Staff profile

Research Fields

Most of my research focuses on understanding glacio-isostatic adjustment (GIA), which is a geophysical process between solid earth-ocean-ice sheets during glacial cycles.

In particular, I am interested in the 'missing ice' problem, which is largely associated with the poorly-constrained Antarctic deglaciation history during the last deglaciation (from the Last Glacial Maximum, LGM, ~21,000 years BP to present). Current estimations of Antarctic Ice Sheet's contribution to post-LGM global sea-level rise is ranging from ~5 to ~30 m, which largely hinders our understanding of Measurement of current Antarctic mass balance, Antarctic ice sheet's sustainability to the changing climate and future sea-level projection.

As my PhD project, I am using different kinds of observations, including field glacio-geological records and sea-level records, and numerical models to investigate the Antarctic contribution to the post-LGM global sea-level rise. 

MSc (with COMMENDATION) in Earth Sciences (Advanced), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (2017-2019)

• Thesis title: "Closing the Last Deglacial Global Sea-Level Budget by Different Antarctic Deglaciation Models"
• Supervisor: Dr Anthony Purcell

B.Eng in Resource Exploration Engineering, Chang'an University, Xi'an, China (2013-2017)

• Thesis title: "Controlling geological conditions analysis of an anonymous Cu-Au deposit in Fujian Province"
• Supervisor: Dr Huixia Chao

• 'Missing Ice' Problem
• Data Analysis
• Numerical Modelling
• Glacio-Isostatic Adjustment
• Antarctic Deglaciation History
• Global Sea-Level Change from Past to Future

Journal Article

• Lin, Y., Whitehouse, P. L., Valentine, A. P., & Woodroffe, S. A. (2023). GEORGIA: A Graph Neural Network Based EmulatOR for Glacial Isostatic Adjustment. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(18), https://doi.org/10.1029/2023gl103672
• Lin, Y., Whitehouse, P. L., Hibbert, F. D., Woodroffe, S. A., Hinestrosa, G., & Webster, J. M. (2023). Relative sea level response to mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediment loading along the Great Barrier Reef margin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 607, Article 118066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118066
• Jones, R., Johnson, J., Lin, Y., Mackintosh, A., Sefton, J., Smith, J., …Whitehouse, P. (2022). Stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the pre-Industrial Holocene. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3(8), 500-515. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00309-5
• Lin, Y., Hibbert, F., Whitehouse, P., Woodroffe, S., Purcell, A., Shennan, I., & Bradley, S. (2021). A reconciled solution of Meltwater Pulse 1A sources using sea-level fingerprinting. Nature Communications, 12, Article 2015. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21990-y

Masters Thesis

• Lin, Y. Closing the Last Deglacial Global Sea Level Budget by Different Antarctic Deglaciation Models. (Dissertation). [Awarding Organisation: Unknown]. Retrieved from https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1698167