Student projects based on foraminifera
Our research relies on a variety of tools and approaches. Graduate and undergraduate students usually apply one of these tools or approaches in their project. Curious about our work? Get in touch and you will hear more about it!
Planktic and benthic foraminifera in surface sediments off Taiwan: Spatial patterns and applications
臺灣周遭海域表層沉積物浮游及底棲有孔蟲之空間分佈與應用
Abundance of foraminifera; %P
• Assessing the potential of foraminifera as a tool to reconstruct paleobathymetry and paleo geohazard.
• MSc project (2019–2021)
• Oral presentation at Ocean Science Meeting 2021.
• Published in Marine Geology in 2022.
Individual Foraminifera Analysis of Magnesium/Calcium paleothermometry for multiple species and sedimentation settings: Cleaning procedures and applications
Mg/Ca of foraminifera
• Developing methods to analyze Mg/Ca in individual shells of foraminifera.
• PhD project (2020–present)
• Poster presentation at International Conference of Paleoceanography in Bergen 2022.
• Won 2nd place in Student Oral Presentation at Taiwan Geoscience Assembly 2022.
Time series of Mg/Ca value in individual planktic foraminifera
Mg/Ca of foraminifera
• Determine the seasonality of IFA-Mg/Ca using a sediment trap moored in the northern South China Sea (SEATS).
• PhD project (2020-present)
• Preliminary results presented at Taiwan Geoscience Assembly 2022.
Multi-species planktonic foraminifera-inferred upper ocean hydrographic changes off Northeastern Taiwan over the past 20 kyr
d18O & Mg/Ca of foraminifera
• Using d18O and Mg/Ca of planktic foraminifera to infer past changes in seawater temperature and Kuroshio path
• MOST undergraduate project (2021-2022)
• MSc project (2022-present)
• Won 2nd place in Student Poster Competition at Taiwan Geoscience Assembly 2022.
• Oral presentation at the Western Pacific Drilling workshop 2022.
Investigating the evolution of upwelling and East Asian Monsoon over the past 25 ka in the southern South China Sea using multi-proxy paleotemperature records
Mg/Ca of foraminifera
• Using Mg/Ca of multi-species foraminifera to reconstruct past changes in the thermal structure of the southern South China Sea.
• MSc project (2021–present)
• Poster presentation at Taiwan Geoscience Assembly 2022.
What do palaeoceanographic records reflect: Heterogenous marine sediments or past changes in climate?
d18O & Mg/Ca of foraminifera
• Quantifying spatial variability of d18O and Mg/Ca-derived temperature using multi-species foraminifera in nearby surface sediments.
• Undergraduate project (2022)
• Won 3rd place in 2022 IONTU Summer Internship Program.
Multiproxy-derived upper ocean temperature changes over the last glacial cycle in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool
Mg/Ca of foraminifera; Biomarkers
• Reconstructing upper ocean temperature changes in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool using multi-species foraminifera and biomarkers.
• PhD project (2021-present)
• Poster presentation at Ocean Science Meeting 2021.