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Saulwood Lin is affiliated with National Taiwan University in Taiwan. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, contributing to 33 publications in this main field. Within this broad category, their work extends across several subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Mechanics of Materials, and Oceanography.

The scientist's main topics of study include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, and Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production.

Their recent papers reflect a strong emphasis on marine and environmental processes, with several published between 2020 and 2023. Selected publications include:

  • "Methane Seeps and Independent Methane Plumes in the South China Sea Offshore Taiwan" (2020) in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Discharge of deeply rooted fluids from submarine mud volcanism in the Taiwan accretionary prism" (2020) in Scientific Reports
  • "Upper Ocean Structure Determines the Contrasting Typhoon-Induced Chlorophyll-a Responses in the Northwest Pacific" (2023) in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Temperature-dependent fractionation of stable oxygen isotopes differs between cuttlefish statoliths and cuttlebones" (2020) in Ecological Indicators
  • "Yam Seep at Four-Way Closure Ridge: a prominent active gas seep system at the accretionary wedge SW offshore Taiwan" (2022) in International Journal of Earth Sciences

Saulwood Lin frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, showing recurring coauthorships with Gerhard Bohrmann, Mei-Chin Lai, Sue-Yao Wu, Sheng-Chung Chen, and Li-Hung Lin, contributing to multiple joint research projects and publications.

Their work often appears in established scientific journals, with multiple publications in the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. Other common venues for their research include Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Frontiers in Marine Science, Scientific Reports, and Geophysical Research Letters.

Best Publications

  • Geochemical speciation and risk assessment of heavy metals in the river estuarine sediments--a case study: Mahanadi basin, India.

    Sanjay Kumar Sundaray;Binod Bihari Nayak;Saulwood Lin;Dinabandhu Bhatta

  • Influence of the Yangtze River and grain size on the spatial variations of heavy metals and organic carbon in the East China Sea continental shelf sediments

    Saulwood Lin;I-Jy Hsieh;Kuo-Ming Huang;Chung-Ho Wang

  • Flux and fate of small mountainous rivers derived sediments into the Taiwan Strait

    J. P. Liu;C. S. Liu;K. H. Xu;J. D. Milliman

  • Sulfate reduction and iron sulfide mineral formation in Gulf of Mexico anoxic sediments

    Saulwood Lin;John W. Morse

  • Consequences and implication of heavy metal spatial variations in sediments of the Keelung River drainage basin, Taiwan.

    Kuo-Ming Huang;Saulwood Lin

  • Short-term changes in seafloor character due to flood-derived hyperpycnal discharge: Typhoon Mindulle, Taiwan, July 2004

    J.D. Milliman;S.W. Lin;S.J. Kao;J.P. Liu

  • The Year-Round Upwelling at the Shelf Break Near the Northern Tip of Taiwan as Evidenced by Chemical Hydrography

    Kon-Kee Liu;Gwo-Ching Gong;Saulwood Lin;Chao-Yeuh Yang

  • Modern (<100 years) sedimentation in the Taiwan Strait: Rates and source-to-sink pathways elucidated from radionuclides and particle size distribution

    Chih-An Huh;Weifang Chen;Feng-Hsin Hsu;Chih-Chieh Su

  • Modern accumulation rates and a budget of sediment off the Gaoping (Kaoping) River, SW Taiwan: A tidal and flood dominated depositional environment around a submarine canyon

    Chih-An Huh;Hui-Ling Lin;Saulwood Lin;Ya-Wen Huang

  • Sulfate reduction and iron sulfide mineral formation in the southern East China Sea continental slope sediment

    Saulwood Lin;Kuo-Ming Huang;Shin-Kuan Chen

  • Occurrence and exploration of gas hydrate in the marginal seas and continental margin of the Asia and Oceania region

    Ryo Matsumoto;Byong-Jae Ryu;Sung-Rock Lee;Saulwood Lin

  • Extremely High Methane Concentration in Bottom Water and Cored Sediments from Offshore Southwestern Taiwan

    Pei-Chuan Chuang;Tsanyao Frank Yang;Saulwood Lin;Hsiao-Fen Lee

  • Organic carbon deposition and its control on iron sulfide formation of the southern East China Sea continental shelf sediments

    Saulwood Lin;Kuo-Ming Huang;Shin-Kuan Chen

  • Variations of methane induced pyrite formation in the accretionary wedge sediments offshore southwestern Taiwan

    Yee Cheng Lim;Saulwood Lin;Tsanyao Frank Yang;Yue-Gau Chen

  • Relating sulfate and methane dynamics to geology: Accretionary prism offshore SW Taiwan

    Pei Chuan Chuang;Pei Chuan Chuang;Andrew W. Dale;Klaus Wallmann;Matthias Haeckel

  • Methane Venting in Gas Hydrate Potential Area Offshore of SW Taiwan: Evidence of Gas Analysis of Water Column Samples

    Tsanyao Frank Yang;Pei-Chuan Chuang;Saulwood Lin;Ju-Chin Chen

  • Methane Migration and Its Influence on Sulfate Reduction in the Good Weather Ridge Region, South China Sea Continental Margin Sediments

    Saulwood Lin;Wei-Chi Hsieh;Yee Cheng Lim;Tsanyao Frank Yang

  • Distribution of terrigenous lipids in marine sediments off northeastern Taiwan

    Woei-Lih Jeng;Saulwood Lin;Shuh-Ji Kao

  • Occurrences of green oyster and heavy metals contaminant levels in the Sien-San area, Taiwan

    Saulwood Lin;I-Jy Hsieh

  • Carbon isotope exchange during anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) in sediments of the northeastern South China Sea

    Pei-Chuan Chuang;Pei-Chuan Chuang;Tsanyao Frank Yang;Klaus Wallmann;Ryo Matsumoto

  • Short-term changes in seafloor character due to Flood-derived hyperpycnal discharge: Typhoon Mindulle, Taiwan, July 2004

    J. D. Milliman;S. Lin;S. J. Kao;J. P. Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Char-Shine Liu
Char-Shine Liu National Taiwan University
Christian Berndt
Christian Berndt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Chung-Ho Wang
Chung-Ho Wang National Chung Hsing University
Wei-Li Hong
Wei-Li Hong Stockholm University
Ingo Klaucke
Ingo Klaucke GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
James T. Liu
James T. Liu National Sun Yat-sen University
Shuh-Ji Kao
Shuh-Ji Kao Hainan University
Chih-An Huh
Chih-An Huh Academia Sinica
Yue-Gau Chen
Yue-Gau Chen National Taiwan University
Andrew W. Dale
Andrew W. Dale GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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