Dada Yan

Research interest:

Process-based lake-catchment interaction and Quaternary climate reconstruction

Education and professional experience

Since Jan. 2023 Postdoctoral scientist, Fridrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

Since Dec. 2020 Associated Professor, Southwest Jiaotong University

Dec. 2020 -Jan. 2023 Experienced Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Sep. 2017-Nov. 2020 Assistant researcher at Institute of Coastal and Estuarine Research, East China
Normal University, China

May 2017-Agu. 2017 Research assist at Sino-German Centre at Nanjing University and FU Berlin

Oct. 2014-Apr. 2017 PhD (Dr. rer.nat.) on Physical Geography, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
(Paleoclimate reconstruction/ Prof. Dr. Bernd Wünnemann-Prf. Dr. Brigitta Schütt)

June 2013-Sep. 2014 Research assist at Sino-German Centre at Nanjing University and FU Berlin

2013 M.Sc. on Physical Geography, Nanjing University, China

Projects
• PI: NSFC project: Lateglacial high-resolution hydroclimate seasonal
variability at the Asian Monsoon-Westerlies transition on the northeastern
Tibetan Plateau (2022-2025)
• PI: NSFC project: ostracods responses to water pollution in coastal regions
(2019-2021)
• PI: CPSF project: Recent ostracods distribution in coastal regions (2018-2020)
• PI: ECNU funds: fossil Ostracoda in coastal region (2017-2020)
• Collaborator: ECNU funds: marine influence in coastal regions (2017-2020)
• Collaborator: SAFEA, China:1000 Foreign Talents Program (2014-2017)
• Collaborator: DFG project: Paiku Co (2014-2016)
• Collaborator: DFG project: Tibetan Plateau (TiP-1372, 2008-2014)
• Collaborator: NSFC project: Hala Lake (2010-2014)

Publications
Wünnemann, B.*, Yan, D. *, Hu, S., Zhang, Y.Z., Chen, W., 2023. Seasonal variations in surface processes and hydroclimateon an alpine lake, NE Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews 300, 107876.
Aichner, B., Wünnemann, B, Callegaro, A., van der Meer, M., Yan, D., Zhang, Y.Z., Barnante, C., Sachse, D., 2022.
Asynchrnous responses of aquatic ecosystems to hydroclimatic forcing on the Tibetan Plateau. Communications: Earth & Environment 3, 3
Yan, D., Wünnemann, B.*, Zhang, Y.Z., Hartmann, K., Diekmann, B., Andersen, N., 2021. Neotectonic Subsidence along the Cenozoic Kunlun Fault (Tibetan Plateau). Geophysical Research Letters 48, e2021GL094571.
Zhang Y.Z., Wünnemann, B*, Yan, D.1*, Lockt, G., 2021. Late Quaternary persistent impacts of permafrost on lake hydrology and landscape evolution on the NE Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews 274, 107283
Yan, D., Wünnemann, B.*, Stauch, G., Zhang, Y., Long, H., 2021. Late Quaternary seasonal process variations in lake basins on the NE Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews 252,106736.
Yan, D., Wünnemann, B.*, Gao, S., Zhang, Y.Z., 2020. Early Holocene tidal flat evolution in a western embayment of East China Sea, in response to sea level rise episodes. Quaternary Science Reviews 250, 106642.
Yan, D., Wünnemann, B.*, Zhang, Y.Z., 2020. Late Quaternary lacustrine Ostracoda and their implications for hydro-climatic variation in Northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Earth-Science Reviews 207,103251
Yan, D., Wünnemann, B.*, Jiang, Z., 2020. Hydrological variations of a lake-catchment and human interaction during the last 6 ka in Yunnan, China. J. Hydrology 587, 124932.
Haberzettl T., Daut G., Schulze N., Spiess V., Wang J., Zhu L., St-Onge G., Chen F., Liu X., Lyu X., Ju J., Ma Q., Wu Z., Wunnemann B., Yan D., Yi S., Zhang H., Zhao Y., Zhao H., Buylaert J-P., Murray A., van der Woerd J., Frenzel P., Gleixner G., Harms U., Reicherter K., Schwalb A., Ulfers A., ujvari G., Mehrotra N., Waldmann N., Lami A., Ariztegui D., Barbolini N., Ascough P., Clarke L., Henderson A., Staff R., Noren A., Spanbauer T., Stoner J., 2019. ICDP workshop on scientific drilling of Nam Co on the Tibetan Plateau: 1 million years of paleoenvironmental history, geomicrobiology, tectonics and paleomagnetism derived from sediments of a high-altitude lake. Scientific Drilling 25, 63-70.
Hu, Y., Wünnemann, B.*, Zhang, Y., Yan, D., 2019. Geochemistry record and its environmental implications during the past 14 ka in Kuhai Lake, NE Tibetan Plateau. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica 37(1), 104-114 (in Chinese with English abstract).
Yan, D., Wünnemann,B.*, Zhang, Y.*, Long, H., Stauch, G., Sun,Q., Cao, G., 2018. Response of lake-catchment processes to Holocene climate variability: Evidences from the NE Tibetan Plateau, Quaternary Science Reviews 201, 261-279.
Wünnemann, B.*, Yan, D.*, Andersen, N., Riedel, F., Zhang, Y., Sun, Q., Hoelzmann, P., 2018. A 14 ka high-resolution d18O lake record reveals a paradigm shift for the process-based reconstruction of hydroclimate on the northern Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews 200, 65-84.
Dutt, S., Gupta, A.K., Wünnemann, B., Yan, D., 2018. A long arid interlude in the Indian summer monsoon during ∼4,350 to 3,450 cal. yr BP contemporaneous to displacement of the Indus valley civilization. Quaternary International 482, 83-92.
Yan, D., Wünnemann, B.*, Hu Y., Frenzel, B., Zhang, Y., Chen K., 2017. Wetland evolution in the Qinghai Lake area, China, in response to hydrodynamic and eolian processes during the past 1100 years, Quaternary Science Reviews 162, 42-59.
Yan, D., 2017. Interplay between Lake and Catchment Processes in Kuhai Lake Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, China during Late Holocene. Dissertation Dept. of Earth Science, Freie Universität Berlin.
Stauch. G., Schulte, P., Ramisch, A., Hartmann, K., Hülle, D., Lockot, G., Diekmann, B., Nottebaum, V., Müller, C., Wünnemann, B., Yan, D., Lehmkuhl, F., 2016. Landscape and climate on the northern Tibetan Plateau during the late Quaternary. Geomorphology 286, 78-92.
Ramisch, A., Lockot, G., Haberzettl, T., Hartmann, K., Kuhn, G., Lehmkuhl, F., Schimpf, S., Schulte, P., Stauch, G., Wang, R., Wünnemann, B., Yan, D., Zhang, Y., Diekmann, B., 2016. A persistent northern boundary of Indian summer monsoon precipitation over central Asia during the Holocene. Scientific Reports 6, 25791.
Wünnemann, B.*, Yan. D., Ren C. 2015. Morphodynamics and lake level variations at Paiku Co, southern Tibetan Plateau, China. Geomorphology 246, 489-501.
Yan, D., Wünnemann, B.*, 2014. Late quaternary water depth changes in Hala Lake, northeastern Tibetan plateau, derived from ostracod assemblages and sediment properties in multiple sediment records. Quaternary Science Reviews 95, 95-114.
Yan, D., 2013. Estimations of lake level changes in Hala Lake, China since the LGM: Evidences from ostracod assemblages and distribution patterns in multiple sediment records. Thesis School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, China.
Wünnemann, B.*, Wagner, J., Zhang, Y., Yan, D., Wang, R., Shen, Y., Fang, X., Zhang, J., 2012. Implications of diverse sedimentation patterns in Hala Lake, Qinghai Province, China for reconstructing Late Quaternary climate. Journal of Paleolimnology 48 (4), 725-749.

Conferences:
Yan D., Wünnemann, B., 2012. Lake level changes in Hala Lake (NW China) based on ostracod assemblages during the LGM and Post-LGM. AGU Fall meeting 2012, Abstract Control ID 1482003 (poster).
Yan D., Wünnemann, B., 2014. Late Quaternary lake history of Hala lake, Qinghai Province, China, evidenced by ostracod assemblages and sediment properties in multiple sediment records. EGU meeting, Abstract ID EGU2014-2438(poster).
Yan D., Wünnemann, B., 2014. Late Quaternary lake-catchment processes in Hala Lake, northern Tibetan Plateau, and their effects on lake evolution. AGU Fall meeting 2014, Abstract ID 7015 (oral).