Department
School of Marine Science and Technology
Organization
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Email
c1chen@umassd.edu
Phone
508-910-6388
Address
836 South Rodney French Boulevard
New Bedford , Massachusetts 02744United States

Current Research

Chen is a coastal oceanographer who is interested in modeling and observational exploration of coastal ocean circulation, oceanic frontal processes, turbulent mixing/bottom boundary layer dynamics, chaotic mixing, western boundary current, internal waves and tides, and biological/physical interaction. His recent research is mainly focused on the coastal and estuarine modeling and ecosystem dynamics in the US eastern continental shelf, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, and Texas/Louisiana shelf, Georgia and South Carolina estuaries, East and South China Seas and Arctic Ocean.