Annual Workshop
Earth-HK Annual Workshop 2025
17-18 May 2025
9:00am - 6:00pm
Room101, 1F, W1 Building, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
RGC Areas of Excellence Scheme (AoE/P-601/23-N)
Study of the Regional Earth System for Sustainable Development under
Climate Change in the Greater Bay Area (Earth-HK)
Annual Workshop 2025
OVERVIEW
The Area of Excellence (AoE) Scheme project on the "Study of the Regional Earth System for Sustainable Development under Climate Change in the Greater Bay Area" (Earth-HK) officially started in January 2024. Thanks to the dedicative support from project members, Earth-HK has completed a few comprehensive field surveys in Shenzhen Bay, Greater Bay Area, Pearl River Estuary (PRE), and its shelf water in last summer.
This yeasr's workshop will be host jointly with Center for Ocean Research in Hong Kong and Macau (CORE), focusing on the progress, challenges, future direction of our AoE project and the field survey plan in the summer.
REGISTRATION
Online registration is now open until 25 April 2025. Please click here to access the online registration form.
Participation quotas will be allocated primarily to project members and invited speakers.
PROGRAMME (Tentative)
Day 0- 16 May (Friday)
Registration Session
Venue: Room101, 1F, W1 Building
17:30-19:00 Registration
Day 1- 17 May Morning Session
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08:30 |
Registration |
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Workshop Opening |
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09:00 |
Welcome Speech Prof. Jianping GAN |
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09:05 |
Overall Project Review |
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Invited speaker presentation (20 mins presentation plus 5 mins Q&A) |
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Chair: Prof. Jie XU |
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09:25 |
Reducing parametric uncertainty of earth system models Prof. Qingyun DUAN |
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09:50 |
Modeling human activities in earth system models Prof. Fei CHEN |
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Co-PIs/ Co-Is presentation (10 mins presentation) |
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10:15 |
Carbon and nutrient footprints in the coastal waters of the Great Bay Area |
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10:25 |
Recent development in groundwater studies in the Greater Bay Area Prof. Jimmy JIAO |
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10:35 |
Discussion |
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10:45 |
Group Photo Taking and Coffee Break |
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Chair: Prof. Liuqian YU |
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11:10 |
Carbon and nitrogen cycle in Pearl River Basin |
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11:20 |
Water quality modeling in the pearl river basin |
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11:30 |
From aerosol nitrogen deposition to atmospheric nitrogen deposition: updates and plan for fieldwork |
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11:40 |
Sediment nutrient recycling in heterogeneous coastal ocean, the Pearl River Estuary region |
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11:50 |
Insufficient local nitrous oxide production sustaining water column inventory at the Pearl River Estuary |
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12:00 |
Development of Storm Surge Reconstruction Simulations for the Greater Bay Area |
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12:10 |
Discussion |
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12:40 |
Lunch 3F, Canteen, Food Court, HKUST-GZ |
Day 1- 17 May Afternoon Session
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Co-PIs/ Co-Is presentation (10 mins presentation) |
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Chair: Prof. Zhiqiang LIU |
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14:00 |
Towards the digital twin of regional earth system in the GBA Prof. Jianping GAN |
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14:10 |
DREAMs of Earth-HK: quantifying complex organic matter sources across GBA Prof. Ding HE |
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14:20 |
Investigating tropical cyclone dynamics and physics in global climate models Prof. Xiaoming SHI |
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14:30 |
Updates on morphodynamic simulations and wave analysis in the GBA Prof. Alessandro STOCCHINO |
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14:40 |
Environmental gradients shape viral-host dynamics in the Pearl River Estuary Prof. Charmaine YUNG |
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14:50 |
Discussion |
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15:20 |
Coffee Break |
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Chair: Prof. Qixing JI |
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15:35 |
Towards sustainable development: analysis of water pollution and carbon emissions in the Pearl River Basin Prof. Dabo GUAN (Online presentation) |
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15:45 |
High-order flow solver on adaptive unstructured moving mesh and applications Prof. Kun XU |
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15:55 |
Coupled heat and hypoxia stress shape depth-limited resilience of Hong Kong’s marginal urban coral ecosystems Prof. Alex WATT |
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16:05 |
Progress on the saltwater intrusion in the coupled River-Estuary-Shelf system of Greater Bay Area (GBA) Prof. Zhongya CAI |
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16:15 |
Impacts of sediment-water fluxes on coastal oxygen dynamics Prof. Liuqian YU |
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16:25 |
Discussion |
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Co-PIs/ Co-Is presentation (10 min presentation) |
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Chair: Qing LI |
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16:55 |
Shifts in bacterial community composition enhance the degradation of refractory dissolved organic matter Prof. Jie XU |
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17:05 |
Behaviours of carbon and greenhouse gases in Shenzhen Bay Prof. Guizhi WANG |
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17:15 |
Preliminary results of microbial processes in a Hong Kong seagrass bed Prof. Hongbin LIU |
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17:25 |
Carbon fluxes and stocks in multiple mangrove landscapes in the Greater Bay Area Prof. Jinshu CHI |
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17:35 |
Effects of ocean surface waves on turbulent mixing in shallow coastal waters Prof. Qing LI |
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17:45 |
Discussion |
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18:15 |
Day 1 session ends |
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18:30 |
Dinner 3F, Canteen, Food Court, HKUST-GZ |
Day 2- 18 May Morning Session
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Co-PIs/ Co-Is presentation (10 mins presentation) |
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Chair: Prof. Hongbin LIU |
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09:00 |
Robust mesh reconstruction from multiview images Prof. Huamin QU |
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09:10 |
Probing the response of microbial community to anthropogenic stressors in coastal marine environment Prof. Stanley LAU |
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09:20 |
Unlock the power of AI for ocean science Prof. Can YANG |
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09:30 |
Potential and feasibility assessment of renewable energy development in the Greater Bay Area Prof. Zhao XU |
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09:40 |
Nitrogen cycling in HK wetlands Prof. Benoit THIBODEAU |
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09:50 |
Discussion |
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10:15 |
Coffee Break |
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Post-doctoral fellow/ PhD student presentation (4 mins presentation) |
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Chair: Prof. Qichun YANG |
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10:30 |
Longterm trend and variability of GBA ocean circulation: freshwater dynamics Dr. Weicong CHENG |
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10:34 |
Influence of urbanizaton on the adjustment of coastal winds Dr. Wenfeng LAI |
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10:38 |
Predicting dissolved oxygen concentrations in the pearl river estuary using topological data analysis and multivariate machine learning modelling Dr. Yang DI |
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10:42 |
Combined model-machine learning data reconstruction and forecasts Dr. Zhixuan WANG |
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10:46 |
An instrumental method for the simultaneous determination of organic carbon, elemental carbon, inorganic nitrogen, and organic nitrogen in aerosol samples Dr. Cong CAO |
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10:50 |
Blue carbon budget in regional scale based on field observation systems in GBA mangroves Dr. Xiaoxuan GU |
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10:54 |
Prediction of convective boundary layer in the gray zone using Fourier neural operator Dr. Tengfei LUO |
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10:58 |
Identification of heterogeneous aquifer structures in the Pearl River delta plain Dr. Chuanjun ZHAN |
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11:02 |
High ammonium fluxes via submarine groundwater discharge in the greater bay area and their environmental effects Dr. Manhua LUO |
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11:06 |
Mapping nitrogen emissions in the Pearl River Basin: tracing contributions from inter-City trade and economic activities Miss Aixi HAN |
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11:10 |
Nutrient fluxes and speciation controlled by hydrological and biogeochemical processes in the Pearl River Basin Miss Ying ZHANG |
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11:14 |
Simulation of nutrient cycle of mangrove in wet-dry coastal regime Miss Yanning LIU |
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11:18 |
Environmental determinism weakens at higher trophic levels in urbanized coastal ecosystems Miss Wenqian XU |
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11:22 |
Fuse the sar and swim observations to acquire global stokes drift estimations Mr. Shihao Zou |
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11:26 |
Interaction between boundary layer turbulence and submesoscale mixed layer eddies and its influence on upper ocean stratification Mr. Xinghao JIANG |
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11:30 |
Natural sources of aerosol nitrogen dominated over the north pacific subtropical gyre: implications of external nitrogen inputs from atmospheric deposition and water transport Mr. Dongchen DAI |
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11:34 |
Discussion on the mechanism of high-flux greenhouse gas generation in Shenzhen Bay Mr. Junchen YUAN |
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11:38 |
Unexpected high N2O production in the silicate-bedrock dominant rivers Mr. Hongkai QI |
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11:42 |
Calcium carbonate precipitation in karst areas promotes the deposition of microplastics in the river network Ms. Huan WANG |
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11:46 |
Unraveling nitrogen dynamics in sandy beach: the role of tidal forces and aquifer heterogeneity Mr. Cheng XING |
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11:50 |
Discussion |
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12:15 |
Project Execution and Management |
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12:45 |
Day 2 session ends |
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13:00 |
Lunch 3F, Canteen, Food Court, HKUST-GZ |
Day 2- 18 May Afternoon Session
The 2nd Field Survey Planning Meeting in Ocean and Land of the GBA
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14:00 |
Introduction Prof. Jianping Gan |
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14:15 |
Cruise Plan Dr. Weicong Cheng |
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14:45 |
Cruise Plan Prof. Yi LIU |
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15:05 |
Cruise Plan Prof. Guizhi WANG |
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15:25 |
Cruise Plan Prof. Jianzhen YU |
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15:45 |
Coffee Break |
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16:00 |
Cruise Plan Prof. Jimmy JIAO |
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16:20 |
Cruise Plan Prof. Hongbin LIU |
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16:40 |
Cruise Plan Prof. Ding HE |
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17:00 |
Cruise Plan Prof. Jie XU |
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17:20 |
Discussion Prof. Jianping GAN |
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18:00 |
Logistic Arrangement Prof. Yi LIU and Dr. Weicong CHENG |
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18:30 |
End |
TRANSPORTATION
Transportation Guide in English
Transportation Guide in Chinese
CAMPUS MAP
CAMPUS ACCESS
You are suggested to install the HKUST (GZ) Go software on WeChat Program to to browse the campus map and visitor registration.
Pedestrians are requested to enter and exit through gates 1,2,3 and 5, while cars should enter and exit through Gate 2 (trucks through Gate 5).
(Gate 1 is near to the venue; Gate 3 is near to the hotel)
All the registered participants should receive an acknowledgment via message or email with a QR code for access to the campus before the event date.
Upon arrival at the HKUST-GZ campus, please present and scan the QR code at the entry points. Successful validation will grant you access to the campus.
ACCOMMODATION
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) offers a limited number of guest rooms on campus. If any attendees require guest room reservations at HKUST(GZ) campus,, please submit your personal information when filling out the registration form. Due to the limited availability of rooms, allocations will be made on a "first-come, first-served" basis. We will notify you of the booking confirmation results via email once it is ready.
All rooms are assigned to Block 5c or Block 6c.
CONTACT
For general inquiry, please send email to: earthhk@ust.hk.
For visitor registration and accommodation inquiry, please contact: Ms. Yanzhi FAN at yanzhifan@hkust-gz.edu.cn.