Bernard Yang

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Victoria, working with the C-PROOF team on understanding how offshore ocean dynamics affect ocean productivity and salmon migration paths in the northeast Pacific. I am supervised primarily by Tetjana Ross at the Institute of Ocean Sciences and Jody Klymak at the University of Victoria.


During my PhD studies, I worked with Mathew Wells at the University of Toronto on under-ice convection in lakes and its consequences on the thermal structure and oxygen distribution in these lakes.


Education:



Research interests: Observational physical oceanography and limnology, winter limnology



Publications: (Google scholar link)


1. Yang, B., Wells, M., McMeans, B., Dugan, H., Rusak, J., Weyhenmeyer, G., Brentrup, J., Hrycik, A., Laas, A., Pilla, R., Austin, J., Blanchfield, P., Carey, C., Guzzo, M., Lottig, N., Mackay, M., Middel, T., Pierson, D., Wang, J., & Young, J. (2020). A New Thermal Categorization of Ice-Covered Lakes. Geophysical Research Letters , 48(3). doi: 10.1029/2020GL091374


2. Yang, B., Wells, M., Li, J.Z., & Young, J. (2020). Mixing, stratification and plankton under lake-ice during winter in a large lake: implications for spring dissolved oxygen levels. Limnology & Oceanography, 65(11). doi: 10.1002/lno.11543


3. Yang, B., Young, J., Brown, L., & Wells, M. (2017). High-Frequency Observations of Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen Reveal Under-Ice Convection in a Large Lake. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(24). doi: 10.1002/2017GL075373 (A short article by RBR on the study can be found here)


Upcoming Talks:


  • A New Thermal Categorization of Seasonally Ice-covered Lakes: Implications on Under-ice Convection and Oxygen Dynamics. (UBC-Vancouver Hydrotechnical and Environmental Fluid Mechanics Seminars). March 3, 2022



Recent talks:


1. Yang, B., Wells, M.,et al. (2020). A New Lake Classification System based on Thermal Profiles to Better Understand the Most Dominant Lake Type on Earth. Queen's University Limnology Seminar Series



2. Yang, B., Wells, M., Li, J.Z., & Young, J. (2020). Revealing under-ice convection in a large lake. RBR webinar series



3. Yang, B. & Wells, M., and others (2020). Wind mixing during the restratification period in dimictic lakes determines initial winter thermal profiles under the ice: observations from a range of Northern American, European, and Asian lakes. PPNW 2020 (Virtual).



4. Yang, B. & Wells, M.(2019). Horizontal and vertical circulation in an ice covered lake: results from high frequency observations in 2019. GLEON 21. Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. (Poster Download)



5. Yang, B., Wells, M., Li, J.Z., & Young, J. (2019). Springtime Water Column Concentrations of Dissolved Oxygen in a Deep Lake are Higher Following Longer Winters: A Comparison of Results from Three Winters. AGU Chapman Conference: Winter Limnology in a Changing World. FLBS, Polson, Montana, USA. (Poster Download)


6. Yang, B, & Wells, M. (2019). Potential Role of Hydrodynamics Beneath Lake Ice upon the Cryosphere. IUGG 2019, Montreal, Canada (Oral)


7. Yang, B, & Wells, M. (2018). Velocity Measurements from a 5-beam ADCP Reveals Varying Benthic Turbulence in Hamilton Harbour. International Association for Great Lakes Research 61st Annual Conference, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada (Oral)


8. Yang, B., Young, J., Brown, L., & Wells, M. (2018). High frequency observations of temperature and oxygen in an ice-covered lake over three winters reveal turbulent overturns and convective mixing. 8th International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics, University of Notre Dame, USA (Oral)


9. Yang, B., Young, J., Brown, L., & Wells, M. (2017). High frequency observations of temperature and oxygen in a large Canadian lake over two winters reveal the role of solar radiation and ice cover in the development of the mixed layer. 51st CMOS Congress, Toronto, Canada (Poster)


10. Yang, B., Young, J., Brown, L., & Wells, M. (2017). High frequency observations of radiatively driven convection under winter ice in Lake Simcoe. International Association for Great Lakes Research 60th Annual Conference, Detroit, USA (Oral)


11. Yang, B., Young, J., Brown, L., & Wells, M. (2017). High frequency observations of temperature and oxygen in a large Canadian lake over two winters reveal differences between a severe and a mild winter. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (Oral)


12. Yang, B., Young, J., Brown, L., & Wells, M. (2016). High frequency observations of under-ice convection. 24th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Montreal, Canada (Oral)