研究方向及成果
同位素及元素地球化学，古气候/古海洋/古环境，第四纪气候变化，全球碳 循环，海洋碳酸岩体系，大气 CO2变化，海洋酸化，生物碳酸岩成因机理，古环境指标开发及测试，古洋流与气候变化耦合关系。主要成果如下：
（1）建立可靠有效的生物碳酸岩元素 ICPMS 测试方法 (Yu et al., G3, 2005)，对小达 60ug 的样品同时 测十几个微量元素含量，此方法为国际首次精确可靠的分析有孔虫 B/Ca 比值。
（2）有效的区分出可靠的生物碳酸岩清洗方法（Yu et al., G3, 2007)，两位评审人评价该研究与以往 研究截然不同，提供了独到的见解，为有孔虫的洗涤研究提供了最前沿的信息。
（3）系统研究海洋生物碳酸岩微量元素控制因素，这些元素包括 B（Yu et al., Paleoceanography, 2007; Yu & Elderfield, EPSL, 2007）, Mg （Yu & Elderfield, EPSL, 2008), U (Yu et al., GCA, 2008), 和 Sr(Yu et al., QSR, 2014)元素，这些研究为全球元素和碳的循环循环规律提供了可靠的基础。
代表性论文
G. Marino*, E.J. Rohling, L. Rodríguez-Sanz, K.M. Grant, D. Heslop, A.P. Roberts, J.D. Stanford & J. Yu, Bipolar seesaw control on last interglacial sea level, Nature, 2015, in press
Jimin Yu*, Henry Elderfield, Zhangdong Jin, Paul Tomascak, Eelco J. Rohling, Controls on Sr/Ca in benthic foraminifera and implications for seawater Sr/Ca during the late Pleistocene, Quat. Sci. Rev., DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.018, 2014.
Yu J.*, Anderson R.F., Jin Z.D., Menviel L., Zhang F., Ryerson F.J., Rohling E.J., Deep South Atlantic carbonate chemistry and increased interocean deep water exchange during last deglaciation, Quat. Sci. Rev., doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.02.018, 2014.
Yu J.*, Anderson R.F., Rohling E.J., Deep ocean carbonate chemistry and glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO2 changes. Oceanography 27(1), 16-25, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.04, 2014.
S. Kender*, J. Yu and V.L. Peck, Deep ocean carbonate ion increase during mid Miocene CO2 decline, Scientific Reports, doi: 10.1038/srep04187, 2014
Yu J.*, Anderson R.F., Jin Z.D., Rae J., Opdyke B.N., Eggins S., Responses of the deep ocean carbonate system to carbon reorganization during the Last Glacial–interglacial cycle, Quat. Sci. Rev. 76, 39-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.020, 2013.
Yu J.*, Thornalley D.J.R., Rae J.W.B., and McCave I.N., Calibration and application of B/Ca, Cd/Ca and d11B in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (sinistral) to constrain CO2 uptake in the subpolar North Atlantic during the last deglaciation, Paleoceanography, doi: 10.1029/2012PA002432, 2013. A.M.
Piotrowski*, A. Galy, J.A.L. Nicholl, N. Roberts, D. J. Wilson, J. Clegg and J. Yu, Reconstructing deglacial North and South Atlantic deep water source using foraminiferal Nd isotopes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 357-358:289-297, 2012.
K. A. Allen*, B. Hönisch, S. M. Eggins, J. Yu, H. J. Spero, H. Elderfield, Controls on boron incorporation in cultured tests of the planktic foraminifer Orbulina universa. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.07.010, 2011.
Broecker, W.S.* and Yu, J., What do we know about the evolution of Mg to Ca ratios in seawater?, Paleoceanogr., doi:10.1029/2011PA002120, 2011.
Johnstone, H.*, Yu, J., Elderfield, H. and Schulz, M., Improving temperature estimates derived from Mg/Ca of planktonic foraminifera using X-ray computed tomography-based dissolution index, Paleoceanogr., doi:10.1029/2010PA001940, 2011.
Yu, J.M.*, Broecker, W.S., Elderfield, H., Jin, Z.D., McManus, J., Zhang, F., Loss of carbon from the deep sea since the Last Glacial Maximum, Science, doi: 10.1126/science.1193221, 2010. Yu, J.M.*, Foster, G.L., Elderfield, H., Broecker, W.S. and Clark, E., An evaluation of benthic foraminiferal B/Ca and d11B for deep ocean carbonate ion and pH reconstructions. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 293(1-2): 114-120, 2010.
Yu, J.M.* and Broecker, W.S., Comment on “Deep-Sea Temperature and Ice Volume Changes Across the Pliocene-Pleistocene Climate Transitions”, Science, 328, 1480c, doi:10.1126/science.1186544, 2010.
Peck, V.L.*, Yu, J., Kender, S. and Riesselman, C.R., Shifting ocean carbonate chemistry during the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition: implications for deep ocean Mg/Ca-paleothermometry. Paleoceanogr.: doi:10.1029/2009PA001906, 2010.
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