{"id":7886,"date":"2021-09-22T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=7886"},"modified":"2023-06-22T13:04:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T17:04:20","slug":"xia-wins-nsf-research-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-news-releases\/xia-wins-nsf-research-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Xia wins NSF research funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/uploadedImages\/_WEBSITES\/SANS\/Content\/SANS_Monthly_Digest_-_09_2019\/canstockphoto38995550.jpg\" alt=\"Chesapeake Bay photo\" width=\"393\" height=\"262\" title=\"Chesapeake Bay photo\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Meng Xia is principal investigator for the newly funded grant project that will focus on the Maryland Coastal Bays.&nbsp; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Titled&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1856630&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\">\u201cExcellence in Research: Wave Effects on the Dynamics of a Multiple-Inlet Bay System During Storms,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;the research has been funded to the tune of $499,965 by the National Science Foundation.&nbsp; The study is estimated to end June 30, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xia is associate professor in the UMES Department of Natural Sciences.&nbsp; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Meng Xia is principal investigator for the newly funded grant project that will focus on the Maryland Coastal Bays.&nbsp; 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&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-news-releases\/xia-wins-nsf-research-funding\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Xia wins NSF research funding<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sans-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7886"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=7886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}