Dr Hon Chim Chiu

Associate Lecturer in Physical and Environmental Geography

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2474

Email

hcc6@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Dr Hon Chim Chiu is an education focused academic specialising in teaching field and lab work in geography at the sub-honours level. He had previously taught in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University and the University of Hong Kong. He is specialised in the field of geomorphology and natural hazards, with a research focus on sedimentology and geomorphology of coastal systems; Quaternary evolution of monsoon systems; and storm impacts on urban coastlines. He served as the President of the Geological Society of Hong Kong in 2022-2024. 

Research areas

My research interests are mostly informed by the professional practice with focus on

1. Coastal geomorphic changes through time
Sedimentary archives of past events such as coastal storms; monitoring seasonal coastal dune variability; modelling beach profile changes. 

2. Mapping, planning and policy 
Relics from the war; planning and zoning in/with environmental change, with a focus on tree farms; historical planning systems and the law in the Scottish context.

Selected publications

• A preliminary Coasian proposal for tree auditing via planning control of tree farms

  Lai, L. W. C., Chau, K. W., Davies, S. N. G., Chiu, H. C. & Lorne, F. T., 1 Dec 2024, In: Forest Policy and Economics. 169, p. 103315

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Discovery flows from mapping for conservation planning: the case of finding and mapping of Second World War British Hong Kong defence structures

  Davies, S. N. G., Lai, L. W. C., Tan, Y. K. & Chiu, H. C., 12 Nov 2024, In: Town Planning Review. 95, 6, p. 597-616 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Hong Kong 2100: Factors of “Worst-Case Scenario” Flooding and a Flood Map

  Chiu, H. C. & Chan, H. Y. A., Sept 2023, Surveying and Built Environment, 32, 2, p. 97-109 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Extreme Storm Events as Threats to Coastal Communities: A Study of Big Wave Bay Using Map and Aerial Photo Information

  Wong, T. L. & Chiu, H. C., Dec 2022, Surveying and Built Environment, 31, 2, p. 6-21 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Recrystallization of Holocene calcareous root tubes in the Tengger Desert, Northwest China and its effects on the reliability of paleoenvironmental reconstruction results

  Li, Z., Zhu, R., Gao, Y., Chiu, H. C. & Liao, H., 10 Oct 2020, In: Quaternary International. 562, p. 85-93 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• An unsupervised learning approach to study synchroneity of past events in the South China Sea

  Tse, K. C., Chiu, H. C., Tsang, M. Y., Li, Y. & Lam, E. Y., 1 Sept 2019, In: Frontiers of Earth Science. 13, 3, p. 628-640 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Unsupervised learning on scientific ocean drilling datasets from the South China Sea

  Tse, K. C., Chiu, H. C., Tsang, M. Y., Li, Y. & Lam, E. Y., 1 Mar 2019, In: Frontiers of Earth Science. 13, 1, p. 180-190 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• A comparison of the post-storm recovery of two sandy beaches on Hong Kong Island, southern China

  Yu, F., Switzer, A. D., Lau, A. Y. A., Yeung, H. Y. E., Chik, S. W., Chiu, H. C., Huang, Z. & Pile, J., 5 Aug 2013, In: Quaternary International. 304, p. 163-175 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Sedimentology and geomorphology of a relict lacustrine system in Tingri, Tibet, China

  Chiu, H. C., Switzer, A. D. & Aitchison, J., Dec 2010, p. H41C-1102.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract

 

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