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Changsheng Chen
Professor & Montgomery Charter Chair
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
Contact
508-910-6388
508-910-6371
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School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 226
Education
| 1983 | Ocean University of China | M.S. in Meteorology |
| 1989 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | M.S. in Physical Oceanography |
| 1992 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program | Ph.D in Physical Oceanography |
Teaching
- MAR650: Marine Ecosystem Dynamics
- MAR513: Numerical Methods in Ocean Sciences
- MAR599: Special Topics-Arctic Ocean Dynamics and Its Roles to Climate Change
- MAR599: Special-Topic: Ocean Circulation Theory
- MAR599: Special Topic: Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystem.
Teaching
Programs
Programs
- Intercampus Marine Science Programs MS, PhD
- Marine Science and Technology MS
- Marine Science and Technology PhD
- University of São Paulo Dual PhD PhD
Research
Research activities
- Multi-scale resolving global-regional-coastal-esturine integrated FVCOM model development
- Arctic Ocean modeling, the Gulf of Maine/New England ecosystem dynamics
- Northeast Coastal Ocean Forecast System (NECOFS) development and operations
- Coastal ocean acidification/ecosystem/water quality
- FVCOM development and improvement
Research
Research awards
- $ 338,729 awarded by Office of Naval Research for UMassD MUST IV: Development of A Fully Coupled, Nonhydrostatic, Marine Infrastructure-resolving (up to ~ 1 m resolution), Atmospheric and Ocean Model System
- $ 100,000 awarded by MA Division of Marine Fisheries for Mass Sewage Treatment Plan Outfall Modeling FY23
- $ 341,854 awarded by The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for Impacts of Environmental Stressors on Sea Scallop Recruitments over the US Northeast Continental Shelf: a Modeling of the Impacts of Natural and Anthropogenic Stressors on Sea Scallop Recruitment over the US Northeast Continental Shelf
- $ 374,735 awarded by NE REG ASSOC OF COASTAL OCEAN OBSERV SYS for NERACOOS: A Responsive Ocean Observing System for the Changing Northeast Region
- $ 138,812 awarded by University of Maine for Projecting Climate-related Shifts in American Lobster Habitat and Connectivity
Research
Research interests
- Modeling and observational exploration of coastal ocean circulation
- Oceanic frontal processes
- Biological and physical interactions
- Arctic Ocean and Climate Change
- Multi-scaling ocean model developments
Select publications
- Chen, C., G. Gao, Y. Zhang, R. C. Beardsley, Z. Lai, J. Qi, H. Lin (2016).
Circulation in the Arctic Ocean: Results from a high-resolution coupled ice-sea nested Global-FVCOM and Arctic-FVCOM system
Progress in Oceanography, 141, 60-80. - Zhang, Y., C. Chen, R. C. Beardsley, G. Gao, Z. Lai, B. Curry, C. M. Lee, H. Lin, J. Qi, and Q. Xu (2016).
Studies of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago water transport and its relationship to basin-local forcings: Results from AO-FVCOM
Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 121, doi:10.100. - Sun, Y., C. Chen, R. C. Beardsley, D. Ullman, B. Butman, H. Lin (2016).
Surface circulation in Block Island Sound and adjacent coastal and shelf regions
Progress in Oceanography, 143, 26-45.