Dr. Meng Xia is principal investigator for the newly funded grant project that will focus on the Maryland Coastal Bays. In addition, the project will benefit the broader field of physical oceanography by developing field-tested parameterizations for the modeling of wave effects and by expanding knowledge of wave effects to a new range of geometric scales and physical conditions.
Titled “Excellence in Research: Wave Effects on the Dynamics of a Multiple-Inlet Bay System During Storms,” the research has been funded to the tune of $499,965 by the National Science Foundation. The study is estimated to end June 30, 2022.
Xia is associate professor in the UMES Department of Natural Sciences. Overall, his research involves river plume and estuary dynamics; ecological, biogeochemistry, and larval transport process (TMDL) modeling; the nearshore wave-current dynamics and sediment transport process; and river watershed modeling.
