Assistant Scientist Xiaoting Yang comes to WHOI from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), where she was a postdoc associate. Xiaoting received her PhD from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, and her BSc from the School of Physics, Peking University. Xiaoting’s research focuses on large-scale ocean circulation, especially the deep-ocean component. Her current research studies global-scale meridional overturning circulation (MOC) as an important player in the climate system, with significant transports of heat, salt, oxygen, carbon, and nutrients. She aims to understand the different paths of the MOC and their dynamics, in both Eulerian and Lagrangian perspectives. 

In her free time, Xiaoting enjoys both indoors and outdoors activities, such as hiking in the mountains and forests, crocheting and baking.