Resume
2021--present, Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2019--2020, Postdoctoral Researchers, Plymouth Marine Lab
2016, Postdoctoral Researchers, Australian Antarctic Division
2014--2020, Research Scientist, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2011--2013, Early Career Scientist, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Education
PhD, 2011, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
BS, 2002-2006, Shandong University at Weihai, China
Research Interests
Zooplankton community; feeding strategy, trophodynamics, ocean acidification, long-term dynamics, krill ecology, overwintering, biological carbon pump
Field work (more than 800 days in the field)
Dec/2018 –Jan/2019, RV Xuelong, the 35th Chinese National Antarctic Expedition, Amundsen Sea, 30 d
Feb/2018 –Apr/2018, RV Xuelong, the 34th Chinese National Antarctic Expedition, Amundsen Sea, 60 d
Nov/2015 –Jan/2016, RV Xuelong, the 32ed Chinese National Antarctic Expedition, Weddell Sea, 60 d
Aug/2014 –Oct/2014, RV Kexue, the western tropical North Pacific Ocean, 80 d
Oct/2012 –Apr/2013, RV Xuelong, the 29th Chinese National Antarctic Expedition, Prydz Bay, 180 d
Oct/2010 –Apr/2011, RV Xuelong, the 27th Chinese National Antarctic Expedition, Prydz Bay, 180 d
Oct/2009 –Apr/2010, RV Xuelong, the 26th Chinese National Antarctic Expedition, Prydz Bay, 180 d
Selected Publications
Guang Yang, Angus Atkinson, Evgeny A Pakhomov, Simeon Hill, Marie-Fanny Recault (2022) Massive circumpolar biomass of Southern Ocean zooplankton: Implications for food web structure, carbon export, and marine spatial planning. Limnology and Oceanography 67: 2516-2530.
Guang Yang, Angus Atkinson, Simeon L. Hill, Letterio Guglielmo, Antonia Granata (2021) Changing circumpolar distributions and isoscapes of Antarctic krill: Indo-Pacific habitat refuges counter long-term degradation of the Atlantic sector. Limnology and Oceanography 66: 272-287.
Guang Yang, Robert A King, So Kawaguchi (2018) Behavioural responses of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) to CO2-induced ocean acidification: would krill really notice? Polar Biology 41: 727-732.
Guang Yang, Chaolun Li, Katja Guilini, Quancai Pen, Yanqing Wang, Ye Zhang, Yongshan Zhang (2016) Feeding strategies of four dominant copepod species in Prydz Bay, Antarctica: Insights from a combined fatty acid biomarker and stable isotopic approach. Deep Sea Research I 114: 55-63.
Guang Yang, Chaolun Li, Song Sun (2011) Inter-annual variation of summer zooplankton community structure in Prydz Bay, Antarctica, from 1999 to 2006. Polar Biology 34: 921-93.
Additional publications are available in ResearchGate: