Hong Yang

Department: Science and Technology

Title: Associate Professor and Director of U.S.-China Institute

Contact Information: hyang@bryant.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. in Geology and Paleobotany, College of Earth Resources, University of Idaho, 1993
• M.S. in Botany and Paleobotany, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), 1988
• B.S. in Earth Science, with honors, Wuhan College, P.R. China, 1985

Academic Interests: Molecular investigations of modern and ancient organisms, their preservation and evolution, and global environmental changes of the present and the past, ranging from systematic to evolutionary paleobiology, and endangered species in China; using approaches from fieldwork on a range of extraordinary fossil occurrences to laboratory experiments on molecular, organic geochemical, and stable isotopic investigations; environmental policies play a role in international business management and U.S.-China relations.

Teaching:

• Environmental Studies in China
• Conservation in U.S. National Parks
• Physical Geology
• General Science: Learning Science from Nobel Prize Research

Professional Activities:

• Public Intellectual Fellow designated by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (one of 20 designations in the nation), 2005-2007.
• Visiting Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 2004-
• Visiting Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tongji University, and China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), P. R. China.
• Recipient of Bryant University Merit Award 2000, 2002, 2004; Research and Publication Award 2001.
• Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Biology and Evolution, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, 1993-95.
• Yang, H., Huang, Y., Leng, Q., LePage, B. A., and Williams, C., 2005. Biomolecular Preservation of Tertiary Metasequoia fossil Lagerstatten revealed by comparative pyrolysis analysis. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology (134):237-256.
• LePage, B., Williams, C., and Yang, H. (eds), 2005. The Geobiology and Ecology of Metasequoia. Springer, the Netherlands, 434p.
• Liu, W., Yang, H., Cao, Y., Ning, Y., Zhou, J., and An, Z., 2005. Did an extensive forest ever develop on the Chinese Loess Plateau during the past 130 ka?: A test using soil carbon isotopic signatures. Applied Geochemistry 20:519-527.
• Yang, H. and Huang, Y., 2003. Preservation of lipid hydrogen isotope ratios in Miocene lacustrine sediments and plant fossils at Clarkia, northern Idaho, USA, Organic Geochemistry, 34:413-423.