Yu Zhang

Education

• Ph.D., Environmental Engineering
• Penn State
• 2016

Positions

• 2021 - Present | Scientist 2
• 2018 - 2021 | Postdoctoral Research Associate

Awards

• LANL SPOT Award, 2022
• The 50th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, Early Career Scientists Travel Award, 2019
• Student Research Grant, Geological Society of America (GSA), 2015
• Student Scholarship (travel funding) Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS), 2014, 2015
• Excellent Graduate Student Award Beijing Normal University, 2011

Professional Societies

• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Universities Allied for Water Research (CUAHSI)
• Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS)
• Geological Society of America (GSA)

Publications

• Zhang Y, Jafarov E, Piliouras A, Jones B, Rowland J, Moulton J. The thermal response of permafrost to coastal floodplain flooding. Environmental Research Letters. 2023 February 24;18(3):035004-.
• Zhang Y, Svyatsky D, Rowland J, Moulton J, Cao Z, Wolfram P, Xu C, Pasqualini D. Impact of Coastal Marsh Eco‐Geomorphologic Change on Saltwater Intrusion Under Future Sea Level Rise. Water Resources Research. 2022 May 25; 58(5):-.
• Zhang Y, Rowland J, Xu C, Wolfram P, Svyatsky D, Moulton J, Cao Z, Marani M, D'Alpaos A, Pasqualini D. Understanding the Eco‐Geomorphologic Feedback of Coastal Marsh Under Sea Level Rise: Vegetation Dynamic Representations, Processes Interaction, and Parametric Sensitivity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2020 November 24; 125(11):-.
• Zhang Y, Li W, Sun G, King J. Coastal wetland resilience to climate variability: A hydrologic perspective. Journal of Hydrology. 2019 January; 568:275-284.
• Zhang Y, Li W, Sun G, Miao G, Noormets A, Emanuel R, King J. Understanding coastal wetland hydrology with a new regional‐scale, process‐based hydrological model. Hydrological Processes. 2018 August 28; 32(20):3158-3173.
• Zhang Y, Slingerland R, Duffy C. Fully-coupled hydrologic processes for modeling landscape evolution. Environmental Modelling & Software. 2016 August; 82:89-107.
• He K, Zhang Y, Li W, Sun G, McNulty S. Detecting Coastal Wetland Degradation by Combining Remote Sensing and Hydrologic Modeling. Forests. 2022 March 03; 13(3):411-.
• Cao Z, Zhang Y, Wolfram P, Brus S, Rowland J, Xu C, Pasqualini D, Begeman C, Petersen M. Effects of different vegetation drag parameterizations on the tidal propagation in coastal marshlands. Journal of Hydrology. 2021 December; 603:126775-.
• Cao Z, Wofram P, Rowland J, Zhang Y, Pasqualini D. Estimating Sediment Settling Velocities from a Theoretically Guided Data-Driven Approach. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 2020 October; 146(10):-.
• Zhu J, Sun G, Li W, Zhang Y, Miao G, Noormets A, McNulty S, King J, Kumar M, Wang X. Modeling the potential impacts of climate change on the water table level of selected forested wetlands in the southeastern United States. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 2017 December 13; 21(12):6289-6305.

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