Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (PDFS) Award Ceremony 2025 and Workshop
Earth-HK(AoE/P-601/23-N) and Center for Ocean Research in Hong Kong and Macau (CORE) Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (PDFS) Award Ceremony 2025 and Workshop
22 Oct 2025 (Wed)
9:30am - 12:45pm
Room1038, 1/G, The HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study(IAS), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Earth-HK(AoE/P-601/23-N) and Center for Ocean Research in Hong Kong and Macau (CORE) Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (PDFS) Award Ceremony 2025 and Workshop
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.
The PDFS is designed to support Earth-HK project members in identifying and nurturing highly promising postdoctoral researchers who can significantly advance the project’s goals. Candidates will be evaluated based on their research relevance to EARTH-HK’s four major research tasks, which include:
- Atmosphere: Research on atmospheric circulation, severe weather prediction, and long-term climate variability.
- Land: Studies focusing on river basin processes, groundwater dynamics, and the impacts of land use change.
- Ocean: Investigations into ocean circulation and coupled physical-biogeochemical dynamics.
- Climate and Human Activities: Exploration of the interactions between climate change and human activities.
To celebrate the achievements of the awardees, an award ceremony and research workshop will be held on October 22, 2025. This event will provide a platform for awardees to present their research findings and foster collaboration among peers, further enhancing the impact of their work.
PROGRAMME
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09:30-09:45 (15mins) |
Welcome speech Prof. Jianping Gan |
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Presentations by young researchers and awardees (5 mins presentation) |
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09:45-09:50 (5mins) |
Intrinsic and extrinsic dynamics controls of long-term circulation variability in the GBA ocean Dr. Weicong Cheng |
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09:50-09:55 (5mins) |
Molecular fingerprints of organic matter in water and sediment and their implication on coastal hypoxia formation in Pearl River estuary Dr. Jing Sun |
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09:55-10:00 (5mins) |
Has landfalling tropical cyclone track prediction reached the predictability limit? Dr. Quanjia Zhong |
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10:00-10:05 (5mins) |
The cryptic cycle of a significant and overlooked phosphorus pool–polyphosphate in coastal oceans Dr. Xingyu Yang |
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10:05-10:10 (5mins) |
Assessing Marine and Urban Aerosol Nitrogen in the Greater Bay Area: Insights from a Summer 2024 Cruise Campaign Dr. Cong Cao |
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10:10-10:15 (5mins) |
Hydrological and biogeochemical variability controlled by land surface processes in the Pearl River Basin Dr. Ying Zhang |
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10:15-10:20 (5mins) |
Biospheric responses in the GBA RES: from genome to ecosystem, a bottom-up assessment of marine multi-trophic biodiversity resilience Dr. Wenqian Xu |
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10:20-10:25 (5mins) |
Impact of urbanization on regional climate and cross-shelf water exchange in the Pearl River Estuary Dr. Wenfeng Lai |
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10:25-10:30 (5mins) |
Revealing the fate and control mechanisms of terrestrial organic matter in estuaries by molecular fingerprints and data-driven approaches Dr. Ruanhong Cai |
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10:30-10:35 (5mins) |
Deep learning-based extreme weather prediction system for coastal cities Dr. Han Wang |
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10:35-10:55 (20mins) |
Q & A Session |
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10:55-11:15 (20mins) |
Group photo & Tea Break |
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11:15-11:20 (5mins) |
STIMP: AI-powered spatiotemporal imputation and prediction of chlorophyll-a concentration in coastal oceans Dr. Fan Zhang |
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11:20-11:25 (5mins) |
Investigating deep ocean shielding and heat transport pathways in the south China sea using ECCO Dr. Floriane Océane Sudre |
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11:25-11:30 (5mins) |
Combined model-machine learning data reconstruction and forecasts Dr. Zhixuan Wang |
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11:30-11:35 (5mins) |
Learning-enhanced spatiotemporal modeling with multi-source data fusion for high-resolution SST gap filling and sub-daily variation analysis Dr. Xiaolu Jiang |
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11:35-11:40 (5mins) |
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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11:40-11:45 (5mins) |
Complexity of north tropical Atlantic climate variability and impacts Dr. Yi Liu (Zoom) |
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11:45-11:50 (5mins) |
The impacts of small coastal watersheds on coastal and regional nitrogen cycles and budgets Dr. Hongkai Qi |
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11:50-11:55 (5mins) |
Assessment of mangrove blue carbon resources and carbon sequestration mechanisms in the Greater Bay Area Dr. Xiaoxuan Gu (Zoom) |
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11:55-12:00 (5mins) |
Factors controlling methanogen growth and activity: from micronutrients to macronutrients Dr. Donglei Zhang (Zoom) |
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12:00-12:30 (30mins) |
Q & A Session |
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12:30 |
End |
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12:30 |
Lunch at Unique |