Ph.D. University of Otago, 2015

    My major research interest lies in marine phytoplankton physiology and the related marine biogeochemistry. My current research has been focused on the environmental regulation mechanism of the physiology of marine phytoplankton functional groups, the response patterns and mechanisms of marine phytoplankton to global climate change and the consequent feedback to the marine biogeochemical cycles. 

2021 -  Present  Associate Professor, School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2015 - 2021       Associate Professor, College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Tianjin University of Science and Technology

•PI, “The Responses of Tianjin Coastal Diatom Carbon Fixation to CO2 and Temperature and the Related Mechanisms”, Tianjin Natural Science Foundation Project #19JCYBJC22900                                                                      2019-2022

• PI, “The Responses of Tianjin Coastal Phytoplankton Assemblages to Ocean Acidification and Eutrophication”, Tianjin Science and Technology Commission Project # JH-20180070802                                                                     2018-2019

• PI, “The Mechanisms of the Response of Marine Coccolithophores to the Global Climate Change”, National Natural Science Foundation of China Project #41676160                                                                                             2017-2020

• PI, “The Effects of Ocean Acidification and Warming on the Photosynthesis, Calcification, and Community Structure of Coccolithophores in the China Sea Waters”, National Natural Science Foundation of China Project  #41306118

                                                                                                               2014-2016

• PI, “The Effects of Ocean Acidification and Warming on Tianjin Coastal Phytoplankton Community”, the Board of Education of Tianjin Scientific Research Projects #2017KJ014                                                             2017-2019

(ResearcherID K-5983-2012, H-index: 19)

   Feng, Y.*, Chai, F., Wells, M.L., Liao, Y., Li, P., Cai, T., Zhao, T., Fu, F.X., Hutchins, D.A. 2021. The combined effects of increased pCO2 and warming on a coastal phytoplankton assemblage: from species composition to sinking rate. Frontiers in Marine Science. 8:622319. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.622319

   Feng, Y. *, Roleda, M.Y., Armstrong, E.A., Summerfield, T., Law, C.S., Hurd, C.L., Boyd, P.W. 2020. Effects of multiple drivers of global ocean change on the physiology and functional gene expression of marine coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi, 26(10): 5630-5645. Global Change Biology, doi:10.1111/gcb.15259

   Feng, Y. *, Roleda, M.Y., Armstrong, E.A., Law, C.S., Boyd, P.W., Hurd, C.L., 2018. Environmental controls on the elemental composition of a Southern Hemisphere strain of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi. Biogeosciences, 15: 581-595.  doi: 10.5194/bg-15-581-2018

   Feng, Y. *, Roleda, M.Y., Armstrong, E.A., Boyd, P.W., Hurd, C.L., 2017. Environmental controls on the growth, photosynthetic and calcification rates of a Southern Hemisphere strain of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi. Limnology and Oceanography, 62: 519-540. doi: 10.1002/lno.10442

   Feng, Y., Hare, C.E., Rose, J.M., Handy, S.M., DiTullio, G.R., Lee, P.A., Smith, W.O., Jr., Peloquin, J., Tozzi, S., Sun, J., Zhang, Y., Dunbar, R.B., Long, M.C., Sohst, B., Lohanm, M., Hutchins, D.A. 2010. Interactive effects of iron, irradiance and CO2 on Ross Sea phytoplankton. Deep Sea Research I. 57:368-383. 

   Feng, Y., Hare, C.E., Leblanc, K., Rose, J.M., Zhang, Y., DiTullio, G.R., Lee, P.A., Wilhelm, S.W., Rowe, J.M., Sun, J., Nemcek, N., Gueguen, C., Passow, U., Benner, I., Brown, C., Hutchins, D.A. 2009. Effects of increased pCO2 and temperature on the North Atlantic spring bloom: I. The phytoplankton Community and Biogeochemical Response. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 388: 13-25. 

   Feng, Y., Warner, M.E., Zhang, Y., Sun, J., Fu, F.-X., Hutchins, D.A. 2008. Interactive effects of increased pCO2, temperature and irradiance on the marine coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi (Prymnesiophyceae). European Journal of Phycology. 43(1): 87-98. 

   Daniels. C.J., Poulton, A.J., Balch, W.M., Maranon, E., Adey, T., Bowler, B.C., Cermeno, P., Charalampopoulou, A., Crawford, D.W., Drapeau, D., Feng, Y., et al. 2018. A global compilation of coccolithophore calcification rates. Earth System Science Data. 10: 1859-1876.

   Boyd, P.W., Dillingham, P.W., McGraw, C.M., Armstrong, E.A., Cornwall, C.E., Feng, Y., Hurd, C.L., Gault-Ringold, M., Roleda, M.Y. Timmins-Schiffman, E., Nunn, B. L. 2016. Physiological responses of a Southern Ocean diatom to complex future ocean conditions. Nature Climate Change. 6: 207-213.

   Bermúdez, R., Feng, Y.（first co-authors）, Roleda, M.Y., Tatters, A.O.,  Hutchins, D.A., Larsen, T., Boyd, P.W., Hurd, C.L., Riebesell, U., Winder, M. 2015. Long-term conditioning to elevated pCO2 and warming influences the fatty and amino acid composition of the diatom Cylindrotheca fusiformis.  PLoS ONE 10 (5): e0123945. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123945

   Zhang, G., Leng, X., Feng, Y., Li, X., Sun, J. 2017. Skeletonema cf. costatum biogenic silica production rate determinated by PDMPO method. Journal of Ocean University of China. doi: 10.1007/s11802-017-2899-2.

   Roleda, M.Y., Cornwall, C.E., Feng, Y., McGraw, C.M., Smith, A.M. and Hurd, C.L., 2015. Effect of ocean acidification and pH fluctuations on the growth and development of coralline algal recruits, and an associated benthic algal assemblage. PloS one, 10(10), p.e0140394.

   Guo, S.J., Sun, J., Zhao, Q.B., Feng, Y., Huang, D.J., Liu, S.M. 2016. Sinking rates of phytoplankton in the Changjiang (Yangtze River) estuary: A comparative study between Prorocentrum dentatum and Skeletonema dorhnii bloom. Journal of Marine System. 154: 5-14.

   Zhang, S., Leng, X., Feng, Y., Ding, C., Yang, Y., Wang, J., Wang, H., Sun, J. 2016. Ecological provinces of spring phytoplankton in the Yellow Sea: species composition. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. 35: 114-125.

   Liu, H., Xue, B., Feng, Y., Zhang, R., Chen, M., Sun, J. 2016. Size-fractionated Chlorophyll a biomass in the northern South China Sea in summer 2014. Chinese Journal of Limnology and Oceanography. 34: 672-682.

   Guo, S.J., Feng, Y., Wang, L., Dai, M.H., Liu, Z.L., Bai, Y., Sun, J. 2014. Seasonal variation in the phytoplankton of a continental-shelf sea: the East China Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 516:103-126.

   Sun, J., Gu, X.Y., Feng, Y., Jin, S. F., Jiang, W.S., Jin, H.Y., Chen, J.F. 2014. Summer and winter living coccolithophores in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. Biogeosciences. 11(3): 779-806.

   Bai, J., Gu, X.Y., Feng, Y., Jiang W.S., Jin, H.Y., Chen J.F., Sun, J. 2014. Autumn living coccolithophores in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. 33(8): 83-94.

   Sun, J., Feng Y., Wang, D., Wu, Y. 2013. Bottom-up control of phytoplankton growth in spring blooms in Central Yellow Sea, China. Deep-Sea Research II. 97: 51-60. 

   Sun, J., Feng, Y., Zhou, F., Song S., Jiang, Y., Ding, C. 2013. Top-down control of spring surface phytoplankton blooms by microzooplankton in the Central Yellow Sea, China. Deep-Sea Research II, 97: 61-71. 

   Sun, J., Hutchins, D.A., Feng, Y., Seubert, E.L., Caron, D., Fu, F.-X. 2011. Effects of changing pCO2 and phosphate availability on toxin production and physiology of the marine harmful bloom diatom Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries. Limnology and Oceanography. 56(3): 829- 840. 

   Beman, J.M., Chow, C.-E., King, A.L., Feng, Y., Fuhrman, J.A., Andersson, A., Bates, N.R., Popp, B.N., Hutchins, D.A. 2011. Global declines in marine nitrification rates as a consequence of ocean acidification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(1): 208- 213, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1011053108 

   Rose, J.M., Feng, Y., Ditullio, G.R., Dunbar, R.B., Hare, C.E., Lee, P.A., Lohan, M., Long, M.C., Smith, W.O., Sohst, B., Tozzi. S., Zhang, Y., Hutchins, D.A. 2009. Synergistic effects of iron and temperature on Antarctic phytoplankton assemblages. Biogeosciences. 6, 3131-3147, doi:10.5194/bg-6-3131-2009. 

   Rose, J.M., Feng, Y., Gobler, C.J., et al. 2009. The effects of increased pCO2 and temperature on the North Atlantic spring bloom. II. Microzooplankton dynamics. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 388: 27-40. 

    Lee, P.A., Rudisill, J.R., Neeley, A.R., Hutchins, D.A., Feng, Y., Hare, C.E., Leblanc, K., DiTullio, G.R. 2009. Effects of increased pCO2 and temperature on the North Atlantic spring bloom. III. Dimethylsulfoniopropionate. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 388: 41-49. 

   Leblanc, K., Hare, C.E., Feng, Y., Berg, G.M., DiTullio, G.R., Neeley, A., Benner, I., Sprengel, C., Beck, A. Sanudo-Wilhelmy, S., Passow, U., Klinck, K., Rowe, J.M., Wilhelm, S.W., Brown, C.W., Hutchins, D.A. 2009. Distribution of calcifying and silicifying phytoplankton in relation to environmental and biogeochemical parameters during the late stages of the 2005 North East Atlantic Spring Bloom. Biogeosciences. 6: 2155-2179, doi:10.5194/bg-6-2155-2009 

   Fu, F-X., Zhang, Y., Warner, M.E., Feng, Y., Sun, J., and Hutchins, D.A. 2007. A comparison of future increased CO2 and temperature effects on sympatric Heterosigma akashiwo and Prorocentrum minimum. Harmful Algae. doi:10.1016/j.hal.2007.05.006 

   Sun, J., Feng, Y., Zhang, Y., and Hutchins, D.A. 2007. Fast microzooplankton grazing on fast-growing, low-biomass phytoplankton - A case study in spring in the Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Inland Bays and the Delaware Bay. Hydrobiologia 89: 127-139. 

   Hutchins, D.A., Fu, F.-X., Zhang, Y., Warner, M.E., Feng, Y., Portune, K., Bernhardt, P.W. and M.R. Mulholland. 2007. CO2 control of Trichodesmium N2 fixation, photosynthesis, growth rates, and elemental ratios: Implications for past, present, and future ocean biogeochemistry. Limnology and Oceanography. 52: 1293-1304. 

   Fu, F.-X., Warner, M.E., Zhang, Y., Feng, Y., Hutchins, D.A. 2007. Effects of increased temperature and CO2 on photosynthesis, growth and elemental ratios in marine Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus (Cyanobacteria). Journal of Phycology. 43: 485-496. 

   Fu, F.-X., Zhang, Y., Feng, Y., Hutchins, D.A. 2006. Phosphate and ATP uptake and growth kinetics in axenic cultures of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus CCMP1334. European Journal of Phycology, 41:15-28. 

   Feng, Y., Zhang, M., Li, J. 2004. Methods of determination of iron in the seawater. Marine Sciences. 28(1): 71-75 (in Chinese).

   Liao, Y., Feng, Y.*, Liu, Y. Li, W., Li, J., Ni, H., Shi, W. 2019. The interactive effects of nitrogen limitation and ocean acidification on the physiology of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi. Journal of Tianjin University of Science and Technology. 34(4): 56-62. (In Chinese with English abstract)

   Feng, Y.*, Xi, M. 2020. Physiological and ecological response of marine coccolithophores to global climate change: a review. Marine Environmental Science. 21: 43. doi: 10.12111/j.mes.20190231 (In Chinese with English abstract)

Book Chapter:

Feng, Y.*, Fu, F., Hutchins, D.A. Trace metal clean culturing techniques. In: Kunshan Gao (Eds): Research methods of environmental physiology in aquatic sciences. Springer. ISBN:978-981-15-5353-0

Feng, Y., Guo, J., Xi, M. A portable on-board continuous incubation device. Chinese patent no. ZL 2018 2 2136998.4

• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Marine Science                                 

• Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Microbiology                          

• Proposal Reviewer of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

• Second Tier of “131” Project, Tianjin Innovative Personnel Training Project