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Dr. Guo Meiyu Dr. Guo Meiyu
Prof. GUO Meiyu (郭美瑜教授)

Associate Professor
Assistant Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Member of the Smart Society Lab

Unconventional Energy Development, Energy Policy, Environmental Impact Assessment, Carbon Neutrality and Carbon Market, Solar Energy

Office:WYS 1223
Tel:(852) 3411 6542
Email:meiyuguo@hkbu.edu.hk
Personal (Research Group) website:https://www.meiyuguo.com/
EDUCATION
  • Ph.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • Visiting Research Fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University
  • M.Ec., Renmin University of China, China
  • B.Sc., Renmin University of China, China
RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Shale gas and oil development
  • Energy Policy
  • Environmental impact assessment
  • Environmental economics
  • Carbon market
TEACHING FIELDS / COURSES TAUGHT
  • Environmental Impact Assessment and Management
  • Green Industry and Business Management
  • Geography and the Contemporary World
  • Urban and Regional Development of China
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
  • Editor, Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances (Q1 journal, IF 8.3)
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue, Mapping China’s Gas Market under Carbon Neutrality, Science Progress (2022–2023)
  • Guest Editor, Carbon-Neutral 2060 and Deep Decarbonization of China’s Energy System, Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy (2021–2022)
  • Reviewer, The Environment and Conservation Fund (ECF), Environmental Protection Department of Hong Kong
  • Reviewer, Mineral Resource Governance report, UNEP
WEBSITES
Accepting applications for Ph.D. students and Research Assistants
  • Shale gas and oil development, Energy Policy, Environmental impact assessment, Environmental economics, Carbon market
  • PI, General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council. Multi-scale Assessment of Methane Emissions from coal mining operations in China, Jan 2027 – Dec 2029,  HKD 855,000

  • Co-PI, Collaborative Research Scheme (CRS), National Natural Science Foundation of China/Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Multi-elemental lone-electron-pair cations based Pb-free perovskite optoelectronics, Jan 2024 – Dec 2027

  • PI, Early Career Scheme (ECS), Research Grants Council, Impacts of Shale Development on Water Resources in Xinjiang: Assessment and Management,  01/2025 – 12/2027, HKD 676,000

  • PI, General Project, Guangdong Natural Science Fund, Assessment, Adoption, and Policy Optimization of Low-Carbon Shale Oil and Gas Extraction Technologies, 01/2025 – 12/2027, RMB 100,000

  • PI, Tier 1 Research Start-up Grant, Hong Kong Baptist University, Exploring the Feasibility of Building Hong Kong’s Certification Authority for Carbon Credits, Mar 2023 – Aug 2025, HKD 200,000.

  • PI, General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council. Assessment of Methane Emissions from Shale Gas Production in China, 01/2022–12/2025, HKD 648,000.

  • PI, Young Scientist Project, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Environmental impacts of shale gas development: monitoring, assessment and regulation, Jan 2018 – Dec 2020, RMB 180,000.

  • PI, Faculty Research Grant, Hong Kong Baptist University, Water governance and pollution control for China’s shale gas development in Xinjiang, Sep 2017 – Aug 2019, HKD 100,000.
  • Hong, P., Guo, M.*, Liang S.*, Shi W., Li Y. & Lu X. Carbon Sequestration for Geological Negative Emissions of Shale Gas Value Chain in China. Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-68829-y

  • Hong, P., Zhang, Y*., Shi, W., Zhao, S., Feng, X., Zhuang, M., Lu, X. & Guo, M*. (2026) Assessing Methane Emissions from Shale Gas Production in China: A Two-tiered Mobile Measurement Approach. Environmental Science and Technology. 60(1): 364-375. [SCI; Top 10% in Scopus; Impact Factor: 11.3]

  • Lyu, X., Hong, P., Guo, M*. & Zhou, Y*. (2025). Recycling of Perovskite Solar Cells. Joule, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2025.102221. [SCI; Top 1% in Scopus; Impact Factor: 41.25]

  • Zheng, J., Guo, M*., & Lo, K. (2025). Shaping sustainability: Circular economy development through digital technology innovation. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, 10(5), 100784. [SSCI, Q1, Impact factor: 15.5]

  • Shi, W., Guo, M*., Li, J., Huang, Z., Hong, P., Wang, P., Feng Y., Zhao H. & Zhang, H. K. (2025). Innovative assessment of CO2 storage potential in China’s shale oil fracturing: A storage index-well layout approach. Gas Science and Engineering, 205702. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 5.9]
  • Guo, M., Zheng, J., Zhang, J., Li, J., Wang, Q., & Lai, D. W. (2025). Impact of extreme weather events on mental health among older adults in China: A longitudinal study. Sustainable Cities and Society, 106580. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 12.0]
  • Guo, M., Hui, J., Chan, K. K., & Zhu, Y. (2025). Enhancing Hong Kong's climate resilience: Integrating climate change into environmental impact assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 115, 107982. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 11.2]
  • Zhang, J., Kong, D., Li, J., Qiu, J., Zhang, Y., Gu, X., & Guo, M. (2025). Comparison and integration of hydrological models and machine learning models in global monthly streamflow simulation. Journal of Hydrology, 650, 132549. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 6.3]
  • Zheng, J., Guo, M.*, Lo, K., Lian, B., Chen, Y., Wu, Y., & Lin, L. (2024). Assessing energy efficiency of natural gas in China’s transition towards carbon neutrality. Energy, Ecology and Environment, 1-17. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 3.9]

  • Shi, W., Li, J., Huang, Z., Feng, Y., Hong, P., Lei, S. & Guo, M.* (2024). Refracturing shale gas wells in China: Doubling water consumption for enhanced gas recovery. Science of The Total Environment, 946, 174407. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 8.2]

  • Xia, Z., Li, Y., Guo, S., Jia, N., Pan, X., Mu, H., Chen R., Guo M. & Du, P. (2024). Balancing photovoltaic development and cropland protection: Assessing Agrivoltaic potential in China. Sustainable Production and Consumption. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 10.9]

  • Min, W., Chen, Y., Huang, W., Wilson, J. P., Tang, H., Guo, M., & Xu, R. (2024). Incorporating of spatial effects in forest canopy height mapping using airborne, spaceborne lidar and spatial continuous remote sensing data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 133, 104123. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 7.6]

  • Xu, R., Chen, Y., Han, G., Guo, M., Wilson, J. P., Min, W., & Ma, J. (2024). Incorporating Spatial Autocorrelation into GPP Estimation Using Eigenvector Spatial Filtering. Forests, 15(7), 1198. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 2.4]

  • Shi, W., Feng, Y., Zhao, H., Huang, Z., Guo, M., Jiang, S. & Shi, Y. (2024). Study on Key Technologies of Geosteering for Shale Gas Horizontal Wells in the Complex Structural Area of Block H in Western Hubei-Eastern Chongqing. ACS Omega. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 3.7]

  • Shi, W., Zhu, L., Guo, M.*, Huang, Z., Wang, G., Lin, L., He L., Liao Y., He H. & Gong, J. (2023), Assessment of CO2 Fracturing in China's Shale Oil Reservoir: Fracturing Effectiveness and Carbon Storage Potential. Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 197, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2023.107101 [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 12.675]

  • Lin L. and Guo M.*. (2023), Effects of urbanization on multiple human perceived temperatures in South China. Frontiers in Environmental Science,11 https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1117443  [SCI, Q2]

  • Yang, Q., Kim, J., Cho, Y., Lee, W. J., Lee, D. W., Yuan, Q.,Wang, F., Zhou, C., Zhang, X., Zhou, C., Guo M., Guo Y., Carmichael, G. & Gao, M. (2023). A synchronized estimation of hourly surface concentrations of six criteria air pollutants with GEMS data. NPJ climate and atmospheric science, 6(1), 94. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 8.5]

  • He, L., Chen, B., Luo, Y., Xu, Y., Ye, W., Guo, M., Wu, P., Li, Z., Chen, Ye., Feng, H., Wang, J., Wang Y. & Xu, L. (2023). Comparison of water stress regarding potential shale energy development in China and the US. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 190, 106823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106823 [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 12.675]

  • Liu, J., Lo, K., Mah, D., & Guo, M. (2021). Cross-Border Governance and Sustainable Energy Transition: The Case of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports, 8(2), 101-106. [SCI, Q1]

  • Shi, W.R., Guo M., Huang Z., Zhang Z., Zhang C. and Shi Y. (2021), Study on Development of Shale Gas Horizontal Well with Time-phased Staged Fracturing and Refracturing: Follow-up and Evaluation of Well R9-2, A Pilot Well in Fuling Shale Gas Field. IEEE Access, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3105186 [SCI, Q2]

  • Wang J., Lei C. and Guo M.* (2020) Daily natural gas price forecasting by a weighted hybrid data-driven model. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 192, 107240 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2020.107240. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 4.346, Cited by 44]

  • Shi, W.R., X.Z. Wang, Guo M.*, Y.H. Shi, A.G. Feng, R.H. and Arshad Raza. (2020) Water use for shale gas development in China’s Fuling Shale Gas Field. Journal of Cleaner Production, 256, 12680. [SCI,Q1, Impact factor: 11.072, Ranking: 15/340 in Environmental Science, Cited by 41]

  • Wang J., Guo M.*, Liu M. and Wei X. (2020) Long-term outlook for global rare earth production. Resources Policy, 65, 101569, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2019.101569. [SSCI, Q1, Impact factor: 5.634, Cited by 88]

  • Hu, Z., Zhou, Q., Chen, X., Chen, D., Li, J., Guo, M., Yin, G. and Duan, Z., (2019) Groundwater Depletion Estimated from GRACE: A Challenge of Sustainable Development in an Arid Region of Central Asia.Remote Sensing, 11(16). [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 5.353, Cited by 68]

  • Guo, M., Y. Xu and Y. Q. D. Chen. (2019) Environmental enforcement and compliance in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 144, pp. 24-31. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 12.675]

  • Guo, M., and Yuan Xu. (2018) Coal-to-liquids projects in China under water and carbon constraints, Energy Policy, 117, pp.58-65. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 6.142, Ranking: 14/389 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Cited by 23]

  • Hu, Z.Y., X. Chen, D.L. Chen, J.F. Li, S. Wang, Q.M. Zhou, G. Yin and M. Guo (2018) “Dry gets drier, wet gets wetter”: a case study over the arid regions of Central Asia. International Journal of Climatology, 39(2). [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 3.928, Cited by 107]

  • Raza, A., Guo, M., R. Gholami, R. Rezaee, V. Rasouli, M. Sarmadivaleh and A. Bhatti. (2018) Shale gas: A solution for energy crisis and lower CO2 emission in Pakistan, Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects, 40(13): 1674-1656. [SCI, Q2, Impact factor: 1.493]

  • Raza, A., R. Gholami, Guo, M., V. Rasouli, M. Sarmadivaleh, A. Bhatti and R. Rezaee. (2018) A review on natural gas potential of Pakistan for transition to a low-carbon future, Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects, 41(9): 1149-1159. [SCI, Q2, Impact factor: 1.493]

  • Guo, M., Y. Xu and Y. Q. D. Chen. (2017) Catching environmental noncompliance in shale gas development in China and the United States. Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 121, pp.73-81. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 12.675, Cited by 28]

  • Guo, M., X. Lu, C.P. Nielsen, M.B. McElroy, W.R. Shi, Y.T. Chen and Y. Xu. (2016) Prospects for shale gas production in China: Implications for water demand. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews,66, pp. 742-750 [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 14.982, Cited by 94]

  • Shi, W.R., Guo, M., Zhang Z.S, Zhang C.M., Li A, Yuan S.Y., Ren Y. and Shi Y.H. (2015) Case Study on Adsorption and Desorption Gas Experiment Measurement of Shale Gas. Science Technology and Engineering, 15 (7), pp. 167-172 (in Chinese)

  •  Guo, M., Y. Xu and Y. Q. D. Chen. (2014). Fracking and Pollution: Can China Rescue its Environment in Time? Environmental Science & Technology, 42(2), pp. 891-892. [SCI, Q1, Impact factor: 9.028, Cited by 29]