DEPT OF EARTH SCIENCES



Researcher : Ali JR

Project Title:Paleomagnetic study of paleogene rocks, Kazakhstan, central Asia
Investigator(s):Ali JR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for New Staff
Start Date:02/2003


Project Title:Quest for the lost arc of Neotethys: refining models for the India-Asia convergence-collision system
Investigator(s):Ali JR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2016
Completion Date:09/2017


Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Science)
Investigator(s):Ali JR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:02/2016


List of Research Outputs

Ali J.R., Islands as biological substrates: continental, Journal of Biogeography. 2018, 45: 1003-1018.
Ali J.R., New explanation for elements of Hainan Island's biological assemblage may stretch things a little too far, Ecography. 2018, 41: 457-460.
Queaño K.L., Marquez E.J., Dimalanta C.B., Aitchison J.C., Ali J.R. and Yumul G.P., Mesozoic radiolarian faunas from the northwest Ilocos Region, Luzon, Philippines and their tectonic significance, Island Arc. 2017, 26: e12195.


Researcher : Aydin A

Project Title:Mechanisms of landslides along clayey veins in saprolitic profiles
Investigator(s):Aydin A, Aydin NS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2003


Project Title:Quantification and mapping of liquefaction potential of loaog city, the Philippines: phase II
Investigator(s):Aydin A
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:07/2005


Project Title:DURABILITY OF LIMESTONE AS ARMOURSTONE
Investigator(s):Aydin A, Aydin NS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:12/2005


Project Title:Development of a scheme for microstructural characterization of weathered rocks
Investigator(s):Aydin A, Aydin NS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:08/2006




Researcher : Aydin NS

Project Title:Comparative study on speciation of potentially toxic organic and inorganic elements in urban environments of Hong Kong and Guangzhou
Investigator(s):Aydin NS, Malpas JG
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:04/2003


Project Title:Fate of heavy metals released into fluvial system: Assessment of health and environmental effects of E-waste recycling/disposal in Guiyu, SE China
Investigator(s):Aydin NS, Malpas JG, Aydin A
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:01/2004


Project Title:Trace elements in Chinese coal: (Phase-I) domestic coal combustion and their health impact
Investigator(s):Aydin NS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:05/2005


Project Title:Atmospheric deposition of mercury in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Aydin NS, Gu J
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Environment and Conservation Fund
Start Date:02/2006




Researcher : BROUSSOLLE AJL

List of Research Outputs

YU Y., Sun M., Long X., Li P., Zhao G., Kröner A., BROUSSOLLE A.J.L. and Yang J., Whole-rock Nd–Hf isotopic study of I-type and peraluminous granitic rocks from the Chinese Altai: Constraints on the nature of the lower crust and tectonic setting, Gondwana Research. 2017, 47: 131-141.


Researcher : CHEN H-C

List of Research Outputs

CHEN H.-.C., Zhao G., Sun M. and Zhou H., Geochemistry of .5 Ga granitoids at the northern margin of the Yinshan Block: implications for the crustal evolution of the North China Craton, Precambrian Research. Elsevier, 2017, 303: 673-686.
CHEN H.-.C., Zhao G., Jahn B., Sun M. and Zhou H., U-Pb zircon ages and Hf isotopes of ∼2.5 Ga granitoids from the Yinshan Block, North China Craton: implications for crustal growt, Precambrian Research. 2017, 303: 171-182.


Researcher : CHEN Q

List of Research Outputs

CHEN Q., Sun M., Zhao G., Yang F., Long X., Li J., WANG J. and YU Y., Origin of the mafic microgranular enclaves (MMEs) and their host granitoids from the Tagong pluton in Songpan–Ganze terrane: An igneous response to the closure of the Paleo-Tethys ocean, Lithos. 2017, 290-291: 1-17.
CHEN Q., Sun M., Long X., Zhao G., WANG J., YU Y. and Yuan C., Provenance study for the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks from the west Yangtze Block: Constraint on possible link of South China to the Gondwana supercontinent reconstruction, Precambrian Research. Elsevier, 2018, 309: 271-289.


Researcher : CHEN W

List of Research Outputs

Chen W., Sun W.H., Zhou M.F. and Wang W., Ca. 1050 Ma intra-continental rift-related A-type felsic rocks in the southwestern Yangtze Block, South China, Precambrian Research. 2018, 309: 22-44.
LIU P., Zhou M.F., Zhao G., Chung S.L., CHEN W. and Wang F., Eocene granulite-facies metamorphism prior to deformation of the Mianhuadi mafic complex in the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone, Yunnan Province, SW China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2017, 145: 626-640.
Li X., Zhou M.F., Chen W., Zhao X.F. and Tran M.D., Uranium-lead dating of hydrothermal zircon and monazite from the Sin Quyen Fe-Cu-REE-Au-(U) deposit, northwestern Vietnam, Mineralium Deposita. 2018, 53: 399-416.
Wang W., Cawood P.A., Pandit M.K., Zhou M.F. and Chen W., Zircon U–Pb age and Hf isotope evidence for an Eoarchaean crustal remnant and episodic crustal reworking in response to supercontinent cycles in NW India, Journal of the Geological Society. 2017, 174: 759-772.


Researcher : Cai K

List of Research Outputs

YU Y., Sun M., Huang X., Zhao G., Li P., Long X., Cai K. and Xia X., Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb isotopic evidence for modification of the Devonian lithospheric mantle beneath the Chinese Altai, Lithos. 2017, 284-285: 207-221.


Researcher : Chan KY

List of Research Outputs

So W.K., Chan K.Y. and Not C.A., Presence of plastic microbeads in Hong Kong waters, Marine Pollution Bulletin. Elsevier, 2018, 133: 500-505.


Researcher : Chan LS

Project Title:Joint HK-France-Vietnam production of a neotectonic map of South China-Southeast Asia region
Investigator(s):Chan LS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:The University of Hong Kong Foundation Seed Grant
Start Date:04/2002


List of Research Outputs

Zhou Y., Leung Y. and Chan L.S., Oscillatory tendency of interevent direction in earthquake sequences, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 2017, 478: 120-130.


Researcher : Chang S

Project Title:Goldschmidt 2011 High-precision age for the Haifanggou Formation and its implication for the coevolution of plants and atmospheric CO2
Investigator(s):Chang S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2011


Project Title:Age of the Tabbowa beds in Sri Lanka and implications for paleoenvironment of East Gondwana
Investigator(s):Chang S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:08/2014


Project Title:High-precision geochronological constraints on the evolution of Mesozoic ecosystems in the Korean Peninsula
Investigator(s):Chang S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:12/2014


Project Title:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards 2015-16
Investigator(s):Chang S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards
Start Date:06/2015


Project Title:Age of the fossil-rich formations in the Shandong Peninsula
Investigator(s):Chang S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2015


Project Title:The age, origin and tectonic history of the Vijayan Complex, Sri Lanka
Investigator(s):Chang S, Tam PY, Ng WPS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2016
Completion Date:05/2018


Project Title:High-precision ages for the Jehol fossil-bearing formations in South China
Investigator(s):Chang S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2016


Project Title:Age for the basal sauropods in Sichuan
Investigator(s):Chang S, Pei R, Wang J
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2017


Project Title:Age of the fossil-rich Fotan Group, SE China
Investigator(s):Chang S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:07/2017


Project Title:Timing and pattern of Triassic insect radiation
Investigator(s):Chang S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2018


List of Research Outputs

Chang S. and Hemming S., Age for the oldest crown-group salamanders, Goldschmidt 2018 Meeting. 2018.
Chang S., Sun M. and Wang B., Geologic and Geochronologic analysis of fossil-bearing amber from Myanmar, RGC General Research Fund. 2018.
Chang S., Gao K., Zhou C. and Jourdan F., New chronostratigraphic constraints on the Yixian Formation with implications for the Jehol Biota, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2017, 487: 399-406.
Chang S., Wang J. and Pei R., Timing and pattern of Triassic insect radiation, HKU Seed Fund for Basic Research. 2018.
Su B., Hu Y., Teng F., Xiao Y., Zhou X., Sun Y., Zhou M.F. and Chang S., Magnesium isotope constraints on subduction contribution to Mesozoic and Cenozoic East Asian continental basalts, Chemical Geology. 2017, 466: 116-122.
Wang J., Chang S., Pei R. and Ye Y., Age of Mamenchisaurus in Sichuan, China: A reappraisal, The 2nd Joint Conference of the Palaeontological Society of China & the Paläontologische Gesellschaft. 2017.
Wang J., Ye Y., Chang S., Zhang H. and ZHENG D., Reappraised age for the Shunosaurus fauna in Dashanpu, Zigong, Sichuan, China, 四川自贡大山铺蜀龙动物群年龄重新厘定, Conference on Earth System Science, CESS. 地球科学系统大会, 2017.
Zheng D., Zhang H., Wang B. and Chang S., A new species of damsel-dragonfly (Odonata: Stenophlebiidae: Cretastenophlebia) from the Lower Cretaceous of the Jiuquan Basin, northwestern China, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 2018, 107: 185-189.
Zheng D., Chang S., Nel A., Jarzembowski E., Zhou D. and Wang B., Electrodysagrion lini gen. et sp. nov., the oldest Dysagrionini (Odonata: Zygoptera: Dysagrionidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber., Cretaceous Research. 2017, 77: 44-48.
Zheng D., Nel A., Chang S., Jarzembowski E., Zhou D. and Wang B., Paracoryphagrionidae fam. nov., a pseudostigmatoid damselfly from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber showing regular series of triangular cells (Odonata: Zygoptera: Coenagrionida), Cretaceous Research. 2018, 81: 93-97.


Researcher : Dingle CE

Project Title:Avian behavioural responses to urbanization – case study of the Oriental Magpie Robin.
Investigator(s):Dingle CE
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff
Start Date:07/2015
Completion Date:07/2017


Project Title:Conservation Forensic Analysis: Optimizing a multi-marker toolkit
Investigator(s):Dingle CE
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2017


Project Title:Ecological Society of America; Urban blues: both oscine and non-oscine birds adjust their songs in noisy cities
Investigator(s):Dingle CE
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2017
Completion Date:08/2017


Project Title:Assessing the population status and ecological niche of the Critically Endangered Yellow-Crested Cockatoo Cacatua sulphurea in Singapore
Investigator(s):Dingle CE
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Wildlife Reserves Singapore Conservation Fund (WRSCF)
Start Date:01/2018


Project Title:Assessing threats to yellow-crested cockatoos (cacatua sulphurea) in native habitats in Indonesia, and conservation opportunities in introduced populations in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Dingle CE
Department:School of Biological Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:National Geographic Society - General Award
Start Date:04/2018




Researcher : Fang X

List of Research Outputs

Fang X., Garcia-Benito R..., Guerrero M...A..., Zhang Y., Liu X...-.W... and Yuan H...-.B..., Abundances and Gradients in M31 -- A Chemical Study of PNe in the Substructures, International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 323 (IAUS323): Planetary Nebulae: Multi-wavelength Probes of Stellar and Galactic Evolution. 2017.
Fang X., Garcia-Benito R..., Guerrero M...A..., Liu X...-.W..., Zhang Y. and Yuan H...-.B..., Abundances and Gradients in M31 -- A Chemical Study of Planetary Nebulae in the Substructures, In: X.-W. Liu, L. Stanghellini, A. I. Karakas, International Astronomical Union Symposium 323 (IAUS323): Planetary Nebulae: Multi-wavelength Probes of Stellar and Galactic Evolution. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2017, 12: 259-263.
Fang X., García-Benito R., Guerrero M.A., Zhang Y., Liu X.W., Morisset C., Karakas A.I., Miller Bertolami M.M., Yuan H. and Cabrera-Lavers A., Chemical Abundances of Planetary Nebulae in the Substructures of M31. II. The Extended Sample and a Comparison Study with the Outer-disk Group, The Astrophysical Journal. IOP Publishing, 2018, 853(1): 50:1-33.
Fang X., Zhang Y., Kwok S., Hsia C.H., CHAU W.C., Ramos-Larios G. and Guerrero M.A., Extended Structures of Planetary Nebulae Detected in H2 Emission, The Astrophysical Journal. IOP Publishing, 2018, 859(2): 92:1-23.
Guerrero M...A..., Fang X., Chu Y...-.H... and Toala J...A..., Revealing the Location of the Mixing Layer in a Hot Bubble, In: X.-W. Liu, L. Stanghellini, A. I. Karakas, International Astronomical Union Symposium 323 (IAUS323): Planetary Nebulae: Multi-wavelength Probes of Stellar and Galactic Evolution. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2017, 12: 114-118.
Ramos-Larios G..., Guerrero M...A..., Mata H..., Fang X., Nigoche-Netro A..., Toala J...A... and Rubio G..., Spitzer IRS Spectroscopy of Planetary Nebulae, In: X.-W. Liu, L. Stanghellini, A. I. Karakas, International Astronomical Union Symposium 323 (IAUS323): Planetary Nebulae: Multi-wavelength Probes of Stellar and Galactic Evolution. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2017, 12: 335-336.
Yang H., Liu J., Gao Q. and Fang X., The Flaring Activity of M Dwarfs in the Kepler Field, The Astrophysical Journal. 2017, 849: 36.


Researcher : Goodkin Emami NF

Project Title:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards 2011-12
Investigator(s):Goodkin Emami NF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards
Start Date:09/2011




Researcher : HANSON SM

List of Research Outputs

HANSON S.M., Harvey B.P., Agostini S., Yoshimizu C., Tayasu I. and Thibodeau B., Studying the Effect of Elevated pCO2 on the Nitrogen Cycle Within the Coral Holobiont Using Stable Isotopes, Ocean Sciences Meeting. 2018.


Researcher : HU G

List of Research Outputs

HU G. and Li S.H., Simplified procedures for optical dating of young sediments using quartz, Quaternary Geochronology. 2018.


Researcher : HUANG P

List of Research Outputs

HUANG P. and Wu P.P.C., An Ice Model That is Consistent with Composite Rheology in GIA Modelling, In: Huang, P.; Patrick, W., American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2017.
HUANG P., Wu P.P.C. and van der Wal W., Effects of mantle rheologies on viscous heating induced by Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, Geophysical Journal International. 2018, 213: 157-168.


Researcher : Han Y

List of Research Outputs

Han Y. and Zhao G., Final amalgamation of the Tianshan and Junggar orogenic collage in the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Constraints on the closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean, Earth-Science Reviews. 2017.
Han Y., Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing of journal Tectonophysics, The Editors of Tectonophysics. 2017.
WANG P., Dong G., Zhao G., Han Y. and Li Y., Petrogenesis of the Pulang porphyry complex, southwestern China: Implications for porphyry copper metallogenesis and subduction of the Paleo-Tethys Oceanic lithosphere, Lithos. ELSEVIER, 2018, 304-307: 280-297.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., Sun M., Han Y. and LIU Q., Triassic magmatic reactivation in Eastern Tianshan, NW China: Evidence from geochemistry and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes of granites, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2017, 145: 446-459.


Researcher : Hu L

List of Research Outputs

Yin W., Hu L. and Jiao J.J.J., Evaluation of Groundwater Storage Variations in Northern China Using GRACE Data, Geofluids. 2017, 2017: 1-13.


Researcher : Jahn B

List of Research Outputs

CHEN H.-.C., Zhao G., Jahn B., Sun M. and Zhou H., U-Pb zircon ages and Hf isotopes of ∼2.5 Ga granitoids from the Yinshan Block, North China Craton: implications for crustal growt, Precambrian Research. 2017, 303: 171-182.


Researcher : Jiao JJJ

Project Title:Dynamics of flow, nutrients, radium, and radon in freshwater-saltwater mixing zones in coastal aquifers and its implications on estimation of submarine groundwater discharge
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


Project Title:Submarine Groundwater Discharge in South China Sea and its Implication on Nutrient Flux
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - General Program
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Effects of climate change on groundwater system of the Yangtze River source region
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ, Liu Z, Kuang X
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2015


Project Title:Groundwater discharge and lake evolution in the Badain Jaran Desert revealed by radium quartet and radon-222
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ, Kuang X, Luo X
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - General Program
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:Investigation of nutrient retention in a groundwater-fed headwater stream by stable and radiogenetic isotopes
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:01/2016
Completion Date:12/2017


Project Title:Coping with landslide risks in Hong Kong under extreme storms: Storm scenarios, cascading landslide hazards and multi-hazard risk assessment
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) - Group Research Project
Start Date:06/2016


Project Title:Investigation of groundwater residence time and reactive transport in the coastal aquifer, Ting Kok, Tolo Harbour: Field monitoring, chemical analysis and numerical modelling
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2017


Project Title:Sustainable Utilization Of Water Resources in Developing countries; Groundwater discharge and hydrologic partition of the lakes in desert environment: insights from stable 18O/2H and radium isotopes
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2017
Completion Date:08/2017


Project Title:Response of groundwater system in the Badian Jaran Desert to future climate change
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2018


Project Title:Groundwater chemical responses in a hillslope to heavy rainfall
Investigator(s):Jiao JJJ, Luo X
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2018


List of Research Outputs

Jiao J.J.J., Associate Editor, Journal of Hydro-environment Research (Elsevier) (2018-present). 2018.
Liu Y., Jiao J.J.J., Liang W.Z. and Luo X., Using Tidal Fluctuation-Induced Dynamics of Radium Isotopes ( 224 Ra, 223 Ra, and 228 Ra) to Trace the Hydrodynamics and Geochemical Reactions in a Coastal Groundwater Mixing Zone , Water Resources Research. 2018, 54: 2909-2930.
Liu Y., Jiao J.J.J., Liang W.Z. and Kuang X., Hydrogeochemical characteristics in coastal groundwater mixing zone, Applied Geochemistry. 2017, 85: 49-60.
Liu Y., Jiao J.J.J. and Liang W.Z., Tidal Fluctuation Influenced Physicochemical Parameter Dynamics in Coastal Groundwater Mixing Zone, Estuaries and Coasts. 2018, 41: 988-1001.
Liu Y., Jiao J.J.J., Liang W.Z. and Luo X., Tidal Pumping-Induced Nutrients Dynamics and Biogeochemical Implications in an Intertidal Aquifer, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2017, 122: 3322-3342.
Luo X., Jiao J.J.J., Liu Y., Zhang X.L., Liang W.Z. and Tang D.L., Evaluation of Water Residence Time, Submarine Groundwater Discharge, and Maximum New Production Supported by Groundwater Borne Nutrients in a Coastal Upwelling Shelf System, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 2018, 123: 631-655.
Shi X.Y., Wang Y., Jiao J.J.J., Zhong J.L., Wen H.G. and Dong R., Assessing major factors affecting shallow groundwater geochemical evolution in a highly urbanized coastal area of Shenzhen City, China, Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 2018, 184: 17-27.
Yin W., Hu L. and Jiao J.J.J., Evaluation of Groundwater Storage Variations in Northern China Using GRACE Data, Geofluids. 2017, 2017: 1-13.
Zheng Y., Chen S., Qin H. and Jiao J.J.J., Modeling the Spatial and Seasonal Variations of Groundwater Head in an Urbanized Area under Low Impact Development, Water. 2018, 10: 803.


Researcher : Kuang X

Project Title:Impact of ice melting due to global warming in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau on groundwater flow systems in Asia
Investigator(s):Kuang X, Jiao JJJ, Wu PPC
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:AXA Research Fund
Start Date:08/2014


List of Research Outputs

Liu Y., Jiao J.J.J., Liang W.Z. and Kuang X., Hydrogeochemical characteristics in coastal groundwater mixing zone, Applied Geochemistry. 2017, 85: 49-60.


Researcher : Kwok S

Project Title:36th COSPAR Scientific Assembly Synthesis of Organic Compounds in the Circumstellar Envelopes of Evolved Stars Prebiotic Molecules in the Circumstellar Environment
Investigator(s):Kwok S
Department:Science Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2006


Project Title:Chemical Synthesis in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution
Investigator(s):Kwok S
Department:Science Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:11/2011


Project Title:Earth as a Habitable Planet
Investigator(s):Kwok S, Shih K
Department:Science Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for Strategic Research Theme
Start Date:09/2013


Project Title:Organic Matter in Space
Investigator(s):Kwok S
Department:Science Faculty
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2015


Project Title:Astrobiology; Relationship between stellar and solar system organics
Investigator(s):Kwok S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2017
Completion Date:12/2017


List of Research Outputs

Sadjadi S., Zhang Y. and Kwok S., On The Origin Of The 3.3 Micron Unidentified Infrared Emission Feature, The Astrophysical Journal. 2017.
Zhang Y., Sadjadi S., Hsia C.H.I.H.-.H.A.O. and Kwok S., Search for Hydrogenated C60 (fulleranes) in Circumstellar Envelopes, The Astrophysical Journal. 2017.


Researcher : LI T

List of Research Outputs

LI T., Wu P.P.C., Steffen H. and Wang H.S., Laterally heterogeneous viscosity models of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in support of the global ICE-6G_C ice history model, In: Li, T., P. Wu, H. Steffen, H.S. Wang, AGU, 2017 New Orleans. 2017.
Wu P.P.C., LI T., Steffen H. and Wang H.S., Laterally heterogeneous viscosity models of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in support of the global ICE-6G_C ice history model, In: Wu, P., T. Li, H. Steffen, H.S. Wang, IAG GIA Workshop 2017, Iceland. 2018.


Researcher : LI YH

List of Research Outputs

LI Y.H., Zhao W. and Zhou M.F., Nature of parent rocks, mineralization styles and ore genesis of regolith-hosted REE deposits in South China: An integrated genetic model, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2017, 148: 65-95.


Researcher : LIU P

List of Research Outputs

LIU P., Zhou M.F., Zhao G., Chung S.L., CHEN W. and Wang F., Eocene granulite-facies metamorphism prior to deformation of the Mianhuadi mafic complex in the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone, Yunnan Province, SW China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2017, 145: 626-640.


Researcher : LIU Q

List of Research Outputs

ZHANG X., Zhao G., Sun M., Han Y. and LIU Q., Triassic magmatic reactivation in Eastern Tianshan, NW China: Evidence from geochemistry and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes of granites, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2017, 145: 446-459.


Researcher : LV K

List of Research Outputs

LV K., Norman L. and Li Y., Oxygen-free biochemistry: the putative CHN foundation for exotic life in a hydrocarbon world? , Astrobiology. 2017.


Researcher : Lee MH

Project Title:Dynamics and Origins of Outer Solar System Configurations
Investigator(s):Lee MH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2011


Project Title:Three-dimensional Structures of Extrasolar Planetary Systems
Investigator(s):Lee MH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:11/2015


Project Title:Exoplanets and Planet Formation; Dynamics of Circumstellar Planets in Binary Systems
Investigator(s):Lee MH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2017
Completion Date:12/2017


Project Title:The Effects of Giant Planet Migration on Their Formation by Pebble Accretion
Investigator(s):Lee MH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2018


List of Research Outputs

Booth R.A., Meru F., Lee M.H. and Clarke C.J., Breakthrough revisited: investigating the requirements for growth of dust beyond the bouncing barrier, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press, 2018, 475(1): 167-180.
Lee M.H., Trifonov T., WONG K.H., Reffert S. and Quirrenbach A., Dynamics of Circumstellar Planets in Binary Systems, Exoplanets and Planet Formation, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai, China. 2017.
Lee M.H., Dynamics of Circumstellar Planets in Binary Systems, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany. 2018.
Lee M.H., Dynamics of Circumstellar Planets in Binary Systems, Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanjing, China. 2018.
MAH J., Lee M.H. and Brasser R., Dynamical Stability of the TRAPPIST-1 System, Exoplanets and Planet Formation, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai, China. 2017.
NG K.S.-.C., Lee M.H. and Zong Y., A New Asymmetry Parameter for Tropical Cyclones, 33rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Ponte Vedra, FL, USA. 2018.
Trifonov T.H., Lee M.H., Reffert S. and Quirrenbach A., Dynamical Analysis of the Circumprimary Planet in the Eccentric Binary System HD 59686, The Astronomical Journal. IOP Publishing, 2018, 155(4): 174:1-14.
WONG K.H. and Lee M.H., Stability of Coplanar Circumstellar Retrograde Orbits in Binary Systems, Exoplanets and Planet Formation, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai, China. 2017.
WOO M.Y. and Lee M.H., On the Early In Situ Formation of Pluto’s Small Satellites, The Astronomical Journal. IOP Publishing, 2018, 155(4): 175:1-11.
Zhang X. and Lee M.H., Gas Dynamics of Retrograde Circumprimary Disks in Close Binaries, Exoplanets and Planet Formation, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai, China. 2017.


Researcher : Lemke KH

Project Title:Monitoring stable carbonate nanoclusters in simulated seawater using Fourier transform ion cyclotron mass spectrometry
Investigator(s):Lemke KH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2011


Project Title:Experimental studies of the molecular properties and geochemistry of prenucleation clusters
Investigator(s):Lemke KH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2011


Project Title:AGU 2012 Fall Meeting ; FT-ICR mass spectrometric and density functional theory studies of sulfate prenucleation clusters
Investigator(s):Lemke KH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2012


Project Title:Experimental and theoretical studies of metal speciation in hydrothermal ore fluids
Investigator(s):Lemke KH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:Experimental and Computational Studies of Molybdate and Tungstate Clusters in Porphyry Ore Fluids
Investigator(s):Lemke KH, Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:07/2014


Project Title:Metal Clustering and Solvation in Hydrothermal Vapors: IRMPD Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies.
Investigator(s):Lemke KH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2016




Researcher : Li J

List of Research Outputs

CHEN Q., Sun M., Zhao G., Yang F., Long X., Li J., WANG J. and YU Y., Origin of the mafic microgranular enclaves (MMEs) and their host granitoids from the Tagong pluton in Songpan–Ganze terrane: An igneous response to the closure of the Paleo-Tethys ocean, Lithos. 2017, 290-291: 1-17.
Li J., Dong S., Cawood P...A., Zhao G., Johnston S...T., Zhang Y. and Xin Y., An Andean-type retro-arc foreland system beneath northwest South China revealed by SINOPROBE profiling, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Elsevier, 2018, 490: 170-179.
Li J., Zhao G., Johnston S.T., Dong S.W., Zhang Y.Q., Xin Y., Wang W...L..., Sun H...S... and Yu Y., Permo-Triassic structural evolution of the Shiwandashan and Youjiang structural belts, South China, Journal of Structural Geology. 2017, 100: 24-44.
Li J., Zhao G., Dong S., Zhang Y. and Johnston S...T., Understanding early Paleozoic orogeny in South China: structural and geo/thermochronological constraints from the central Jiangnan Orogen and the north Cathaysia EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 20, 9494, 2018.


Researcher : Li P

List of Research Outputs

Li P., Sun M., Rosenbaum G., Yuan C., Safanova I., Cai K., Jiang Y. and Zhang Y., Geometry, kinematics and tectonic models of the Kazakhstan Orocline, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2017.
YU Y., Sun M., Huang X., Zhao G., Li P., Long X., Cai K. and Xia X., Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb isotopic evidence for modification of the Devonian lithospheric mantle beneath the Chinese Altai, Lithos. 2017, 284-285: 207-221.
YU Y., Sun M., Long X., Li P., Zhao G., Kröner A., BROUSSOLLE A.J.L. and Yang J., Whole-rock Nd–Hf isotopic study of I-type and peraluminous granitic rocks from the Chinese Altai: Constraints on the nature of the lower crust and tectonic setting, Gondwana Research. 2017, 47: 131-141.


Researcher : Li SH

Project Title:THERMOCHRONOLOGICAL STUDIES OF ROCKS FROM SOUTH-EAST TIBETAN PLATEAU
Investigator(s):Li SH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2014
Completion Date:04/2019


Project Title:15th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating; The older OSL ages are, the better: are they reliable?/Thermochronological studies of sedimentary basins using TL signals from quartz
Investigator(s):Li SH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2017


Project Title:Luminescence ages of fifth palaeosol in loess sections from the Chines loess plateau
Investigator(s):Li SH
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2018


List of Research Outputs

HU G. and Li S.H., Simplified procedures for optical dating of young sediments using quartz, Quaternary Geochronology. 2018.
TSE Y.Y. and Li S.H., Optical dating of sediments from manas lake in northwestern china: Paleoenvironmental and neotectonic implications, Geochronometria. 2017, 44: 175-187.
ZHANG J. and Li S.H., Constructions of standardised growth curves (SGCs) for IRSL signals from K-feldspar, plagioclase and polymineral fractions, Quaternary Geochronology. 2018.


Researcher : Li X

Project Title:Conference on Accessory Minerals (CAM–2017); Chemical and isotopic changes during metasomatic alteration of apatite
Investigator(s):Li X
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2017
Completion Date:09/2017


List of Research Outputs

Li X., Zhao J.H., Zhou M.F., Gao J.F., Sun W.H. and Tran M.D., Neoproterozoic granitoids from the Phan Si Pan belt, Northwest Vietnam: Implication for the tectonic linkage between Northwest Vietnam and the Yangtze Block, Precambrian Research. 2018, 309: 212-230.
Li X. and Zhou M.F., The Nature and Origin of Hydrothermal REE Mineralization in the Sin Quyen Deposit, Northwestern Vietnam, Economic Geology. 2018, 113: 645-673.
Li X., Zhou M.F., Chen W., Zhao X.F. and Tran M.D., Uranium-lead dating of hydrothermal zircon and monazite from the Sin Quyen Fe-Cu-REE-Au-(U) deposit, northwestern Vietnam, Mineralium Deposita. 2018, 53: 399-416.


Researcher : Li Y

Project Title:The 5th Astrobiology Science Conference Thermophiles as candidate iron-reducing bacteria for the putative biogenic magnetite in banded iron formations
Investigator(s):Li Y
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2008


Project Title:Mineral and elemental hyperfine structures in banded iron formations from Eoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic eons: clues for the earliest life, Oxygen Oases, phosphatization and climatic cycles
Investigator(s):Li Y, Chan LS, Malpas JG
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:07/2012


Project Title:Scytonemin as a new biomarker for tracing the emergence and early evolution of oxygenic cyanobacteria
Investigator(s):Li Y, Chan LS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Putative primary magnetite in banded iron formations: an experimental approach
Investigator(s):Li Y, Chan LS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2017


Project Title:American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting; The formation of magnetite in the early Archean oceans
Investigator(s):Li Y
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2017
Completion Date:12/2017


Project Title:The 14C-dating of dormant bacteria in halite inclusions from the West Qaidam Basin playa and its implication to the long-term preservation of microfossils on Mars
Investigator(s):Li Y
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2018


List of Research Outputs

LV K., Norman L. and Li Y., Oxygen-free biochemistry: the putative CHN foundation for exotic life in a hydrocarbon world? , Astrobiology. 2017.
Li Y., The formation of magnetite in the early Archean oceans, American Geophysical Union. 2017.
Sun S. and Li Y., Microstructures, crystallography and geochemistry of magnetite in 2500 to 2200 million-year-old banded iron formations from South Africa, Western Australia and North China, Precambrian Research. 2017, 298: 292-235.


Researcher : Li YL

Project Title:The 5th Astrobiology Science Conference Thermophiles as candidate iron-reducing bacteria for the putative biogenic magnetite in banded iron formations
Investigator(s):Li Y
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2008


Project Title:Mineral and elemental hyperfine structures in banded iron formations from Eoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic eons: clues for the earliest life, Oxygen Oases, phosphatization and climatic cycles
Investigator(s):Li Y, Chan LS, Malpas JG
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:07/2012


Project Title:Scytonemin as a new biomarker for tracing the emergence and early evolution of oxygenic cyanobacteria
Investigator(s):Li Y, Chan LS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Putative primary magnetite in banded iron formations: an experimental approach
Investigator(s):Li Y, Chan LS
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2017


Project Title:American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting; The formation of magnetite in the early Archean oceans
Investigator(s):Li Y
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2017
Completion Date:12/2017


Project Title:The 14C-dating of dormant bacteria in halite inclusions from the West Qaidam Basin playa and its implication to the long-term preservation of microfossils on Mars
Investigator(s):Li Y
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2018


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Liu Z

Project Title:Eutrophication and Associated Hypoxia in Lingding Bay and Adjacent Coastal Waters: Biogeochemical Processes and Sedimentary Records
Investigator(s):Liu Z
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme
Start Date:01/2011


Project Title:Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2012-13
Investigator(s):Liu Z
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Reconstructing detailed sea surface temperature and atmospheric CO2 changes across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition
Investigator(s):Liu Z
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2014


Project Title:Investigation of hydroclimatic changes at the marginal Asian Monsoon area over the last millennium
Investigator(s):Liu Z
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2017


List of Research Outputs

Dong J., Liu Z., An Z., Liu W., Zhou W., Qiang X. and Lu F., Mid-Miocene C 4 expansion on the Chinese Loess Plateau under an enhanced Asian summer monsoon, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 158: 153-159.
Kong D., Wei G., Chen M., Peng S. and Liu Z., Northern South China Sea SST changes over the last two millennia and possible linkage with solar irradiance, Quaternary International. Oxford, Elsevier, 2017, 459: 29-34.
Liu Z., Associate Editor, In: Editor-in-chief: M. Chen, Quaternary International. 2017.
Liu Z. and Zhou M.F., Meishucun phosphorite succession (SW China) records redox changes of the early Cambrian ocean, GSA Bulletin. 2017, 129: 11-12.
Longo W., Huang Y., Yao Y., Zhao J., Giblin A., Wang X., Zech R., Haberzettl T., Jardillier L., Toney J., Liu Z., Krivonogov S., Kolpakova M., Chu G., D'Andrea W., Harada N., Nagashima K., Sato M., Yonenobu H., Yamada K., Gotanda K. and Shinozuka Y., Widespread occurrence of distinct alkenones from Group I haptophytes in freshwater lakes: Implications for paleotemperature and paleoenvironmental reconstructions, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2018, 492: 239-250.
Qiu W., Zhou M.F. and Liu Z., Late Paleozoic SEDEX deposits in South China formed in a carbonate platform at the northern margin of Gondwana, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 156: 41-58.
Wang Z., An Z., Liu Z., Qiang X., Zhang F. and Liu W., Hydroclimatic variability in loess δD wax records from the central Chinese Loess Plateau over the past 250 ka, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 155: 49-57.


Researcher : Liu Z

List of Research Outputs

Dong J., Liu Z., An Z., Liu W., Zhou W., Qiang X. and Lu F., Mid-Miocene C 4 expansion on the Chinese Loess Plateau under an enhanced Asian summer monsoon, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 158: 153-159.
Kong D., Wei G., Chen M., Peng S. and Liu Z., Northern South China Sea SST changes over the last two millennia and possible linkage with solar irradiance, Quaternary International. Oxford, Elsevier, 2017, 459: 29-34.
Liu Z., Associate Editor, In: Editor-in-chief: M. Chen, Quaternary International. 2017.
Liu Z. and Zhou M.F., Meishucun phosphorite succession (SW China) records redox changes of the early Cambrian ocean, GSA Bulletin. 2017, 129: 11-12.
Longo W., Huang Y., Yao Y., Zhao J., Giblin A., Wang X., Zech R., Haberzettl T., Jardillier L., Toney J., Liu Z., Krivonogov S., Kolpakova M., Chu G., D'Andrea W., Harada N., Nagashima K., Sato M., Yonenobu H., Yamada K., Gotanda K. and Shinozuka Y., Widespread occurrence of distinct alkenones from Group I haptophytes in freshwater lakes: Implications for paleotemperature and paleoenvironmental reconstructions, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2018, 492: 239-250.
Qiu W., Zhou M.F. and Liu Z., Late Paleozoic SEDEX deposits in South China formed in a carbonate platform at the northern margin of Gondwana, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 156: 41-58.
Wang Z., An Z., Liu Z., Qiang X., Zhang F. and Liu W., Hydroclimatic variability in loess δD wax records from the central Chinese Loess Plateau over the past 250 ka, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 155: 49-57.


Researcher : Luo X

List of Research Outputs

Liu Y., Jiao J.J.J., Liang W.Z. and Luo X., Using Tidal Fluctuation-Induced Dynamics of Radium Isotopes ( 224 Ra, 223 Ra, and 228 Ra) to Trace the Hydrodynamics and Geochemical Reactions in a Coastal Groundwater Mixing Zone , Water Resources Research. 2018, 54: 2909-2930.
Liu Y., Jiao J.J.J., Liang W.Z. and Luo X., Tidal Pumping-Induced Nutrients Dynamics and Biogeochemical Implications in an Intertidal Aquifer, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2017, 122: 3322-3342.
Luo X., Jiao J.J.J., Liu Y., Zhang X.L., Liang W.Z. and Tang D.L., Evaluation of Water Residence Time, Submarine Groundwater Discharge, and Maximum New Production Supported by Groundwater Borne Nutrients in a Coastal Upwelling Shelf System, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 2018, 123: 631-655.


Researcher : MAH J

List of Research Outputs

MAH J., Lee M.H. and Brasser R., Dynamical Stability of the TRAPPIST-1 System, Exoplanets and Planet Formation, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai, China. 2017.


Researcher : Malpas JG

Project Title:Outstanding Researcher Award 2003-2004
Investigator(s):Malpas JG
Department:President's Office
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Researcher Award
Start Date:10/2004


Project Title:Investigation of the causes and consequence of Acid Mine waters in disused open pit Cu-Fe sulphide mines
Investigator(s):Malpas JG
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:09/2009




Researcher : Mc Kenzie NR

Project Title:Source-to-sink evaluation of bedrock weathering
Investigator(s):Mc Kenzie NR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff
Start Date:03/2017


Project Title:Multi-proxy geochemical and geo-/thermochronologic investigation of continental crust evolution through Earth history.
Investigator(s):Mc Kenzie NR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:08/2017


Project Title:American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Fall Meeting; Plate tectonic influences on Earth’s baseline climate: a ~2 billion-year record
Investigator(s):Mc Kenzie NR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2017
Completion Date:12/2017


Project Title:Acquisition of a Thermo Scientific iCAP Qc Quadrupole ICP-MS
Investigator(s):Mc Kenzie NR, Not CA, Zhou MF, Zhao G, Webb AAG, Jiao JJJ, Baker DM, Bonebrake TC
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Equipment Grant
Start Date:04/2018


Project Title:Calibrating zircon trace element data as a proxy for crustal processes
Investigator(s):Mc Kenzie NR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2018


List of Research Outputs

Capaldi T.N., Horton B.K., Mc Kenzie N.R., Odlum M.L. and Stockli D.F., Sediment provenance in retroarc orogenic systems: The detrital zircon record from modern rivers in the Andean foreland of western Argentina, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2017, 479: 83-97.
Colleps C.L., Mc Kenzie N.R., Stockli D.F., Singh B.P., Webb A.A.G., Hughes N.C., Myrow P.M. and Horton B.K., Thermochronometric constraints on Himalayan thrust belt dynamics, weathering, and Neogene seawater chemistry, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 2018.
Mc Kenzie N.R., Carbon Cycle: Zircons reveal ancient perturbations, Nature Geoscience. 2017, 10: 884-886.
Mc Kenzie N.R., Smye A.J., Hegde V.S. and Stokli D.F., Continental growth histories revealed by detrital zircon trace elements: a case study from India, Geology. 2018.
Mc Kenzie N.R., The Cambrian paleogeographic position of Shan-Thai (Thailand) in eastern Gondwana: insights from strata of Tarutao Island (INVITED), DMR-CCOP-TNCU Technical Seminar on "Biostratigraphy and Karst Morphology of Satun Aspiring Geopark". 2017.
Tang Q., Hughes N.C., Mc Kenzie N.R., Myrow P.M. and Xiao S., Late Mesoproterozoic–early Neoproterozoic organic-walled microfossils from the Madhubani Group of the Ganga Valley, northern India, Palaeontology. 2017, 60: 869-891.


Researcher : Michalski JR

Project Title:Geological Analysis of Supervolcanoes on Mars
Investigator(s):Michalski JR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff
Start Date:06/2017


Project Title:GOLDSCHMIDT 2017; Mars: A Rosetta Stone for Understanding the Early Earth
Investigator(s):Michalski JR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2017
Completion Date:08/2017


Project Title:Investigation of hydrothermally altered crust on Mars and characterization of subsurface habitability
Investigator(s):Michalski JR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2017


Project Title:Micro-infrared and Micro-Raman mapping of inorganics and organics in planetary materials
Investigator(s):Michalski JR, Not CA, Li Y, Bonebrake TC, Baker DM, Schwantes G
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Equipment Grant
Start Date:04/2018


Project Title:Spectroscopy and geochemistry of Fe-rich clay minerals in altered chondrite meteorites
Investigator(s):Michalski JR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2018


List of Research Outputs

Bishop J.L., Fairen A.G., Michalski J.R., Gago-Duport L., Baker L.L., Velbel M.A., Gross C. and Rampe E.B., Surface clay formation during short-term warmer and wetter conditions on a largely cold ancient Mars, Nature Astronomy. 2018, 2: 206-213.
Michalski J.R., Noe Dobrea E.Z., Niles P.B. and Cuadros J., Ancient hydrothermal seafloor deposits in Eridania basin on Mars, Nature Communications. 2017, 8: 15978.
Michalski J.R., Glotch T.D., Friedlander L.R., Dyar M.D., Bish D.L., Sharp T.G. and Carter J., Shock metamorphism of clay minerals on Mars by meteor impact, Geophysical Research Letters. 2017, 44: 6562-6569.
Michalski J.R., Onstott T.C., Mojzsis S.J., Mustard J., Chan Q.H.S., Niles P.B. and Steward Johnson S., The Martian subsurface as a potential window into the origin of life, Nature Geoscience. 2018, 11: 21-26.
Niles P.B., Michalski J.R., Ming D.W. and Golden D.C., Elevated olivine weathering rates and sulfate formation at cryogenic temperatures on Mars, Nature Communications. 2017, 8.


Researcher : NG KS-C

List of Research Outputs

NG K.S.-.C., Lee M.H. and Zong Y., A New Asymmetry Parameter for Tropical Cyclones, 33rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Ponte Vedra, FL, USA. 2018.


Researcher : Not CA

Project Title:Unravelling the potential of Trace elements in ostracodes as environmental paleoproxies in Hong Kong marine ecosystem.
Investigator(s):Not CA, Yasuhara M
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff
Start Date:12/2015
Completion Date:11/2017


Project Title:Unravelling the impact of submarine groundwater discharge on heavy metals and trace elements cycling in Tolo Harbour waters
Investigator(s):Not CA
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Hung Hing Ying Physical Sciences Research Fund
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:Understanding the impact of the growth rate on the incorporation of trace element and heavy metal in coral skeleton and its implication for environmental paleo-reconstructions
Investigator(s):Not CA
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:08/2016


Project Title:Water column stratification in the western Arctic Ocean during the past climatic cycles
Investigator(s):Not CA, Thibodeau B
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2017


Project Title:Goldschmidt; Laurentian Channel Bottom Water Temperature as a Proxy for AMOC Intensity
Investigator(s):Not CA
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2017
Completion Date:08/2017


Project Title:Evolution of the sea ice cover over the Mendeleev Ridge, Arctic Ocean, during glacial periods
Investigator(s):Not CA
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2018


List of Research Outputs

Maccali J., Hillaire-Marcel C. and Not C.A., Radiogenic isotope (Nd, Pb, Sr) signatures of surface and sea ice-transported sediments from the Arctic Ocean under the present interglacial conditions, Polar Research. 2018, 37: 1442982.
Not C.A., Thibodeau B. and Yokoyama Y., Incorporation of Mg, Sr, Ba, U and B in High-Mg Calcite Benthic Foraminifers Cultured Under Controlled p CO 2 , Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 2017.
Not C.A., The link between plastic consumption and pollution of the marine ecosystem, China and the Sea symposium. 2018.
So W.K., Chan K.Y. and Not C.A., Presence of plastic microbeads in Hong Kong waters, Marine Pollution Bulletin. Elsevier, 2018, 133: 500-505.
Yau Y.Y., Thibodeau B. and Not C.A., Impact of cutting meat intake on hidden greenhouse gas emissions in an import-reliant city, Environmental Research Letters. 2018.


Researcher : Pei R

List of Research Outputs

Chang S., Wang J. and Pei R., Timing and pattern of Triassic insect radiation, HKU Seed Fund for Basic Research. 2018.
Pei R., Brusatte S., Pittman M.D., Turner A.H. and Norell M.A., Bayesian inference of paravian phylogeny with the theropod working group dataset, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) Annual Meeting. 2017.
Pei R., Norell M.A., Barta D.E., Bever G.S., Pittman M.D. and Xu X., Osteology of a New Late Cretaceous Troodontid Specimen from Ukhaa Tolgod, Ömnögovi Aimag, Mongolia, American Museum Novitates. 2017, 3889: 1-47.
Pittman M.D., Pei R., Goloboff P.A., Dececchi T.A., Habib M.B., Kaye T.G., Larsson H.C.E., Norell M.A., Brusatte S.L. and Xu X., A better resolved dromaeosaurid phylogeny based on updates to the TWiG dataset, International Pennaraptoran Dinosaur Symposium. 2018.
Pittman M.D., Pei R., Goloboff P.A., Dececchi T.A., Habib M.B., Kaye T.G., Larsson H.C.E., Norell M.A., Brusatte S.L. and Xu X., The multiple origins of paravian powered flight, International Symposium of Archosaurian Phylogeny. 2018.
Wang J., Chang S., Pei R. and Ye Y., Age of Mamenchisaurus in Sichuan, China: A reappraisal, The 2nd Joint Conference of the Palaeontological Society of China & the Paläontologische Gesellschaft. 2017.


Researcher : Peng J

List of Research Outputs

Peng J., Wong N.Y.L., Teh C.I. and Li Z., Modeling Micro-cracking Behavior of Bukit Timah Granite Using Grain-Based Model, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 2017.


Researcher : Pittman MD

Project Title:Laser-stimulated fluorescence (LSF) imaging of exquisitely preserved feathered dinosaurs to reveal hidden data
Investigator(s):Pittman MD
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:05/2014


Project Title:Reassessing dromaeosaurid evolutionary relationships and understanding of dromaeosaurid evolutionary novelties
Investigator(s):Pittman MD, Ali JR
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:08/2015


Project Title:Illuminating avian origins: laser-based fluorescent imaging to constrain the form and function of bird-like dinosaurs and early birds
Investigator(s):Pittman MD
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2017
Completion Date:11/2017


List of Research Outputs

Ma W.S., Pittman M.D., Tan Q.W. and Xu X., Functional anatomy of a giant dinosaur beak: Gigantoraptor and the evolution of the oviraptorosaurian jaw , Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) Annual Meeting. 2017.
Ma W.S., Wang J.Y., Pittman M.D., Tan Q.W., Tan L., Guo B. and Xu X., Functional anatomy of a giant toothless mandible from a bird-like dinosaur: Gigantoraptor and the evolution of the oviraptorosaurian jaw, Scientific Reports. 2017, 7: 16247.
Pei R., Brusatte S., Pittman M.D., Turner A.H. and Norell M.A., Bayesian inference of paravian phylogeny with the theropod working group dataset, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) Annual Meeting. 2017.
Pei R., Norell M.A., Barta D.E., Bever G.S., Pittman M.D. and Xu X., Osteology of a New Late Cretaceous Troodontid Specimen from Ukhaa Tolgod, Ömnögovi Aimag, Mongolia, American Museum Novitates. 2017, 3889: 1-47.
Pittman M.D., Pei R., Goloboff P.A., Dececchi T.A., Habib M.B., Kaye T.G., Larsson H.C.E., Norell M.A., Brusatte S.L. and Xu X., A better resolved dromaeosaurid phylogeny based on updates to the TWiG dataset, International Pennaraptoran Dinosaur Symposium. 2018.
Pittman M.D., Wang X.L., Kaye T.G., Zheng X.T., Hartman S.A., Navalon G. and Xu X., Adaptive diversity in the early evolution of theropod flight, International Pennaraptoran Dinosaur Symposium. 2018.
Pittman M.D., Xu X. and Cheng S.S., Dinosaur Ecosystems, a free online science course by the University of Hong Kong, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) Annual Meeting. 2017.
Pittman M.D., Journal Editor (for submissions on vertebrate palaeontology and vertebrate biomechanics), RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes). Pensoft, 2017.
Pittman M.D., Xu X., Currie P.J., Xing L.D., Meng Q.J., Lü J.C., Hu D.Y. and Yu C.Y., Mosaic evolution in an asymmetrically feathered troodontid dinosaur with transitional features, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) Annual Meeting. 2017.
Pittman M.D., Publicity practices in Dinosaur Ecosystems, edX Global Forum. 2017.
Pittman M.D., Scientific advisor for 'Meet the T.rex' IFC Mall exhibition, IFC Mall & First Initiative Foundation. 2018.
Pittman M.D., Pei R., Goloboff P.A., Dececchi T.A., Habib M.B., Kaye T.G., Larsson H.C.E., Norell M.A., Brusatte S.L. and Xu X., The multiple origins of paravian powered flight, International Symposium of Archosaurian Phylogeny. 2018.


Researcher : Qiu W

List of Research Outputs

Qiu W., Zhou M.F. and Liu Z., Late Paleozoic SEDEX deposits in South China formed in a carbonate platform at the northern margin of Gondwana, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 156: 41-58.


Researcher : So WK

List of Research Outputs

So W.K., Chan K.Y. and Not C.A., Presence of plastic microbeads in Hong Kong waters, Marine Pollution Bulletin. Elsevier, 2018, 133: 500-505.


Researcher : Su B

List of Research Outputs

Su B., Hu Y., Teng F., Xiao Y., Zhou X., Sun Y., Zhou M.F. and Chang S., Magnesium isotope constraints on subduction contribution to Mesozoic and Cenozoic East Asian continental basalts, Chemical Geology. 2017, 466: 116-122.


Researcher : Sun M

Project Title:Petrogenesis and precise geochronology of the Fuping-Wutai-Hengshan metamorphic complexes
Investigator(s):Sun M
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Matching Fund for NSFC Young Researcher Award
Start Date:04/2001


Project Title:Age,petrogenesis and tectonic background of the Paleozic granitoids in the Russian and Mongolian Altai
Investigator(s):Sun M, Geng H, Jiang Y
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - General Program
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:Nd-Hf isotopic decoupling in the Chinese Altai granitoids: causes and tectonic interpretation
Investigator(s):Sun M, Jiang Y, Wong PM
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Reconstruction of the Late Paleozoic collisional processes between the Chinese Altai and the East Junggar
Investigator(s):Sun M, Li P
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:Hf-in-zircon isotopic heterogeneity in igneous rocks: real or analytical artifact?
Investigator(s):Sun M, Wong PM, Geng H
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Germany/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:The global tectonic setting of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt
Investigator(s):Sun M
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2016
Completion Date:06/2018


Project Title:Transition from exterior orogen to exterior orogen - the critical process of the Chinese Altai and nearby orogens in Central Asia?
Investigator(s):Sun M
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2017


Project Title:Collision of the Kazakhstan microcontinent with the Siberian Craton in Central Asia: when, where and how?
Investigator(s):Sun M
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2018


Project Title:Resources for Future Generations; An evolutionary history of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt from subduction of external ocean to internal ocean – Nd isotopic evidence?
Investigator(s):Sun M
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2018
Completion Date:06/2018


List of Research Outputs

Bao Z., Cai K., Sun M., Xiao W., Wan B., Wang Y., Wang X. and Xia X., Continental crust melting induced by subduction initiation of the South Tianshan Ocean: Insight from the Latest Devonian granitic magmatism in the southern Yili Block, NW China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 153: 100-117.
CHEN H.-.C., Zhao G., Sun M. and Zhou H., Geochemistry of .5 Ga granitoids at the northern margin of the Yinshan Block: implications for the crustal evolution of the North China Craton, Precambrian Research. Elsevier, 2017, 303: 673-686.
CHEN H.-.C., Zhao G., Jahn B., Sun M. and Zhou H., U-Pb zircon ages and Hf isotopes of ∼2.5 Ga granitoids from the Yinshan Block, North China Craton: implications for crustal growt, Precambrian Research. 2017, 303: 171-182.
CHEN Q., Sun M., Zhao G., Yang F., Long X., Li J., WANG J. and YU Y., Origin of the mafic microgranular enclaves (MMEs) and their host granitoids from the Tagong pluton in Songpan–Ganze terrane: An igneous response to the closure of the Paleo-Tethys ocean, Lithos. 2017, 290-291: 1-17.
CHEN Q., Sun M., Long X., Zhao G., WANG J., YU Y. and Yuan C., Provenance study for the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks from the west Yangtze Block: Constraint on possible link of South China to the Gondwana supercontinent reconstruction, Precambrian Research. Elsevier, 2018, 309: 271-289.
Chang S., Sun M. and Wang B., Geologic and Geochronologic analysis of fossil-bearing amber from Myanmar, RGC General Research Fund. 2018.
Du L., Long X...P., Yuan C., Zhang Y., Huang Z...Y., Sun M., Zhao G. and Xiao W., Early Paleozoic dioritic and granitic plutons in the Eastern Tianshan Orogenic Belt, NW China: Constraints on the initiation of a magmatic arc in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. Elsevier, 2018, 153: 139-153.
Jiang Y., Schulmann K., Kroner A., Sun M., Lexa O., Janousek V., Burianek D., Yuan C. and Hanzl P., Neoproterozoic-Early Paleozoic Peri-Pacific Accretionary Evolution of the Mongolian Collage System: Insights From Geochemical and U-Pb Zircon Data From the Ordovician Sedimentary Wedge in the Mongolian Altai, Tectonics. 2017, 36: 2305-2331.
Li P., Sun M., Rosenbaum G., Yuan C., Safanova I., Cai K., Jiang Y. and Zhang Y., Geometry, kinematics and tectonic models of the Kazakhstan Orocline, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2017.
Ma Q., Xu Y., Zheng J., Sun M., Griffin W.L., Xia X. and Pan S.K., Phanerozoic magma underplating and crustal growth beneath the North China Craton, Terra Nova. 2017, 29: 211-217.
Safonova I., Seltmann R., Sun M. and Xiao W., Continental construction in Central Asia and actualistic comparisons with western Pacific: Preface, Gondwana Research. 2017, 47: 1-5.
Sun J., Ding Z., Xia X., Sun M. and Windley B., Detrital zircon evidence for the ternary sources of the Chinese Loess Plateau, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 155: 21-34.
Wang X., Yuan C., Zhang Y., Long X., Sun M., Wang L., Soldner J. and Lin Z., S-type granite from the Gongpoquan arc in the Beishan Orogenic Collage, southern Altaids: Implications for the tectonic transition, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 153: 206-222.
Wang X., Cai K., Sun M., Xiao W., Xia X., Wan B., Bao Z. and Wang Y., Two contrasting late Paleozoic magmatic episodes in the northwestern Chinese Tianshan Belt, NW China: Implication for tectonic transition from plate convergence to intra-plate adjustment during accretionary orogenesis, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 153: 118-138.
YU Y., Sun M., Huang X., Zhao G., Li P., Long X., Cai K. and Xia X., Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb isotopic evidence for modification of the Devonian lithospheric mantle beneath the Chinese Altai, Lithos. 2017, 284-285: 207-221.
YU Y., Sun M., Long X., Li P., Zhao G., Kröner A., BROUSSOLLE A.J.L. and Yang J., Whole-rock Nd–Hf isotopic study of I-type and peraluminous granitic rocks from the Chinese Altai: Constraints on the nature of the lower crust and tectonic setting, Gondwana Research. 2017, 47: 131-141.
Yin J., Chen W., Hodges K.V., Xiao W.J., Cai K.D., Yuan C., Sun M., Liu L.P. and Soest M., The thermal evolution of Chinese central Tianshan and its implications: Insights from multi-method chronometry, Tectonophysics. 2018, 722: 536-548.
Yin J., Chen W., Xiao W., Long X., Tao N., Liu L.P., Yuan C. and Sun M., Tracking the multiple-stage exhumation history and magmatic-hydrothermal events of the West Junggar region, NW China: Evidence from 40 Ar/ 39 Ar and (U-Th)/He thermochronology, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 159: 130-141.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., Sun M., Han Y. and LIU Q., Triassic magmatic reactivation in Eastern Tianshan, NW China: Evidence from geochemistry and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes of granites, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2017, 145: 446-459.


Researcher : Switzer AD

Project Title:Imbricated and non-imbricated mega clasts from Green Island (Lu Tao), southeast Taiwan: implications for washover studies
Investigator(s):Switzer AD
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2009




Researcher : TSE YY

List of Research Outputs

TSE Y.Y. and Li S.H., Optical dating of sediments from manas lake in northwestern china: Paleoenvironmental and neotectonic implications, Geochronometria. 2017, 44: 175-187.


Researcher : Thibodeau B

Project Title:Coral reefs nitrogen cycling traced by stable isotopes-labeled compounds
Investigator(s):Thibodeau B, Baker DM, Duprey NN
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff
Start Date:11/2015
Completion Date:11/2017


Project Title:A State-or-the-Art Environmental Geochemistry Laboratory at HKU
Investigator(s):Thibodeau B
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:06/2016


Project Title:Long-term impacts of sea-ice melt on primary productivity in the Subarctic North Atlantic
Investigator(s):Thibodeau B, Not CA
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2017


Project Title:Goldschmidt Conference ; The Sensitivity of Nordic Seas Upper-Ocean Stratification to Freshwater Input
Investigator(s):Thibodeau B
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2017
Completion Date:08/2017


Project Title:Reconstructing nutrient utilization during in the Atlantic during abrupt climatic events of MIS 15
Investigator(s):Thibodeau B
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2018


List of Research Outputs

Archana A., Thibodeau B., Geeraert N.A.A., Xu M.N., Kao S.J. and Baker D.M., Nitrogen sources and cycling revealed by dual isotopes of nitrate in a complex urbanized environment, Water research. Elsevier, 2018, 142: 459-470.
Geeraert N.A.A., Yau Y.Y., Thibodeau B., Yan X., Kao S.J. and Baker D.M., Eutrophication around a mega-city in a mega-estuary: the perspective of dual nitrate isotopes in Hong Kong, ASLO Summer Meeting 2018.
Geeraert N.A.A., Yau Y.Y., Thibodeau B., Yan X., Kao S.J. and Baker D.M., Eutrophication around a mega-city in a mega-estuary: the perspective of dual nitrate isotopes in Hong Kong, Advances in Stable Isotope Techniques and Applications (ASITA, 2018). 2018.
HANSON S.M., Harvey B.P., Agostini S., Yoshimizu C., Tayasu I. and Thibodeau B., Studying the Effect of Elevated pCO2 on the Nitrogen Cycle Within the Coral Holobiont Using Stable Isotopes, Ocean Sciences Meeting. 2018.
Not C.A., Thibodeau B. and Yokoyama Y., Incorporation of Mg, Sr, Ba, U and B in High-Mg Calcite Benthic Foraminifers Cultured Under Controlled p CO 2 , Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 2017.
Thibodeau B., Associate Editor, Frontiers in Marine Science: Marine Biogeochemistry. 2018.
Thibodeau B., Migon C., Dufour A., Poirier A., Mari X., Ghaleb B. and Legendre L., Low sedimentary accumulation of lead caused by weak downward export of organic matter in Hudson Bay, northern Canada, Biogeochemistry. 2017, 136: 279-291.
Thibodeau B., Bauch H.A., Paytan A., Pedersen T.F. and Schmittner A., Variability in the Nordic Sea stratification during past interglacials: Any relevance to AMOC?, Ocean Sciences Meeting. 2018.
Yau Y.Y., Thibodeau B. and Not C.A., Impact of cutting meat intake on hidden greenhouse gas emissions in an import-reliant city, Environmental Research Letters. 2018.


Researcher : Trifonov TH

List of Research Outputs

Trifonov T.H., Lee M.H., Reffert S. and Quirrenbach A., Dynamical Analysis of the Circumprimary Planet in the Eccentric Binary System HD 59686, The Astronomical Journal. IOP Publishing, 2018, 155(4): 174:1-14.


Researcher : WANG J

List of Research Outputs

CHEN Q., Sun M., Zhao G., Yang F., Long X., Li J., WANG J. and YU Y., Origin of the mafic microgranular enclaves (MMEs) and their host granitoids from the Tagong pluton in Songpan–Ganze terrane: An igneous response to the closure of the Paleo-Tethys ocean, Lithos. 2017, 290-291: 1-17.
CHEN Q., Sun M., Long X., Zhao G., WANG J., YU Y. and Yuan C., Provenance study for the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks from the west Yangtze Block: Constraint on possible link of South China to the Gondwana supercontinent reconstruction, Precambrian Research. Elsevier, 2018, 309: 271-289.
Chang S., Wang J. and Pei R., Timing and pattern of Triassic insect radiation, HKU Seed Fund for Basic Research. 2018.
Wang J., Chang S., Pei R. and Ye Y., Age of Mamenchisaurus in Sichuan, China: A reappraisal, The 2nd Joint Conference of the Palaeontological Society of China & the Paläontologische Gesellschaft. 2017.
Wang J., Provenance study for the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks from the west Yangtze Block: Constraint on possible link of South China to the Gondwana supercontinent reconstruction, In: Randall R. (Randy) Parrish, Guochun Zhao , Precambrian Research. Netherlands, Elsevier, 2017, unavailable: unavailable.
Wang J., Ye Y., Chang S., Zhang H. and ZHENG D., Reappraised age for the Shunosaurus fauna in Dashanpu, Zigong, Sichuan, China, 四川自贡大山铺蜀龙动物群年龄重新厘定, Conference on Earth System Science, CESS. 地球科学系统大会, 2017.


Researcher : WANG P

List of Research Outputs

WANG P., Dong G., Zhao G., Han Y. and Li Y., Petrogenesis of the Pulang porphyry complex, southwestern China: Implications for porphyry copper metallogenesis and subduction of the Paleo-Tethys Oceanic lithosphere, Lithos. ELSEVIER, 2018, 304-307: 280-297.


Researcher : WONG KH

List of Research Outputs

Lee M.H., Trifonov T., WONG K.H., Reffert S. and Quirrenbach A., Dynamics of Circumstellar Planets in Binary Systems, Exoplanets and Planet Formation, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai, China. 2017.
WONG K.H. and Lee M.H., Stability of Coplanar Circumstellar Retrograde Orbits in Binary Systems, Exoplanets and Planet Formation, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai, China. 2017.


Researcher : WOO MY

List of Research Outputs

WOO M.Y. and Lee M.H., On the Early In Situ Formation of Pluto’s Small Satellites, The Astronomical Journal. IOP Publishing, 2018, 155(4): 175:1-11.


Researcher : Wang J

List of Research Outputs

CHEN Q., Sun M., Zhao G., Yang F., Long X., Li J., WANG J. and YU Y., Origin of the mafic microgranular enclaves (MMEs) and their host granitoids from the Tagong pluton in Songpan–Ganze terrane: An igneous response to the closure of the Paleo-Tethys ocean, Lithos. 2017, 290-291: 1-17.
CHEN Q., Sun M., Long X., Zhao G., WANG J., YU Y. and Yuan C., Provenance study for the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks from the west Yangtze Block: Constraint on possible link of South China to the Gondwana supercontinent reconstruction, Precambrian Research. Elsevier, 2018, 309: 271-289.
Chang S., Wang J. and Pei R., Timing and pattern of Triassic insect radiation, HKU Seed Fund for Basic Research. 2018.
Wang J., Chang S., Pei R. and Ye Y., Age of Mamenchisaurus in Sichuan, China: A reappraisal, The 2nd Joint Conference of the Palaeontological Society of China & the Paläontologische Gesellschaft. 2017.
Wang J., Provenance study for the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks from the west Yangtze Block: Constraint on possible link of South China to the Gondwana supercontinent reconstruction, In: Randall R. (Randy) Parrish, Guochun Zhao , Precambrian Research. Netherlands, Elsevier, 2017, unavailable: unavailable.
Wang J., Ye Y., Chang S., Zhang H. and ZHENG D., Reappraised age for the Shunosaurus fauna in Dashanpu, Zigong, Sichuan, China, 四川自贡大山铺蜀龙动物群年龄重新厘定, Conference on Earth System Science, CESS. 地球科学系统大会, 2017.


Researcher : Wang M

List of Research Outputs

Wang M., Zheng Z., Gao Q., Zong Y., Huang K. and Shi S., The environmental conditions of MIS5 in the noerthern South China Sea, revealed by n-alkanes indices and alkenones from a 39m-long sediment sequence, Quaternary International. Elsevier, 2018, 479: 70-78.
Wang M., Zong Y., Zheng Z., Man M., Hu J. and Tian L., Unility of brGDGTs as temperature and precipitation proxies in subtropical China, Scientific Reports. www.nature.com, Nature, 2018, 8: 194.


Researcher : Wang W

List of Research Outputs

Wang W., Cawood P.A., Zhou M.F., Pandit M.K., Xia X.P. and Zhao J.H., Low-δ 18 O Rhyolites From the Malani Igneous Suite: A Positive Test for South China and NW India Linkage in Rodinia , Geophysical Research Letters. 2017, 44: 10,298-10,305.
Wang W., Cawood P.A., Pandit M.K., Zhou M.F. and Chen W., Zircon U–Pb age and Hf isotope evidence for an Eoarchaean crustal remnant and episodic crustal reworking in response to supercontinent cycles in NW India, Journal of the Geological Society. 2017, 174: 759-772.


Researcher : Webb AAG

Project Title:Tectonic development of the early Earth: the view from Isua, Greenland.
Investigator(s):Webb AAG
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff
Start Date:04/2017
Completion Date:03/2018


Project Title:Impacts of focused erosion on crustal dynamics along the Sutlej River, NW Indian Himalaya
Investigator(s):Webb AAG
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2018


Project Title:Exploring rainfall's potential impacts on motion of surface salt structures at Kuqa, NW China
Investigator(s):Webb AAG
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2018


List of Research Outputs

Colleps C.L., Mc Kenzie N.R., Stockli D.F., Singh B.P., Webb A.A.G., Hughes N.C., Myrow P.M. and Horton B.K., Thermochronometric constraints on Himalayan thrust belt dynamics, weathering, and Neogene seawater chemistry, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 2018.


Researcher : Williams-Jones AE

List of Research Outputs

Zhao W., Zhou M.F., Williams-Jones A.E. and Zhao Z., Constraints on the uptake of REE by scheelite in the Baoshan tungsten skarn deposit, South China, Chemical Geology. 2018, 477: 123-136.


Researcher : Wong NY

Project Title:Fundamentals of rockfall mechanism - an integrated experimental and numerical study
Investigator(s):Wong NYL
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:Development of 3D grain-based modelling approach for studying plutonic rocks
Investigator(s):Wong NYL
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:08/2017


Project Title:Simulation of the response of fractured crystalline rocks to coupled hydro-thermo-mechanical (HTM) effect: application to geothermal energy mining in the Hot Dry Rock reservoir
Investigator(s):Wong NYL
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2018


Project Title:52nd U .S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium; Investigating the influence of microstructural fabric on fracturing behavior of the crystalline rock: an insight from the discrete fracture network simulation (Abstract 2, Abstract 1 deleted)
Investigator(s):Wong NYL
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2018
Completion Date:06/2018


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Wong NYL

Project Title:Fundamentals of rockfall mechanism - an integrated experimental and numerical study
Investigator(s):Wong NYL
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:Development of 3D grain-based modelling approach for studying plutonic rocks
Investigator(s):Wong NYL
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:08/2017


Project Title:Simulation of the response of fractured crystalline rocks to coupled hydro-thermo-mechanical (HTM) effect: application to geothermal energy mining in the Hot Dry Rock reservoir
Investigator(s):Wong NYL
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2018


Project Title:52nd U .S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium; Investigating the influence of microstructural fabric on fracturing behavior of the crystalline rock: an insight from the discrete fracture network simulation (Abstract 2, Abstract 1 deleted)
Investigator(s):Wong NYL
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2018
Completion Date:06/2018


List of Research Outputs

Cheng Y. and Wong N.Y.L., Microscopic Characterization of Tensile and Shear Fracturing in Progressive Failure in Marble, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2018, 123: 204-225.
Gao Y., Gao F., Wong N.Y.L. and Yeung M.R., Modelling large displacement of rock block and a work face excavation of a coal mine based on discontinuous deformation analysis and finite deformation theory, The 13th International Conference on Analysis of Discontinuous Deformation. 2017.
Li Z., Wong N.Y.L. and Teh C.I., Low cost colorimetry for assessment of fire damage in rock, Engineering Geology. 2017, 228: 50-60.
Peng J., Wong N.Y.L. and Teh C.I., Effects of grain size-to-particle size ratio on micro-cracking behavior using a bonded-particle grain-based model, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 2017, 100: 207-217.
Peng J., Wong N.Y.L. and Teh C.I., Evaluation of grain size heterogeneity effects using grain-based modeling approach, The 13th International Conference on Analysis of Discontinuous Deformation. 2017.
Peng J., Wong N.Y.L., Liu G. and Teh C.I., Influence of initial micro-crack damage on strength and micro-cracking behavior of an intrusive crystalline rock, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 2018.
Peng J., Wong N.Y.L., Teh C.I. and Li Z., Modeling Micro-cracking Behavior of Bukit Timah Granite Using Grain-Based Model, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 2017.
Peng J., Wong N.Y.L. and Teh C.I., Numerical investigation of rock failure and the associated micro-cracking behavior using a grain-based model, The 15th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics. 2017.
Rong G., Peng J., Yao M., Jiang Q. and Wong N.Y.L., Effects of specimen size and thermal-damage on physical and mechanical behavior of a fine-grained marble, Engineering Geology. 2018, 232: 46-55.
Tang Z...C..., Jiao Y...Y... and Wong N.Y.L., Theoretical model with multi-asperity interaction for the closure behavior of rock joint, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 2017, 97: 15-23.
Winn K. and Wong N.Y.L., Quantitative GSI determination of Singapore’s sedimentary rock mass, 11th Asian Regional Conference of IAEG on Engineering Geology for Geo-disaster Management. 2017.
Wong N.Y.L., Classifying failure modes of Hong Kong rocks under uniaxial compression loading using high speed imaging technique, Recent Geological Research and Development, 35th Anniversary Conference, The Geological Society of Hong Kong. 2017.
Wong N.Y.L., Editor-in-Chief, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG). 2018.
Wong N.Y.L., Editorial Board Member, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. Springer, 2017.
Wong N.Y.L., Editorial Board Member, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. Springer, 2017.
Wong N.Y.L., Editorial Board Member, Engineering Geology. Elsevier, 2018.
Wong N.Y.L., Editorial Board Member, In: Q. Qian, Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Elsevier, 2018.
Wong N.Y.L., Editorial Board Member, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. Springer, 2018.
Wong N.Y.L., Evaluation of Grain Size Heterogeneity Effects Using Grain-based Modelling Approach, 13th International Conference on Analysis of Discontinuous Deformation (ICADD-13). 2017.
Wong N.Y.L., Guo T. and Lam W.K., Experimental study on two semi-circular bending methods for mode I fracture toughness determination in tuff, 52nd US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium. 2018.
Wong N.Y.L. and Zhang Y., Investigating the influence of microstructural heterogeneity on fracturing behavior of the crystalline rock: an insight from the discrete fracture network simulation, 52nd US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium. 2018.
Wong N.Y.L., Peng J. and Teh C.I., Numerical investigation of mineralogical composition effect on strength and micro-cracking behavior of crystalline rocks, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. 2018, 53: 191-203.
Wu Z. and Wong N.Y.L., Best Paper Award (2017) for the following paper “Frictional crack initiation and propagation analysis using numerical manifold method” co-authored with former PhD student Zhijun Wu published in 2012., Computers and Geotechnics (Journal). 2017.
Zhang Y. and Wong N.Y.L., A review of numerical techniques approaching microstructures of crystalline rocks, Computers & Geosciences. 2018, 115: 167-187.
Zhou X., Zhao X., Wong N.Y.L. and Cheng H., A modified Sarma method for stability analysis of layered slopes, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 2017.
Zhou X., Zhu B., Huang C. and Wong N.Y.L., A stability analysis of a layered-soil slope based on random field, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. 2018.
Zhou X., Zhang J. and Wong N.Y.L., Experimental Study on the Growth, Coalescence and Wrapping Behaviors of 3D Cross-Embedded Flaws Under Uniaxial Compression, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 2018, 51: 1379-1400.


Researcher : Wu PPC

Project Title:Construction of late Pleistocene ice histories on Earth models with Composite Rheology
Investigator(s):Wu PPC
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2014


List of Research Outputs

Brandes C., Steffen P., Sandersen P., Wu P.P.C. and Winsemann J., Glacially induced faulting along the NW segment of the Sorgenfrei-Tornquist Zone, northern Denmark: Implications for neotectonics and Lateglacial fault-bound basin formation, Quaternary Science Reviews. 2018, 189: 149-168.
HUANG P. and Wu P.P.C., An Ice Model That is Consistent with Composite Rheology in GIA Modelling, In: Huang, P.; Patrick, W., American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2017.
HUANG P., Wu P.P.C. and van der Wal W., Effects of mantle rheologies on viscous heating induced by Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, Geophysical Journal International. 2018, 213: 157-168.
LI T., Wu P.P.C., Steffen H. and Wang H.S., Laterally heterogeneous viscosity models of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in support of the global ICE-6G_C ice history model, In: Li, T., P. Wu, H. Steffen, H.S. Wang, AGU, 2017 New Orleans. 2017.
Wu P.P.C., LI T., Steffen H. and Wang H.S., Laterally heterogeneous viscosity models of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in support of the global ICE-6G_C ice history model, In: Wu, P., T. Li, H. Steffen, H.S. Wang, IAG GIA Workshop 2017, Iceland. 2018.


Researcher : YU Y

List of Research Outputs

CHEN Q., Sun M., Zhao G., Yang F., Long X., Li J., WANG J. and YU Y., Origin of the mafic microgranular enclaves (MMEs) and their host granitoids from the Tagong pluton in Songpan–Ganze terrane: An igneous response to the closure of the Paleo-Tethys ocean, Lithos. 2017, 290-291: 1-17.
CHEN Q., Sun M., Long X., Zhao G., WANG J., YU Y. and Yuan C., Provenance study for the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks from the west Yangtze Block: Constraint on possible link of South China to the Gondwana supercontinent reconstruction, Precambrian Research. Elsevier, 2018, 309: 271-289.
YU Y., Sun M., Huang X., Zhao G., Li P., Long X., Cai K. and Xia X., Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb isotopic evidence for modification of the Devonian lithospheric mantle beneath the Chinese Altai, Lithos. 2017, 284-285: 207-221.
YU Y., Sun M., Long X., Li P., Zhao G., Kröner A., BROUSSOLLE A.J.L. and Yang J., Whole-rock Nd–Hf isotopic study of I-type and peraluminous granitic rocks from the Chinese Altai: Constraints on the nature of the lower crust and tectonic setting, Gondwana Research. 2017, 47: 131-141.


Researcher : Yao J

Project Title:The General Assembly 2018 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU); The Jiangnan belt in South China: a ca. 970-820 Ma accretionary orogenic belt in the Rodinia margin
Investigator(s):Yao J
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2018
Completion Date:04/2018


List of Research Outputs

Yao J., Shu L., Cawood P...A. and Zhao G., The Jiangnan belt in South China: a ca. 970-820 Ma accretionary orogenic belt in the Rodinia margin EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 20, 9138, 2018.


Researcher : Yau YY

List of Research Outputs

Geeraert N.A.A., Yau Y.Y., Thibodeau B., Yan X., Kao S.J. and Baker D.M., Eutrophication around a mega-city in a mega-estuary: the perspective of dual nitrate isotopes in Hong Kong, ASLO Summer Meeting 2018.
Geeraert N.A.A., Yau Y.Y., Thibodeau B., Yan X., Kao S.J. and Baker D.M., Eutrophication around a mega-city in a mega-estuary: the perspective of dual nitrate isotopes in Hong Kong, Advances in Stable Isotope Techniques and Applications (ASITA, 2018). 2018.
Yau Y.Y., Thibodeau B. and Not C.A., Impact of cutting meat intake on hidden greenhouse gas emissions in an import-reliant city, Environmental Research Letters. 2018.


Researcher : Yin J

List of Research Outputs

Yin J., Chen W., Hodges K.V., Xiao W.J., Cai K.D., Yuan C., Sun M., Liu L.P. and Soest M., The thermal evolution of Chinese central Tianshan and its implications: Insights from multi-method chronometry, Tectonophysics. 2018, 722: 536-548.
Yin J., Chen W., Xiao W., Long X., Tao N., Liu L.P., Yuan C. and Sun M., Tracking the multiple-stage exhumation history and magmatic-hydrothermal events of the West Junggar region, NW China: Evidence from 40 Ar/ 39 Ar and (U-Th)/He thermochronology, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 159: 130-141.


Researcher : ZHANG J

List of Research Outputs

ZHANG J. and Li S.H., Constructions of standardised growth curves (SGCs) for IRSL signals from K-feldspar, plagioclase and polymineral fractions, Quaternary Geochronology. 2018.


Researcher : ZHANG X

List of Research Outputs

ZHANG X., Zhao G., Sun M., Han Y. and LIU Q., Triassic magmatic reactivation in Eastern Tianshan, NW China: Evidence from geochemistry and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes of granites, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2017, 145: 446-459.
Zhang X. and Lee M.H., Gas Dynamics of Retrograde Circumprimary Disks in Close Binaries, Exoplanets and Planet Formation, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai, China. 2017.


Researcher : ZHENG D

List of Research Outputs

Wang J., Ye Y., Chang S., Zhang H. and ZHENG D., Reappraised age for the Shunosaurus fauna in Dashanpu, Zigong, Sichuan, China, 四川自贡大山铺蜀龙动物群年龄重新厘定, Conference on Earth System Science, CESS. 地球科学系统大会, 2017.
Zheng D., Zhang H., Wang B. and Chang S., A new species of damsel-dragonfly (Odonata: Stenophlebiidae: Cretastenophlebia) from the Lower Cretaceous of the Jiuquan Basin, northwestern China, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 2018, 107: 185-189.
Zheng D., Chang S., Nel A., Jarzembowski E., Zhou D. and Wang B., Electrodysagrion lini gen. et sp. nov., the oldest Dysagrionini (Odonata: Zygoptera: Dysagrionidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber., Cretaceous Research. 2017, 77: 44-48.
Zheng D., Nel A., Chang S., Jarzembowski E., Zhou D. and Wang B., Paracoryphagrionidae fam. nov., a pseudostigmatoid damselfly from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber showing regular series of triangular cells (Odonata: Zygoptera: Coenagrionida), Cretaceous Research. 2018, 81: 93-97.


Researcher : Zhang B

List of Research Outputs

Dang T., Zhang B., Wiltberger M. and Wang W., On the Relation Between Soft Electron Precipitations in the Cusp Region and Solar Wind Coupling Functions, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2018, 123: 211-226.
Dang T., Lei J., Wang W., Burns A., Zhang B. and Zhang S., Suppression of the Polar Tongue of Ionization During the 21 August 2017 Solar Eclipse, Geophysical Research Letters. 2018, 45: 2918-2925.
Lei J., Dang T., Wang W., Burns A., Zhang B. and Le H., Long-Lasting Response of the Global Thermosphere and Ionosphere to the 21 August 2017 Solar Eclipse, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2018, 123: 4309-4316.
Zhang B., Delamere P., Ma X., Burkholder B., Wiltberger M., Lyon J., Merkin V. and Sorathia K., Asymmetric Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability at Jupiter's Magnetopause Boundary: Implications for Corotation-Dominated Systems, Binzheng, Geophysical Research Letters. Binzheng, 2018, 45: 56-63.


Researcher : Zhang X

List of Research Outputs

ZHANG X., Zhao G., Sun M., Han Y. and LIU Q., Triassic magmatic reactivation in Eastern Tianshan, NW China: Evidence from geochemistry and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes of granites, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2017, 145: 446-459.
Zhang X. and Lee M.H., Gas Dynamics of Retrograde Circumprimary Disks in Close Binaries, Exoplanets and Planet Formation, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai, China. 2017.


Researcher : Zhang Y

Project Title:15th Annual Meeting Asia Oceania Geosciences Society; The switch from advancing to retreating subduction margin: records from Paleozoic magmatism in the eastern Tianshan, Central Asian Orogenic Belt
Investigator(s):Zhang Y
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2018
Completion Date:06/2018


List of Research Outputs

Wang X., Yuan C., Zhang Y., Long X., Sun M., Wang L., Soldner J. and Lin Z., S-type granite from the Gongpoquan arc in the Beishan Orogenic Collage, southern Altaids: Implications for the tectonic transition, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 153: 206-222.
Wong N.Y.L. and Zhang Y., Investigating the influence of microstructural heterogeneity on fracturing behavior of the crystalline rock: an insight from the discrete fracture network simulation, 52nd US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium. 2018.
Zhang Y. and Wong N.Y.L., A review of numerical techniques approaching microstructures of crystalline rocks, Computers & Geosciences. 2018, 115: 167-187.


Researcher : Zhao G

Project Title:Precambrian Geology and Metamorphic Geology
Investigator(s):Zhao G
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Matching Fund for NSFC Young Researcher Award
Start Date:01/2005


Project Title:Determining the age and evolution of the Paleoproterozoic Khondalite Belt in the Western Block of the North China Craton
Investigator(s):Zhao G, Zhang J
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2012


Project Title:Tracing the provenance of clastic sediments from Paleozoic strata on the northern margin of the Tarim craton
Investigator(s):Zhao G
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Geochemistry and geochronology of the Delingou pluton at the northern margin of the North China Craton and tectonic implications
Investigator(s):Zhao G
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:04/2015


Project Title:Was the Paleo-Asian Ocean subducted beneath North China? – An integrated geological and seismic imaging study
Investigator(s):Zhao G
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2016


Project Title:Tectonic nature and ages of the Heilongjiang Complex, Northeast China
Investigator(s):Zhao G, Li J, Yu S
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2016
Completion Date:03/2018


Project Title:Outstanding Researcher Award 2015-16
Investigator(s):Zhao G
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Researcher Award
Start Date:11/2016


Project Title:Precise ages and tectonic settings of Paleozoic granitoids in the Alxa Terrane: implications for the evolution of the Paleo-Asian Ocean
Investigator(s):Zhao G
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2017


Project Title:Kwangsian and Indosinian crustal reworking of north Cathaysia inferred from multiphase deformation and metamorphism
Investigator(s):Zhao G, Yao J, Li J
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2018


Project Title:Age and tectonic nature of the Yuanbaoshan S-type granite from the Jiangnan Orogen, South China
Investigator(s):Zhao G, Yao J, Han Y, Li J
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2018


Project Title:European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2018; Understanding early Paleozoic orogeny in South China: structural and geo/thermochronological constraints from the central Jiangnan Orogen and the north Cathaysia
Investigator(s):Zhao G
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2018
Completion Date:04/2018


List of Research Outputs

CHEN H.-.C., Zhao G., Sun M. and Zhou H., Geochemistry of .5 Ga granitoids at the northern margin of the Yinshan Block: implications for the crustal evolution of the North China Craton, Precambrian Research. Elsevier, 2017, 303: 673-686.
CHEN H.-.C., Zhao G., Jahn B., Sun M. and Zhou H., U-Pb zircon ages and Hf isotopes of ∼2.5 Ga granitoids from the Yinshan Block, North China Craton: implications for crustal growt, Precambrian Research. 2017, 303: 171-182.
CHEN Q., Sun M., Zhao G., Yang F., Long X., Li J., WANG J. and YU Y., Origin of the mafic microgranular enclaves (MMEs) and their host granitoids from the Tagong pluton in Songpan–Ganze terrane: An igneous response to the closure of the Paleo-Tethys ocean, Lithos. 2017, 290-291: 1-17.
CHEN Q., Sun M., Long X., Zhao G., WANG J., YU Y. and Yuan C., Provenance study for the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks from the west Yangtze Block: Constraint on possible link of South China to the Gondwana supercontinent reconstruction, Precambrian Research. Elsevier, 2018, 309: 271-289.
Du L., Long X...P., Yuan C., Zhang Y., Huang Z...Y., Sun M., Zhao G. and Xiao W., Early Paleozoic dioritic and granitic plutons in the Eastern Tianshan Orogenic Belt, NW China: Constraints on the initiation of a magmatic arc in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. Elsevier, 2018, 153: 139-153.
Han Y. and Zhao G., Final amalgamation of the Tianshan and Junggar orogenic collage in the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Constraints on the closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean, Earth-Science Reviews. 2017.
LIU P., Zhou M.F., Zhao G., Chung S.L., CHEN W. and Wang F., Eocene granulite-facies metamorphism prior to deformation of the Mianhuadi mafic complex in the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone, Yunnan Province, SW China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2017, 145: 626-640.
Li J., Dong S., Cawood P...A., Zhao G., Johnston S...T., Zhang Y. and Xin Y., An Andean-type retro-arc foreland system beneath northwest South China revealed by SINOPROBE profiling, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Elsevier, 2018, 490: 170-179.
Li J., Zhao G., Johnston S.T., Dong S.W., Zhang Y.Q., Xin Y., Wang W...L..., Sun H...S... and Yu Y., Permo-Triassic structural evolution of the Shiwandashan and Youjiang structural belts, South China, Journal of Structural Geology. 2017, 100: 24-44.
Li J., Zhao G., Dong S., Zhang Y. and Johnston S...T., Understanding early Paleozoic orogeny in South China: structural and geo/thermochronological constraints from the central Jiangnan Orogen and the north Cathaysia EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 20, 9494, 2018.
Liu C...H., Zhao G., Liu F...L. and Shi J...R., Detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopic and whole-rock geochemical study of the Bayan Obo Group, northern margin of the North China Craton: Implications for Rodinia reconstruction, Precambrian Research. Elsevier, 2017, 303: 372-391.
Liu C...H., Zhao G., Liu F...L. and Cai J., The southwestern extension of the Jiao-Liao-Ji belt in the North China Craton: Geochronological and geochemical evidence from the Wuhe Group in the Bengbu area, Lithos. Elsevier, 2018, 304: 258-279.
WANG P., Dong G., Zhao G., Han Y. and Li Y., Petrogenesis of the Pulang porphyry complex, southwestern China: Implications for porphyry copper metallogenesis and subduction of the Paleo-Tethys Oceanic lithosphere, Lithos. ELSEVIER, 2018, 304-307: 280-297.
Wang C...C., Liu Y...C., Zhang P., Zhao G., Wang A. and Song B., Zircon U–Pb geochronology and geochemistry of two types of Paleoproterozoic granitoids from the southeastern margin of the North China Craton: Constraints on petrogenesis and tectonic significance, Precambrian Research. Elsevier, 2017, 303: 268-290.
YU Y., Sun M., Huang X., Zhao G., Li P., Long X., Cai K. and Xia X., Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb isotopic evidence for modification of the Devonian lithospheric mantle beneath the Chinese Altai, Lithos. 2017, 284-285: 207-221.
YU Y., Sun M., Long X., Li P., Zhao G., Kröner A., BROUSSOLLE A.J.L. and Yang J., Whole-rock Nd–Hf isotopic study of I-type and peraluminous granitic rocks from the Chinese Altai: Constraints on the nature of the lower crust and tectonic setting, Gondwana Research. 2017, 47: 131-141.
Yao J., Shu L., Cawood P...A. and Zhao G., The Jiangnan belt in South China: a ca. 970-820 Ma accretionary orogenic belt in the Rodinia margin EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 20, 9138, 2018.
ZHANG X., Zhao G., Sun M., Han Y. and LIU Q., Triassic magmatic reactivation in Eastern Tianshan, NW China: Evidence from geochemistry and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes of granites, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2017, 145: 446-459.
Zhao G., An Introduction to the Major NSFC Program" Reconstruction of East Asian Blocks in Pangea", European Geosciences Union General Meeting 2018, EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 20, 5286. 2018.
Zhao G., East Asian continental blocks: From Rodinia to Pangea, 7th Across-Strait Symposium on Geological Evolution of Tethys-Tibet Plateau . 2018.


Researcher : Zhao W

Project Title:Fermor Meeting 2017: Factory Earth; Hydrothermal baddeleyite and zircon in the Tengtie Fe skarn deposit, South China: Implications for timescales and processes of skarnization
Investigator(s):Zhao W
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2017
Completion Date:09/2017


List of Research Outputs

LI Y.H., Zhao W. and Zhou M.F., Nature of parent rocks, mineralization styles and ore genesis of regolith-hosted REE deposits in South China: An integrated genetic model, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2017, 148: 65-95.
Zhao W., Zhou M.F., Williams-Jones A.E. and Zhao Z., Constraints on the uptake of REE by scheelite in the Baoshan tungsten skarn deposit, South China, Chemical Geology. 2018, 477: 123-136.
Zhao W. and Zhou M.F., Mineralogical and metasomatic evolution of the Jurassic Baoshan scheelite skarn deposit, Nanling, South China, Ore Geology Reviews. 2018, 95: 182-194.


Researcher : Zhao X

Project Title:Dating the Dahongshan deposit, Yunnan Province, SW China
Investigator(s):Zhao X, Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:08/2010




Researcher : Zhou MF

Project Title:16th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference Subduction-related Origin of the 750 Ma Xuelongbao Adakitic Complex (Sichuan Province, China): Implications for the Tectonic Setting of the Giant Neoproterozoic Magmatic Event in South China
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2006


Project Title:Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award 2007-2008
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award
Start Date:10/2008


Project Title:Sedimentology,geochronology and geochemistry of the Paleoproterozoic volcano-sedimentary sequences in the western
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - General Program
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:Provenance and depositional environment of late Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian sedimentary rocks of South China
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:07/2014


Project Title:Magnesium and Iron Isotopic Composition of Podiform Chromite Deposits and their Significance
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - General Program
Start Date:01/2015


Project Title:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards 2015-16
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards
Start Date:06/2015


Project Title:Origin of the Ma On Shan skarn iron deposit, Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:09/2016


Project Title:Heavy rare earth element deposits in South China
Investigator(s):Zhou MF
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2017


List of Research Outputs

Chen W., Sun W.H., Zhou M.F. and Wang W., Ca. 1050 Ma intra-continental rift-related A-type felsic rocks in the southwestern Yangtze Block, South China, Precambrian Research. 2018, 309: 22-44.
LI Y.H., Zhao W. and Zhou M.F., Nature of parent rocks, mineralization styles and ore genesis of regolith-hosted REE deposits in South China: An integrated genetic model, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2017, 148: 65-95.
LIU P., Zhou M.F., Zhao G., Chung S.L., CHEN W. and Wang F., Eocene granulite-facies metamorphism prior to deformation of the Mianhuadi mafic complex in the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone, Yunnan Province, SW China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2017, 145: 626-640.
Li X., Zhao J.H., Zhou M.F., Gao J.F., Sun W.H. and Tran M.D., Neoproterozoic granitoids from the Phan Si Pan belt, Northwest Vietnam: Implication for the tectonic linkage between Northwest Vietnam and the Yangtze Block, Precambrian Research. 2018, 309: 212-230.
Li X. and Zhou M.F., The Nature and Origin of Hydrothermal REE Mineralization in the Sin Quyen Deposit, Northwestern Vietnam, Economic Geology. 2018, 113: 645-673.
Li X., Zhou M.F., Chen W., Zhao X.F. and Tran M.D., Uranium-lead dating of hydrothermal zircon and monazite from the Sin Quyen Fe-Cu-REE-Au-(U) deposit, northwestern Vietnam, Mineralium Deposita. 2018, 53: 399-416.
Li X.C. and Zhou M.F., Hydrothermal alteration of monazite-(Ce) and chevkinite-(Ce) from the Sin Quyen Fe-Cu-LREE-Au deposit, northwestern Vietnam, American Mineralogist. 2017, 102: 1525-1541.
Liu Z. and Zhou M.F., Meishucun phosphorite succession (SW China) records redox changes of the early Cambrian ocean, GSA Bulletin. 2017, 129: 11-12.
Qiu W., Zhou M.F. and Liu Z., Late Paleozoic SEDEX deposits in South China formed in a carbonate platform at the northern margin of Gondwana, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 156: 41-58.
Su B., Hu Y., Teng F., Xiao Y., Zhou X., Sun Y., Zhou M.F. and Chang S., Magnesium isotope constraints on subduction contribution to Mesozoic and Cenozoic East Asian continental basalts, Chemical Geology. 2017, 466: 116-122.
Wang C.Y., Wei B., Zhou M.F., Minh D.H. and Qi L., A synthesis of magmatic Ni-Cu-(PGE) sulfide deposits in the ∼260 Ma Emeishan large igneous province, SW China and northern Vietnam, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 154: 162-186.
Wang W., Cawood P.A., Zhou M.F., Pandit M.K., Xia X.P. and Zhao J.H., Low-δ 18 O Rhyolites From the Malani Igneous Suite: A Positive Test for South China and NW India Linkage in Rodinia , Geophysical Research Letters. 2017, 44: 10,298-10,305.
Wang W., Zeng M.F., Zhou M.F., Zhao J.H., Zheng J.P. and Lan Z.F., Age, provenance and tectonic setting of Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic sequences in southeastern South China Block: Constraints on its linkage to western Australia-East Antarctica, Precambrian Research. 2018, 309: 290-308.
Wang W., Zhao J.H., Zhou M.F., Pandit M.K. and Zheng J.P., Depositional age, provenance characteristics and tectonic setting of the Meso- and Neoproterozoic sequences in SE Yangtze Block, China: Implications on Proterozoic supercontinent reconstructions, Precambrian Research. 2018, 309: 231-247.
Wang W., Cawood P.A., Pandit M.K., Zhou M.F. and Chen W., Zircon U–Pb age and Hf isotope evidence for an Eoarchaean crustal remnant and episodic crustal reworking in response to supercontinent cycles in NW India, Journal of the Geological Society. 2017, 174: 759-772.
Zhao J.H., Asimow P.D., Zhou M.F., Zhang J., Yan D.P. and Zheng J.P., An Andean-type arc system in Rodinia constrained by the Neoproterozoic Shimian ophiolite in South China, Precambrian Research. 2017, 296: 93-111.
Zhao W., Zhou M.F., Williams-Jones A.E. and Zhao Z., Constraints on the uptake of REE by scheelite in the Baoshan tungsten skarn deposit, South China, Chemical Geology. 2018, 477: 123-136.
Zhao W. and Zhou M.F., Mineralogical and metasomatic evolution of the Jurassic Baoshan scheelite skarn deposit, Nanling, South China, Ore Geology Reviews. 2018, 95: 182-194.
Zhou J.X., Xiang Z.Z., Zhou M.F., Feng Y.X., Luo K., Huang Z.L. and Wu T., The giant Upper Yangtze Pb–Zn province in SW China: Reviews, new advances and a new genetic model, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 2018, 154: 280-315.


Researcher : Zong Y

Project Title:Recording sea-level change of the past 2000 year
Investigator(s):Zong Y
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Start Date:09/2014


Project Title:Numerical modelling of GIA on a laterally heterogeneous Earth for the filtering of data from GRACE and its follow-up mission
Investigator(s):Zong Y, Wu PPC
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2016


Project Title:Effects of climate change and glacial isostatic adjustment on far-field sea level
Investigator(s):Zong Y
Department:Earth Sciences
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2017


List of Research Outputs

NG K.S.-.C., Lee M.H. and Zong Y., A New Asymmetry Parameter for Tropical Cyclones, 33rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Ponte Vedra, FL, USA. 2018.
Wang M., Zheng Z., Gao Q., Zong Y., Huang K. and Shi S., The environmental conditions of MIS5 in the noerthern South China Sea, revealed by n-alkanes indices and alkenones from a 39m-long sediment sequence, Quaternary International. Elsevier, 2018, 479: 70-78.
Wang M., Zong Y., Zheng Z., Man M., Hu J. and Tian L., Unility of brGDGTs as temperature and precipitation proxies in subtropical China, Scientific Reports. www.nature.com, Nature, 2018, 8: 194.


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