Yutian Ke
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Yutian Ke
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Scientist studying riverine carbon.
Postdoc at Caltech.
Interested in terrestrial organic carbon degradation and preservation, floodplain and delta carbon cycling, sediment transport and landscape evolution, and landslides.
What happens to organic carbon after burial in Arctic floodplains?
Check our new study @natcomms.nature.com tracking organic carbon over ~6,000 years using a natural floodplain chronosequence in Alaska.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Persistent organic carbon storage in river floodplains over millennia - Nature Communications
A study of Arctic river floodplains shows that buried organic carbon undergoes minimal degradation over 6,000 years, identifying these landscapes as important long-term carbon reservoirs in a warming ...
www.nature.com
April 27, 2026 at 11:34 PM