Research Interests

·   Processes, rates, and mechanisms of continental erosion and weathering

·   Oceanic cycling of trace metals and its effects on marine environment

·   Beryllium isotope geochemistry and its applications in Earth surface processes

Publications

Published >10 first-author papers in SCI journals. Below are five selected publications.

·   Deng, K.*, Rickli, J., Suhrhoff, T.J., Du, J., Scholz, F., Severmann, S., Yang, S., McManus, J., Vance, D., 2023. Dominance of benthic fluxes in the oceanic beryllium budget and implications for paleo-denudation records. Science Advances 9, eadg3702.

·   Deng, K.*, Yang, S.*, Guo, Y., 2022. A global temperature control of silicate weathering intensity. Nature Communications 13, 1781.

·   Deng, K.*, Wittmann, H., von Blanckenburg, F., 2020. The depositional flux of meteoric cosmogenic 10Be from modeling and observation. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 550, 116530.

·   Deng, K., Yang, S.*, Bi, L., Chang, Y.-P., Su, N., Frings, P., Xie, X., 2019. Small dynamic mountainous rivers in Taiwan exhibit large sedimentary geochemical and provenance heterogeneity over multi-spatial scales. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 505, 96-109.

·   Deng, K., Yang, S.*, Li, C., Su, N., Bi, L., Chang, Y.-P., Chang, S.-C., 2017. Detrital zircon geochronology of river sands from Taiwan: Implications for sedimentary provenance of Taiwan and its source link with the east China mainland. Earth Sci. Rev. 164, 31-47.