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Overview

Kuo-Yen Wei is affiliated with the National Taiwan University in Taiwan and focuses their research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Ocean Engineering.

The scientist's research topics encompass areas such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Marine and Environmental Studies, and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods.

Selected recent publications by Kuo-Yen Wei illustrate their scientific contributions:

  • "A tale of shifting relations: East Asian summer and winter monsoon variability during the Holocene" (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • "A ~ 30 kyr sub-centennial to millennial Indian summer monsoon variability record from the southern Andaman Sea, northeastern Indian Ocean" (2022, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology)
  • "Rapid humidity changes across the Northern South China Sea during the last ~40 kyrs" (2021, Marine Geology)
  • "Shallow gas hydrates off southwest Taiwan and their mechanisms" (2021, Marine Geophysical Research)
  • "Geological controls on the distribution of gas hydrates in the shallow parts of the gas hydrate stability zone - constraints from seafloor drilling off Taiwan" (2023, Marine and Petroleum Geology)

Kuo-Yen Wei has frequently published in venues such as OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) at Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, in addition to journals like Scientific Reports and Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.

The scientist collaborates regularly with several researchers including Carl Richter, Rob Carter, I Nick McCave, Yoshiaki Aita, and Christophe Buret, reflecting interdisciplinary efforts in their research endeavors.

Best Publications

  • Detrital sediment supply in the southern Okinawa Trough and its relation to sea-level and Kuroshio dynamics during the late Quaternary

    Bernhard Diekmann;Jana Hofmann;Rüdiger Henrich;Dieter K. Fütterer

  • Astronomically calibrated ages for geomagnetic reversals within the Matuyama chron

    Chorng-Shern Horng;Meng-Yang Lee;Heiko Pälike;Kuo-Yen Wei

  • Obliquity pacing of the western Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone over the past 282,000 years.

    Yi Liu;Li Lo;Zhengguo Shi;Kuo Yen Wei

  • Taxonomic evolution of Neogene planktonic foraminifera and paleoceanographic relations

    Kuo-Yen Wei;James P. Kennett

  • Phyletic gradualism and punctuated equilibrium in the late Neogene planktonic foraminiferal clade Globoconella

    Kuo-Yen Wei;James P. Kennett

  • Newly discovered eastern dispersal of the youngest Toba Tuff

    S.-R Song;C.-H Chen;M.-Y Lee;T.F Yang

  • 500 000-Year records of carbonate, organic carbon, and foraminiferal sea-surface temperature from the southeastern South China Sea (near Palawan Island)

    Min-Te Chen;Liang-Jian Shiau;Pai-Sen Yu;Tzu-Chien Chiu

  • Australasian microtektites in the South China Sea and the West Philippine Sea: Implications for age, size, and location of the impact crater

    Meng-Yang Lee;Kuo-Yen Wei

  • The Holocene Pulleniatina Minimum Event revisited: Geochemical and faunal evidence from the Okinawa Trough and upper reaches of the Kuroshio current

    Yu Shih Lin;Kuo Yen Wei;In Tian Lin;Pai Sen Yu

  • First Toba supereruption revival

    Meng-Yang Lee;Chang-Hwa Chen;Kuo-Yen Wei;Yoshiyuki Iizuka

  • Strengthening of paleo-typhoon and autumn rainfall in Taiwan corresponding to the Southern Oscillation at late Holocene

    Huei Fen Chen;Shie Ying Wen;Shen Rong Song;Tien Nan Yang;Tien Nan Yang

  • Late Holocene monsoon climate of northeastern Taiwan inferred from elemental (C, N) and isotopic (δ13C, δ15N) data in lake sediments

    Kandasamy Selvaraj;Kandasamy Selvaraj;Kuo-Yen Wei;Kon-Kee Liu;Shuh-Ji Kao;Shuh-Ji Kao

  • High Resolution Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy for the Last 150,000 Years in the Southern South China Sea: Core MD972151

    Meng-Yang Lee;Kuo-Yen Wei;Yue-Gau Chen

  • History of Laurentide meltwater flow to the Gulf of Mexico during the last deglaciation, as revealed by reworked calcareous nannofossils

    Thomas M. Marchitto;Kuo-Yen Wei

  • Nonconstant extinction rates of Neogene planktonic foraminifera

    Kuo-Yen Wei;James P. Kennett

  • Enhanced deepwater circulation and shift of sedimentary organic matter oxidation pathway in the Okinawa Trough since the Holocene

    S. J. Kao;S. J. Kao;C. S. Horng;S. C. Hsu;K. Y. Wei

  • Toward establishing a maritime proxy record of the East Asian summer monsoons for the late Quaternary

    Kuo-Yen Wei;Tzu-Chien Chiu;Tzu-Chien Chiu;Yue-Gau Chen

  • Enhanced supply of fossil organic carbon to the Okinawa Trough since the last deglaciation

    S. J. Kao;M. H. Dai;K. Y. Wei;N. E. Blair

  • Ethology of the Zoophycos-Producer: Arguments against the Gardening Model from 13 org C Evidences of the Spreiten Material

    Ludvig Lowemark;In-Tian Lin;Chung-Ho Wang;Chih-An Huh

  • Productivity control of fine particle transport to equatorial Pacific sediment

    E. Thomas;K. K. Turekian;K.-Y. Wei

Frequent Co-Authors

Chuan-Chou Shen
Chuan-Chou Shen National Taiwan University
Sheng-Rong Song
Sheng-Rong Song National Taiwan University
Min-Te Chen
Min-Te Chen National Taiwan Ocean University
Ludvig Löwemark
Ludvig Löwemark National Taiwan University
Christian Zeeden
Christian Zeeden Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics
Chung-Ho Wang
Chung-Ho Wang National Chung Hsing University
George S. Burr
George S. Burr National Taiwan University
Henry Elderfield
Henry Elderfield University of Cambridge
Yue-Gau Chen
Yue-Gau Chen National Taiwan University
Axel Timmermann
Axel Timmermann Pusan National University

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