Research

Ongoing projects

  • On Heat Mortality and Adaptive Urban Infrastructure: A Global Study
  • Aerial River (Flying River) Study in South America
  • Water Resources Management in Colombia– National Scale Study (NSTC project 112-2410-H-002-255-MY2)
  • Impacts on Public Health from Fires in Brazilian Amazon

Master’s projects

  • Damage Function: Historical Droughts in Central Taiwan (Shawn Lee)
  • The Impact of Urban Infrastructure on Population Adaptation to Extreme Temperature (Shawn Lee)

Bachelor's projects

  • On Data Uncertainties of Continental Moisture Tracking (Ping Fu)
  • Wild fire impact on public health in legal Amazonia region (Ping Fu; Timothy Chen)
  • Not Just Numbers: Water-Based Livelihood in a Deforested Amazonian Landscape (Austin Xiao)
  • If the Century Drought Strikes Again: Assessing Economic Losses, Water Resource Resilience, and Policy Adaptation in Taiwan under Prolonged Drought (NSTC 114-2813-C-002-203-H) (Zi-Feng Chen)
  • Feeding Growing Cities: Tracing Causal Relationship between Urbanization and Protein Supply (Herman Ho)
  • Analyzing the Transformation of Taiwan’s Rice System after 1997 through the Multi-Level Perspective in Transition Studies (NSTC 114-2813-C-002-011-M) (Tiana Lu)
  • TNFD & Nature-related Financial Disclosure (Eru Chiang; Tiana Lu)
If you are interested in the projects above or have any research ideas related to Latin America, sustainable land-water system management, or ESG, please do not hesitate to contact me at
weiweng@ntu.edu.tw