Department of Geography and Resource Management (GRM), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Prof. LIU Kam-biu

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Visiting Scholar

Prof. LIU Kam-biu

Vice-Chancellor Visiting Professor

BSSc (CUHK)
MSc (Tor.)
PhD (Tor.)

George William Barineau III Professor
Chair (2023-2023)
Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
College of the Coast and Environment
Louisiana State University

kliu1@lsu.edu

RESEARCH PROJECTS

National Science Foundation (NSF), Doctoral dissertation research improvement (DDRI) grant ($24,900), Human-Environment and Geographical Science Program, BCS-2243590. “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Stratigraphic records of microplastic pollution in coastal and wetland sediments”. (PI: Kam-biu Liu, co-PI: Nicholas Culligan); 2/15//2023-1/31/2024

National Science Foundation (NSF), research grant ($329,590), Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program, EAR-1745741. “Collaborative Research: A multi-technique approach for deconvolving tropical cyclone effects on Late Quaternary geomorphic change in arid southwestern North America”. (PI: Kam-biu Liu; collaborative PIs: Jose Luis Antinao, Indiana Geological Survey; Eric V. McDonald, Nevada Desert Research Institute; total award for LSU, IU, and DRI: $746,736); 3/1/2018-2/28/2024

National Science Foundation (NSF), research grant ($18,595), Geography and Spatial Sciences, BCS-1853794. “Multi-proxy approach to characterizing hurricane-induced deposits in coastal and inland environments”. (PI: Michael Martinez-Colon, FAMU; co-PIs: Tom Bianchette, U Michigan-Dearborn; Kam-biu Liu, LSU; total award for FAMU, UMD, and LSU: $72,694); 9/1/2019-2/28/2023

National Science Foundation (NSF), research grant ($299,262), Geography and Spatial Science Program, BCS-1759715. “Holocene biogeography of mangroves along the Gulf of Mexico coast: Past, present, and future”. (PI: Kam-biu Liu); 5/1/2018-10/31/2023

National Science Foundation (NSF), research grant ($49,876), Geomorphology and Landuse Dynamics Program, EAR-1803035. “RAPID: Collaborative Research: Tracking Hurricane Harvey’s Storm Surge and Flood Sedimentation”. (PI: Kam-biu Liu; collaborative PI: Harry Williams, University of North Texas); 12/1/2017-11/30/2019

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Yao, Q., Liu, K.-b., Zhang, Z., Rodrigues, E., Cohen, M., Maiti, K., & Yang, Y.,2023. “What are the most effective proxies in identifying storm-surge deposits in paleotempestology? A quantitative evaluation from the sand-limited, peat-dominated environment of the Florida Coastal Everglades.” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24, e2022GC010708. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010708
  • Yao, Q., Liu, K.B., Fan, D.D., Cohen, M.C.L., De Oliveira, P.E., Rodrigues, E., “Eco-morphological Evolution of the Bolivar Peninsula (Texas, U.S.A.) during the Last 2,000 Years: A Multi-proxy Record of Coastal Environmental Changes.” Quaternary Science Reviews, 308 (2023) 108064 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108064
  • Cohen, M.C.L., de Souza, A.V., Liu, K.B., Rodrigues, E., Yao, Q., Ryu, J., Dietz, M.E., Pessenda, L.C.R., Rossetti, D., 2023. “A timely method for post-disaster assessment and coastal landscape survey using drone and satellite imagery.” MethodsX 10 (2023) 102065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2023.102065
  • Rodrigues, E., Liu, K.B., De Oliveira, P.E., Figueiredo, B.L., and Yao, Q., 2023. “Diatom and pollen atlas dataset from the Northern Gulf of Mexico, USA.” Data in Brief 47 (2023) 109033 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109033
  • Rodrigues, E., Cohen, M., Figueiredo, B.L., Liu, K.B., and Yao, Q., 2023. “Pollen atlas and identification dataset from Santa Catarina, south Brazil.” Data in Brief 46 (2023) 108855; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108855
  • Ryu, J., Liu, K.B., and McCloskey, T.A., 2022. “The effects of external forcing on the biodiversity and species richness associated with the environmental history of Louisiana’s wetlands over the late Holocene,” Quaternary Science Reviews 298 (2022) 107865. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107865
  • Yao, Q., Liu, K.B., and Rodrigues, E., 2022, “Pretreatment method to avoid contamination for radiocarbon dating of organic-rich coastal deposits.” MethodsX 9 (2022) 101745.  Doi: 10.1016/j.mex2022.101745; https://doi.org/1016/j.mex.2022.101745
  • Yao, Q., Joshi, S., Liu, K.B., Rodrigues, E., and Yin, D., 2022, “A multi-decadal analysis of river discharge and suspended sediment load in three Texas coastal rivers in relation to hurricanes, seasonal rainfall, and ENSO.” Frontiers in Earth Science 10:886614. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.886614
  • Yao, Q., Liu, K.B., Rodrigues, E., Fan, D., and Cohen, M.C.L., 2022. “A palynological record of mangrove biogeography, coastal geomorphological change, and prehistoric human activities from Cedar Keys, Florida, U.S.A.,” Science of the Total Environment 796 (2022) 160189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160189
  • Yao, Q., Cohen, M., Liu, K.B., Fan, D., Rodrigues, E., Maiti, K., de Souza, A.V., Aragón-Moreno, A.A., Rohli, R.V., Yin, D., and Pessenda, L.C.R., 2022. “Mangrove expansion at poleward range limits in North and South America: Late-Holocene climate variability or Anthropocene global warming?” Catena 216 (2022) 106413.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106413
  • Yao, Q., Rodrigues, E., Liu, K.B., Snyder, C., Culligan, N., 2022. “A Late-Holocene palynological record of coastal ecological change and climate variability from Apalachicola, Florida, U.S.A.” Climate Change Ecology 3 (2022) 100056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecochg.2022.100056
  • Yao, Q., Cohen, M., Liu, K.B., de Souza, A.V., and Rodrigues, E., 2022. “Nature versus Humans in Coastal Environmental Change: Assessing the Impacts of Hurricanes Zeta and Ida in the Context of Beach Nourishment Projects in the Mississippi River Delta”, Remote Sensing 2022, 14, 2598. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14112598
  • Nian, X.M., Zhang, W.G., Wang, X.T., Hutchinson, S.M., Zhao, X.Q., and Liu, K.B., 2022. “Multi-centennial variability of Yangtze delta growth over the last 2000 years: interplay of climate and people,” Earth’s Future, 10, e2021EF002461. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002461
  • Bianchette, T.A., Liu, K.B., and McCloskey, T.A., 2022. “A 4,000-year paleoenvironmental reconstruction and extreme event record from Laguna Nuxco, Guerrero, Mexico,” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 594 (2022) 110933. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110933
  • Ryu, J., Liu, K.B., and McCloskey, T.A., 2022. “Temporal variability in the relative strength of external drivers controlling ecosystem succession in a coastal wetland near Bayou Lafourche, southeast Louisiana, USA,” Quaternary Science Reviews 276 (2022) 107692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107292
  • Ryu, J., Liu, K.B., and McCloskey, T.A., 2022. “The use of multivariate PCA dataset in identifying the underlying drivers of critical stressors, looking at global problems through a local lens,” Data in Brief (Elsevier) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.107946
  • Culligan, N., Liu, K.B., Ribble, K., Ryu, J., and Dietz, M.E., 2022. “Sedimentary records of microplastic pollution from coastal Louisiana and their environmental implications.” Journal of Coastal Conservation 26:1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-021-00847-y
  • Yao, Q., Liu, K.B., Zhang, W.G., and Liu, Y., 2022. Preface to “Environmental and Human Dynamics of the Yangtze River and Mississippi River Deltas: Temporal and Geographical Perspectives” (Editorial), Geomorphology 400 (2022) 108076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.108076
  • Zhang, W.G., Xu, Y.J., Guo, L.C, Lam, N.S.N., Xu, K.H., Yang, S.L., Yao, Q., and Liu, K.B., 2022. “Comparing the Yangtze and Mississippi River Deltas in the light of coupled natural-human dynamics: Lessons learned and implications for management.” Geomorphology 399 (2022) 108075
  • Dietz, M.E., Liu, K.B., Bianchette, T.A., Ryu, J., and Yao, Q., 2022. “Linking backbarrier lacustrine stratigraphy with spatial dynamics of shoreline retreat in a rapidly subsiding region of the Mississippi River Delta.” Geomorphology 397 (2022) 108008. doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.108008
  • Williams, H.F.L., Beaubouef, C.E., Liu, K.B., Culligan, N., and Riedlinger, L., 2022. “Testing XRF identification of marine washover sediment beds in a coastal lake in southeastern Texas, USA.” Marine Geology 443 (2022) 106705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106705
  • Shen, C., Liu, K.B., Tang, L., and Overpeck, J.T., 2021. “Modern Pollen Rain in the Tibetan Plateau.” Frontiers in Earth Science 9:732441. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.732441
  • Williams, H. and Liu, K.B., 2021, “Testing XRF discrimination of marine and terrestrial flood deposits in southeastern Texas coastal marshes,” Journal of Coastal Research, doi:10.2112/jcoastres-d-21-00046.1
  • Dietz, M.E, Liu, K.B., Bianchette, T.A., Smith D., 2021. “Differentiating hurricane deposits in coastal sedimentary records: Two storms, one layer, but different processes.” Environmental Research Communications, 3, 101001. DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/ac26dd
  • Yao, Q., Liu, K.B., Wu, Y., Aragón-Moreno, A.A., Rodrigues, E., Cohen, M.C.L, de Souza, A.V., Farfán, L.M., and Antinao, J.L., 2021. “A multi-proxy record of hurricanes, tsunami, and post-disturbance ecosystem changes from coastal southern Baja California,” Science of the Total Environment 796, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149011
  • Cohen, M.C.L., de Souza, A.V., Liu, K.B., Rodrigues, E., Yao, Q., Ryu, J., Dietz, M.E., Pessenda, L.C.R., Rossetti, D., 2021. “Effects of the 2017–2018 winter freeze on the northern limit of the American mangroves, Mississippi River delta plain.” Geomorphology 394 (2021) 107968; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.107968
  • Cohen, M.C.L., de Souza, A.V., Liu, K.B., Rodrigues, E., Yao, Q., Pessenda, L.C.R., Rossetti, D., Ryu, J., and Dietz, M., 2021. “Effects of beach nourishment project on coastal geomorphology and mangrove dynamics in southern Louisiana, USA”, Remote Sensing 13, 2688. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13142688
  • Rodrigues, E., Cohen, M.C.L., Liu, K.D., Pessenda, L.C.R., Yao, Q., Ryu, J.H., Rossetti, D., de Souza, A., and Dietz, M., 2021. “The effect of global warming on the establishment of mangroves in coastal Louisiana during the Holocene.” Geomorphology 381 (2021) 107648 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.107648
  • Tao, S., Liu, K.B., Yu, K., Shi, Q., Yan, H., Zhang, H., Wang, L., Huang, Z, and Chen, T., 2021. Poleward shift in tropical cyclone tracks in the Northwest Pacific during warm periods: Past and future.  Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36, e2021PA004367.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004367
  • Zhang, Z., Yao, Q., Liu, K.B., Li, L., Yin, R., Wang, G., and Sun, J., 2021. “Historical flooding regime along the Amur River and its links to East Asia summer monsoon circulation,” Geomorphology 381 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.107782
  • Ryu, J., Liu, K.B., Bianchette, T.A., and McCloskey, T.A., 2021. “Identifying forcing agents of environmental change and ecological response on the Mississippi River Delta, Southeastern Louisiana,” Science of the Total Environment 794, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148730
  • Ryu, J., Liu, K.B., and Bianchette, T.A., 2021. “Holocene environmental history of a freshwater wetland in southern Louisiana: a sedimentary record of delta development, coastal evolution and human activity,” Journal of Quaternary Science (2021) 1-11. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3324

Teaching Fields

  • Global Environmental Change: Past, Present, and Future
  • Hurricanes and Typhoons

Research interests

  • Paleotempestology (the study of past tropical cyclone activities and their relationship with global climate changes)
  • Coastal environmental changes, especially focusing on long-term ecological changes in response to climate changes and sea level rise
  • Biogeography and paleoecology of mangroves

Services/ Posts

  • Nominations/Leadership Development Chair and Member-at-Large (elected) of Steering Committee, Section on Geology and Geography (Section E), AAAS (2020-2024)
  • Department Chair, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, LSU (2013-2023)
  • Member, Program Review Visiting Committee, Department of Geography & Resource Management, CUHK (2013, 2018)
  • External Examiner, GRM, CUHK (1998-2001)
  • Member, U.S. National Committee for INQUA

SUGGESTED RESEARCH TOPICS FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

Long-term dynamics of the mangrove ecosystem in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area

Holocene history of catastrophic typhoon strikes in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area

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