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  • Yu-Te Alan Hsieh

    Assistant Professor

  • Tel 1: +886-2-33661644
  • Tel 2: +886-2-33661625
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  • E-mail 1: alanhsieh@ntu.edu.tw
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  • Website: https://alanhsiehox.wixsite.com/ntumiso
  • Research Room: Room 307, Institute of Oceanography
  • Field: Isotope geochemistry; Marine chemistry; Paleoceanography; Mass Spectrometry
  • Academic Background:
    • 2012.07 University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Earth Sciences.
    • 2012.05~2013.05 Postdoctoral Research Associate. Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
    • 2013.06~2021.07 Researcher in isotope geochemistry. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, UK.
    • 2021.08~ Assistant Professor, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University.
  • Research Achievements/Publications:
    • Lamont, T.N., Roberts, N.M.W., Searle, M.P., Gardiner, N.J., Gopon, P., Hsieh, Y.-T., Holdship, P., White, R.W. (2023) Contemporaneous crust-derived I- and S-type granite magmatism and normal faulting on Tinos, Delos, and Naxos, Greece: Constraints on Aegean orogenic collapse. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 135, 2797-2829.
    • Hsieh, Y.-T., Paver, R., Tanzil, J.T.I., Bridgestock, L., Lee, J.N., Henderson G.M. (2022) Multi-colony calibration of barium isotopes between shallow-water coral skeletons and in-situ seawater: implications for paleo proxies. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 580, 117369.
    • Bridgestock, L, Nathan, J., Hsieh, Y.-T., Holdship, P., Porcelli, D. Andersson, P., Henderson, G. M. (2021) Assessing the utility of barium isotopes to trace Eurasian riverine freshwater inputs to the Arctic Ocean. Marine Chemistry, 236, 104029.
    • Bridgestock, L., Nathan, J. Paver, R., Hsieh, Y.-T., Porcelli, D., Tanzil, J., Holdship, P., Carrasco, G. Annammala, K.V., Swarzenski, P.W., Henderson, G.M. (2021) Estuarine processes modify the isotope composition of dissolved riverine barium fluxes to the ocean. Chemical Geology, 579, 120340.
    • Hsieh, Y.-T., Geibert, W., Woodward, E.M.S., Wyatt, N.J., Lohan, M.C., Acterberg, E.P., and Henderson, G.M. (2021) Radium-228-derived ocean mixing and trace element inputs in the South Atlantic. Biogeosciences, 18, 1645-1671.
    • Hsieh, Y.-T., Bridgestock, L., Scheuermann, P.P., Seyfried, Jr., W.E., Henderson, G.M. (2021) Barium isotopes in mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal vent fluids: a source of isotopically heavy Ba to the ocean. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 292, 348-363.
    • Standish, C.D., Merkel, S.W., Hsieh, Y.-T., and Kershaw J. (2021) Simultaneous lead isotope ratio and gold-lead bismuth concentration analysis of silver by laser ablation MCICP-MS. Journal of Archaeological Science, 125, 105299.
    • Dickson, A.J., Hsieh, Y.-T., Bryan, A. (2020) The rhenium isotope composition of Atlantic Ocean seawater. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 287, 221-228.
    • Stewart, J.A., …, Hsieh, Y.-T. et al. (2020) NIST RM 8301 Boron isotopes in marine carbonate (simulated coral and foraminifera solutions): inter-laboratory 11Ba and trace element ratio value assignment. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 45(1), 77-96.
    • Bridgestock, L., Hsieh, Y.-T., Porcelli, D., Henderson, G.M. (2019) Increased export production during recovery from the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum constrained by sedimentary Ba isotopes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 510, 53-63.
    • Hemsing, F., Hsieh, Y.-T., Bridgestock, L., Spooner, P.T., Robinson, L.F., Frank, N., Henderson, G.M. (2018) Barium isotopes in cold-water corals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 491, 183-192.
    • Bridgestock, L., Hsieh, Y.-T., Porcelli, D., Homoky, W.B., Bryan, A., Henderson, G.M. (2018) Controls on the barium isotope compositions of marine sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 481, 101-110.
    • Schlitzer, R., …, Hsieh, Y.-T. et al. (2018) The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017. Chemical Geology, 493, 210-223.
    • Hsieh, Y.-T. and Henderson, G.M. (2017) Barium stable isotopes in the global ocean: Tracer of Ba inputs and utilization. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 473, 269-278. (GEOTRACES Science Highlights).
    • Hooker, J.N., Cartwright, J., Stephenson, B., Silver, C., Dickson, A.J., Hsieh, Y.-T. (2017) Fluid evolution in fracturing black shales, Appalachian Basin. AAPG Bulletin, 101 (8), 1203–1238.
    • Steponaitis, E., Andrews, A., McGee, D., Quade, J., Broecker, W.S., Hsieh, Y.-T., Shuman, B., Burns, S.J., Cheng, H. (2015) Mid-Holocene drying of the U.S. Great Basin recorded in Nevada speleothems. Quaternary Science Reviews, 127, 174-185.
    • Geibert, W., Rodellas, V., Annett, A., van Beek, P., Garcia-Orellana, J., Hsieh, Y.-T., Masque, P. (2013) 226Ra determination via the rate of 222Rn ingrowth with the Radium Delayed Coincidence Counter (RaDeCC). Limnology and Oceanography: Method, 11, 594-603.
    • Hsieh, Y.-T., Geibert, W., van Beek, P., Stahl, S., Aleynik, D. and Henderson, G.M. (2013) Using the radium quartet (228Ra, 226Ra, 224Ra and 223Ra) to estimate water mixing and radium inputs in Loch Etive, Scotland. Limnology and Oceanography, 58, 1089-1102.
    • Shen, C.-C., Wu, C.-C., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Hsieh, Y.-T., Gallet, S., Chang, C.- C., Li, T.-Y., Lam, D.D., Kano, A., Hori, M. and Spötl, C. (2012) High-precision and high-resolution carbonate 230Th dating by MC-ICP-MS with SEM protocols. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 99, 71-86.
    • Hsieh, Y.-T., Henderson, G.M. and Thomas, A.L. (2011) Combining seawater 232Th and 230Th concentrations to determine dust fluxes to the surface ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 312, 280-290. (GEOTRACES Science Highlights).
    • Hsieh, Y.-T. and Henderson, G.M. (2011) Precise measurement of 228Ra/226Ra ratios and Ra concentrations in seawater samples by Multi-collector ICP mass spectrometry. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 26, 1338-1346. (Cover Story).
    • Shen, C.-C., Li, K.-S., Sieh, K., Natawidjaja, D., Cheng, H., Wang, X., Edwards, R.L., Lam, D.D., Hsieh, Y.-T., Fan, T.-Y., Meltzner, A.J., Taylor, F.W., Quinn, T.M., Chiang, H.-W., and Kilbourne, K.H. (2008) Variation of initial 230Th/232Th and limits of high precision U-Th dating of shallow-water corals. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72, 4201-4223.