (IGG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
1988 – 1996: Research Assistant, Associate Professor: IGG, CAS.
1984 – 1988: Research Assistant: Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS.

Education

2000 PhD ECRC, UCL
1992 MSc Limnology. Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS.
1984 BSc Chemistry. University of Wuhan.

Publications

2023

Wan, D., Yang, H., Jin, Z., Song, L., Ning, D., et al. (2023). Two-century sediment records of atmospheric mercury variations in North China and their relations with regional and global emissions. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-28094-8
Curtis, C. J., Rose, N. L., Khanzada, T., Yang, H., & Humphries, M. (2023). Anthropocene environmental change in an overlooked South African lake: Mountain Lake, Matatiele, Eastern Cape. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. doi:10.1080/0035919X.2023.2177361
Miller, L. C., Smeaton, C., Yang, H., & Austin, W. E. N. (2023). Carbon accumulation and storage across contrasting saltmarshes of Scotland. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 108223. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108223
C. Martins, C., Adams, J. K., Yang, H., Shchetnikov, A. A., Di Domenico, M., Rose, N. L., & Mackay, A. W. (2023). Earthquake, floods and changing land use history: A 200-year overview of environmental changes in Selenga River basin as indicated by n-alkanes and related proxies in sediments from shallow lakes. Science of The Total Environment, 873, 162245. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162245
Yang, H., Macario-González, L., Cohuo, S., Whitmore, T. J., Salgado, J., Peréz, L., . . . O'Dea, A. (2023). Mercury Pollution History in Tropical and Subtropical American Lakes: Multiple Impacts and the Possible Relationship with Climate Change. Environmental Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c09870
Zinke, J., Cantin, N. E., DeLong, K. L., Palmer, K., Boom, A., Hajdas, I., Yang, H., Turner, S. D. (2023). North Flinders Reef (Coral Sea, Australia) Porites sp. corals as a candidate Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene Series. Anthropocene Review. doi:10.1177/20530196221142963
DeLong, K. L., Palmer, K., Wagner, A. J., Weerabaddana, M. M., Slowey, N., Herrmann, A. D., . . . Zinke, J. (2023). The flower garden banks Siderastrea siderea coral as a candidate global boundary stratotype section and point for the Anthropocene series. ANTHROPOCENE REVIEW. doi:10.1177/20530196221147616
Stegner, M. A., Hadly, E. A., Barnosky, A. D., La Selle, S., Sherrod, B., Anderson, R. S., . . . Spanbauer, T. L. (2023). The Searsville Lake Site (California, USA) as a candidate Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene Series. ANTHROPOCENE REVIEW. doi:10.1177/20530196221144098

2022

Wojewódka-Przybył, M., Krahn, K. J., Hamerlík, L., Macario-González, L., Cohuo, S., Charqueño-Celis, F., . . . Schwalb, A. (2022). Imprints of the Little Ice Age and the severe earthquake of AD 2001 on the aquatic ecosystem of a tropical maar lake in El Salvador. The Holocene, 095968362211069. doi:10.1177/09596836221106965
Callaghan, D., During, H., Medina, R., & Yang, H. (2022). Long-term survival of bryophytes underground: an investigation of the diaspore bank of Physcomitrium eurystomum Sendtn. JOURNAL OF BRYOLOGY. doi:10.1080/03736687.2022.2151857
Wan, D., Yang, H., Song, L., Jin, Z., Mao, X., & Yang, J. (2022). Sediment records of global and regional Hg emissions to the atmosphere in North China over the last three centuries. Environmental Pollution, 310, 119831. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119831
Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, B., Łokas, E., Smieja-Król, B., Turner, S., De Vleeschouwer, F., Woszczyk, M., . . . Yang, H. (2022). The Śnieżka peatland as a candidate for the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series. Anthropocene Review. doi:10.1177/20530196221136425

2021

Tolotti, M., Guella, G., Herzig, A., Rodeghiero, M., Rose, N. L., Soja, G., . . . Teubner, K. (2021). Assessing the ecological vulnerability of the shallow steppe Lake Neusiedl (Austria-Hungary) to climate-driven hydrological changes using a palaeolimnological approach. Journal of Great Lakes Research. doi:10.1016/j.jglr.2021.06.004
Smeaton, C., Yang, H., & Austin, W. (2021). Carbon Burial in the Mid-Latitude Fjords of Scotland. Marine Geology. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106618
Yang, H. (2021). Comment on Anthropogenic-drive alterations in black carbon sequestration and the structure in a deep plateau lake. Environmental Science and Technology (Washington). doi:10.1021/acs.est.1c03128
Turner, S., Graham, E., Macphail, R., Duncan, L., Rose, N. L., Yang, H., . . . Rosique-Esplugas, C. (2021). Mercury enrichment in anthrosols and adjacent coastal sediments at a Classic Maya site, Marco Gonzalez, Belize. Geoarchaeology. doi:10.1002/gea.21868
Peters, L. I., Rose, N. L., Yang, H., Klánová, J., Moehring, T., & Harrad, S. (2021). Temporal trends in radiometrically dated sediment cores from English lakes show polybrominated diphenyl ethers correlate with brominated but not mixed bromo/chloro dioxins and furans. Science of The Total Environment, 143118. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143118

2020

Salgado, J., Vélez, M. I., González-Arango, C., Rose, N. L., Yang, H., Huguet, C., . . . O'Dea, A. (2020). A century of limnological evolution and interactive threats in the Panama Canal: Long-term assessments from a shallow basin. Science of The Total Environment, 729, 138444. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138444
Rose, N. L., Milner, A. M., Fitchett, J. M., Langerman, K. E., Yang, H., Turner, S. D., . . . Curtis, C. C. (2020). A summary of the paper “Natural archives of long-range transported contamination at the remote lake Letšeng-la Letsie, Maloti Mountains, Lesotho”. Clean Air Journal, 30 (2). doi:10.17159/caj/2020/30/2.9273
Roberts, S., Adams, J. K., Mackay, A. W., Swann, G. E. A., McGowan, S., Rose, N. L., Yang, H., Shchetnikov, A. A. (2020). Mercury loading within the Selenga River basin and Lake Baikal, Siberia. Environmental Pollution, 113814. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113814
Rose, N. L., Milner, A. M., Fitchett, J. M., Langerman, K. E., Yang, H., Turner, S. D., . . . Curtis, C. J. (2020). Natural archives of long-range transported contamination at the remote lake Letšeng-la Letsie, Maloti Mountains, Lesotho. Science of The Total Environment, 139642. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139642
Whitmore, T. J., Riedinger-Whitmore, M. A., Reed, Z. E., Curtis, J. H., Yang, H., Evans, D. E., . . . Franklin, D. L. (2020). Paleolimnological Assessment of Six Lakes on the Kissimmee Chain, with Implications for Restoration of the Kissimmee–Okeechobee–Everglades system, Florida, USA. Lake and Reservoir Management, 1-25. doi:10.1080/10402381.2020.1785064
Bittner, L., Bliedtner, M., Grady, D., Gil-Romera, G., Martin-Jones, C., Lemma, B., . . . Zech, M. (2020). Revisiting afro-alpine Lake Garba Guracha in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia: rationale, chronology, geochemistry, and paleoenvironmental implications. JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY. doi:10.1007/s10933-020-00138-w
Wan, D., Yang, H., Jin, Z., Xue, B., Song, L., Mao, X., & Yang, J. (2020). Spatiotemporal trends of atmospheric Pb over the last century across inland China. Science of The Total Environment, 138399. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138399

2019

Bishop, I. J., Bennion, H., Sayer, C. D., Patmore, I. R., & Yang, H. (2019). Filling the “data gap”: Using paleoecology to investigate the decline of Najas flexilis (a rare aquatic plant). Geo: Geography and Environment, 6 (2). doi:10.1002/geo2.81
Anderson, N. J., Appleby, P. G., Bindler, R., Renberg, I., Conley, D. J., Fritz, S. C., . . . Yang, H. (2019). Landscape-Scale Variability of Organic Carbon Burial by SW Greenland Lakes. Ecosystems. doi:10.1007/s10021-019-00368-8
Wan, D., Mao, X., Jin, Z., Song, L., Yang, J., & Yang, H. (2019). Sedimentary biogeochemical record in Lake Gonghai: implications for recent lake changes in relatively remote areas of China. Science of the Total Environment. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.331

2018

Lacey, J., Leng, M., Vane, C., Radbourme, A., Yang, H., & Ryves, D. (2018). Assessing human impact on Rostherne Mere, UK, using the geochemistry of organic matter. Anthropocene. doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2018.02.002
Engels, S., Fong, L. S. R. Z., Chen, Q., Leng, M. J., McGowan, S., Idris, M., Yang, H. (2018). Historical atmospheric pollution trends in Southeast Asia inferred from lake sediment records. Environmental Pollution. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2018.01.007
Xueru, L., RIOUAL, P., Peng, W., Yang, H., & Huang, X. (2018). Impact of recent climate change on Lake Kanas, Altai Mountains (N.W. China) inferred from diatom and geochemical evidence. Journal of Paleolimnology. doi:10.1007/s10933-018-0019-y
Yang, H., Lencioni, L., & Patmore, I. (2018). Importance of Surface Sediments for Reliable 210Pb Dating. REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE CONTAMINACION AMBIENTAL, 34, 341-345. The National Autonomous University of Mexico. doi:10.20937/2018.34.M6ISSM
Yang, H., Shilland, E., Appleby, P., Rose, N., & Battarbee, R. (2018). Legacy Lead Stored in Catchments Is the Dominant Source for Lakes in the UK: Evidence from Atmospherically Derived 210Pb. Environmental Science and Technology. doi:10.1021/acs.est.8b04099
Wan, D., Song, L., Mao, X., & Yang, H. (2018). One-century sediment records of heavy metal pollution on the southeast Mongolian Plateau: implications for air pollution trends in China. Chemosphere. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.12.151
Rose, N. L., Turner, S., Yang, H., Yang, C., Hall, C., & Harrad, S. (2018). Palaeotoxicity: reconstructing the risk of multiple sedimentary pollutants to freshwater organisms. Environmental Geochemistry and Health. doi:10.1007/s10653-018-0080-5

2017

Yang, R., Xie, T., Yang, H., Turner, S. D., & Wu, G. (2017). Historical trends of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) recorded in sediments across the Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Geochemistry and Health. doi:10.1007/s10653-017-9908-7
Meyer-Jacob, C., Michelutti, N., Paterson, A. M., Monteith, D., Yang, H., Weckström, J., . . . Bindler, R. (2017). Inferring Past Trends in Lake Water Organic Carbon Concentrations in Northern Lakes Using Sediment Spectroscopy. Environmental Science & Technology. doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b03147
Turner, S. D., Rose, N. L., Goldsmith, B., Bearcock, J. M., Scheib, C., & Yang, H. (2017). Using public participation to sample trace metals in lake surface sediments: the OPAL Metals Survey. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 189, 241.

2016

Rose, N. L., Yang, H., & Turner, S. D. (2016). A gradient of mercury concentrations in Scottish single malt whiskies. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 38 (1), 309-313. doi:10.1007/s10653-015-9704-1
Bennion, H., Goldsmith, B., Yang, H., & Goodrich, S. (2016). A palaeolimnological study of Loch Shin, Scotland ((ECRC Research Report).). London, UK: UCL Environmental Change Research Centre.
Yin, R., Feng, X., Hurley, J. P., Krabbenhoft, D. P., Lepak, R. F., Kang, S., . . . Li, X. (2016). Historical Records of Mercury Stable Isotopes in Sediments of Tibetan Lakes. Scientific Reports, 6, 23332. doi:10.1038/srep23332
Dong, X., Sayer, C. D., Bennion, H., Maberly, S. C., Yang, H., & Battarbee, R. W. (2016). Identifying sediment discontinuities and solving dating puzzles using monitoring and palaeolimnological records. Frontiers of Earth Science, 1-13. doi:10.1007/s11707-016-0578-z
Yang, H., Turner, S. D., & Rose, N. L. (2016). Mercury pollution in the lake sediments and catchment soils of anthropogenically-disturbed sites across England. Environmental Pollution. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2016.09.012
Yang, R., Xie, T., Li, A., Yang, H., Turner, S., Wu, G., & Jing, C. (2016). Sedimentary records of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in remote lakes across the Tibetan Plateau. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, 214, 1-7. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2016.03.068
Yang, H., & Appleby, P. G. (2016). Use of lead-210 as a novel tracer for lead (Pb) sources in plants. Scientific Reports (6), 1-9. doi:10.1038/srep21707

2015

Battarbee, R. W., Turner, S., Yang, H., Rose, N. L., Smyntek, P. M., Reimer, P. J., . . . Blaauw, M. (2015). Air pollutant contamination and acidification of surface waters in the North York Moors, UK: Multi-proxy evidence from the sediments of a moorland pool. Holocene, 25 (1), 226-237. doi:10.1177/0959683614556380
Kernan, M., Turner, S. D., Henderson, G., Goodrich, S., & Yang, H. (2015). Analysis of sediment, fish and phytoplankton samples from Indawgyi Lake, Myanmar ((ECRC Research Reports).). London, UK: UCL Environmental Change Research Centre.
Meyer-Jacob, C., Tolu, J., Bigler, C., Yang, H., & Bindler, R. (2015). Early land use and centennial scale changes in lake-water organic carbon prior to contemporary monitoring. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (21), 6579-6584. doi:10.1073/pnas.1501505112
Jones, V. J., Rose, N. L., Self, A. E., Solovieva, N., & Yang, H. (2015). Evidence of global pollution and recent environmental change in Kamchatka, Russia. Global and Planetary Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.02.005
Yang, C., Rose, N. L., Turner, S. D., Yang, H., Goldsmith, B., Losada, S., . . . Harrad, S. (2015). Hexabromocyclododecanes, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, and polychlorinated biphenyls in radiometrically dated sediment cores from English lakes, ~1950–present. Science of The Total Environment, 541, 721-728. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.09.102
Yang, H. (2015). Lake sediments may not faithfully recore decline of atmospheric pollutant deposition. Environmental Science and Technology (Washington), 49 (21), 12607-12608. doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b04386
Ruppel, M. M., Gustafsson, O., Rose, N. L., Pesonen, A., Yang, H., Weckstrom, J., . . . Korhola, A. (2015). Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Black Carbon Deposition to Dated Fennoscandian Arctic Lake Sediments from 1830 to 2010. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 49 (24), 13954-13963. doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b01779
Shilland, E. M., Woolway, R. I., Monteith, D. T., Rose, N. L., Yang, H., Malcolm, I. A., . . . Battarbee, R. W. (2015). Tracking the impact of climate change on UK surface waters recovering from acidification.

2014

Goldsmith, B. J., Boyle, J. F., Kernan, M. R., Yang, H., Turner, S. D., Bennion, H. B., . . . Smyntek, P. (2014). Modelling phosphorus fluxes in Loweswater ((ECRC Research Report, pp. 1-69).). London, UK: UCL Environmental Change Research Centre.
Yang, H., & Smyntek, P. (2014). Use of the mercury record in Red Tarn sediments to reveal air pollution history and the implications of catchment erosion. Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts, 16 (11), 2554-2563. doi:10.1039/c4em00334a

2013

Rioual, P., Lu, Y., Yang, H., Scuderi, L., Chu, G., Holmes, J., . . . Yang, X. (2013). Diatom-environment relationships and a transfer function for conductivity in lakes of the Badain Jaran Desert, Inner Mongolia, China. JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY, 50 (2), 207-229. doi:10.1007/s10933-013-9715-9
Yang, H., & Turner, S. (2013). Radiometric dating for recent lake sediments on the Tibetan Plateau. HYDROBIOLOGIA, 713 (1), 73-86. doi:10.1007/s10750-013-1493-x
Goldsmith, B., Salgado, J., Bennion, H., McGowan, S., Hoare, D., & Yang, H. (2013). Using novel palaeolimnological techniques to define conservation objectives for Hatch Mere ((ECRC Research Report).).

2012

Rose, N. L., Yang, H., Turner, S. D., & Simpson, G. L. (2012). An assessment of the mechanisms for the transfer of lead and mercury from atmospherically contaminated organic soils to lake sediments with particular reference to Scotland, UK. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 82, 113-135.
Thies, H., Tolotti, M., Nickus, U., Lami, A., Musazzi, S., Guilizzoni, P., Yang, H. (2012). Interactions of temperature and nutrient changes: effects on phytoplankton in the Piburger See (Tyrol, Austria). FRESHWATER BIOLOGY, 57 (10), 2057-2075. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02661.x
Drevnick, P. E., Yang, H., Lamborg CH, & Rose, N. L. (2012). Net atmospheric mercury deposition to Svalbard: Estimates from lacustrine sediments. Atmospheric Environment, 59, 509-513. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.05.048

2011

Self, A. E., Brooks, S. J., Birks, H. J. B., Nazarova, L., Porinchu, D., Odland, A., Yang, H. Jones, V. J. (2011). The distribution and abundance of chironomids in high-latitude Eurasian lakes with respect to temperature and continentality: development and application of new chironomid-based climate-inference models in northern Russia. QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS, 30 (9-10), 1122-1141. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.01.022
Salonen, J. S., Seppa, H., Valiranta, M., Jones, V. J., Self, A., Heikkila, M., Yang, H. (2011). The Holocene termal maximum and late-Holocene cooling in the tundra of NE European Russis. Quaternary Research, 75, 501-511. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2011.01.007

2010

Yang, H. (2010). Historical mercury contamination in sediments and catchment soils of Diss Mere, UK. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, 158, {2504-2510}. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2010.03.015
Yang, H., Battarbee, R. W., Turner, S. D., Rose, N. L., Derwent, R. G., Wu, G., & Yang, R. (2010). Historical Reconstruction of Mercury Pollution Across the Tibetan Plateau Using Lake Sediments. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 44 (8), 2918-2924. doi:10.1021/es9030408
Sayer, C. D., Burgess, A., Kari, K., Davidson, T. A., Peglar, S., Yang, H., & Rose, N. (2010). Long-term dynamics of submerged macrophytes and algae in a small and shallow, eutrophic lake: implications for the stability of macrophyte-dominance. FRESHWATER BIOLOGY, 55 (3), 565-583. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02353.x
Wang, X., Yang, H., Gong, P., Zhao, X., Wu, G., Turner, S., & Yao, T. (2010). One century sedimentary records of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, mercury and trace elements in the Qinghai Lake, Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Pollution, 158 (10), 3065-3070. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2010.06.034
Curtis, C. J., Flower, R., Rose, N., Shilland, J., Simpson, G. L., Turner, S., . . . Pla, S. (2010). Palaeolimnological assessment of lake acidification and environmental change in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta. JOURNAL OF LIMNOLOGY, 69, 92-104. doi:10.4081/jlimnol.2010.s1.92
Yang, H., Engstrom, D. R., & Rose, N. L. (2010). Recent Changes in Atmospheric Mercury Deposition Recorded in the Sediments of Remote Equatorial Lakes in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 44 (17), 6570-6575. doi:10.1021/es101508p
Lami, A., Turner, S., Musazzi, S., Gerli, S., Guilizzoni, P., Rose, N. L., . . . Yang, R. (2010). Sedimentary evidence for recent increases in production in Tibetan plateau lakes. HYDROBIOLOGIA, 648 (1), 175-187. doi:10.1007/s10750-010-0263-2
Vane, C. H., Kim, A. W., McGowan, S., Leng, M. J., Heaton, T. H. E., Kendrick, C. P., Yang, H. Swann, G. E. A. (2010). Sedimentary records of sewage pollution using faecal markers in contrasting pen-urban shallow lakes. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 409 (2), 345-356. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.09.033

2009

Yang, H., Berry, A., Rose, N., & Berg, T. (2009). Decline in atmospheric mercury deposition in London. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING, 11, {1518-1522}. doi:10.1039/b904952e
Li, T., Cai, S., Yang, H., Wang, X., Wu, S., & Ren, X. (2009). Fuzzy Comprehensive-Quantifying Assessment in Analysis of Water Quality: A Case Study in Lake Honghu, China. ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE, 26, {451-458}. doi:10.1089/ees.2007.0270
Curtis, C. J., Flower, R., Rose, N., Shilland, J., Simpson, G. L., Turner, S., & Yang, H. (2009). Palaeolimnological study of selected lakes in the Wood Buffalo region ((ECRC Research Report).). London, UK: UCL Environmental Change Research Centre.
Flower, R. J., Appleby, P. G., Thompson, J. R., Ahmed, M. H., Ramdani, M., Chouba, L., . . . Rasmussen, E. K. (2009). Sediment distribution and accumulation in lagoons of the Southern Mediterranean Region (the MELMARINA Project) with special reference to environmental change and aquatic ecosystems. Hydrobiologia, 622, 85-112.

2008

Rippey, B., Rose, N., Yang, H., Harrad, S., Robson, M., & Travers, S. (2008). An assessment of toxicity in profundal lake sediment due to deposition of heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants from the atmosphere. Environment International, 34 (3), 345-356. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2007.03.006
Rippey, B., Rose, N., Yang, H., Harrad, S., Robson, M., & Travers, S. (2008). An assessment of toxicity in profundal lake sediment due to deposition of heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants from the atmosphere. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL, 34 (3), 345-356. PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2007.03.006
Feng, B., & Yang, H. (2008). Metal pollution in lake system and its reconstruction by using lake sediments. 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2008, 3689-3692. doi:10.1109/ICBBE.2008.424
Davidson, T. A., Clarke, G. H., Rawcliffe, R., Salgado, J., Burgess, A., Turner, S., . . . Goldsmith, B. J. (2008). Palaeoecological assessment of freshwaters in SACs and ASSIs in Northern Ireland ((ECRC Research Report).). London, UK: UCL Environmental Change Research Centre.
Bennion, H., Clarke, G., Davidson, T., Morley, D., Rose, N., Turner, S., & Yang, H. (2008). Palaeoecological study of seven mesotrophic lochs ((ECRC Research Report).). London, UK: UCL Environmental Change Research Centre.
Dong, X., Bennion, H., Battarbee, R., Yang, X., Yang, H., & Liu, E. (2008). Tracking eutrophication in Taihu Lake using the diatom record: potential and problems. Journal of Paleolimnology, 40, 413-429. doi:10.1007/s10933-007-9170-6

2007

Rose, N. L., Yang, H., & Turner, S. (2007). Lake sediment evidence for long-range air pollution on the Tibetan Plateau (Project F/07 134BF). Report to the Leverhulme Trust.
Clarke, G., Bennion, H., Turner, S., & Yang, H. (2007). Palaeoecological study of Lochs Arkaig, Huamavat and Shiel ((ECRC Research Report).). London, UK: UCL Environmental Change Research Centre.
Bennion, H., Clarke, G., Davidson, T., Morley, D., Rose, N. L., Turner, S., & Yang, H. (2007). Palaeoecological study of seven mesotrophic lochs. Progress report to SEPA and SNH.
Rose, N. L., & Yang, H. (2007). Temporal and spatial patterns of spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCPs) in sediments, soils and deposition at Lochnagar. In N. L. Rose (Ed.), Lochnagar: The Natural History of a Mountain Lake (pp. 403-423). Springer.
Rose, N. L., Yang, H., & Turner, S. (2007). The main transfer mechanisms for POPs and trace metals from soils to sediments: Data report. Deliverable No. 181. Report to EU as part of the "Integrated Project to evaluate the Impacts of Global Change on European Freshwater Ecosystems" (Eurolimpacs). Project no. GOCE-CT-2003-505540.
Yang, H., Linge, K., & Rose, N. (2007). The Pb pollution fingerprint at Lochnagar: The historical record and current status of Pb isotopes. Environmental Pollution, 145 (0), 723-729. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2006.06.026
Tipping, E., Yang, H., Lawlor, A. J., & Rose, N. L. (2007). Trace metals in the catchment, loch and sediments of Lochnagar: Measurements and modelling. In N. L. Rose (Ed.), Lochnagar: The Natural History of a Mountain Lake (pp. 345-373). Springer.

2006

Flower, R. J., Chambers, C., Rochester, R., Thompson, J., Rose, N., Yang, H., . . . P, G. (2006). Current and past status of some North African Coastal Wetland Lagoons with Special Refrerence to Sediment
Accumulation. Environmental Change in Lakes, Lagoons & Wetlands of the Southern Mediterranean Region (ECOLLAW).

2005

Bennion, H., Rose, N. L., Burgess, A., Yang, H., & Bowers, J. (2005). Palaeolimnological investigation of English Lake SSSIs ((ECRC Research Reports).). London, UK: UCL Environmental Change Research Centre.
Yang, H., & Rose, N. L. (2005). Temporal trends of toxic trace metals across the UK using ²¹⁰Pb-dated sediment cores ((ECRC Research Reports).). London, UK: UCL Environmental Change Research Centre.
Chen, P., He, B., Dun, Y., Endo, K., & Yang, H. (2005). The environmental magnetic records of Honghu Lake evolution in the past 1200 years. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 23, 138-142.
Yang, H., & Rose, N. (2005). Trace element pollution records in some UK lake sediments, their history, influence factors and regional differences. Environment International, 31, 63-75. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2004.06.010
Rose, N. L., Yang, H., Fernandez, P. G., & J, O. (2005). Trace metals, fly-ash particles and persistent organic pollutants in European remote mountain lakes. In U. M. Huber, H. K. M. Bugmann, M. A. Reasoner (Eds.), Global change and mountain regions - A state of knowledge overview (pp. 123-132). Dordrecht: Springer.

2004

Rose, N. L., Monteith, D. T., Kettle, H., Thompson, R., Yang, H., & Muir, D. C. G. (2004). A consideration of potential confounding factors limiting chemical and biological recovery at Lochnagar, a remote mountain loch in Scotland. Journal of Limnology, 63, 63-76.

2003

Yang, H., & Rose, N. L. (2003). Arsenic distribution in UK lake sediments. Journal de Physique IV, 107, 1389-1392. doi:10.1051/jp4:20030561
Yang, H., & Rose, N. L. (2003). Distribution of mercury in six lake sediment cores across the UK. Science of the Total Environment, 304, 391-404. doi:10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00584-3
Rose, N. L., Rippey, B., Yang, H., & Harra, S. (2003). Lake sediment toxicity in the UK: the role of trace metals and persistent organic pollutants ((ECRC Research Reports).). London, UK: UCL Environmental Change Research Centre.

2002

Rose, N. L., Shilland, E., Yang, H., Berg, T., Camarero, L., Harriman, R., . . . Ventura, M. (2002). Deposition and storage of spheroidal carbonaceous fly-ash particles in European mountain lake sediments and catchment soils. Water, Air and Soil Pollution: Focus, 2, 251-260.
Yang, H., Rose, N. L., & Battarbee, R. W. (2002). Distribution of some trace metals in Lochnagar, a Scottish mountain lake ecosystem and its catchment. Science of the Total Environment, 285, 197-208. doi:10.1016/S0048-9697(01)00931-7
Bennion, H., Simpson, G., Battarbee, R. W., Cameron, N. G., Curtis, C., Flower, R. J., . . . Yang, H. (2002). Environmental Change in Scottish Fresh Waters. In M. B. Usher, E. C. Mackey, J. C. Curran
(Eds.), The State of Scotland's Environment and Natural Heritage (pp. 145-152). Edinburgh: The Stationery Office.
Davidson, T., Bennion, H., Yang, H., Appleby, P. G., & Luckes, S. (2002). Investigation of recent environmental change at the Bosherston lakes, Pembrokeshire ((ECRC Research Report).). London: Environmental Change Research Centre.
Yang, H., Rose, N. L., Battarbee, R. W., & Boyle, J. F. (2002). Mercury and lead budgets for Lochnagar, a Scottish mountain lake and its catchment. Environmental Science and Technology, 36 (7), 1383-1388. doi:10.1021/es010120m
Yang, H., Rose, N. L., Battarbee, R. W., & Monteith, D. (2002). Trace metal distribution in the sediments of the whole lake basin for Lochnagar, Scotland: a palaeolimnological assessment. Hydrobiologia, 479, 51-61. doi:10.1023/A:1021054112496

2001

Yang, H., Rose, N. L., & Battarbee, R. W. (2001). Dating of recent catchment peats using the spheroidal carbonaceous particle (SCP) concentration profiles with particular reference to Lochnagar, Scotland. The Holocene, 11 (5), 593-597. doi:10.1191/095968301680223549
Yang, H., Rose, N. L., Boyle, J. F., & Battarbee, R. W. (2001). Storage and distribution of trace metals and spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCPs) from atmospheric deposition in the catchment peats of Lochnagar, Scotland. Environmental Pollution, 115 (2), 231-238. doi:10.1016/S0269-7491(01)00107-5
Yang, H., Rose, N. L., & Berry, A. (2001). Trace element measurements within London and across the UK with particular emphasis on mercury ((ECRC Research Reports).). London, UK: UCL Environmental Change Research Centre.

2000

Rose, N. L., Yang, H., Berry, A., & Boyle, J. (2000). Trace element measurements within London and across the UK with particular emphasis on mercury ((ECRC Research Reports).). London, UK: UCL Environmental Change Research Centre.

1999

Boyle, J. F., Rose, N. L., Bennion, H., Yang, H., & Appleby, P. G. (1999). Environmental impacts in the Jianghan Plain: evidence from lake sediments. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 112, 21-40. doi:10.1023/A:1005040713678

1998

Rose, N. L., Monteith, D. T., Curtis, C., Cameron, N. G., Patrick, S. T., & Yang, H. (1998). ECRC Research at Lochnagar 1997/8 ((Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London. Research Report).).
Yang, H., He, B., Cai, S., Oldfield, F., & Zhou, X. (1998). Magnetic measurements of recent sediments in Lake Changhu in the Jianghan Plain and their climatic implications. Scientia Geographica Sinica, 18 (2), 135-138.

1997

Yang, H., & Cai, S. (1997). Chemical characteristics of lake sediments in the Jianghan Plain and the relationship with influence of huan activities. Scientia Geograohica Sinica, 17 (4), 323-328.
Yang, H. D., He, B. Y., Cai, S. M., Oldfield, F., & Yu, L. Z. (1997). Environmental implications of magnetic measurements on recent sediments from Lake Donghu, Wuhan. WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION, 98, {187-195}. doi:10.1007/BF02128657

1996

Yang, H. (1996). Assessment methods on lake sediment pollution. Prevention and Cure of Environmental Pollution, 18, 41-43.
Yang, H. (1996). Geochemical characteristics of calcium in the ecosystem of Lake Honghu. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica, 20, 91-92.

1995

Yang, H., Du, Y., & Cai, S. (1995). Characteristics of water environmental chemistry of the lakes in Hubei Province and the relationship with activities of human being. Resources and Environment in the Yangtze Valley, 4, 58-63.
Yang, H., & Cai, S. (1995). Chemical structure of the ecological environment in Lake Honghu. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 15, 392-398.
Yang, H., & Cai, S. (1995). Geochemical characteristics of cultivation profiles in Lake Honghu. Oceanologica et Limnologica Sinica, 26, 269-274.
Yang, H., & Cai, S. (1995). Geographical characteristics of Honghu Region. In Y. Chen (Ed.), Hydrobiology of Lake Honghu (pp. 1-11). Beijing: Science Press.
Yang, H. (1995). Preliminary study on chemical stability and loading capacity of acids and alkalis of the lake water. In Y. Chen (Ed.), Hydrobiology of Lake Honghu (pp. 188-191). Beijing: Science Press.
Yang, H. (1995). Water chemistry of Lake Honghu. In Y. Chen (Ed.), Hydrobiology of Lake Honghu (pp. 12-27). Beijing: Science Press.

1994

Yang, H., Nong, S., Cai, S., & Cai, Q. (1994). Environmental geochemistry of sediments in Lake Donghu, Wuhan. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica, 18 (3), 208-214.
Rose, N. L., Battarbee, R. W., Bennion, H., Boyle, J. F., Cai, S., Harlock, B. H., . . . Zhou, X. (1994). Palaeolimnological investigations of lakes on the Jianghan Plain, Central China. Report to the Royal Society Project Q 607/KB ((ECRC Research Report).). London: Environmental Change Research Centre.

1993

Yang, H., & Cai, S. (1993). Recent sedimentary rate and the influence of disturbance in Lake Donghu, Wuhan. China Environmental Science and Technology, 4, 11-13.

1992

Yang, H. (1992). Environmental chemistry of the ecosystem of Lake Donghu. Annales Geophysicae, 11.
Yang, H. (1992). Geochemistry of interstitial water in Lake Donghu, Wuhan. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica, 16 (2), 144-152.

1987

Cai, S., Guang, Z., Zhou, P., Zhang, X., Yi, Z., & Yang, H. (1987). Effects of the Three Gorge Project on Lake Environmental Evolution and Gleization of Marshes in the North and South of Jingjiang River. Beijing: Science Press.

1986

Zhao, Z., Cai, S., Li, P., & Yang, H. (1986). Polargraphic determination of trace amounts of thorium. Talanta, 33 (7), 623-625. doi:10.1016/0039-9140(86)80143-6

Research

Radiometric Dating

The Environmental Radiometric Facility at UCL was set up in 2003, and I have managed to run it ever since. Around 700 lake sediment, peat bog and soil cores from different regions over the world have been dated.

Environmental pollution and elemental geochemical cycling

Early research in China involved trace metals, and N and P in human-directly disturbed lake ecosystems, and reconstruction of lake pollution history by using lake sediments. In recent years, research has been mainly focused on lake pollution derived through different sources and the reasons, including atmospheric deposition, catchment secondary pollution to lakes, trace metal budgets in lake ecosystems, trace metal (especially Hg and Pb) pollution history recorded by lake sediments, Hg and Pb cycling in lakes and their relationship with atmospheric deposition and climate change. I have worked in Europe, China, Africa, Central and South America, and other regions of the world (Defra, EU, Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society, Royal Geographical Society).

Environmental isotope geochemistry

Use of unstable isotopes as tracers in environmental research. For example, using 210Pb as an indicator to trace pollutant Pb in lake ecosystems. I have set up a step-forward method for environmental monitoring.

Lake sedimentation processes

Use of chemical parameters such as trace metal profiles and other sediment features in lake sediments to study lake sedimentation processes.