Sing-how Tuo
orcid.org/0000-0003-0620-2001
singhow.tuo@gmail.com
Scientific Expeditions
Total 392 days in 55 cruises (since 2004)
Education
PhD: National
Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Marine Biotechnology and Resources (2015)
BS:
National Sun Yat-sen University, Department of Marine Resources (2002)
Military Services
Paratrooper Private (E-2): Taiwan Army Airborne Training Center [Obligatory]
(2011-2012)
Officer Candidate: Taiwan Army Armor Training Command and Armor School [Voluntary, quit
for personal reasons] (2003)
Professional Experience
Postdoc: Marine Microbial Macroecology Lab, Dalhousie University, Canada
[Advisor: Zoe V. Finkel & Andrew J. Irwin] (2020-)
Visiting Scholar: Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion
University, Virginia [Advisor: Margaret R. Mulholland] (2019-2020)
Postdoc: Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
[Advisor: Tung-Yuan Ho] (2017-2019)
Postdoc: Department of Oceanography, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
[Advisor: Yuh-ling Lee Chen] (2015-2017)
Postdoc: Asia-Pacific Ocean Research Center, National Sun Yat-sen University,
Taiwan [Advisor: Yuh-ling Lee Chen] (2015)
Research Interests
Marine Ecology; Phytoplankton; Macronutrient and Trace Metal Bioavailability;
Marine N2-fixing Cyanobacteria; Diatom-Diazotroph Association;
Symbiosis; Cyanobacterial H2 Production.
Qualifications
Research Techniques: Epi-fluorescent microscopy, Utermöhl technique, Coulter
particle counter, Trace metal-clean technique, Trace metal-defined culture
medium, 13C method for photosynthetic rate, 15N methods
for N2 fixation and nitrate assimilation, Acetylene reduction for N2
fixation, Mercuric oxide technique for H2 measurement, Flow injection
analysis for nitrate and nitrite concentrations, Segmented flow analysis for silicate
concentration, Statistics Analysis System (SAS).
Experiences as Teaching Assistant: Biostatistics (undergraduate course,
2003-2011), Biometry Practice (undergraduate course, 2003-2011), Phytoplankton
(undergraduate course, 2008-2009), Statistical Methods and Data Analysis
(graduate course, 2009-2011).
Languages: Taiwanese (native), Mandarin (native), English (TOEIC L330/R415/S130/W150;
IELTS 5.5), Russian (basic), Latin (basic).
Publications
Shih YY, Hung CC, Tuo S, Shao HJ, Chow CH, Muller FLL,
Cai YH (2020) The impact of eddies on nutrient supply, diatom biomass and carbon
export in the northern South China Sea. Front Earth Sci 8:537332, doi:
10.3389/feart.2020.537332
Tuo
S,
Rodriguez IB, Ho TY (2020) H2 accumulation and N2
fixation variation by Ni limitation in Cyanothece.
Limnol Oceanogr 65:377-386, doi:10.1002/lno.11305
Tuo
S,
Chen YLL, Chen HY, Chen TY (2017) Free-living heterocystous cyanobacteria in the
tropical marginal seas of the western North Pacific. J Plankton Res 39:404-422,
doi:10.1093/plankt/fbx023
Tuo
S,
Chen YLL, Chen HY (2014) Low nitrate availability promotes the occurrence of
diatom diazotroph associations in the marginal seas of the western Pacific. Aquat Microb Ecol 73:135-150, doi:10.3354/ame01715
Chen YLL, Chen HY, Lin
YH, Yong TC, Taniuchi Y, Tuo S
(2014) The relative contributions of unicellular and filamentous diazotrophs to
N2 fixation in the South China Sea and the upstream Kuroshio. Deep-Sea Res I 85:56-71, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2013.11.006
Chen YLL, Tuo S, Chen HY (2011)
Co-occurrence and transfer of fixed nitrogen from Trichodesmium spp. to diatoms in the low latitude Kuroshio Current
in the NW Pacific. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 421:25-38, doi:10.3354/meps08908
Chen YLL, Chen HY, Jen S,
Tuo S (2009) Phytoplankton
productivity enhancement and assemblage change in the upstream Kuroshio after
typhoons. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 385:111-126, doi:10.3354/meps08053
Chen YLL, Chen HY, Tuo S, Ohki K (2008) Seasonal
dynamics of new production from Trichodesmium
N2 fixation and nitrate uptake in the upstream Kuroshio and South
China Sea basin. Limnol Oceanogr 53:1705-1721, doi:10.4319/lo.2008.53.5.1705
Last updated on 2021/1/1.