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	Home Degrees Option Areas and Courses:   Show All    Admissions Faculty Facilities and Resources News UMASSMARINE Newsletter Links Contact Us Directions		Faculty Professor CHEN, CHANGSHENG (Dartmouth) Professor, School of Marine Sciences and Technology     Phone: (508) 910-6388     Email: c1chen@umassd.edu     Website: http://rfac.smast.umassd.edu/MEDM Teaching the following courses: Marine Ecosystem Dynamics Modeling **Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.** Education: 1992 Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program 1989 M.S., Physical Oceanography, MIT/WHOI Joint Program 1983 M.S., Marine Meteorology, Ocean University of Qingdao, Qingdao, P. R. China Professional History: 2001 - present Professor, School of Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth Adjunct Scientist Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Adjunct Professor Department of Marine Sciences, The University of Georgia 1999 - present Director The US - China Cooperative Ecosystem Modeling Laboratory, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, P. R. China 1999 - 2001 Associate Professor, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia 1994 - 1999 Assistant Professor, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia 1992 - 1994 Assistant Scientist Department of Oceanography, TexasA&M University Guest Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1992 Postdoctoral Investigator - Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Current Research Support: Research interest are 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 and South Atlantic Bight), Great Lakes (Lake Michigan and Lake Superior), Gulf of Mexico and Texas/Louisiana shelf, Georgia's estuaries, and East and South China Seas. Selected Publications: Chen, C., R. C. Beardsley, and P. J. S. Franks, 2001. A 3 - D prognostic model study of the ecosystem over Georges Bank and adjacent coastal regions. Part I: physical model. Deep Sea Research, 48, 419 - 456. Franks, P. J. S. and C. Chen, 2001. A 3 - D prognostic model study of the ecosystem over Georges Bank and adjacent coastal regions. Part II: coupled biological and physical model. Deep Sea Research, 48, 457 - 482. Lewis, C. V. W., C. Chen, and C. S. Davis, 2001. Biological - physical modeling of meroplankton transport and settlement patterns on Georges Bank. Deep Sea Research, 48,137 - 158. Chen, C., 2000. A modeling study of episodic cross - frontal water transports over the inner shelf of the South Atlantic Bight. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 30, 1722 - 1742. Chen, C., J. Zhu, E. Ralph, S. A. Green, and J. Budd, 2000. Prognostic modeling studies of the Keweenaw current in Lake Superior. Part I: formation and evolution. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31, 379 - 395. Zhu, J., C. Chen, E. Ralph, and S. A. Green, 2000. Prognostic modeling studies of the Keweenaw current in Lake Superior. Part II: simulation. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31, 396 - 410. Zheng, L. and C. Chen, 2000. A 3 - D modeling study of the estuarine system: an application to the Satilla River, Proceeding of the 6th international conference on estuarine and coastal modeling, edited by Spaulding, A. S. C. E., New Orleans, LA, 1999, 1128 - 1149.
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