1. 国家科技基础资源调查专项课题，西沙群岛深水珊瑚礁生物多样性及其特殊生境调查，2022.10-2026.9，主持

2. 国家自然科学基金面上项目, 用碳酸钙产率评估南海北部退化珊瑚礁的自然恢复及其发育潜力, 2021.1-2024.12, 主持

3. 南方海洋科学与工程广东省实验室重大专项团队项目课题，“全新世珊瑚礁发育过程与气候环境记录”，2019.9-2022.8，主持

4. 国家自然科学基金面上项目，近200年南海热带珊瑚礁生物侵蚀及其与气候变化和人类活动加剧的联系，2017.01-2020.12，主持

5. 国家自然科学基金面上项目，高纬度珊瑚礁的发育过程以及气候变化的调控作用——以涠洲岛为例，2015.01-2018.12，主持

6. 中国科学院青年创新促进会项目，2015.01-2018.12，主持

7. 973项目子课题，南海珊瑚礁的演化趋势与可持续利用对策，2013.01-2017.12，主持

8. 973项目子课题，过去2000年全球典型暖期的形成机制及其影响研究，2012.01-2014.12，主持

1.近五年发表文章14篇、授权专利2件。

2.代表性论文：

1) Zhang, T., Chen, T.*, Liu, S*., Lin, X., Li, S., Yan, W. (2023). Coral reef resilience persisted for a millennium but has declined rapidly in recent decades. Frontiers in Marine Science, In press；

2) Mo, S., Chen, T.*, Chen, Z. *, Zhang, W., & Li, S. (2022). Marine heatwaves impair the thermal refugia potential of marginal reefs in the northern South China Sea. Science of the Total Environment, 825, 154100；

3) Chen, T.*, Li S., Zhao, J., Feng, Y. (2021). Uranium-thorium dating of coral mortality and community shift in a highly disturbed inshore reef (Weizhou Island, northern South China Sea). Science of the Total Environment, 752, 141866；

4) Chen, T.*, Roff, G., Feng, Y., & Zhao, J. (2019). Tropical sand cays as natural paleocyclone archives. Geophysical Research Letters, 46. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084274；

5) Chen, T.*, Cobb, K. M., Roff, G., Zhao, J., Yang, H., Hu, M., & Zhao, K. (2018). Coral-derived western Pacific tropical sea surface temperatures during the last millennium. Geophysical Research Letters, 45. https://doi.org/10.1002/2018GL077619；

6) Chen, T.*, Roff, G., McCook, L., Zhao, J., & Li, S. (2018). Recolonization of marginal coral reef flats in response to recent sea-level rise. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014534；

7) Tianran Chen*, Shu Li, Qi Shi, et al. Cold tolerance of subtropical Porites lutea from the northern South China Sea. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2016, 35(12): 1-7；

8) Shu Li, Tianran Chen*, Lijia Xu, Minghang Hu. Ascidians (Diplosoma sp.) kill Acropora corals in a deteriorating reef environment (Luhuitou, Sanya, northern South China Sea). Bulletin of Marine Science, 2016, 92(4): 527-528；

9) Tianran Chen*, Kefu Yu, Jianxin Zhao, Hongqiang Yan, Yinxian Song, Yuexing Feng, Tegu Chen, 2015. Testing coral paleothermometers (B/Ca, Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, U/Ca and δ18O) under impacts of large riverine runoff. Acta Oceanol. Sin., 34, 20-26；

10) Tianran Chen*, Kefu Yu, Tegu Chen, 2013. Sr/Ca - Sea surface temperature calibration in the coral Porites lutea from subtropical northern South China Sea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 392, 98-104 .