Research Interests
(see research interest supplement)
Experience
Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California , 1975–present
Wilford & Daris Zinsmeyer Professor of Marine Studies, 1998–present
Fulbright Professor, National Cheng-Kung University , Taiwan , 2004
Visiting Professor, National Cheng-Kung University , Taiwan , 2002
Visiting Professor, Institute of Oceanography , National Taiwan University , 1991, 2004
Visiting Professor (JSPS Fellow), Kanazawa University , Japan , 1991
Visiting Professor, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica ( Taiwan ), 1991
Visiting Professor at Institute of Salt Lakes , 1987
Visiting Professor at Institute of Geochemistry , 1984;
Visiting Professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences: Institute of Geology 1980
Fulbright Professor, Centre des Faibles Radioactivités, CNRS-CEA , France , 1984
Visiting Professor, Harwell Laboratory , United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1983
Ingénieur Physicien, Commissariat a l ' Énergie Atomique (CEA), France , 1975-76
Associate Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Southern California, 1969–75
Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1967–69
Postdoctoral, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 1966–67
Research Assistant, Columbia University , 1963 - 66
Army Officer, Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Republic of China ( Taiwan ), 1959–61
Education
B.Sc. (Geology), National Taiwan University , 1959
Ph.D. (Geochemistry), Columbia University , 1966
Classes taught
Geology 350, Engineering Geology
Geology 412, Oceans, Climate, and the Environment
Geology 460, Geochemistry and Hydrogeology
Geology 560, Marine Geochemistry
Geology 564, Isotope Geochemistry
Geology 555, Chemical Equilibria in Geology
Geology 566, Geochemistry Seminar
Honors & Awards
John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1983
Fulbright Senior Scholar (France, 1983–84), ( Taiwan , 2003-04)
Fellow , Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1991
Fellow, American Geophysical Union , 1996
Achievement Award, Chinese Engineers and Scientists Association of Southern
California (CESASC), 1997
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2000
Member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences ( USA Branch), 2004
Kapitsa Gold Medal, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences ( USA Branch), 2004
Recent Publications
T. L. Ku, L. Wang, S. Luo and J. R. Southon (1995) 26 Al in seawater and 26 Al/ 10 Be as paleo-flux tracer. Geophysical Research Letters 22 , 2163-2166.
H. C. Li and T. L. Ku (1997) d 13 C- d 18 O covariance as a paleohydrological indicator for closed-basin lakes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 133 , 69-80.
T. L. Ku, S. Luo, T. K. Lowenstein, J. Li and R. J. Spencer (1998) U-series chronology for lacustrine deposits of Death Valley, California. Quaternary Research 50 , 261-275.
T. L. Ku and H. C. Li (1998) Speleothems as high-resolution paleoenvironmental archives: Records from northeastern China . Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences ( Earth and Planetary Sciences ) 107 , 321-330.
S. Luo, T. L. Ku, R. Roback, M. Murrell, and T. L. McLing (2000) In-situ radionuclide transport and preferential groundwater flows at INEEL ( Idaho ): Decay-series disequilibrium studies. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 64 , 867-881.
T. L. Ku (2000) Uranium-series methods. In: J. M., Noller, Sowers, J. S. and Lettis, W. R., editors, Quaternary Geochronology: Methods and Applications , American Geophysical Union Reference Shelf 4 , p.101-114.
E. Y. Zeng, J. Peng, D. Tsukada and T. L. K (2002) In situ measurements of polychlorinated biphenyls in the waters of San Diego Bay, California. Environmental Science & Technology 3 6, 4975-4985.
S. Luo and T. L Ku (2003) Constraints on deep-water formation by the oceanic distribution of 10 Be. Journal of Geophysical Research 108 , 3137-3143.
M. E. Morganstein, S. Luo, T. L. Ku and J. Feathers (2003) Uranium series and thermal luminescence dating of volcanic lithic artefacts. Archaeometry 45 , 513-528.
S. Luo and T. L. Ku (in press) On the importance of opal, carbonate, and lithogenic clays in scavenging and fractionating 230 Th, 231 Pa and 10 Be in the ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters .
