Principal Investigator Ming Li is a Professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Dr. Li’s research spans several areas in oceanography, including estuarine and coastal dynamics, sea level rise, turbulence, internal waves, and air-sea interaction. He is also actively engaged in interdisciplinary research to address pressing environmental problems such as hypoxia, ocean acidification, and harmful algal blooms. A major focus of Dr. Li’s research is the regional impact of climate change and extreme weather events on coastal oceans.
Co-Principal Investigator Sujay Kaushal is a Professor at the Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include land use and climate impacts on water resources and increased salinization and alkalinization of freshwater, urban evolution and watershed restoration.
Co-Principal Investigator Alfonso Meija is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include hydrology, floods and droughts, urban-water systems, and water-resource sustainability.
Co-Principal Investigator Robert Chant is a Professor at the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University. His research focuses on the physics of estuarine and coastal systems, specifically on processes related to stratification, mixing and dispersion.
Co-Principal Investigator David Ralston is an Associate Scientist at Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research interests include fluid mechanics and transport processes in estuaries and the coastal ocean, such as exchange and residence time, frontal processes and bathymetric effects.
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