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Yajuan Lin

Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke Kunshan University · 2022 - Present DKU Faculty

Recent Publications


Decline in plankton diversity and carbon flux with reduced sea ice extent along the Western Antarctic Peninsula.

Journal Article Nature communications · August 2021 Since the middle of the past century, the Western Antarctic Peninsula has warmed rapidly with a significant loss of sea ice but the impacts on plankton biodiversity and carbon cycling remain an open question. Here, using a 5-year dataset of eukaryotic plan ... Full text Cite

Towards Quantitative Microbiome Community Profiling Using Internal Standards.

Journal Article Applied and environmental microbiology · March 2019 An inherent issue in high-throughput rRNA gene tag sequencing microbiome surveys is that they provide compositional data in relative abundances. This often leads to spurious correlations, making the interpretation of relationships to biogeochemical rates c ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


Impact of Greenland sea-ice melt on marine biogeochemistry and productivity

ResearchPostdoctoral Associate · Awarded by University of Basel · 2019 - 2021

The Biogeochemical Compass: Navigating the Flows of Energy and Matter within the Southern Ocean

ResearchResearch Scientist · Awarded by Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition · 2016 - 2019

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Education, Training & Certifications


Duke University · 2013 Ph.D.