Stable Isotope Laboratory for Earth and Planetary Systems

Stable Isotope Constraints on Atmospheric Oxidation and Earth/Planetary System Processes

We use isotope measurements, atmospheric observations, and models to investigate oxidation chemistry, carbon cycling, environmental exchange, and planetary evolution.

Earth system science

Tracing carbon, water, and reactive nitrogen across the atmosphere, biosphere, ocean, and land.

Triple oxygen isotopes provide an independent perspective on atmospheric CO₂ recycling, gross primary production, hydrological cycling, and environmental exchange.

Planetary science

Extending atmospheric chemistry and isotope reasoning from Earth to planets, moons, and exoplanets.

Our work addresses photochemistry, transport, haze formation, isotopic fractionation, atmospheric evolution, and habitability.

LaboratoryStable Isotope Laboratory for Earth and Planetary Systems
PIMao-Chang Liang
InstitutionInstitute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica

Rare-isotope applications from atmospheric chemistry to geochemistry—and from modern Earth to deep time and planetary systems.

The laboratory applies stable and rare isotopes to biogeochemical questions spanning atmospheric oxidation, global carbon cycling, environmental geochemistry, hydrology, paleoclimate, and planetary atmospheres.

A central direction uses the triple oxygen isotopic composition of atmospheric CO₂ as an independent constraint on carbon-cycle processes. Related work examines ozone-mediated oxidation, particulate pollution, geological archives, water–rock interaction, hydrological microphysics, and planetary photochemistry.

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Δ¹⁷O–CO₂

Scientific Reports · 2017

Tropospheric CO₂ oxygen-isotope anomaly, atmospheric recycling, and gross primary productivity

A plain-language summary, scientific significance, related publications, and citation guidance.

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GPP

Scientific Reports · 2023

Triple oxygen isotope constraints on terrestrial and oceanic global gross primary production

An independent isotope-based view of global biosphere productivity.

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O₃ ↔ PM

ACS Omega · 2025

Triple-oxygen-isotope evidence for ozone–particulate interaction pathways

Connecting isotope geochemistry, atmospheric oxidation, and pollution chemistry.

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2026

Elevation-dependent groundwater control on baseflow in a Himalayan catchment

Scientific Reports · Co-author

2026

Multi-site non-methane hydrocarbon source apportionment and ozone insights in Southern Taiwan

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics · Co-author

2026

Fumarolic CO₂ dynamics: a case study from the Tatun Volcano Group, Taiwan

ACS Earth and Space Chemistry · Corresponding author

Collaborations across atmospheric chemistry, isotope geochemistry, and Earth/planetary science

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