Prof LS Chan is an expert in earth science with strong expertise on the geology of Hong Kong. He also has extensive connection with the geology communities in Hong Kong. Besides, he has a good and credible reputation on Earth Sciences among teachers and student in Hong Kong.

He has extensive research experience on geology of Hong Kong. Over the years, he has supervised 1 PhD thesis, 3 MPhil theses and many undergraduate dissertations on geology of Hong Kong. He has published and presented findings on Hong Kong geology.

Conducted training courses and workshops on the Dynamic Earth about the Geology of Hong Kong for the EDB teachers. During 2008-2009, he coordinated 44 seminars and 24 field trips in 3 teachers training programmes for Hong Kong’s geography teachers, of which 12 seminars and 6 field trips were conducted by him.

Presented over 30 talks on general science, geology of Hong Kong to teachers and the public for EDB, Science Museum, Ocean Park and Central Library during 2004-2009. He recently organized and delivered a seminar series on Hong Kong Geology 360 for the Science Museum,which comprised 8 lectures on aspects of Hong Kong geology, 2 of which given by himself. In addition, he has given numerous talks at secondary schools on earth science topics