CHIANG Hong Wei

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My research interest includes two main fields, paleoclimate and neotectonics. With a background in geology and geochemistry, I currently focus on chronology and geochemistry of corals in the western coast of Myanmar. In particular, by expertise of uranium-thorium disequilibrium dating and stable oxygen/carbon isotope and trace element analysis, I reconstruct high-resolution paleoclimate information through time, such as sea surface temperature, salinity, and precipitation by proxy data. Thus, the natural variation can be unraveled and we can better understand the artificial influence on earth’s environment. I am also involved in a study by speleothems (cave carbonates) from Myanmar and Indonesia which can provide us with broader spatial view and longer time scale, up to hundreds of thousand years, on paleohydrology evolution.

Education:

2011 Ph.D., Institute of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan
2000 M.S., Departmant of Geology, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan
1998 B.S., Departmant of Geology, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan

Publications:

Chiang, H-W., Lu Y., Wang X., Lin K., & Liu X. (2019). Optimizing MC-ICP-MS with SEM protocols for determination of U and Th isotope ratios and 230Th ages in carbonates. Quaternary Geochronology. 50, 75-90.
Shyu, J B. H., Wang C-C., Wang Y., Shen C-C., Chiang H-W., Liu S-C., et al. (2018). Upper-plate splay fault earthquakes along the Arakan subduction belt recorded by uplifted coral microatolls on northern Ramree Island, western Myanmar (Burma). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 484, 241-252.
Majewski, J. M., Switzer A. D., Meltzner A. J., Parham P. R., Horton B. P., Bradley S. L., et al. (2018). Holocene relative sea-level records from coral microatolls in Western Borneo, South China Sea. Holocene. 28(9), 1431-1442.
Philibosian, B., Sieh K. E., Avouac J-P., Natawidjaja D. H., Chiang H-W., Wu C-C., et al. (2017). Earthquake supercycles on the Mentawai segment of the Sunda megathrust in the seventeenth century and earlier. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
Wang, X., Edwards R L., Auler A. S., Cheng H., Kong X., Wang Y., et al. (2017). Hydroclimate changes across the Amazon lowlands over the past 45,000 years. Nature. 541, 204-207.
Sieh, K. E., Daly P., McKinnon E E., Pilarczyk J. E., Chiang H-W., Horton B. P., et al. (2015). Penultimate Predecessors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Aceh, Sumatra: Stratigraphic, archeological, and historical evidence. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth. 120(1), 308-325.
Meltzner, A. J., Sieh K. E., Chiang H-W., Wu C-C., Tsang L. L. H., Shen C-C., et al. (2015). Time-varying interseismic strain rates and similar seismic ruptures on the Nias–Simeulue patch of the Sunda megathrust. Quaternary Science Reviews. 258–281.
Fujino, S., Sieh K. E., Meltzner A. J., Yulianto E., & Chiang H-W. (2014). Ambiguous correlation of precisely dated coral detritus with the tsunamis of 1861 and 1907 at Simeulue Island, Aceh Province, Indonesia.. Marine Geology. 375, 384-391.
Philibosian, B., Sieh K. E., Avouac J-P., Natawidjaja D. H., Chiang H-W., Wu C-C., et al. (2014). Rupture and variable coupling behavior of the Mentawai segment of the Sunda megathrust during the supercycle culmination of 1797 to 1833. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 119(9), 7258–7287.
Wang, Y., Shyu J B. H., Sieh K. E., Chiang H-W., Wang C-C., Aung T., et al. (2013). Permanent upper plate deformation in western Myanmar during the great 1762 earthquake: Implications for neotectonic behavior of the northern Sunda megathrust. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 118, 1277-1303.
Major, J., Harris R., Chiang H-W., Cox N., Shen C-C., Nelson S. T., et al. (2013). Quaternary hinterland evolution of the active Banda Arc: Surface uplift and neotectonic deformation recorded by coral terraces at Kisar, Indonesia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 73, 149-161.
Philibosian, B., Sieh K. E., Natawidjaja D. H., Chiang H-W., Shen C-C., Suwargadi B. W., et al. (2012). An ancient shallow slip event on the Mentawai segment of the Sunda megathrust, Sumatra. Journal of Geophysical Research. 117,

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Meltzner, A. J., Chiang H-W., Shen C-C., Suwargadi B. W., Natawidjaja D. H., Philibosian B., et al. (2012). Persistent termini of 2004- and 2005-like ruptures of the Sunda megathrust. Journal of Geophysical Research. 117,

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Li, T-Y., Shen C-C., Li H-C., Li J-Y., Chiang H-W., Song S-R., et al. (2011). Oxygen and carbon isotopic systematics of aragonite speleothems and water in Furong Cave, Chongqing, China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 75, 4140-4156.
Yang, T-N., Lee T-Q., Meyers P. A., Song S-R., Kao S-J., Lowemark L., et al. (2011). Variations in monsoonal rainfall over the last 21 kyr inferred from sedimentary organic matter in Tung-Yuan Pond, southern Taiwan. Quaternary Science Reviews. 30, 3413-3422.
Meltzner, A. J., Sieh K. E., Chiang H-W., Shen C-C., Suwargadi B. W., Natawidjaja D. H., et al. (2010). Coral evidence for earthquake recurrence and an A.D. 1390–1455 cluster at the south end of the 2004 Aceh–Andaman rupture. Journal of Geophysical Research. 115,

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Chiang, H-W., Chen Y-G., Fan T-Y., & Shen C-C. (2010). Change of the ENSO-related δ18O-SST correlation from coral skeletons in northern South China Sea: A possible influence from the Kuroshio Current. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 39, 684-691.
Shen, C-C., Li K-S., Sieh K. E., Natawidjaja D. H., Cheng H., Wang X., et al. (2008). Variation of initial 230Th/232Th and limits of high precision U–Th dating of shallow-water corals. Geochimica et Cosmochimica. 72, 4021-4223.

Publications:

Majewski, J. M., Switzer A. D., Parham P. R., Bradley S. L., Pile J., Horton B. P., et al. (2017). Relative Sea Level Proxy Records From Fossil Coral Microatolls In Western Borneo, South China Sea: Sea-level Stability By 7 Ka And Possible Holocene Faulting.. Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 14th Annual Meeting.

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