2001.09-2004.06  Ph.D, Physical Geography, Lanzhou University, China
1998.09-2001.06  M.S., Physical Geography, Lanzhou University, China
1994.09-1998.06  B.S., Geography, Lanzhou University, China

Loess and Environmental Changes;  Luminescence Dating; Quaternary sciences; Geomorphology

2014 - present:    College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University.
2009 -2014        School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, China
2004 -2009        Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Science

1.  Global Environmental Change
2.  Natural Hazards

[1]	Liu, L., Yang, S., Li, P., Zhang, J., Li, R., Li, D., Xu, X., Luo, Y. and Yang, X., 2025. First investigation of the luminescence dating of loess in the eastern Tibetan Plateau using K-feldspar MAR MET-pIRIR protocol. Quaternary Geochronology, 86: 101648.
[2]	Li, P., Yang, S., Luo, Y., Liu, L., Zhang, Y., Liu, W., Zhang, J., Xu, X., Wen, C. and Li, Q., 2025. Indian summer monsoon history during the last glacial cycle revealed by a loess sequence from the Tibetan Plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology: 112593
[3]	Yang, S., Liu, L., Li, D., Li, R., Liu, W., Luo, Y., Li, P., Zan, J., Fang, X., 2025. New luminescence chronology of a loess-paleosol sequence at Jinchuan and its implications for aeolian deposition processes in the Tibetan Plateau. Geomorphology, 478, 109730.
[4]	Yang, S., Liu, X., Zan, J., Li, P., Xu, X., Li, D., Li, Q., Liu, L., Wen, C. and Fang, X., 2024. Multi-method luminescence dating of young aeolian dunes in the central Tibetan plateau. Quaternary Geochronology, 83: 101595.
[5]	Wang, H., Yang, J., Gao, F., Wang, S., Wang, Z., Qu, W., Li, J., Liu, X., Zhang, C., Wang, L., Fan, Y., Yang, S. and Xia, D., 2024. Middle to late Holocene climate change in the monsoon-dominated southeastern Tibetan Plateau and its relationship with human activity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 645: 112209. 
[6]	Luo, Y., Yang, S., Wen, C., Xu, X., Xiao, X., Zhou, J., Yang, X., Li, R., Zhang, J. and Fang, X., 2024. Anthropogenic effects on soils in the eastern Tibetan Plateau revealed by geochemical elemental characteristics. Environmental Research, 252: 118794.
[7]	Chen, Z., Li, Q., Li, P., Zhou, J., Su, Y., Liu, W., Luo, Y., Wen, C., Xu, X. and Yang, S., 2024. High-resolution climate change during the Marine Isotope Stage 3 revealed by Zhouqu loess in the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment: 03091333241236394..
[8]	Yang, J., Wang, H., Gao, F., Wang, Z., Wang, S., Fan, Y., Li, T., Liu, X., Qu, W., Li, J., Zhang, Y., Chen, Z., Liu, L., Ayyamperumal, R., Yang, S. and Xia, D., 2024. Holocene forcing of aeolian dust activity over the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings. Global and Planetary Change, 235: 104400.
[9]	徐雪超，刘丽，杨胜利，等. 阿坝盆地黄土记录的青藏高原东部末次冰期环境变化. 海洋地质与第四纪地质，2024，44(4)： 168-179.
[10]	Yang, S., Zhou, J., Chen, Z., Li, P., Wen, C., Xu, X., Li, Q., 2023. Westerly Variations in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau since the Last Interglacial Revealed by the Grain-Size Records of the Ganzi Loess. Atmosphere 14, 238.
[11]	Ling, Z., Yang, J., Wang, Z., Jin, J., Xia, D., Yang, S., Wang, X., Chen, F., 2023. Spatiotemporal differences in Holocene climate change in the Yarlung Tsangpo catchment, southern Tibetan Plateau, reconstructed from two sandy loess sequences. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 616, 111473.
[12]	Yang, S., Chen, Z., Chen, H., Luo, Y., Liu, L., Liu, X., Li, Q., Zhou, J., Li, P., 2022. Magnetic Properties of the Ganzi Loess and Their Implications for Precipitation History in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau Since the Last Interglacial. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 37(2), e2021PA004322.
[13]	Chen, Z., Yang, S., Luo, Y., Chen, H., Liu, L., Liu, X., Wang, S., Yang, J., Tian, W., Xia, D., 2022. HIRM variation in the Ganzi loess of the eastern Tibetan Plateau since the last interglacial period and its paleotemperature implications for the source region. Gondwana Research 101, 233-242.
[14]	Liu, L., Yang, S., Liu, X., Cheng, T., Li, P., Zhou, J., Chen, Z., Luo, Y., 2022. Effects of the size of the test dose on the SAR protocol for quartz optically stimulated luminescence dating of loess in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Geochronology 72, 101365.
[15]	Liu, L., Yang, S.L., Liu, X.J., Li, P.S., Wang, H.Y., Zhou, J.T., 2022. Variation of luminescence sensitivity of quartz grains from loess in eastern Tibetan Plateau and its provenance significance. Frontiers in Earth Science 10.
[16]	Ling, Z.Y., Yang, S.L., Xia, D.S., Wang, X., Chen, F.H., 2022. Source of the aeolian sediments in the Yarlung Tsangpo valley and its potential dust contribution to adjacent oceans. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 47(7), 1860-1871.
[17]	Li, Z., Wang, F., Luo, C., Liu, C., Wang, X., Yang, S., Ayyamperumal, R., Zhang, J., Li, B., and Fan, Y., 2022. Enhanced drying of the Tengger desert, northwest margin of East Asian summer monsoon during warming interglacials after 500 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews 293, 107735.
[18]	Yang, S., Liu, L., Chen, H., Tang, G., Luo, Y., Liu, N., Cheng, T., Li, D., 2021. Variability and environmental significance of organic carbon isotopes in Ganzi loess since the last interglacial on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. CATENA 196.
[19]	Yang, S., Liu, N., Li, D., Cheng, T., Liu, W., Li, S., Chen, H., Liu, L., Luo, Y., 2021. Quartz OSL chronology of the loess deposits in the Western Qinling Mountains, China, and their palaeoenvironmental implications since the Last Glacial period. BOREAS 50(1), 294-307.
[20]	Yang, S., Liu, X., Cheng, T., Luo, Y., Li, Q., Liu, L., Chen, Z., 2021. Stepwise Weakening of Aeolian Activities During the Holocene in the Gannan Region, Eastern Tibetan Plateau. Frontiers in Earth Science 9.
[21]	Yang, S., Luo, Y., Li, Q., Liu, W., Chen, Z., Liu, L., Liu, X., 2021. Comparisons of topsoil geochemical elements from Northwest China and eastern Tibetan Plateau identify the plateau interior as Tibetan dust source. Science of The Total Environment 798.
[22]	Liu, L., Yang, S., Cheng, T., Liu, X., Luo, Y., Liu, N., Chen, H., Chen, Z., Li, P., Liu, W., 2021. Chronology and dust mass accumulation history of the Wenchuan loess on eastern Tibetan Plateau since the last glacial. Aeolian Research. 53, 100748.
[23]	Cheng, T., Zhang, D., Smith, G.M., Joeris, O., Wang, J., Yang, S., Xia, H., Shen, X., Li, Q., Chen, X., Lin, D., Han, Y., Liu, Y., Qiang, M., Li, B., Chen, F., 2021. Hominin occupation of the Tibetan Plateau during the Last Interglacial Complex. Quaternary Science Reviews. 265.
[24]	Ning, W.-X., Zan, J.-B., Yang, S.-L., Fang, X.-M., Shen, M.-M., Kang, J., et al.,2021. A combined rock magnetic and meteorological investigation of the precipitation boundary across the Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094808. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094808
[25]	Song, Y., Yang, S., Nie, J., Zan, J., Song, C., 2021. Quaternary paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental changes in Central Asia. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 568.
[26]	Wu, D., Zhang, C., Wang, T., Liu, L., Zhang, X., Yuan, Z., Yang, S., Chen, F., 2021. East-west asymmetry in the distribution of rainfall in the Chinese Loess Plateau during the Holocene. CATENA 207.
[27]	李冬雪, 刘楠楠, 杨胜利, 刘维明, 成婷, 刘丽, 罗元龙, 2021. 石英标准生长曲线在青藏高原东缘黄土光释光测年中的应用. 第四纪研究 41(1), 111-122.
[28]	Yang, S., Li, D., Liu, N., Zan, J., Liu, W., Kang, J., Murodov, A., Fang, X., 2020. Quartz optically stimulated luminescence dating of loess in Tajikistan and its paleoclimatic implications for arid Central Asia since the Lateglacial. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 556.
[29]	Fang, X., An, Z., Clemens, S.C., Zan, J., Shi, Z., Yang, S., Han, W., 2020. The 3.6-Ma aridity and westerlies history over midlatitude Asia linked with global climatic cooling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117(40), 24729-24734.
[30]	Ling, Z., Yang, S., Wang, X., Wang, J., Xia, D., Chen, F., 2020. Spatial-temporal differentiation of eolian sediments in the Yarlung Tsangpo catchment, Tibetan Plateau, and response to global climate change since the Last Glaciation. Geomorphology 357.
[31]	Miao, Y., Song, Y., Li, Y., Yang, S., Li, Y., Zhao, Y., Zeng, M., 2020. Late Pleistocene fire in the Ili Basin, Central Asia, and its potential links to paleoclimate change and human activities. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 547.
[32]	Zhao, Z., Granger, D., Zhang, M., Kong, X., Yang, S., Chen, Y., Hu, E., 2016. A test of the isochron burial dating method on fluvial gravels within the Pulu volcanic sequence, West Kunlun Mountains, China. Quaternary Geochronology. 34, 75-80.
[33]	Miao, Y., Fang, X., Song, C., Yan, X., Zhang, P., Meng, Q., Li, F., Wu, F., Yang, S., Kang, S., Wang, Y., 2016. Late Cenozoic fire enhancement response to aridification in mid-latitude Asia: Evidence from microcharcoal records. Quaternary Science Reviews. 139, 53-66.
[34]	Zan, J., Fang, X., Yang, S., Yan, M., 2015. Bulk particle size distribution and magnetic properties of particle-sized fractions from loess and paleosol samples in Central Asia. Geochem Geophy Geosy 16(1), 101-111.
[35]	Yang S.L., Forman, S.L., Song Y.G., Pierson J., Mazzocco J., Li, X.X., Shi Z.T., Fang X.M.,2014. Evaluating OSL-SAR protocols for dating quartz grains from the loess in Ili Basin, Central Asia. Quaternary Geochronology 20, 78-88.
[36]	Miao, Y., Herrmann, M., Wu, F., Yan, X., Yang, S., 2012. What controlled Mid-Late Miocene long-term aridification in Central Asia? - Global cooling or Tibetan Plateau uplift: A review. Earth-Science Reviews 112(3-4), 155-172.
[37]	Han, W., Fang, X., Yang, S., King, J., 2010. Differences between East Asian and Indian monsoon climate records during MIS3 attributed to differences in their driving mechanisms: Evidence from the loess record in the Sichuan basin, southwestern China and other continental and marine climate records. Quaternary International 218(1-2), 94-103.
[38]	Yang, S., Fang, X., Shi, Z., Lehmkuhl, F., Song, C., Han, Y., Han, W., 2010. Timing and provenance of loess in the Sichuan Basin, southwestern China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 292(1-2), 144-154.
[39]	Yang, S., Fang, X., Yan, M., Shi, Z., Song, C., Han, Y., 2010. Grain size profiles in the Chengdu Clay, eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for significant drying of Asia since similar to 500 ka BP. Journal of Asian Earth Science. 38(1-2), 57-64.
[40]	Zan, J., X. Fang, S. Yang, J. Nie, and X. Li (2010), A rock magnetic study of loess from the West Kunlun Mountains, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 115(B10), doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JB007184.