The Yang Lab focuses on the chemistry of organic carbon and its implications for climate change!
Bio
Yu (Frank) Yang is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research expertise and interests have been focused on the redox and complexation chemistry of organic carbon in natural and engineering systems, with implications on carbon cycles, climate change, and water reuse. He and his group have been developing methods for identifying the reactive organic carbon in natural and engineering systems, focusing on quinones and organic ligands, using special chemical tagging, high-resolution mass spectrometry, and metabolomics. Examples of current and recent projects include biochar-mediated dehalogenation, identification of lignin-derived ligands, impact of wildfire on watershed functions, exposure of Arctic residence to organic pollutants under climate change, fate and transport of emerging contaminants at rubberized asphalt concrete-water interfaces, and others.
