Team Leader and Academic Title: Liang Zhao (Professor)

Team Members and Their Academic Titles: Qun Sun (Professor), Lei Ding (Associate Researcher), Jianlong Feng (Associate Researcher), Yuheng Wang (Lecturer, Senior Engineer), Chengyi Yuan (Associate Professor), Jing Zhang (Assistant Researcher, Professor of Engineering), Chen Zhao (Lecturer), Jiawei Shen (Lecturer)

Team Introduction:

The group uses numerical simulation and maritime survey as its primary research tools, and it is always working to enhance its research platforms, which also include high-performance computing, numerical simulation, virtual simulation, and offshore survey. The primary focus of the team's study is the interannual fluctuations in offshore dynamics and ecology, along with their evolutionary processes. Additionally, they examine the effects and feedback of global changes and human activities on China's offshore ecosystems. Maintaining a scientific foundation for ensuring the security of marine ecosystems and the sustainable use of the sea, as well as supporting the realization of the sustainable development of the regional economy, requires conducting dynamics and statistical prediction of power and ecological disasters, with a focus on the process and mechanism of the occurrence of environmental problems such as low-oxygen and acidification, storm surges, and sea level changes in the offshore of Tianjin.

Achievements:

Representative projects:

(1) National Key Research and Development Program of China, Techniques for predicting and forecasting jellyfish occurrence and migration

(2) National Natural Science Foundation of China, Energy Propagation and Dissipation Processes of the Internal Tide in the Mariana Sea Area under the Influence of Multiple Source Regions

(3) National Natural Science Foundation of China, Analysis of the attribution and mechanism of interdecadal sea level change in the East China Sea

(4) National Natural Science Foundation of China, Study of interannual variations of chlorophyll in the East China Sea: roles of multiple sources of nutrients and the driving mechanisms

(5) National Natural Science Foundation of China, Modeling of seasonal and interannual variations and mechanisms of dimethyl sulfur sea-air fluxes in the Yellow and East China Seas

Representative Papers:

(1) Li T. C., J. L. Feng, L. Zhao*, D. R. Wang, R. F. Fan. Geographical distribution of coral reefs and their responses to environmental factors in the South China Sea, Ecological Indicators, 2024, 158: 111485

(2) Feng J., D. Li, Y. Li, L. Zhao*. Analysis of compound floods from storm surge and extreme precipitation in China, Journal of Hydrology, 2023, 130402

(3) Shen J. W., L. Zhao*, H. Wei. Marine dimethyl sulfide emissions in the Yellow and East China seas: scenario variation during the 1980s−2090s and its drivers, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 2023, 128(15): e2023JD038737

(4) Wang S., L. Zhao*, Y. H. Wang, H. Y. Zhang. Distribution characteristics of green tide and its impact on environment in the Yellow Sea. Marine Environmental Research, 2022, 181: 105756

(5) Zhang, J., Guo, X., Zhao, L*. Budget of riverine nitrogen over the East China Sea shelf. Environmental. Pollution, 2021, 289, 117915.

Awards:

Bronze Award of the 2nd National Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, 2023

Patents:

(1) Simulation Software for Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Dimethyl Sulfide in China's Offshore 1.0, No.3357126

(2) Interactive Operating System for Green Tide Ecological Modeling in the Yellow Sea 1.0, No. 4151030

(3) Jellyfish Disaster Forecasting System and Forecasting Method Based on Marine Ecological Model, ZL201711202066.9

(4) Calculation Software for Water Mass Mixing Ratio 1.0, No. 3945987

(5) Ocean Routine Observation Data Management and Visualization System 1.0, No. 6087014