Yurena Yanes

Yurena Yanes works on Late Quaternary mollusks assemblages to estimate environmental and climatic changes through time. She has integrated multiple techniques and disciplines on well-preserved terrestrial gastropods, including stable isotopes, aminoacid dating, taxonomy, taphonomy and paleoecology; to rebuild and characterize ancient environments from the Canary Islands. Currently, she is working under Dr. Christopher S. Romanek mentorship on stable isotopes (CF-IRMS) and laser ablation (LA-ICPMS) techniques.

Selected peer-review research publications:

1. Yanes, Y., Delgado, A., Castillo, C., Alonso, M.R., Ibáñez, M., De la Nuez, J., Kowalewski, M. 2008. Stable isotope (δ¹⁸O, δ¹³C, and δD) signatures of recent terrestrial communities from a low-latitude, oceanic setting: endemic land snails, plants, rain, and carbonate sediments from the eastern Canary Islands. Chemical Geology. In press.
   
   
2. Huntley, J.W., Yanes, Y., Kowalewski, M., Castillo, C., Delgado-Huertas, A., Ibáñez, M., Alonso, M.R., Ortiz, J.E., Torres, T. 2008. Testing limiting similarity in Quaternary terrestrial gastropods. Paleobiology. In press.
   
   
3. Yanes, Y., Tomašových, A., Kowalewski, M., Castillo, C., Aguirre, J., Alonso, M.R., Ibáñez, M. 2008. Taphonomy and compositional fidelity of Quaternary fossil assemblages of terrestrial gastropods from carbonate-rich environments of the Canary Islands. Lethaia, 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2007.00047.x
   
   
4. Yanes, Y., Kowalewski, M., Ortiz, J.E., Castillo, C., Torres, T., De la Nuez, J. 2007. Scale and structure of time-averaging (age mixing) in terrestrial gastropod assemblages from Quaternary eolian deposits of the eastern Canary Islands. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 251: 283-299.
   
   
5. Ortiz, J.E., Torres, T., Yanes, Y., Castillo, C., De la Nuez, J., Ibáñez, M., Alonso, M.R. 2006. Climatic cycles inferred from the aminostratigraphy and aminochronology of Quaternary dunes and paleosols from the eastern islands of the Canary Archipelago. Journal of Quaternary Science, 21: 287-306.

Selected abstracts:

1. Yanes, Y., Romanek, C.S., Castillo, C., Delgado, A. 2007. Shell size shifts of a Quaternary helicid from the Canary Islands and its possible causes. 2007. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting and Exposition, (28-31 of October, 2007) Denver, Colorado (USA), Paper no. 26-28, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6, p. 76. [poster in English].
   
   
2. Yanes, Y., Kowalewski, M. 2007. Estimates of time-averaging in terrestrial gastropod assemblages from the Quaternary of Canary Islands. 2007 Geological Society of America. Southeastern Section, 56th Annual Meeting, (29-30 of March, 2007) Savannah, Georgia (USA). Paper no. 22-10, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 2, p. 69. [talk in English].
   
   
3. Yanes, Y., Delgado, A., Kowalewski, M. 2006. Stable isotope composition of modern land snails from Canary Islands. 2006 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting and Exposition, (22-25 of October, 2006) Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA). Paper no. 202-10, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, p. 488. [poster in English].
   
   
4. Huntley, J., Yanes, Y., Kowalewski, M. 2006. A tale of two snails: testing limiting similarity in Quaternary Theba. 2006 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting and Exposition, (22-25 of October, 2006) Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA). Paper no. 155-4, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, p. 382. [talk in English].
   
   

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