- Numerical modeling of physical transport processes and water quality conditions in estuarine and coastal systems
My overall research interests lie in estuarine and coastal hydrodynamics and water quality conditions, particularly the physical transport processes and their effects on water quality and living resources. Included topics in physical transport processes are estuarine residual circulation, dispersion of pollutants, sediment transport, etc., and those in water quality and living resources are eutrophication, hypoxia/anoxia, sediment diagenesis, sediment flux, larval transport, etc. I have used field data, theoretical analyses and numerical models to better understand these processes. The ultimate goal is, through the collaborative studies with researchers from the disciplines of biogeochemical processes, to develop predictive models for water quality and living resources as management tools.
