Changsheng Chen

faculty

Changsheng Chen, PhD

Commonwealth Professor & Montgomery Charter Chair

SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography

Contact

508-910-6388

508-910-6371

School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 226

Education

1992Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint ProgramPhD in Physical Oceanography
1989Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMS in Physical Oceanography
1983Ocean University of ChinaMS in Meteorology

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.

Programs

Courses

General topics of interest and relevance to civil & environmental engineering applications. Topics may include subject matter related to transportation engineering, geotechnical engineering, structures design, water resources, fluid mechanics, and/or environmental science and engineering. Laboratory and field exercises may supplement lecture material. Course can be repeated with change of content.

General topics of interest and relevance to civil & environmental engineering applications. Topics may include subject matter related to transportation engineering, geotechnical engineering, structures design, water resources, fluid mechanics, and/or environmental science and engineering. Laboratory and field exercises may supplement lecture material. Course can be repeated with change of content.

Analysis and management of geographic information systems. Emphasis will be placed on the nature of geographic information, data models and structures for geographic information, geographic data input, data manipulation and data storage, spatial analytic and modeling techniques, and error analysis. The course is designed to help students gain first-hand experience in data input, data management, data analyses, and result presentation in a geographical information system through labs and projects.

Analysis and management of geographic information systems. Emphasis will be placed on the nature of geographic information, data models and structures for geographic information, geographic data input, data manipulation and data storage, spatial analytic and modeling techniques, and error analysis. The course is designed to help students gain first-hand experience in data input, data management, data analyses, and result presentation in a geographical information system through labs and projects.

Analysis and management of geographic information systems.  Emphasis will be placed on the nature of geographic information, data models and structures for geographic information, geographic data input, data manipulation and data storage, spatial analytic and modeling techniques, and error analysis.  The course is designed to help students gain first-hand experience in data input, data management, data analyses, and results presentation in geographical information system through labs and projects.

Analysis and management of geographic information systems.  Emphasis will be placed on the nature of geographic information, data models and structures for geographic information, geographic data input, data manipulation and data storage, spatial analytic and modeling techniques, and error analysis.  The course is designed to help students gain first-hand experience in data input, data management, data analyses, and results presentation in geographical information system through labs and projects.

Thesis research on an experimental or theoretical project in Marine Science or Technology under a faculty advisor.

Allows completion of a numbered course formally in the graduate program listing but not being offered as a scheduled class.

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 awards

  • $30,000 awarded by UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE for Analysis of ECOA Cruise Data
  • $ 214,085 awarded by Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS) for Modernizing IOOS in the Northeast to Build Equity and Resilience in a Changing Climate
  • $ 16,000 awarded by CAPE COD COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN'S ALLIANCE for IoT in the Deep: Putting Massachusetts at the Helm of Coastal Ocean Observing
  • $ 481,850 awarded by NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMIN for Assessing Cumulative Impact of Offshore Wind Energy Development on Sea Scallop Laval Transport and Settlement in Southern New England Waters (RSA)
  • $ 100,000 awarded by MA DIVISION OF MARINE FISHERIES for Mass Sewage Treatment Plan Outfall Modeling FY25

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.

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