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, National Inland Waterway Regulation Engineering Research Center, College of River and Ocean Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, 2021- 2022
Journal service:
Editorial board:
Associate editor, Frontiers in Environmental Engineering, (2026-)
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-)
Reviewer:
I am a reviewer for 50+ SCI journals and review more than 20 journal papers every year. Some of them are listed below:
Water Research, Nature Communications, Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Environmental Management, Environmental Pollution, Ecological Modelling, Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Ecological Engineering, Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research, Heliyon, Frontiers in Water, Frontiers in Marine Science, 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, Ecological Informatics, iScience, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans...
Conference service:
Scientific Committee Member, The 2nd International Online Conference on Marine Science and Engineering, 2026
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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