Dr. Tao Sun, Research Associate
College of natural Sciences and Mathematics , Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
FACULTY WEBSITE-
Areas of expertise
- Designing, building, and maintaining isotopic fluorination systems
- Ratio Mass Spectrometers
- Source rock analysis
- Liquid/ Solid Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
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Awards
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Bill D. Cook Faculty Scholars Endowment (2003-2008)
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NSF 4th US-Japan exchange program for young researches in nanotechnology (2007)
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NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011-2013
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Distinguished Dissertation Award, College of Science, Louisiana State University, 2011
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Economic Development Assistantship, Board of Regents of Louisiana, 2006-2010 (4-year Fellowship for outstanding graduate student)
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Pirtle Award for Student of Geosciences, University of Kentucky, 2004
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Outstanding Student Scholarship, University of Science and Technology of China, 2002
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Publications
- Sun T, Thibodeaux L.J., Birdwell J.E., Culling’s Continuity Equation–Revisiting and Revising the Legacy Landscape Model after 50 years, in prep, 2015
- Sun T, Bao H.M, Reich M, Hemming S, More than Ten Million Years of Hyper-aridity Revealed by Multiple Isotope Signatures of Sulfate in a Deep Gravel Profile in the Atacama Desert, Geology, under review, 2015
- Sun T, Socki R.A, Bish D.L, Harvey R.P, Tonui E, Niles P.B, Bao H.M. Lost Antarctic Desert Inferred from Unusual Sulfate Formation and Isotope Signatures, Nature Communications, Volume 6, Article 7579, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8579, 2015 Featured by U.S. Antarctic Program News, The Antarctic Sun: The Lost Dry Valleys of the Polar Plateau (http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4184)
- Huang J, Feng L.J, Lu D.B, Zhang Q.R, Sun T and Chu X.L, Multiple Climate Cooling prior to Sturtian Glaciations: Evidence from Chemical Index of Alteration of Sediments in South China, Scientific Reports, v.4. doi:10.1038/srep06868, 2014
- Huang J, Chu X.L, Lyons T.W, Sun T, Feng L.J, Zhang Q.R, Chang H.J, The Sulfur Isotope Signatures of Marinoan Deglaciation captured in Neoproterozoic Shallow-to-deep Cap Carbonate from South China, Precambrian Research, v.238, p. 42-51, 2013
- Sun T, Niles P.B, Socki R.A, Bao H.M, Liu Y, Non-Mass-Dependent Isotope Fractionation Under a Thermal Gradient, 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 2013
- Socki R.A, Niles P.B, Cabiran M, Rossi C, Sun T, In-situ Water Vapor Probe for a RobotArm Mounted, Compact Water Vapor Analyzer: Preliminary Results, 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 2013
For more publications, see CV below or visit google scholar page here.
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Patents
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None available.
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Grants and Funded Research
- Co-I. NASA Solar System Workings, 2015, Pending, $232,556 (UH share) Multiple Stable Isotope Analysis of Sulfate Minerals from Shergottites and Nakhlites as Probe to Martian Atmosphere, Hydrosphere and Lithosphere
- Co-I. NASA Habitable Worlds, 2015-2018, $91,007 (UH share). Evaluating Aqueous Martian Environments through Coordinated Analysis of Carbonates in Martian Meteorite EETA 79001
- PI. NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011-2013, $126,000 Non-Mass-Dependent Fractionation under Thermal Gradient on Rarefied CO2 Gas
- PI. International Association of Geochemistry, 2009, $2000 Multiple Sulfate Isotopic Evidence of the Formation of Oxide Copper Ore at Spence, Atacama Desert, Chile
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Curriculum Vitae
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Contact information
Science and Research 1 building, Room 103 tsun9@uh.edu