2008-2012 B.S. Geography, Yuanpei College, Peking University
2012-2014 M.S. Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
2014-2019 Ph.D. Geochemistry, California Institute of Technology

2019-2020 Postdoctoral Scholar in Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology
2020–2022 Tenure Track Assistant Professor, School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Marine Geochemistry, Isotope Geochemistry, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Biomineralization, Marine Carbonate System and Carbon Cycle

2013.7–2014.8 Primary Contributor, Western Equatorial Pacific Rainfall during the Holocene – New Interannual Records from High Resolution Borneo Stalagmites, NSF P2C2

2017.8–2020.7 Primary Contributor, Biomineralization in deep-sea corals: empirical tracer calibration coupled to a mechanistic model of skeletal growth, NSF Ocean Sciences

2021.5–2024.4 Principal Investigator, General mechanisms of biomineralization in marine calcifying organisms and implications for paleoclimate proxies, Shanghai Sailing Project

2022.1–2024.12 Principal Investigator, Mechanisms of “vital effects” in the incorporation of trace elements in deep-sea corals, NSFC Young Scientists Fund

Chen, S., Hoffmann, S. S., Lund, D. C., Cobb, K. M., Emile-Geay, J., & Adkins, J. F. (2016). A high-resolution speleothem record of western equatorial Pacific rainfall: Implications for Holocene ENSO evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 442, 61–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.02.050

Chen, S., Gagnon, A. C., & Adkins, J. F. (2018). Carbonic anhydrase, coral calcification and a new model of stable isotope vital effects. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 236, 179–197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.02.032

Chen, S., Ryb, U., Piasecki, A. M., Lloyd, M. K., Baker, M. B., & Eiler, J. M. (2019). Mechanism of solid-state clumped isotope reordering in carbonate minerals from aragonite heating experiments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 258, 156–173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.05.018

Chen, S., Littley, E. F. M., Rae, J. W. B., Charles, C. D., & Adkins, J. F. (2021). Uranium Distribution and Incorporation Mechanism in Deep-Sea Corals: Implications for Seawater [CO32–] Proxies. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.641327

Uchikawa*, J., Chen*, S., Eiler, J. M., Adkins, J. F., & Zeebe, R. E. (2021). Trajectory and timescale of oxygen and clumped isotope equilibration in the dissolved carbonate system under normal and enzymatically-catalyzed conditions at 25 °C. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 314, 313–333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.08.014

Subhas, A. V., Dong, S., Naviaux, J. D., Rollins, N. E., Ziveri, P., Gray, W., Rae, J. W. B., Liu, X., Byrne, R. H., Chen, S., Moore, C., Martell-Bonet, L., Steiner, Z., Antler, G., Hu, H., Lunstrum, A., Hou, Y., Kemnitz, N., Stutsman, J., Pallacks, S., Dugenne, M., Quay, P. D., Berelson, W. M., & Adkins, J. F. (2022). Shallow Calcium Carbonate Cycling in the North Pacific Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36(5), e2022GB007388. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GB007388

Chen, S., Littley, E. F. M., Rae, J. W. B., Charles, C. D., Guan, Y., & Adkins, J. F. (2023). Coherent tracer correlations in deep-sea corals and implications for biomineralization mechanisms underlying vital effects. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 343, 304–322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.12.006

Ruan, Y., Zhang, R., Yang, S.-C., Jiang, Z., Chen, S., Conway, T. M., Huang, K.-F., Boyle, E. A., Zhou, M., & John, S. G. (2024). Iron, Nickel, Copper, Zinc, and their stable isotopes along a salinity gradient in the Pearl River Estuary, southeastern China. Chemical Geology, 645, 121893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121893

Theaker, C. M., Carolin, S. A., Day, C. C., Cobb, K. M., Chen, S., Grothe, P. R., & Couper, H. O. (2024). Borneo Stalagmite Evidence of Significantly Reduced El Niño-Southern Oscillation Variability at 4.1 kyBP. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(6), e2023GL107111. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107111

Undergraduate: Biogeochemistry
Graduate: Chemical Oceanography, Isotope Geochemistry, Trace Metals in the Sea