Prof. TAI Pui Kuen Amos

Prof. TAI Pui Kuen Amos 戴沛權

Associate Professor / ESSC Programmer Director

Room 316, Mong Man Wai Building
3943 9687
Prof. TAI Pui Kuen Amos

Education

2012 Ph.D. Engineering Sciences (Environmental Science and Engineering) Harvard University
2007 B.Sc Environmental Engineering Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Academic Employments

2022 – present Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2022 – present Director, Earth System Science Programme, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2019 – present Associate Professor, Earth System Science Programme, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2021 – present Associate Director, Office of University General Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2021 – present Associate Director, Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2013 – 2019 Assistant Professor, Earth System Science Programme, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2012 – 2013 Croucher Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Fields and Current Research Interests

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics 
  • Ecoclimatology and biosphere-atmosphere interactions 
  • Air pollution, agricultural and forest meteorology 
  • Sustainable food systems and forestry under climate change 

See https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/sci/essc/tgabi/ for details

Honours and Awards

2024 Young Researcher Award (2022), Faculty of Science, CUHK
Since 2018 Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences (YASHK)
2015 Vice-Chancellor Exemplary Teaching Award (2014), CUHK
2015 World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Research Award for Young Scientists (2015), WMO
2015, 2020 Exemplary Teaching Award (2014, 2019), Faculty of Science, CUHK
2014 Early Career Award (2014/15), Research Grants Council (Hong Kong)
2012 - 2013 Croucher Fellowship for Postdoctoral Research, Croucher Foundation

Professional Activities

Current

since 2023 Regular Contributor, World in a Nutshell, RTHK Radio 1
Since 2022 Editor, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, international journal
since 2022 Board Governor, Governing Board, Friends of the Earth (Hong Kong)
Since 2022 Science Advisor, International Chamber of Sustainable Development (ICSD)
Since 2022 Co-Chair, GEOS-Chem Surface-Atmosphere Exchange Working Group
since 2021 Member and CUHK Representative, Sustainability Education Working Group, Hong Kong Sustainability Campus Consortium
since 2018 Founding Member, Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences (YASHK)
since 2018 Member, Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI) Scientific Steering Committee
Since 2017 Member, GEOS-Chem Scientific Steering Committee (GCSSC)
Since 2014 Member, Hong Kong Entomological Society
Since 2014 Member, Croucher Scholars Association
Since 08/2011 Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Past

2021 – 2022 Guest Editor, Research topic: Agriculture and food supply challenges in a changing climate, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems and Frontiers in Climate, international journals
2020 Member, Admission Panel, Incubation Programme/STEP, Hong Kong Science and Technology Park
2018-2021 Honorary Secretary, YASHK
since 2017-2022 Co-Chair & Member, Climate-Ecosystem-Chemistry Working Group of GCSSC

See full CV for full list of past professional activities

Teaching

Current

ESSC2020 Climate System Dynamics
ESSC3600 Ecosystems and Climate
EASC5001 Research Frontiers of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Past

ESSC2600 Biosphere, Climate and the Environment
ESSC3010 Continuum Mechanics
ESSC3220 Atmospheric Chemistry
ESSC4210 Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Boundary-Layer Meteorology
ESSC4510 Statistical Methods and Data Analysis for Earth System Science
ESSC4520 Numerical Methods and Modeling for Earth System Science
GECW1010 University and Society

Short Courses

CUSA1007 Climate Physics and Chemistry

College Affiliation in CUHK

C.W. Chu College

Books

  • Tai, A. P. K.* (2024). Co-benefits of sustainable food production and consumption in mitigating air pollution and climate change via the nitrogen cycle. In H.-M. Lam (Ed.), Agrobiotechnology in Perspectives: History, Economy, Science and Technology on the Plate (pp. 165-180). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811276736_0011  
  • Tai, A. P. K.*, Lai, E. K. C., & Lee, K. K. Y. (2018). Climate injustice as manifested by global food insecurity: A Christian exposition and call for actions. In P. T. M. Ng, W. T. Leung, & V. K. T. Mak (Eds.), Christian Mind in the Emerging World: Faith Integration in Asian Contexts and Global Perspectives (pp. 159-186). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 

Selected Recent Publications

  • Ismaeel, A., Tai, A. P. K.*, & Wu, J. (2024). Understanding the spatial patterns of atmospheric ammonia trends in South Asia. Science of The Total Environment, 954, 176188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176188
  • Murray, L. T.*, Leibensperger, E. M., Mickley, L. J., & Tai, A. P. K. (2024). Estimating future climate change impacts on human mortality and crop yields via air pollution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(39), e2400117121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400117121
  • Bhattarai, H., Tai, A. P. K.*, Val Martin, M.*, & Yung, D. H. Y. (2024). Responses of fine particulate matter (PM5) air quality to future climate, land use, and emission changes: Insights from modeling across shared socioeconomic pathways. Science of The Total Environment, 948, 174611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174611
  • Tai, A. P. K.*, Yung, D. H. Y., & Lam, T. (2024). Terrestrial Ecosystem Model in R (TEMIR) version 1.0: simulating ecophysiological responses of vegetation to atmospheric chemical and meteorological changes. Geoscientific Model Development, 17(9), 3733–3764. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3733-2024
  • Ismaeel, A., Tai, A. P. K., Santos, E. G., Maraia, H., Aalto, I., Altman, J., Dolezal, J., Lembrechts, J. J., Camargo, J. L., Aalto, J., Sam, K., do Nascimento, L. C. A., Kopecky, M., Svátek, M., Nunes, M. H., Matula, R., Plichta, R., Abera, T., & Maeda, E. E.* (2024). Patterns of tropical forest understory temperatures. Nature Communications, 15(1), 549. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44734-0
  • Mao, J., Tai, A. P. K.*, Yung, D. H. Y., Yuan, T., Chau, K. T., & Feng, Z (2024). Multidecadal ozone trends in China and implications for human health and crop yields: A hybrid approach combining a chemical transport model and machine learning. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 24(1), 345-366. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-345-2024
  • Bhattarai, H., Tai, A. P. K.*, Val Martin, M.*, & Yung, D. H. Y. (2024). Impacts of changes in climate, land use, and emissions on global ozone air quality by mid-21st century following selected Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. Science of The Total Environment, 906, 167759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167759
  • Yuan, T., Tai, A. P. K.*, Mao, J., Tam, O. H. F., Li, R. K. K., Wu, J., & Li, S. (2023). Effects of different irrigation methods on regional climate in North China Plain: A modeling study. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 342, 109728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109728
  • Lam, J. C. Y., Tai, A. P. K.*, Ducker, J. A., & Holmes, C. D. (2023). Development of an ecophysiology module in the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model version 12.2.0 to represent biosphere–atmosphere fluxes relevant for ozone air quality. Geoscientific Model Development, 16(9), 2323-2342. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-2323-2023
  • Sun, S., Tai, A. P. K.*, Yung, D. H. Y., Wong, A. Y. H., Ducker, J. A., & Holmes, C. D. (2022). Influence of plant ecophysiology on ozone dry deposition: Comparing between multiplicative and photosynthesis-based dry deposition schemes and their responses to rising CO2 Biogeosciences, 19(6), 1753-1776. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-1753-2022
  • Fung, K. M.*, Val Martin, M.*, & Tai, A. P. K.* (2022). Modeling the interinfluence of fertilizer-induced NH3emission, nitrogen deposition, and aerosol radiative effects using modified CESM2. Biogeosciences, 19(6), 1635-1655. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-1635-2022
  • Zhu, J., Tai, A. P. K.*, & Yim, S. H. L.* (2022). Effects of ozone-vegetation interactions on meteorology and air quality in China using a two-way coupled land-atmosphere model. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(2), 765-782. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-765-2022
  • Liu, X., Tai, A. P. K.*, Chen, Y., Zhang, L., Shaddick, G., Yan, X., & Lam, H.-M. (2021). Dietary shifts can reduce premature deaths related to particulate matter pollution in China. Nature Food, 2(12), 997-1004. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00430-6
  • Liu, X., Tai, A. P. K.*, & Fung, K. M. (2021). Responses of surface ozone to future agricultural ammonia emissions and subsequent nitrogen deposition through terrestrial ecosystem changes, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(23), 17743-17758. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-17743-2021
  • Tai, A. P. K.*, Ma, P. H. L., Chan, Y.-C., Chow, M.-K., Ridley, D. A., & Kok, J. F. (2021). Impacts of climate and land cover variability and trends on springtime East Asian dust emission over 1982–2010: A modeling study. Atmospheric Environment, 254, 118348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118348
  • Tai, A. P. K.*, Sadiq, M., Pang, J. Y. S., Yung, D. H. Y., & Feng, Z. (2021). Impacts of surface ozone pollution on global crop yields: Comparing different ozone exposure metrics and incorporating co-effects of CO2. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5, 534616. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.534616
  • Li, J., Tam, C.-Y.*, Tai, A. P. K.*, & Lau, N.-C. (2021). Vegetation-heatwave correlations and contrasting energy exchange responses of different vegetation types to summer heatwaves in the Northern Hemisphere during the 1982–2011 period. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 296, 108208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108208
  • Wang, L., Tai, A. P. K.*, Tam, C.-Y.*, Sadiq, M., Wang, P., & Cheung, K. K. W. (2020). Impacts of future land use and land cover change on mid-21st-century surface ozone air quality: Distinguishing between the biogeophysical and biogeochemical effects. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20(19), 11349-11369. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11349-2020
  • Fung, K. M., Tai, A. P. K.*, Yong, T., Liu, X., & Lam, H.-M. (2019). Co-benefits of intercropping as a sustainable farming method for safeguarding both food security and air quality. Environmental Research Letters, 14(4), 044011. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aafc8b
  • Sadiq, M., Tai, A. P. K.*, Lombardozzi, D., & Val Martin, M. (2017). Effects of ozone-vegetation coupling on surface ozone air quality via biogeochemical and meteorological feedbacks. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17(4), 3055-3066. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3055-2017
  • Fu, Y., & Tai, A. P. K.* (2015). Impact of climate and land cover changes on tropospheric ozone air quality and public health in East Asia between 1980 and 2010. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15(17), 10093-10106. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-10093-2015
  • Tai, A. P. K.*, Val Martin, M., & Heald, C. L. (2014). Threat to future global food security from climate change and ozone air pollution. Nature Climate Change, 4(9), 817-821. https://doi.org/10.1038/Nclimate2317
  • Tai, A. P. K.*, Mickley, L. J., & Jacob, D. J. (2012). Impact of 2000-2050 climate change on fine particulate matter (PM5) air quality inferred from a multi-model analysis of meteorological modes. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12(23), 11329-11337. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-11329-2012
  • Tai, A. P. K.*, Mickley, L. J., & Jacob, D. J. (2010). Correlations between fine particulate matter (PM5) and meteorological variables in the United States: Implications for the sensitivity of PM2.5 to climate change. Atmospheric Environment, 44(32), 3976-3984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.06.060

 

See https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/sci/essc/tgabi/research.html for full list of publications

Research Grants

  • PI, General Research Fund 2022/23, Effects of future trends in Chinese food consumption and production on regional air quality in China via the nitrogen cascade (Proj. No.: 14307722), Research Grants Council (RGC), HK$790,454, 01/01/2023 – 31/12/2024 
  • PI, Environmental Research, Technology Demonstration and Conference Projects Funding Scheme, Optimization of a multiscale regional coupled land-atmosphere model for better ozone pollution forecast in Hong Kong and Greater Bay Area (Ref. No.: ECF Project 80/2021; Prof. No.: 6906286), Environment and Conservation Fund, HK$499,000, 01/07/2022 – 30/06/2024 
  • Co-PI, Collaborative Research Fund 2021/22, Study of Carbon Sequestration in Hong Kong’s Vegetation: from Present to Future Prediction under Climate Change (Ref. No.: C5062-21GF), RGC, HK$4,949,639, 30/06/2022 – 29/06/2025 
  • Co-PI, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology (SKLA) / Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) Project Fund, Climate-smart use of nitrogen and water for sustainable agriculture in China (Proj. No.: 8300036), SKLA/ITC, HK$1,000,000, 01/04/2022 – 31/03/2024 (shared among three Co-PIs) 
  • PI, Marine Ecology Enhancement Fund, Impacts of climate change, water quality, and marine traffic on Cetacean population and distribution in Hong Kong (Ref. No.: MEEF2021009), Marine Ecology and Fisheries Enhancement Funds Trustee Limited, HK$506,600, 01/07/2021 – 30/06/2022 
  • PI, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)/Research Grants Council (RGC) Joint Research Scheme 2020/21, Combined effects of ozone pollution and nitrogen deposition on forest primary productivity and water use in China (Ref. No.: N_CUHK440/20), RGC, HK$1,134,330, 01/01/2021 – 31/12/2024 
  • PI, General Research Fund 2020/21, Impacts of 21st-century land-use and land-cover change on surface ozone air quality: Incorporating the effects of biosphere-atmosphere interactions and feedbacks (Proj. No.: 14306220), RGC, HK$599,861, 01/01/2021 – 31/12/2023 
  • Co-PI, Provision of consultancy service to conduct a study on ecosystem services in Hong Kong (Ref. No.: AFCD/SQ/225/19/C), HKSAR Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation Department, HK$2,254,605, 04/03/2020 – 03/02/2022 (shared among four PC/Co-PIs) 
  • PI, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology (SKLA) / Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) Project Fund, Effects of irrigation and water-saving practices on regional climate and agricultural productivity in semiarid regions of China (Proj. No.: 8300070), SKLA/ITC, HK$265,192, 01/04/2019 – 31/03/2021 
  • Co-PI (Project Manager), Environmental performance evaluation and pathological assessment of Acacia slopes (Ref. No.: Hy(S) Q/026/2018), HKSAR Highways Department, HK$1,261,828, 04/06/2018 – 05/07/2020 (shared among four PC/Co-PIs) 
  • PI, General Research Fund 2016/17, Effects of agricultural nitrogen emission and deposition on air quality and climate through biogeochemical and vegetation feedbacks (Proj. No.: 14323116), RGC, HK$540,824, 01/01/2017 – 31/12/2020 
  • PI, International Development Fund, Impacts of future climate and land use changes on public health and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, WUN, HK$209,154, 01/01/2016 – 31/12/2017 
  • PI, General Research Fund 2015/16, Factors controlling the temporal variability of East Asian dust: implications for air quality and climate through ocean biogeochemical feedback (Proj. No.: 14306015), RGC, HK$501,255, 01/01/2016 – 30/06/2019 
  • PI, Early Career Scheme 2014/15, Impacts of ozone-mediated ecosystem changes and biogeochemical feedbacks on air quality and climate (Proj. No.: 24300614), RGC, HK$1,158,901, 01/01/2015 – 31/12/2017 
  • PI, Croucher Study Award – Start-up Allowance, Impacts of historical and future land use and land cover changes on air quality and public health in East Asia (Acc. No.: 6903601), Croucher Foundation, HK$500,000, 01/01/2014 – 31/12/2018 

 

See full CV for full list of research grants and contracts

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