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Ming-Tung Chuang

RESEARCH INTERESTS
·  Air quality modeling
·  Atmospheric chemistry
·  Air pollution meteorology
·  Air pollution episodes analysis

EDUCATIONAL, ACADEMIC and EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND
Post Doc, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences Dept, North Carolina State University, present~

• 2009~    post doc, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Science, NCSU, U.S.
• 2008-2009 post doc, Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, NCU, Taiwan
• 2002-2008. Ph.D. Degree, Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering,   NCU, Taiwan
• Major: aerosol science, air pollution modeling
• 2005-2006 Visiting scholar, Department of Civil & Environmental   Engineering, University of Tennessee, U.S.
• 1997-2002 Environmental engineer, Sinotech engineering consultants, LTD., Taiwan
• 1996-1997 Environmental engineer and project manager, Newsys Environmental Tech. Inc, Taiwan
• 1995-1996 Research assistant, Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, NCU, Taiwan
• 1991-1993 Master Degree, Graduate Institute of Atmospheric Physics, NCU, Taiwan
• 1987-1991 Bachelor Degree, Department of Atmospheric Physics, NCU, Taiwan

Publications

1. Chuang M.T., Fu J.S.Y., Jang C.J.C., Chan C.C., Ni P.C., Lee C.T., 2008. Simulation of Long-range Transport Aerosols from the Asian Continent to Taiwan by a Southward Asian High-pressure System. Science of the Total Environment 406, 168-179.
2. Fu, J.S.Y., Yeh, F.L., Jang, C.J.C., Chen, R.J.C., Chuang, M.T., 2008. Air quality modelling－An investigation of the merits of CMAQ in the analysis of trans-bountary air pollution from continents to small islands. International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, in press.
3. Chuang M.T., Chiang P.C., Chan, C.C., Wang C.F., Chang Y.Y., Lee C.T., 2008. The effects of synoptical weather pattern and complex terrain on the formation of aerosol events in the greater Taipei area. Sci Total Environ 399:128-146. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.01.051.
4. Lee C.T., Chuang M.T., Chan C.C., Cheng T.J., Huang S.L., 2006. Aerosol characteristics from the Taiwan aerosol supersite in the Asian yellow-dust periods of 2002. Atmospheric Environment 40, 3409–3418.
5. Huang, C.Y., and Chuang, M.T., 1993. Numerical Study of Air Pollutants diffusing from Nuclear Power Plant at the North tip of Taiwan under North-West Prevailing Wind. Atmospheric Science. Vol 21.pp101-124 (in Chinese).

Conferences:

1. Chuang, M.-T., Y. Zhang, J. Walker, Y. Wu, and J. E. Pleim, 2009, A Comparative Evaluation of Box Models for Simulating Ammonium Fluxes between Atmosphere and Biosphere, submitted for presentation at the 12th conference on Atmospheric Chemistry of the 2010 AMS Annual Meeting, January 17-21, 2010, Atlanta, GA.
2. Chuang, M.-T., Y. Pan, Y. Zhang, and D. Kang, 2009, Initial Application of WRF/Chem-MADRID for Real-Time Air Quality Forecasting over the Southeastern United States, submitted for presentation at the 8th annual CMAS meeting, October 19-21, 2009, Chapel Hill, NC.
3. Zhao, B., M.-T. Chuang, and Y. Zhang, 2009, An Evaluation of the AQFL Real-Time Air Quality Forecasting System, oral presentation at the 2009 NCSU Symposium on the Summer Research Experience, Raleigh, NC, USA, August 6.  
   
4. Chuang, M.T., Pan, Y., Zhang, Y., Kang, D., 2009. Initial Application of WRF/Chem-MADRID for Real-Time Air Quality Forecasting over the Southeastern United States. Abstract accepted at the 6th Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill North Carolina, Oct 20, 2009.
5. Bin, Z., Chuang, M.T., Zhang, Y., 2009. Evaluation of RT-AQF over the Southeastern United State in July 2009, Final presentation of Summer Research Experiences, NCSU, Sep 6, 2009.
6. Chuang M.T., Fu J.S.Y., Jang C.J.C., Ni P.C., Chan C.C., Lee C.T., 2007. Evolution of PM2.5 Components in the Long-range transport plume accompanied with the southward Asian continental outflow. The 6th Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill North Carolina, October 1-3, 2007.
7. Fu, J.S.Y., Jang C.J.C., Chuang, M.T., Lee, C.T., Yeh, F.L., Chien, H.C., 2007. Quantifying regional and local effects of air pollutions in Taiwan region. The 10th International Conference on Atmospheric Sciences and Applications to Air Quality (ASAAQ), Hong Kong China, 14 – 16 May 2007.