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Changsheng Chen, Ph.D.
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Professor
Department of Fisheries Oceanography
The School of Marine Science & Technology
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
New Bedford, MA 02744
Intercampus Graduate School for Marine Science and Technology (IGS)
University of Masschuasetts
Adjunct Scientist
Department of Physical Oceanography
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Email: c1chen@umassd.edu; cchen@whoi.edu
Phone: (508)910-6388
Fax: (508)910-6342 |
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EDUCATION:
1992: Ph.D. Physical Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program
1989: M.S. Physical Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program
1983: M.S. Marine Meteorology, Ocean University of Qingdao, P. R. China
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Chen is a coastal oceanographer who is interested in modeling and observational exploration of coastal ocean circulation, oceanic frontal processes, turbulent mixing/bottom boundary layer dynamics, chaotic mixing, western boundary current, internal waves and tides, and biological/physical interaction. His recent research is mainly focused on ecosystem dynamics in the US eastern continental shelf (Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank.New England Shelf and South Atlantic Bight), Great Lakes (Lake Michigan and Lake Superior), Gulf of Mexico and Texas/Louisiana shelf, Georgia and South Carolina estuaries, and East and South China Seas. He is leader of the Marine Ecosystem Dynamics Modeling Research Laboratory, School for Marine Science and Technology, UMASS. In 1999, he was selected as oversea assessor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Collaborated with R. C. Beardsley, Chen and his co-workers have developed an innovative unstructured grid, finite-volume coastal ocean model (FVCOM) for the ocean community. This model is becoming a community model with applications to academic research and coastal environmental managements.
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