EDUCATION
Ph.D., Geochemistry, Arizona State University 2009 (expected)
Dissertation: Investigation of elemental and isotopic systematics of redox-sensitive metals in ancient Ocean sedimentary Rocks: Implication for the redox evolution on the early Earth
M.S., Geochemistry, University of Nagoya, Japan, 2002
B.S., Petrology and Mineralogy, Nanjing University, P. R. China, 1998
INSTRUMENT EXPERTISE
Multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS; Thermo Scientific Neptune)
Quadruple inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (Q-ICP-MS; Thermo Scientific X-Series)
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Research Assistant. 07/2004 ― present, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Research Assistant. 08/2003 ― 06/2004, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Teaching Assistant. 08/2004 ― 12/2004, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Teaching Assistant. 09/2003 ― 12/2003, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Monbusho Scholarship 2000 ― 2002, Nagoya University, Japan
People’s Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduates 1994 ― 1998, Nanjing University, P. R. China
GRANTS
Conference travel grant. 2006, NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)
Conference travel grant. 2007, Division of graduate studies; Arizona State University
PUBLICATIONS
Yun Duan, Ariel D. Anbar, Gail L.Arnold, Gwyneth W. Gordon, In prep., Iron isotopic record in the 2.5 Ga Mt. McRae Shale: An Archean benthic iron shuttle?
Yun Duan, Ariel D. Anbar, Timothy W. Lyons, Gail L.Arnold, Gwyneth W. Gordon, In prep., Mo Isotopic Record in the 2.5 Ga Mt. McRae Shale: Evidence for Mild Oxygenation before the Great Oxidation Event.
Yun Duan, Silke Severmann, Ariel D. Anbar, Gwyneth Gordon, Timothy W. Lyons, Brad Sageman, in review, Isotopic evidence for Fe cycling and repartitioning in ancient oxygen-deficient settings: Examples from black shales of the mid-to-late Devonian Appalachian basin
Ariel D. Anbar, Yun Duan, Timothy W. Lyons, Gail L. Arnold, Brian Kendall, Robert A.Creaser, Alan J. Kaufman, Gwyneth W. Gordon, Clinton Scott, Jessica Garvin, Roger Buick, 2007, A Whiff of Oxygen Before the Great Oxidation Event? Science 317, p. 1903-1906
Yun Duan, Zhao Lianze, Fang Honghai, Wang Dezi, 2001, REE-Geochemistry of Mesozoic Volcanic-Intrusive Complex and Dark Inclusions in Xiangshan District, Jiangxi Province. Geological Journal of China Universities Vol. 7 No. 1 P. 92-98.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Goldschmidt Annual Meeting, 2008, Vancouver, Canada (Talk)
GSA 2007, Denver, CO (Talk)
International Symposia on the Ordovician/Silurian Systems, 2007, Nanjing, China (Talk)
4th Annual Southern California Geobiology Symposium, 2007, Pasadena, CA (Talk)
GSA 2006, Philadelphia, PA (Talk)
AbScicon 2005, Washington D. C. (Poster)