Frank Chi-chiu Cheang

Education

• Postgraduate Diploma of Education, Biology (High School), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2020
• PhD, Biology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2009
• MPhil, Biology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2003
• BSc, Biology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1998

Teaching & Research Interest

Courses:

• AGRI1000 – Agricultural Ecosystem (FAFU campus)
• BIOA1002 – Biology I (FAFU campus)
• BIOA1003 – Biology II (FAFU campus)

Research Areas:

Molecular Ecology, Phylogenetics and Evolution, Education for Sustainability

Memberships

• Member, Society of Biology, UK
• Member, Phycological Society of America, USA
• Divemaster, Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), International

9.      Publications (last 5 years)

• Wen, Z. M., Ma, K. Y., Yiu, W. H., Tsang, L. M., Chu, K. H., & Cheang, C. C. (2025). Environmental DNA Metabarcoding for Detecting Invasive Species: A Case Study in the Reservoirs of Hong Kong. In SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF INVASIVE SPECIES (pp. 83-106).
• Cheang, C. C., Lee, J. C. K., Yip, E. S. K., & Tsang, E. P. K. (2024). An Account of Environmental Education in Hong Kong: The Role of Non-Formal and Informal Education. In The Routledge International Handbook of Life and Values Education in Asia (pp. 489-498). Routledge.
• Mallick, D., Tsang, E. P. K., Lee, J. C. K., & Cheang, C. C. (2023). Marine environmental knowledge and attitudes among university students in Hong Kong: An application of the ocean literacy framework. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(6), 4785.
• Cheang, C. C., Ng, W. K., Wong, Y. S. D., Li, W. C., & Tsoi, K. H. (2021). Planting a seed of experience–Long term effects of a co-curricular ecogarden-based program in higher education in Hong Kong. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 583319.
• So, K. J. Y., Cheang, C. C., Hui, T. Y., & Chan, J. K. Y. (2021). Understanding the behavioural gap between perceived and actual environmental behaviour: investigating the clam-harvesting pattern in Hong Kong SAR, China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 316, 128259.
• Yeung, Y. H., Xie, J. Y., Kwok, C. K., Kei, K., Ang Jr, P., Chan, L. L., Dellisanti, W., Cheang, C.C., Chow, W.K. & Qiu, J. W. (2021). Hong Kong's subtropical scleractinian coral communities: Baseline, environmental drivers and management implications. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 167, 112289.
• Cheang, C. C., Lee, B. Y., Ip, B. H. Y., Yiu, W. H., Tsang, L. M., & Ang Jr, P. O. (2020). Fish and crustacean biodiversity in an outer maritime estuary of the Pearl River Delta revealed by environmental DNA. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 161, 111707.
• Cheung, L. T., Ma, A. T., Lam, T. W., Chow, A. S., Fok, L., & Cheang, C. C. (2020). Predictors of the environmentally responsible behaviour of participants: An empirical investigation of interpretative dolphin-watching tours. Global Ecology and Conservation, 23, e01153.
•  Lin, H. C., Cheang, C. C., Corbari, L., & Chan, B. K. K. (2020). Trans-Pacific genetic differentiation in the deep-water stalked barnacle Scalpellum stearnsii (Cirripedia: Thoracica: Scalpellidae). Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 164, 103359.
• Xie, J. Y., Yeung, Y. H., Kwok, C. K., Kei, K., Ang Jr, P., Chan, L. L., Cheang, C.C., Chow, W.K.  & Qiu, J. W. (2020). Localized bleaching and quick recovery in Hong Kong's coral communities. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 153, 110950.