Student projects based on biomarkers

Sensitivity of archaeal membrane lipid-based proxies to methane concentration in sediments
古菌脂膜脂質代用指標對沈積物中甲烷濃度的敏感性

GDGTs; Methane Index

• Evaluating the potential of Methane Index in characterizing methane-rich environments by analyzing GDGTs from mud volcanoes, methane seep and hydrothermal setting. 
• MSc project (2018–2020)

Multiproxy-derived upper ocean Holocene-LGM temperature records in the Okinawa Trough region: Implications for proxy applicability and Kuroshio flow path
利用多重溫度代用指標重建末次冰盛期以來沖繩海槽 區域上部海溫變化: 探討代用指標適用性及黑潮路徑

Alkenones; UK'37; GDGTs; TEX86; Regional Ocean Model output

• Comparing upper ocean temperature estimates around the Okinawa Trough region obtained using several proxies, as well as proxy-data comparison. 
• MSc project (2020–2022)
• Oral presentation at Ocean Science Meeting 2021 and Taiwan Geoscience Assembly 2022

Freshwater and riverine input in central Arctic: Insights from biomarkers

n-Alkanes; GDGTs; BIT

• Reconstructing terrestrial input to the Central Arctic over the last glacial cycle.
• PhD project (2020–present)
• Oral presentation at Ocean Science Meeting 2021.

Sediment trap time series of paleotemperature proxies (UK’37, TEX86) in the northern South China Sea (SEATS)

Alkenones; UK'37; GDGTs; TEX86

• Determining the seasonal variations in biomarker fluxes and paleotemperature estimates in a sediment trap moored in the northern South China Sea.
• MSc project (2021-present)
• Poster presentation at Taiwan Geoscience Assemble 2022.

Kuroshio temperature variability offshore Japan over the past 30kyr derived from UK'37 and TEX86

Alkenones; UK'37; GDGTs; TEX86

• Reconstructing glacial-interglacial changes in the temperature and path of Kuroshio Current offshore Japan using sediment cores retrieved during cruises on board Drilling Vessel Chikyu and Research Vessel Hakuho-Maru.
• MSc project (2021-present)
• Oral presentation at Western Pacific Drilling workshop 2022.