Bio:
I am a research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research and School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan and NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory.
My research interests include ecohydraulics, environmental hydraulics, and artificial intelligence, with particular focuses on hydrodynamic modeling, biophysical modeling, oil spill modeling, and machine learning. For details, please see the Publications.
My institutional website: CIGLR; SEAS.
Email: songyangscu@hotmail.com
Office location: NOAA, GLERL, Room 126; SEAS, Dana Building, Room 4040.
Appointment:
Senior research staff, Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, 2025- 2026
Research staff, Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, 2022- 2025
Assistant professor (with associate professor salary), National Inland Waterway Regulation Engineering Research Center, College of River and Ocean Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, 2021- 2022
Journal service:
Editorial board:
Member of advisory board, Heliyon (2023-)
Guest editor (Lead convener of a special topic), Water, MDPI (2025-)
Guest editor (Convener of a special topic), Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (2025-)
Guest editor (Lead convener of a special topic), Frontiers in Water (2024-)
Editorial member, Frontiers in Water (2023-)
Editorial member, Frontiers in Environmental Engineering (2023-)
Editorial member, Frontiers in Earth Science (2024-)
Reviewer:
I review more than 20 journal papers every year. I am a reviewer for:
Water Research Nature Communications
Science of the Total Environment Journal of Cleaner Production
Journal of Environmental Management Environmental Pollution
Ecological Modelling iScience
Journal of Hydrology Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
Ecological Engineering Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research
Total Environment Research Themes Heliyon
Frontiers in Water Frontiers in Environmental Engineering
Inland Waters International Journal of Environmental Research
Frontiers in Earth Science Hydrobiologia
Environmental Research Communications Environmental Research: Ecology
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing
Regional Studies in Marine Science Environmental Science: Advances
Geoscience Data Journal Engineering Research Express
Environmental Research Results in Engineering
Ecological Indicators Frontiers in Environmental Science
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management Environmental Research Express
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences Urban Water Journal
Machine Learning: Earth
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Education:
Ph.D. in Hydraulics and River Dynamics, Sichuan University, 2020
Joint Ph.D. student, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, 2019
Joint Ph.D. student, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2018
B.S. in Hydraulic and Hydro-Power Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, 2013
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