Songzhi Liu

Programmer Analyst

4840 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-9719

734-741-2349
[email protected]

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L-R: NOAA GLERL Director Deborah Lee and CIGLR Research Staff Songzhi Liu discuss the future of Great Lakes research. Photo Credit: Michele Wensman.

CIGLR Programmer Analyst, Songzhi Liu, celebrates 20 years of service! Congratulations, Songzhi! Photo Credit: NOAA GLERL.

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 research scientists and staff celebrate as CILER was awarded NOAA’s next Cooperative Institute in the Great Lakes and the new Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) took its place! A large group of CIGLR’s staff and partners came to Wolverine Brewery in downtown Ann Arbor, MI to celebrate! Photo Credit: Michele Wensman.

I am the operations Manager for the CoastWatch Great Lakes Node. I have been working on satellite data for over two decades. My work is mainly focused how to transform satellite data into daily usage. To achieve this goal, I have developed multiple operational programs to receive, process, analyze, and archive the Great Lakes satellite data. I have worked with many collogues and researchers to generate the Great Lakes regional mapping products from remotely sensed data. I have designed and developed the CoastWatch Great Lakes Node website to provide near real time environmental information to support a wide range of data users including federal and state decision makers, National Weather Service, US Coast Guard, environmental researchers, shipping and the fishery industry. While continuing to develop new Great Lakes regional products, my future attention is also to provide more trainings and tutorial materials to help users better understand and utilize the products.
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Education:
  • M.A. Computer Science, Eastern Michigan University, 2007
  • B.S. Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, 1981
Major Accomplishments:
    • Developed operational programs to make the satellite derived products available on the CoastWatch website. (https://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/)
    • Maintained and updated the CoastWatch website and regional products.
    • Set up and configured the data servers (THREDDS, ERDDAP) to assist users accessing the satellite data.
    • Participated in research to improve the quality of satellite data products (GLSEA).
    • Developed a program to provide the new water surface temperature statistics product.
    • Organized CoastWatch Great Lakes Satellite Data user training course.
    • Mentored CIGLR Summer Fellow on satellite data processing.
Recent Publications and Presentations:
    1. CoastWatch Great lakes Node Summary: Philip Chu, Andrea VanderWoude, and Songzhi Liu. CoastWatch Virtual Annual Science Meeting, May 11-14, 2020
    2. CoastWatch Great lakes Node Summary: Philip Chu and Songzhi Liu. CoastWatch Annual Science Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI Apr 29-May 2, 2019
    3. NOAA Great Lakes CoastWatch New Data, Products and Services: Philip Chu and Songzhi Liu. 62th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research, Brockport NY, June 10-14, 2019
    4. Use Satellite Data to Monitor HABs and High-Water Levels in the Great Lakes: Philip Chu and Songzhi Liu. 2019 Annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, Dec 9-13, 2019