Qianqian Liu
Past Postdoctoral Research Fellow
UNC Wilmington
Physics/Physical Oceanography
DeLoach Hall 210
601 South College Road
Wilmington, North Carolina 28403-5606
In the News:
- Understanding Muskegon Lake – a Great Lakes Estuary under Stress, CIGLR Summer 2017 eNews, 9/15/2017
Photo Gallery
Tony Weinke (AWRI technician), Katie Knapp (CIGLR graduate fellow) and Qianqian Liu (CIGLR Post-doctoral Associate) prepare mooring ropes for deploying instruments on Muskegon Lake. Photo Credit: GVSU.
Tony Weinke (GVSU technician) and Qianqian Liu (CIGLR postdoctoral associate) work together to prepare mooring lines for deploying acoustic Doppler current profilers in Muskegon Lake. Photo Credit: GVSU.
CIGLR Annual Partners Meeting, Sept. 25-26, 2017: CIGLR’s James Kessler talks with CIGLR and GVSU Postdoctoral Fellow Qianqian Liu about his poster titled: Modeling Great Lakes Ice Cover Using FVCOM and UG-CICE. Photo Credit: Michele Wensman.
CIGLR Annual Partners Meeting, Sept. 25-26, 2017: CIGLR and GVSU Postdoctoral Fellow Qianqian Liu discusses her poster titled: Modeling Muskegon Lake – A freshwater Estuary under Stress. Photo Credit: Michele Wensman.
CIGLR administers an annual Great Lakes Summer Fellows Program, in partnership with NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL). Every summer, GLERL and CIGLR host a picnic for the fellows. This event gives everyone the opportunity to meet each other and talk in an informal setting. Photo Credit: Kathe Glassner-Shwayder.
CIGLR Postdocs at the All Partners Meeting. (L-R) Drs. Tian Guo, Thomas Evans, Freya Rowland, and Qianqian Liu. Photo Credit: Michele Wensman.
Profile:
Qianqian Liu was a postdoctoral scholar working with Dr. Eric Anderson (GLERL) and Dr. Bopi Biddanda (GVSU) as part of the CIGLR-GLERL postdoctoral fellowship project. She worked to implement a coupled bio-physical model for Muskegon Lake to study how hydrodynamics affects Eutrophication, HABS and Hypoxia over Muskegon Lake. Qianqian graduated from the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island with a PhD degree in Physical Oceanography in May 2015 and worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine from June 2015 to November 2016. Her Ph.D. work was focused on understanding the fundamental physics of important processes in the southern New England’s inner shelf, and her postdoctoral work at the University of Maine was focused on nutrient and biomass cycles in San Francisco Bay by a coupled physical-biogeochemical model. Qianqian will contribute her expertise in physical and biogeochemical oceanography to study Muskegon Lake, and hopefully to the Michigan-Huron Operational Forecast System in the future.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography, University of Rhode Island (2015)
- M.S. in Physical Oceanography, University of Rhode Island (2011)
- B.S. in Marine Science, Ocean University of China (2009)
Research Interest/Area of Expertise:
- Numerical Modeling and Data Assimilation
- Coastal Ocean, Estuary and River Plume Dynamics
- Ecological Modeling
- Ecosystem under Climate Change and Anthropogenic Activities
Recent Publications:
Liu, Q., S. Rao, F. Chai, R. Dugdale, F. Wilkerson and Y. Chao. 2018. San Francisco Bay nutrients and plankton dynamics as simulated by a coupled hydrodynamic-ecosystem model. Continental Shelf Research. (DOI:10.1016/j.csr.2018.03.008). [Altmetric Score]
Biddanda, B.A., A.D. Weinke, S.T. Kendall, L.C. Gereaux, T.M. Holcomb, M.J. Snider, D.K. Dila, S.A. Long, C. VandenBerg, K. Knapp, D.J. Koopmans, K. Thompson, J.H. Vail, M.E. Ogdahl, Q. Liu, T.H. Johengen, E.J. Anderson and S.A. Ruberg. 2018. Chronicles of Hypoxia: Timeseries buoy observations reveal annually recurring seasonal basin-wide bottom water hypoxia in Muskegon Lake Area of Concern – a Great Lakes estuary. Journal of Great Lakes Research. (DOI:10.1016/j.jglr.2017.12.008). [Altmetric Score]
Liu, Q., E.J. Anderson, Y. Zhang, A.D. Weinke, K.L. Knapp and B.A. Biddanda. 2018. Modeling reveals the role of coastal upwelling and hydrologic inputs on biologically distinct water exchanges in a Great Lakes estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. (DOI:10.1016/j.ecss.2018.05.014). [Altmetric Score]
Recent Presentations:
Oral Presentation: A Physical-Biogeochemical Simulation of Muskegon Lake. the 60th International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) Conference; Detroit, MI. 05/2017
Oral Presentation: Modelling the San Francisco Bay Ecosystem. 9th Biennial Bay-Delta Science Conference; Sacramento, CA. 11/2016
Oral Presentation: A Modelling Study of the nutrient and biomass cycles in San Francisco Bay. 14th International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modelling; Kingston, RI. 06/2016