Dr. CHIU Hon Chim Lecturer BSc, PhD (HKU)
(852) 3943-0533 hchiu@cuhk.edu.hk





RESEARCH PROJECTS Project Overseer, APEC Projects in Emergency Preparedness Working Group of SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation, “Enhancing Natural Disaster Preparedness through Understanding Tsunami Risks” (EPWG 02 2020A, 2020-21 Session 2, USD$150,000)


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Li, Z., Zhu, R., Gao, Y., Chiu, H.C., & Liao, H. (2020). Recrystallization of Holocene calcareous root tubes in the Tengger Desert, Northwest China and its effects on the reliability of paleoenvironmental reconstruction results. Quaternary International. 562:85-93
Tse, K.C., Chiu, H.C., Tsang, M.Y., Li, Y. and Lam, E.Y. (2019) An unsupervised learning approach to study synchroneity of past events in the South China Sea. Frontiers of Earth Science, 13(3): 628-640.
Tse, K.C., Chiu, H. C., Tsang, M. Y., Li, Y., Lam, E. Y. (2019) Unsupervised learning on scientific ocean drilling datasets from the South China Sea. Frontiers of Earth Science. 13(1):180-190
Yu, F., Switzer, A.D., Lau, A.Y.A., Yeung, H.Y.E., Chik, S.W., Chiu, H.C., Huang, Z., Pile, J. (2013) A comparison of the post-storm recovery of two sandy beaches on Hong Kong Island, southern China. Quaternary International. 304:163-175



Teaching Fields

Physical Geography
Geomorphology
Natural Hazards

Research interests

Sedimentary basins in South China
Sedimentary and geomorphology of lake systems
Himalayan river and lake systems
Coastal hazards


Services/ Posts

Vice-President, Geological Society of Hong Kong
Member, CDC-HKEAA Committee on Geography