The Wang Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Lab at Boston College uses stable isotope analyses to investigate the biogeochemical cycles of both modern and past oceans and to examine their implications for Earth’s habitability and the evolution of life.
Current Students:
Kameko Landry
Tianshu Kong
Heather Donnelly
Ruixiang Zhai
Bastian Muench
Selected recent publications:
Chen, J., G. K. Li, M. Lin, J. A. Nghiem, Z. Yu, T. Kong, H. Donnelly, N. P. Snyder, H. Tian, M. P. Lamb, X. T. Wang, Isotopic evidence for preferential transport of fertilizer nitrogen into the northern Gulf of Mexico during high water discharge. Communications Earth & Environment (2024).
Yao, W., T. Kong, X. T. Wang, R. Zhai, R. Zhang, Y. Liu, Expanded subsurface ocean anoxia in the Atlantic during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Nature Communications (2024).
Donnelly, H., M. Ingersoll, M. Lin, H. E. Rivera, C. A. Tramonte, S. W. Davies, X. T. Wang, Groundtruthing nitrogen isotopes as a symbiosis proxy using the facultatively symbiotic coral Oculina arbuscula. Frontiers in Marine Science (2024).
Chen, W-H., H. Ren, J. C.H. Chiang, Y-L. Wang, R-Y. Cai-Li, Y-C. Chen, C-C. Shen, F. W. Taylor, T. M. DeCarlo, C-R. Wu, H-S. Mii, X. T. Wang, Increased tropical South Pacific western boundary current transport over the past century. Nature Geoscience (2023).
Wang, X. T., Y. Wang, A. Auderset, D. M. Sigman, H. Ren, A. Martinez-Garcia, G. H. Haug, Z. Su, Y. G. Zhang, B. Rasmussen, A. L. Sessions, W. W. Fischer, Oceanic nutrient rise and the late Miocene inception of Pacific oxygen deficient zones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022).
Auderset, A., S. Moretti, B. Taphorn, P. Eber, E. Kast, X. T. Wang, R. Schiebel, D. M. Sigman, G. H. Haug, A. Martinez-Garcia, Enhanced ocean oxygenation during Cenozoic warm periods. Nature (2022).
Dong, S., X. T. Wang, A. V. Subhas, F. J. Pavia, J. F. Adkins, W. W. Berelson, Depth profiles of suspended carbon and nitrogen along a North Pacific transect: Concentrations, isotopes, and ratios. Limnology and Oceanography (2021).
Zhang, R, X. T. Wang, H. Ren, J. Huang, M. Chen, D. M. Sigman, Dissolved organic nitrogen cycling in the South China Sea from an isotopic perspective. Global Biogeochemical Cycles (2020).
Wang, X. T., A. L. Cohen, V. Luu, H. Ren, Z. Su, G. H. Haug, D. M. Sigman, Natural forcing of the North Atlantic nitrogen cycle in the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2018).
Wang, X. T., D. M. Sigman, M. G. Prokopenko, J. F. Adkins, L. F. Robinson, S. K. Hines, J. Chai, A. S. Studer, A. Martínez-García, T. Chen, G. H. Haug, Deep-sea coral evidence for lower Southern Ocean surface nitrate concentrations during the last ice age. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017).
