The Yu Lab is in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our research seeks to gain a mechanistic understanding of the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle by investigating how biological, ecological, and hydrological drivers of the nitrogen cycle are recorded and reflected in light stable isotopes (e.g., nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen) and how these isotopic imprints can be effectively used to infer and model the sources, transport, and transformation of reactive nitrogen along the terrestrial-aquatic-atmospheric continuum. For more information, see “Research”
CONTACT INFO
Zhongjie Yu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
1102 S Goodwin Ave
Urbana, Illinois 61801
phone: 217-244-8009
email: zjyu@illinois.edu
LAB NEWS
8/1/21: We are looking for a motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to work on the new NSF N2O project. See “Opportunities” for more details.
7/26/21: New NSF research grant award to PI Yu from Atmospheric Chemistry.Title: Corroborative Research: Isotopic fingerprinting of nitrous oxide from the United States Corn Belt. We will be collaborating with the Biometeorology Group at UMN and the Yang Lab at UIUC to characterize the sources and magnitude of regional N2O emissions in the US Midwest using N2O isotopocules and tall tower observations.
1/25/21: Undergrad Researcher Naglis Subacius joined the Yu Lab through the University of Illinois Ignite Research Program.
1/25/21: The Yu Lab welcomes new PhD student Yinchao Hu. Yinchao will be working on the new NREC project to examine nitrate sources and cycling in tile-drained C/S systems using stable nitrogen and oxygen isotopes.
8/15/20: New grant awarded to PI Yu from the Illinois Nutrient Research & Education Council.Title: Sources and cycling of nitrate in tile-drained corn-soybean systems: A stable isotope approach.