Team
Sze Ling Ho 賀詩琳, Dr. rer. nat.
Principal investigator
Works with paleoceanographic proxies and paleoclimate reconstruction, using geochemical signature in biomarker and microfossils. Studied and worked in Japan, Germany, and Norway, before moving to Taiwan as a faculty member of IONTU. Currently associate professor at IONTU. Also serves as an external editor for Springer Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment, and associate editor for AGU journal Paleoceanography & Paleoclimatology. Co-lead/steering committee member of the PAGES working groups PlioVAR and PlioMioVAR, and PMIP-DATA working group.
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Raúl Tapia, Dr. rer. nat.
Independent researcher
Work with benthic and planktic foraminifera, using both geochemical approach and assemblage to reconstruct past environmental conditions.
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Pierrick Fenies, PhD
Postdoctoral researcher
I reconstruct past environmental changes in the northwest Pacific off Taiwan using a multiproxy approach.
Syed Azharuddin, PhD
Postdoctoral researcher
Syed’s current research at IONTU involves Plio-Pleistocene sea surface temperature reconstruction using biomarker proxies in the Northern Pacific.
Other ongoing research includes –
1. Late Pleistocene-Holocene deoxygenation history, sea surface temperature, carbonate chemistry and pCO2 changes in the NE Arabian Sea using nitrogen isotopes, foraminifera Mg/Ca and boron isotopes.
2. Holocene variation of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations (nitrous oxide) using South Pole ice cores.
3. Mid-Holocene multidecadal air temperature reconstruction using fluid inclusion isotopes in the stalagmites of Japan.
Email- azhar0606@ntu.edu.tw
Personal Webpage- https://climatesyed.weebly.com/
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Priyansha Gupta, PhD candidate
Research assistant
I am a researcher with expertise in marine pollution studies, particularly focusing on microplastics and their associated chemicals. My recent work involves assessing temporal variations of biomarkers and microplastics in the northern South China Sea using sediment trap time series.
Pei-Ting Lee 李佩庭, MSc
PhD student (2020-present)
Reconstructing past changes in Kuroshio using multiproxy approach. Works with foraminifera geochemistry and lipid biomarkers.
Ru-Yun Tung 董如芸, MSc
PhD student (2024-present)
Using multi-species planktonic foraminifera to reconstruct past oceanic changes off northeast Taiwan and along the path of Kuroshio Current.
Shu-Li Chen 陳淑俐, MSc
Administrative assistant
Handles administrative tasks in the group.
Co-supervision
Akanksha Singh
2020-present. PhD student at NTU Geoscience. Studies Arctic paleoceanography using biomarkers. Main supervisor - Ludvig Löwemark.
Romy Ari Setiaji
2021-present. PhD student at TIGP Academia Sinica. Main supervisor - Ludvig Löwemark at NTU Geoscience.
Daniel Tang Hung Yung
2023-present. PhD student at University Malaysia Terengganu. Main supervisor - Fatin Izzati Minhat.
Alumni
Elena Dominguez-Valdez 2023-2024 (Research assistant; IONTU)
Late Pliocene KM5c Mg/Ca-based sea surface temperature reconstruction
Alicia Hou 2022-2024 (Postdoctoral researcher; IONTU)
[1] El Niño-like tropical Pacific Ocean cooling pattern during the Last Glacial Maximum
[2] Seasonal bias in paleotemperature proxies
Chia-Yu Chung 鍾佳妤 2021-2023 (MSc; IONTU)
Sediment trap time series of alkenone-based paleotemperature proxy (UK'37) from the northern South China Sea
Ai-Lin Chen 陳艾璘 2021–2023 (MSc; IONTU)
Assessing the thermal gradient approaches used to reconstruct the evolution of the East Asian Winter Monsoon over the past 25 kyr in the southern South China Sea: Perspectives from multiproxy paleotemperature records
Zhe Ying Ang 洪芷盈 2021–2023 (MSc; IONTU)
UK'37 and TEX86 derived temperature changes offshore southern Japan over the past 30 kyrs: Implications for Kuroshio Current variability
Maria (Masha) Makarova 2021–2023 (Postdoctoral researcher; IONTU)
[1] Multiproxy-inferred upper ocean thermal gradient off Sumatra over the last glacial cycle
[2] Mg/Ca-temperature distribution of individual foraminifera in depth-stratified plankton net samples off Sumara and Java
Alexandra Zuhr 2019–2023 (PhD; co-supervise; Alfred Wegener Institute & University of Potsdam)
Proxy signal formation in paleoclimate archives
Tina Shih-Yun Lin 林詩耘 2020–2022 (MSc; IONTU)
Multiproxy-derived upper ocean Holocene-LGM temperature records in the Okinawa Trough region: Implications for proxy applicability and Kuroshio flow
Edwin Sicheng Le 樂思成 2019–2021 (MSc; IONTU)
Planktic benthic foraminiferal ratio in surface sediments off Taiwan: Spatial patterns and potential applications
Niklas Meinicke 2016–2020 (PhD; co-supervise; University of Bergen, Norway)
Clumped isotope thermometry in foraminifera From calibration to Plio-Pleistocene temperature reconstructions in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool
Hui-Hsin Wang 王趐心 2018–2020 (MSc; IONTU)
Sensitivity of archaeal membrane lipid-based proxies to methane concentration in sediments
Undergraduate summer internship / project
Reconstruction of paleoenvironments
DAAD-RISE internship 2023
Jonah Mende (Heidelberg University)
Is the reconstruction of thermocline paleotemperature species-specific? 溫躍層古水溫之重建會因有孔蟲種屬而異嗎?
IONTU Summer Internship 2023
胡少朧 (National Sun Yat-sen University)
How warm was the ocean 3 millions years ago?
IONTU Summer Internship 2022
Wen-Ya Tai 戴玟雅 (National Sun Yat-sen University)
Zhi-Yi Chiew 周芷怡 (National Sun Yat-sen University)
Temporal fluxes of n-alkanes in the northern South China Sea
IONTU Summer Internship 2022
Pei-Hua Chen 陳佩華 (NTU Geoscience)
What do paleoceanography records reflect: Heterogenous marine sediments or past changes in climate?
IONTU Summer Internship 2022
Yu-Ting Chiu 邱毓庭 (NTU Atmospheric Sciences)
Multi-species planktonic foraminifera-inferred upper ocean hydrographic changes off Northeast of Taiwan in the past 20 kyr
MOST Undergraduate Project 2021–2022
Ru-Yun Tung 董如芸 (National Sun Yat-sen University)
Spatial variability of paleoceanographic proxy 海洋沈積物竟「異」有所「指」—探討古氣候代用指標 之空間變異性
IONTU Summer Internship 2021
To-Hsiang Wu 吳多翔 (NTU Geoscience)
Ruei-Jia Hu 胡芮嘉 (NTU Atmospheric Sciences)
Quantifying spatial heterogeneity of paleoceanographic signal in marine sediments
IONTU Summer Internship 2020
Ya-Zhen Wu 吳亞臻 (National Taipei University of Education)
Reconstruction of past changes in the Kuroshio Current
IONTU Summer Internship 2020
Ru-Yun Tung 董如芸 (National Sun Yat-sen University)
Multiproxy paleotemperature reconstruction
Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (TUMSAT)-IONTU internship 2019
Yuka Hiramatsu (TUMSAT)
Tae Nagano (TUMSAT)
International collaboration
We work with colleagues from around the world, because no man is an island, and nobody knows everything under the sun.