Kevin M. Yeager

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  • Associate Professor
  • Director - SERRL
  • Earth & Environmental Sciences
kevin.yeager@uky.edu
Slone Research Building, Rm. 107, SERRL - Slone Research Building, Ste. 104
859-257-5431
PDF icon Yeager_Vita - 2019.pdf
Sedimentary and Environmental Radiochemistry Research Laboratory
  • Other Affiliations:
    • UK Natural Resources and Environmental Science
Research Interests:
  • Geomorphology
  • Limnology
  • Marine Sciences
  • Geochemistry
  • Environmental Sciences
  • climate science
Education
Ph.D. - Geology and Geophysics - Texas A&M University
 
M.S. - Geology - University of Toledo
 
B.S. - Geology - Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Research
Sedimentary processes in and climate change- and human-driven impacts on rivers, lakes, coastal and marine environments
 
Fates and impacts of terrestrial and aquatic contaminants
 
Radiochemical and geochemical methods applied to questions in geology, geomorphology, limnology, and marine science
         
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Selected Publications: 

 

  • Zhang, H., S. Huo, Z. Xiao, K.M. Yeager, J. Zhang, X. Li, 2020. Sedimentary DNA record of eukaryotic algal and cyanobacterial communities in a shallow lake driven by human activities and climate change. Science of the Total Environment in press.
  • Lucas, J.S., M.M. McGlue, I.A. Kimirei, M.J. Soreghan, A. Mbonde, K.M. Yeager, P. Limbu, C. Apse, P. McIntyre, 2020. Geophysical benthic habitat mapping in Lake Tanganyika (Tanzania): Implications for spatial planning of small-scale coastal protected areas. J. of Great Lakes Research 46(2): 243-254.
  • Lo, E., M.M. McGlue, A. Silva, I. Bergier, K.M. Yeager, H. Macedo, M. Swallom, M.L. Assine, 2019. Fluvio-lacustrine sedimentary processes and landforms on the distal Paraguay fluvial megafan (Brazil). Geomorphology 342: 163-175.
  • Buongiorno, J., L. Herbert, L. Wehrmann, A. Michaud, K. Laufer, H. Roy, B.B. Jorgensen, A. Szynkiewicz, A. Faiia, K.M. Yeager, K.J. Schindler, K. Lloyd, 2019. Complex microbial communities drive iron and sulfur cycling in Arctic fjord sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology DOI:10.1128/AEM.00949-19. 
  • Zhang, H., S. Huo, K.M. Yeager, C. Li, B. Xi, J. Zhang, Z. He, C. Ma, 2019. Apparent relationships between anthropogenic factors and climate change indicators and POPs deposition in a lacustrine system. J. of Environmental Sciences 83: 174-182.
  • Zhang, H., S. Huo, K.M. Yeager, B. Xi, J. Zhang, F. Wu, 2019. A historical sedimentary record of mercury in a shallow eutrophic lake: Impacts of human activities and climate change. Engineering 5(2): 296-304.
  • Yan, D., H. Xu, J. Lan, K. Zhou, Y. Ye, J. Zhang, Z. An, K.M. Yeager, 2019. Solar activity and the westerlies dominate decadal hydroclimate changes over arid central Asia. Global and Planetary Change 173: 53-60.
  • Yeager, K.M., P.C. Wolfe, R.A. Feagin, C.A. Brunner, K.J. Schindler, 2019. Active near surface growth faulting and late Holocene history of motion: Matagorda Peninsula, Texas. Geomorphology 327: 159-169.
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