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The goal for the interdisciplinary research program Fate of Terrestrial Substances in the KaorMng Submarine Canyon (FATES-KP, 2003-2006) is to investigate the source, pathway, transport, and fate of sediments in a river-sea system consisting of a river and the adjacent submarine canyon on a wave- dominated micro-tidal coast in a tectonic setting and under monsoon climate off southern Taiwan. Since 2007, FATES-COMARC (Fate and Transport of Terrestrial/Non-terrestrial Substances in the Collision Margin of Arc and Continent) broadens the scope of the FATES-KP to investigate the transport and fate of terrestrial and non-terrestrial substances on an active collision margin of arc and continent that encompasses the southwestern tip of the island of Taiwan and the northeastern corner of the South China Sea (SCS) basin. We want to identify, characterize, and quantify the generation of terrestrial substances; their movement and change along the fluvial and estuarine conduit; the pattern of dispersal and transformation in the coastal sea; and the sources, and fluxes and deposition of both terrestrial and marine substances in the submarine canyon conduits between Taiwan orogen and the SCS, and between SCS and East China Sea (ECS).