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Professor Hong Bo obtained her Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research interest focuses on marine resources and environmental science, encompassing marine pollutant transport, estuarine-coastal environmental responses to climate change, fluid-structure interaction numerical simulation, impacts of extreme weather events (e.g., typhoons) on marine engineering environments, development of 3D marine numerical models, and applications of AI data assimilation and big data.
She is the Principal Investigator of 4 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and over 20 provincial/ministerial projects (e.g., Guangdong Natural Science Foundation). Her academic outputs include more than 50 high-impact journal papers, 1 translated monograph. From 2007 to 2012, she held positions as Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Associate Researcher at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), USA, and received the Virginia Governor’s Technology Award in 2012. She currently serves as a Reviewer for NSFC and Guangdong Natural Science Foundation, a member of AGU, EGU, and AOGS, and a reviewer for leading international and domestic marine science journals.
Her team is recruiting Postdoctoral Researchers, Ph.D. Candidates, Master’s Students, and Research Assistants on an ongoing basis. Outstanding candidates interested in joining are welcome to contact him for inquiries.
Research Interests
- Marine pollutant transport
- Fluid-structure interaction numerical simulation
- Environmental parameter load responses to extreme weather events (e.g., typhoons)
- Development of 3D marine numerical models
- AI data assimilation and big data applications
Professional Experience
2013–Present: Associate Professor (2013–), Professor (current), School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology
2010–2012: Associate Researcher, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), USA
2007–2010: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), USA
2006–2007: Assistant Researcher, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Projects
NSFC-funded Projects (PI)
1. Regulatory Mechanisms of Mesoscale Eddies and Continental Slope Topography on Typhoon-induced Near-inertial Internal Waves in the Northwestern South China Sea (Grant No. 42376023), Jan 2024–Dec 2027, Funding: ¥500,000
2. Regulatory Effects of Wind Fields on Hydrodynamics and Terrestrial Material Transport in the Pearl River Estuary under Climate Change (Grant No. 41976014), Jan 2020–Dec 2023, Funding: ¥620,000
3. Responses of Material Exchange between the Pearl River Estuary and the Open Ocean to Future Sea Level Rise (Grant No. 41406005), Jan 2015–Dec 2017, Funding: ¥250,000
4. Sub-project of NSFC International Cooperation (China-UK-Netherlands): Dynamic Mechanisms of Saltwater Intrusion in the Pearl River Estuary and Its Responses to Climate Change and Human Activities (Grant No. 5161101656), Jul 2017–Jun 2021, Funding: ¥400,000
Guangdong Natural Science Foundation Projects (PI)
5. Propagation Characteristics of Typhoon-induced Near-inertial Internal Waves in the Northwestern South China Sea (Grant No. 2024A1515012218), Jan 2024–Dec 2026
6. Regulatory Mechanisms of Typhoons on Estuarine Hydrodynamics and Terrestrial Material Transport: A Case Study of the Pearl River Estuary (Grant No. 2022A1515011736), Jan 2022–Dec 2024
Other Projects (PI)
7. Winter Full-Tide Hydrological Observation for China Three Gorges Yangjiang Shapa 300MW Offshore Wind Farm Project, Jan 2018–Feb 2021, Funding: ¥620,000
8. Development of Multi-source Data Fusion Algorithms for Two Oceans and One Sea, Jul 2020–Jan 2021
9. Data Processing and Quality Control for New Underwater Observation Instruments, Jan 2019–Dec 2019
10. Sub-project: Mechanisms and Ecological Effects of Terrestrial Material Transport by Coastal Currents in the Pearl River Estuary Adjacent Waters (Key Frontier Science Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Aug 2016–Aug 2021
11. Open Project, State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (SKLEC): Dynamic Mechanisms of Estuary-Continental Shelf Material Exchange in the Northern South China Sea (Grant No. SKLEC-KF201604), Aug 2016–Jul 2018
12. General Program, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities: Sea Level Rise Trends in the Northern South China Sea and Their Impacts on Coastal Marine Environments (Grant No. 2017ZD101), Jan 2017–Dec 2018
13. Development and Integration of Multi-parameter Sensors for Deep-Sea Exploration, Apr 2016–Dec 2017
14. Introduction of Storm Surge Overland Models for the South China Sea, Mar 2015–Sep 2015
15. Wave Mathematical Model Study for the Construction Design Phase of Guangdong Lufeng Jiahu Bay Power Plant New Project, Oct 2015–Dec 2015, Funding: ¥200,000
16. Key Program, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities: Material Transport Processes Under Storm Surge Impacts in the Northern Coastal South China Sea (Grant No. 2014ZM0075), Jan 2014–Dec 2015
17. Open Project, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Dec 2013–Nov 2015
Co-PI projects
18. “Modeling Support for James River Chlorophyll Study” (Core Team Member), Collaborator: TetraTech HydroQua, Sponsor: Chesapeake Environmental Communications, Mar 2012–Nov 2012, Funding: $299,953
19. “A Super-regional Testbed to Improve Models of Environmental Processes on the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Coasts” (Co-PI), Sponsor: Southeastern Universities Research Association (Banner Index #715485), May 2010–Jun 2011, Funding: $75,000
20. “A Numerical Model Study of Salinity Changes Under Different Sea-Level Rise Scenarios in the York River and James River* (Co-PI), Sponsor: United States Geological Survey (USGS), Sep 2009–Dec 2010, Funding: $87,180
21. “Development of PCB TMDLs in Baltimore Harbor and Back River” (Core Team Member), Sponsor: Maryland Department of the Environment, Jan 2007–Mar 2011, Funding: $397,029
Selected Publications
(1) Cai,C.Y., Hong, B.*, Zhu, L.S., Xu, H.Z. 2025. Seasonal effects of hydrodynamics and biofouling on the vertical transport ofmicroplastics in the Vietnam coastal region, South China Sea. Journalof Hazardous Materials, 498, 139744
(2) Chen, Q., Xu,H., Wang, D., Hong, B.*., Liu, C., Zhang, Z., et al. 2025. Enhancement of near-inertial waves by cyclonic eddy in the northwesternsouth china sea during spring 2022. Ocean Science,10.5194/egusphere-2025-283
(3) Liu, S.M., Yu,L., Han, G., Vetter, P., Hong,, B.*, Zhai, R. 2025, Simulated tidal residual currents and implicationsfor sediment transport in Sanya Bay. Atmosphere-Ocean, https://doi.org/10.1080/07055900.2025.2499842
(4) Zhao,J., Zhu, L., Hong, B.*,Li, J., 2024. A Baroclinic Fluid Model and Its Applicationin Investigating the Salinity Transport Process Within the Sediment–WaterInterface in an Idealized Estuary. J. Mar. Sci. Eng., 12, 2107
(5) Cai, C.Y.,Hong, B.*, Zhu, L.S., Xu, H.Z., Wang, L., 2024. Impactof Stokes drift and washing-off on the pathways and accumulation ofmicroplastics originating from a subtropical estuary. Ocean Modelling, 194, 10249
(6) Hong, B.,Chao, W.H., 2024. Responses of hydrodynamic circulation to the climatic changeof wind forcing in a subtropical estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science299 (2024) 108683
(7) Cai, C.Y., Zhu, L.S., Hong, B.*, 2023. A review of methods formodeling microplastic transport in the marine environments. Marine PollutionBulletin 193, 115136
(8) Hong, B., Huang, X., Liu, S., Xu, H.,2022. Impact of Typhoon on Coastal Upwelling Off The Eastern Hainan Island: ACase Study of Typhoon Rammasun (2014). Front. Mar. Sci. 9:920825. doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.920825
(9) Hong, B., Xue, H., Zhu, L., Xu, H.,2022. Climatic Change of Summer Wind Direction and Its Impact on HydrodynamicCirculation in the Pearl River Estuary. J. Mar. Sci.Eng. 2022, 10(7), 842; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10070842
(10)Zhang, R., Hong, B.,Zhu, L., Gong, W., and Zhang, H.: Responses of estuarine circulation to themorphological evolution in a convergent, microtidal estuary, Ocean Sci., 18,213–231, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-213-2022, 2022
(11)Zhou,Y., Ni, Z., Vetter, P. A., Xu, H., Hong, B.,Wang, H., et al. (2022). Model Simulation of Storm Surge in the NorthwesternSouth China Sea Under the Impact of Sea Level Rise: A Case Study of SuperTyphoon Rammasun(2014). Front. Mar. Sci. 9. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.878301
(12)Xu,H., Zhang, Z.*, Vetter, P. A., Xie, Q., Long, T., Hong,B.*, 2022. Impact of anticyclonic eddy onnonlinear wave-wave interaction in the southern South China Sea during latesummer 2020, Geophysical Research Letters,49(9), https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096892
(13)Hong, B., Zhang,J., 2021. Long-term trends of sea surface windin the northern South China Sea under the background of climate change. Journalof Marine Science and Engineering, 9: 752. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9070752
(14)Xu, H., Shen, J., Wang, D.X., Luo, L., Hong, B.*,2021.Nonlinearity of subtidal estuarine circulation in the Pearl River Estuary,China. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8: 629403. doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.629403
(15)Wang, J., Hong, B.*, 2021. Threat posed byfuture sea-level rise in the upper Pearl River Estuary. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 9: 291.
(16)Hong, B., Liu, Z.,Shen, J., Wu, H., Gong,W., Xu, H., Wang, D., 2020. Potential physical impactsof sea-level rise on the Pearl River Estuary, China. Journal of Marine Systems, 201: 103245
(17)Liu, S., Hong, B.*, Wang, G., Wang, W., Xie, Q., Ni, Z., Yu, L.,Jiang, H., Long, L., Xu, H.*, 2020. Physicalstructure and phytoplankton community off the eastern Hainan coast duringsummer 2015. Acta Oceanologica Sinica,39(11):103-114
(18)Hong B.*, Wang, G., Xu,H., Wang, D., 2020. Study on the transport of terrestrial dissolved substancesin the Pearl River Estuary using passive tracers. Water, 12: 1235
(19)Hong B., Shen, J., Xu, H., 2018. Upriver transport of dissolved substances in anestuary and sub-estuary system of the lower James River, Chesapeake Bay. Frontiers of Earth Science, 12 (3):583-599
(20)Hong B., Gong, W., Peng, S., Xie, Q., Wang, D., Li,H., Xu, H., 2016. Characteristics of vertical exchange process in the PearlRiver Estuary (PRE). Aquatic EcosystemHealth & Management, 19(3): 286-295
(21)Zhao, X., Xie, Q., Hong, B.*, Xu, H., Chen, L. Comparisonof two typhoon-induced storm surges at the Zhanjiang Coast. The 4thInternational Conferences on Geological, Geographical, Aerospaces and EarthSciences, 2016.
(22)Xu, H., Liu, S., Xie, Q. Hong, B., Zhou, W., Zhang, Y. Li, T.Seasonal variation of dissolved oxygen in the Sanya Bay. Aquatic EcosystemHealth & Management, 2016.
(23)Gong, W.P., Maa, J., Hong,B., Shen J., Salt transport during a dry season in the Modaomen Estuary,Pearl River Delta, China. Ocean & Coastal Management, Vol. 100, 139-150,2014.
(24)Hong, B., Shen, J., 2013. Linking dynamics of transport timescale andvariations of hypoxia in the Chesapeake Bay. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 118: 1-13
(25)Shen, J., Hong, B.*, Kuo, A. Y.,2013. Using timescales to interpret dissolved oxygen distributions in thebottom waters of Chesapeake Bay. Limnologyand Oceanography, 58(6): 2237-2248
(26)Wang D.X., Wang Q., Zhou W.,Cai S., Li L., Hong, B., 2013. Ananalysis of the current deflection around Dongsha Islands in the northern SouthChina Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 118(1), 490-501. doi:10.1029/2012JC008429.
(27)Wang D.X., Liu Q., Xie Q., HeZ., Zhuang W., Shu Y., Xiao X., Hong, B.,Wu X., Sui D., Progress of regional oceanography study associated with westernboundary current in the South China Sea. Chinese Science Bulletin, Vol. 58(11),1205-1215, 2013
(28)Hong, B.*, Shen, J., 2012. Responses of estuarinesalinity and transport processes to potential future sea-level rise in theChesapeake Bay. Estuarine, Coastal andShelf Science, 104-105: 33-45
(29)Rice, C.K., Hong, B.*, Shen,J., 2012. Assessment of Salinity Intrusion in the James and Chickahominy Riversas a Result of Simulated Sea-Level Rise in Chesapeake Bay, East Coast, UnitedStates. Journal of EnvironmentalManagement, 111(12): 61-69
(30)Shen, J., Hong, B.*, Schugam, L.,Zhao, Y., White, J., 2012. Modeling of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in theBaltimore Harbor. Ecological Modelling,242: 54-68
(31)Wang, D.X., Hong, B.#,Gan, J., Xu, H., 2010. Numerical investigation on propulsion of thecounter-wind current in the northern South China Sea in winter. Deep Sea Research I, 57: 1206-1221
(32)Hong, B., Panday, N., Shen, J., Wang, H., Gong,W., Soehl, A., 2010. Modeling water exchange between Baltimore Harbor andChesapeake Bay using artificial tracers: Seasonal variations. Marine Environmental Research, 70:102-119
(33)Gong, Wenping*, Shen Jian, Hong B., 2009. The influence of wind onthe water age in the tidal RappahannockRiver. MarineEnvironmental Research, Vol. 68, 203-216.
(34)Hong, B., Wang, D.X., 2008.Sensitivity Study of the Seasonal Mean Circulation in the Northern South ChinaSea. Advances in atmospheric sciences,25(5): 824–839
(35)Hong, B., Wang, D.X., 2006. Diagnostic analysis on the northern South ChinaSea winter counter-wind current. ChineseScience Bulletin, 51: 9-16
(36)Tian, Zhenfu*, Hong B., 2004. Numerical investigation on mode-transition oflaminar natural convection in inclined enclosures with the higher-order compactFDM. Computational Mechanics. Vo. II, P. 106. WCCM VI in conjunction withAPCOM’ 04, 2004, Beijing, China, Tsinghua University Press &Springer-Verlag, Editors Z. H. Yao, M.W. Yuan, W. X. Zhong.