Faculty

Ming Li

Professor
Faculty
Ming Li
Professor
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Horn Point Laboratory

Bio

Dr. Ming Li is a Professor at Horn Point Laboratory. He uses numerical models to address a wide range of oceanographic problems. His research interests span several areas of physical oceanography, including estuarine and coastal dynamics, air-sea interaction, turbulent mixing processes and internal waves. He is also actively engaged in interdisciplinary research to address complex environmental problems such as hypoxia, ocean acidification, and harmful algal blooms. 

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Areas of Expertise

  • Physical oceanography
  • Coastal and estuarine dynamics
  • Interdisciplinary modeling to study water quality, carbonate chemistry and harmful algal blooms

Education

  • Oxford University, Ph.D., Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
  • Hohai University, B. Eng., Fluid Mechanics

Recent Publications

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Featured Work

CoPe RCN (Research Coordination Network): Advancing Interdisciplinary Research to Build Resilient Communities and Infrastructure in the Nation's Estuaries and Bays. National Science Foundation.
ECOHAB19: Life and death of Karenia brevis blooms in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Identifying Thresholds in Coupled Biogeochemical-Biological-Economic Systems Under Multiple Stressors. National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration
Generation mechanisms of nonlinear internal waves in coastal plain estuaries. National Science Foundation.
ECOHAB17: Development of a Mechanistic ROMS-RCA-HAB Model for Predicting Prorocentrum minimum and Karlodinium veneficum Blooms in Chesapeake Bay. National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration
Estuary plumes as driver of inner continental shelf benthic community structure and function. National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: RAPID: Unprecedented Hurricane Ian nutrient and organic matter inputs to Southwest Florida coastal waters. National Science Foundation.
Conference: salt contamination of water supplies in tidal rivers. National Science Foundation.
mCDR 2023: Quantifying the efficacy of wastewater alkalinity enhancement on mCDR and acidification mitigation in a large estuary. National Oceanographic Partnership Program
Emerging hypoxia on the oligotrophic West Florida Shelf and its potential impacts on marine ecosystem: discerning the roles of HABs, warming and extreme weather events. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Regularly Offered Courses

MEES 661: Physics of Marine and Estuarine Environments

Graduate Program Foundation Areas

Contact Info

Email

mingli@umces.edu

Office Phone

410-221-8420

Campus Location

Coastal Science ~ 1201A

Mailing Address

2020 Horns Point Road
Cambridge, MD 21613
United States

Current Lab Members

Renjian Li
rli@umces.edu
Yuren Chen
yuren@umces.edu
Deshuai Wang
Deshuai Wang
wangd@umces.edu