Chun-Wei Chang and Chih-hao Hsieh   Prof. Chih-hao Hsieh from the Institute of Oceanography, NTU and postdoc Dr. Chun-Wei Chang from the National Center for Theoretical Science lead an international team to reveal how warming influenced ecosystem dynamics via weakening the system-level causal networks associated with biodiversity.

Dr. Sze Ling Ho from IONTU co-led a study involving an international team of scientists, including marine geologists (PlioVAR; https://pliovar.github.io/index.html) and paleoclimate

Hui-Yu Wang, Sheng-Feng Shen, Ying-Shiuan Chen, Yun-Kae Kiang, and Mikko Heino   Dr. Hui-Yu Wang (IO NTU), Dr. Sheng-Feng Shen (AS BRC), and Dr. Mikko Heino (UiB) conduct the first assessment of warming-induced effects on various types marine fishes in the Indo-Pacific. Their findings reveal that warming impacts are not [...]

Although not as obvious as surface runoffs, groundwater flowing across the seabed into the ocean, so-called Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD), indeed occurs in many coastal areas. SGD, comprising of terrestrial fresh groundwater flowing from the aquifers and seawater infiltrating through the permeable sediments, is regarded as a significant process of [...]

The South China Sea (SCS) is the largest marginal sea in the western North Pacific. Its surface thermal conditions greatly affect the weather and climate conditions in the sea and its adjacent landmass. Previous studies have suggested that the ocean dynamics in the SCS play a crucial role in local [...]

Folds and thrust faults developed in accretionary wedge off southwestern Taiwan may provide conduits for fluid migration from deep strata to seafloor as there are many seafloor seepage features formed in this area. High-resolution bathymetric data and backscatter images collected using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) over three accretionary ridges [...]

Gaoping Submarine Canyon (GPSC) off southwestern Taiwan connecting to the Gaoping River receives extremely high sediment load, heavy seasonal precipitation, and high tectonic activity in the region. Moreover, the internal tide within the GPSC induces strong bottom currents resulting in sediment erosion and resuspension. To understand the effects of extreme [...]

Pei-Chi Ho and Chih-hao Hsieh   A study combining ecological stoichiometry and in situ zooplankton incubation experiments, led by Dr. Pei-Chi Ho and Prof. Chih-hao Hsieh in the IONTU

To disentangle anthropogenic from natural climate variability, it is essential to reconstruct past oceanic and atmospheric temperatures for comparison with the modern world.

The 2nd KU-NTU Colloquium is dedicated to promote academic collaboration for researchers between the KU and NTU. In the colloquium on June 15 2020, the Institute of Oceanography (IO) hosted two parallel sessions on oceanography sciences: physical oceanography and marine ecology. The theme for physical oceanography was “responses of shelf [...]

How can patterns in the marine biodiversity of the past help us to understand how it may change in the future? A recent research by Drs Moriaki Yasuhara

Jheng-Yu Wang, Ting-Chun Kuo, and Chih-hao Hsieh   Prof. Chih-hao Hsieh and his master student Jheng-Yu Wang from NTU Institute of Oceanography together with Prof. Ting-Chun Kuo from NTOU found that fishing-induced age

Topographic effects on flow often induce submesoscale and small‐scale processes (e.g., wake flow and barotropic instability) which may grow into submesoscale eddies.

Mercury (Hg) is a neurotoxic element that features a complex biogeochemical cycling. In particular, the in-situ produced dissolved elemental mercury in surface seawater

During June 2017 and April 2018, an array of 100-Hz sampling-rate geophysical broadband Ocean Bottom Seismometers (OBSs) and an oceanographic 0.5-Hz sampling-rate vertical

El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the dominant interseasonal–interannual variability in the tropical Pacific and it exerts significant influence on weather and climate all over the world.

The North Pacific Oscillation (NPO) is the second leading mode of winter sea level pressure anomalies over the North Pacific. It can significantly influence downstream weather

Two-years of data from an array of pressure-sensor equipped inverted echo sounders (PIESs) deployed across the Kuroshio east of Taiwan are analyzed in this study.

Wan-Hsuan Cheng and Chih-hao Hsieh A study on vertical variation of bacteria in the Kuroshio Current east of Taiwan across seasons, led by Ph.D. student Wan-Hsuan Cheng from Academia Sinica

Oceanography professor Dr. Chih-Lin Wei collaborates with a team of Canadian marine biologists to publish a large study, “Seafloor biodiversity of Canada’s three oceans: Patterns, hotspots and potential drivers,” in Diversity and Distributions, a leading journal in the field.

Pei-Chi Ho and Chih-hao Hsieh Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University   A study combining the observations in subtropical aquatic systems and theoretical modeling

The Eady model of baroclinic instability has served as a theoretical foundation for understanding the scale, growth rate, and structure of mid-latitude

Strong ocean current influences a marine seismic survey and forces the streamer off-course from the survey line. The sideway drift of the streamer results in that the reflection data are no longer distributed in common

Estuaries are important habitats for fishes and the understandings of habitat uses of fishes in the estuary can benefit the fishery management and species conservation. Several approaches can be used to study the habitat use of the fish. In this study, we analyze the oxygen isotope compositions (δ18Ootolith) in the [...]

The heat-flow research team of IONTU, established by Prof. Chuen-Tien Shyu, has devoted many years’ effort to develop the frontier, state of the art marine observation system for seafloor

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, in press https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-06428-9 Mongolia has been a pristine environment without much pollution. Our objective is to study a section of the Tuul River to evaluate the present condition of this pristine environment. Sediment metal (Al, Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn, Pb, Ni, Cd, Hg, and Cr) [...]

The ocean is a crucial component of the global earth system, which affects the global/regional climate, weather, ecosystems, living resources and biodiversity. The ocean plays a major role in many human activities such as coastal protection, tourism, search and rescue

The underwater glider, a kind of unmanned underwater vehicle, has been used for ocean observations for more than ten years. It was not until 2015 the Ministry of Science

Fan-Sian Lin, Pei-Chi Ho & Chih-hao Hsieh Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University A study in the Kuroshio east of Taiwan led by master student Fan-Sian Lan, Dr. Pei-Chi Ho, Profs. Chih-hao Hsieh and Sen Jan at National Taiwan University, shows that the temporal variation of phytoplankton size spectral slops [...]

Our knowledge of the ability of coral reefs to face contemporary challenges disregards the wide variety of benthic communities (BCs) that could be associated with contrasted dynamics when facing stressors.

With the perspectives of using underwater robots to characterize mesophotic coral ecosystems in Taiwan, we are just back from our first field test of IONTU’s BlueROV2 (Blue Robotics Inc.) at Green Island (Ludao, Taiwan). Despite tough conditions at sea, we smoothly deployed our ROV down to -60 meters while analyzing [...]

Arsenic (As) is an extremely toxic element. But, this element has chemical similarity to that of Phosphorus, which P is an essential nutrient for all organisms. Indeed, arsenic in the ocean can be absorbed by microbes and then transferred to higher trophic

The Pacific North Equatorial Countercurrent (NECC) is a major upper-ocean zonal flow of the wind-driven circulation in the tropical Pacific, flowing eastward across the Pacific Ocean basin between 2°N and 10°N. The NECC transport is about 10-30 Sv eastward out of the warm pool region to the relatively cold eastern [...]

Two functional-improved data buoys, assembled and deployed by a research and technical team at National Taiwan University (NTU), survived from fierce wind and sea state of Super Typhoon Nepartak (Category 5) in the western North Pacific, and successfully recorded crucial air and sea variables within a few kilometers from the [...]

Pei-Ling Wang Microbial in subsurface environments would have exerted a profound impact on the cycling of carbon, nitrogen,

Hsiao-Pei Lu & Chih-hao Hsieh Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University A study in the East China Sea, led by Dr. Hsiao-Pei Lu and Prof. Chih-hao Hsieh, shows for the first time that diversity of marine bacteria community is strongly affected by macro-evolutionary constraints. This study is published (January, 2019) [...]

In Taiwan, the number of reef fish species decrease with latitude because of the changes in environmental conditions around the island. In this study published in January 2019 in Ecology and Evolution, a research team led by Dr. Vianney DENIS from the Institute of Oceanography (National Taiwan University) has investigated [...]

Dr. Lan-Feng Fan and Prof. Saulwood Lin from the Institute of Oceanography, explore authigenic pyrite formation and preservation in the methane dominated Environment.  This study,

Ching-Wei Wang and Chao-Yuan Yang The students exchange activity between IONTU and TUMSAT has been held for four years at both IONTU and TUMSAT. Under this mutual activity, we thank Professors Sen Jan, Yi-Jay Chang, Huei-Ting (Tina) Lin, and Vianney Denis for recommending us to visit TUMSAT in October 2018. [...]

IONTU-AORI bilateral workshop entitled “Northwestern Pacific Ocean Dynamics” was held on Dec 12-13, 2018. A total of 8 scientists (including a Ph.D student and a postdoc) from AORI were invited to IONTU. Accommodating four themes- Physical Oceanography, Marine Geology and Biogeography, Marine Biogeochemistry, and  Marine Biodiversity and Ecology, 14 oral [...]

More than forty isolates of marine, facultatively anaerobic, fermentative bacteria were recovered from sediment samples collected from the lagoon of Dongsha Island, Taiwan, using an anaerobic enrichment culture method. Two of the isolates were selected for characterization and classification in the present study.

Scleractinian corals identification is mainly based on their skeletal characteristics. However, skeletal features can vary

The wake features in the lee of Green Island off southeast of Taiwan are frequently observed by satellite images (Figure 1)

Coral taxonomy typically derives from descriptions of skeletal micro- and macrostructures, however, these characteristics may be altered

Hui-Yu Wang Climate change and anthropogenic effects have caused pronounced changes in physical habitats and biological functions for

Wen-Chien Huang  Jen-Chieh Shiao A study by graduate student Wen-Chien Huang and professors Jen-Chieh Shiao and Te-Yu Liao evaluated the effect of pelagic larval duration of demersal fishes on the population genetic structure

Chen-Yi Tu and Chih-hao Hsieh Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University A study by graduate students Chen-Yi Tu, Kuang-Ting Chen and Professor Chih-hao Hsieh, found that fishing has the most prominent effect

Jinny Yang and Chih-hao Hsieh Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University Understanding the biodiversity effects across trophic levels via predator-prey interactions is

The research project in Japan lead by the scientists in Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Ryukoku University

Fei-Tsui Reservoir (FTR) and the simulated seasonal variations of depth profile of methane oxidizing bacteria (MOB).