
Email: hqyang@scsio.ac.cn
Mailing address: No. 164, Xingang West Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou City
Postal code: 510301
Research Areas
Research interests cover the following aspects: the response and adaptation of coral reefs to global changes, high-resolution records of Holocene climate and environmental changes in coral reefs, biophysical processes and numerical simulations of coral reef bio-coastal dynamics, non-traditional metal isotope biogeochemical cycling within coral reef systems, and modern and geological processes of microbial carbonate deposition.
Education
Experience
Work Experience
January 2019~Present: Deputy Director, Nansha Marine Ecological and Environmental Experimental Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences
December 2015~January 2019: Associate Researcher, Key Laboratory of Marginal Sea and Ocean Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
July 2013~December 2015: Assistant Researcher, Key Laboratory of Marginal Sea and Ocean Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academic Appointments
September 14, 2023-Present, Executive Guest Editor, Global and Planetary Change
May 05, 2022-Present, Editorial Board Member, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
July 10, 2021-July 28, 2023, Executive Guest Editor, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Publications
Papers
(1) Metagenomic and metabolomic analysis of the effect of bleaching on unsaturated fatty acid synthesis pathways in coral symbionts, Science of The Total Environment, 2024, Corresponding Author
(2) Introduction to special issue: Environmental and climatic change records in coral reefs of the South China Sea during the Holocene, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 2023, First Author
(3) Biogenetic peloidal micrites within coral skeletons cause geochemical anomalies in reef limestones, Zhongsha Atoll, South China Sea, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 2023, First Author
(4) Meridional response of Western North Pacific paleocyclone activity to tropical atmospheric circulation variability over the past millennium, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 2023, Corresponding Author
(5) Metabolic and metatranscriptional characteristics of corals bleaching induced by the most severe marine heatwaves in the South China Sea, Science of The Total Environment, 2023, Corresponding Author
(6) Mercury isotope composition in open water corals of South China Sea: Implication for atmospheric mercury deposition pathways into tropical oceans, Geophysical Research Letters, 2023, Corresponding Author
(7) Changes in coral bacterial communities during a natural bleaching event linked to El Nino in the South China Sea, Regional Studies in Marine Science, 2022, Corresponding Author
(8) Reconstruction of the tropical cyclones activity in the Nansha Islands since the
Little Ice Age from the atoll lagoon sediments (in Chinese), Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 2022, First Author
(9) Response characteristics of bacterial communities in multiple coral genera at the early stages of coral bleaching during El Niño, Ecological Indicators, 2022, Corresponding Author
(10) Assessing the intercolony δ18O proxy calibration in a coral microatoll and its implication for ENSO reconstruction in the northern South China Sea, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 2022, Corresponding Author
(11) Insights into microbially mediated cementation in modern beachrock in the Xisha Islands, South China Sea, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 2022, Corresponding Author
(12) Different accretion and diagenetic patterns within the fabrics of the Permian–Triassic boundary microbialites on the Leye isolated carbonate platform, South China Block, Journal of Palaeogeograpy-English, 2021, Corresponding Author
(13) Polybessurus-like fossils as key contributors to Permin–Triassic boundary microbialites in South China, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 2020, Corresponding Author
(14) Microplastic pollution around remote uninhabited coral reefs of Nansha Islands, South China Sea, Science of The Total Environment, 2020, Corresponding Author
(15) Combination analysis of metatranscriptome and metagenome reveal the composition and functional response of coral symbionts to bleaching during an El Niño event, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020, Corresponding Author