本系職員
廖淦标教授
Wei Lun Professor of Geography and Resource Management
BSSc (CUHK)
MSc (Tor.)
PhD (Tor.)
George William Barineau III Professor
Chair (2013-2023)
Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
College of the Coast and Environment
Louisiana State University
(852) 3943-6636
kambiuliu@cuhk.edu.hkRESEARCH PROJECTS
National Science Foundation (NSF), research grant ($386,805), GLD program, #2341540. “Collaborative Research: a multi-proxy approach to discrimination of marine and terrestrial sediments in coastal wetlands”. (PI: Kam-biu Liu; co- PI: Harry Williams, U of North Texas; total award for LSU & UNT: $496,671); 8/1/2024-7/31/2026
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
Please see my Google Scholar page (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pkGGfEcAAAAJ&hl=en) for a full list of my publications.
- Liu, K.B., 2025. “Paleotempestology”. In: Elias S.A. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (Third edition), Vol. 4 (Paleoclimate Reconstruction), pp. 128-142. UK: Elsevier.
- Yun, S.L., McCloskey, T.A., Cohen, M.C.L., Liu, K.B., Shin, H.S., and Ryu, J., 2025. “Natural and anthropogenic factors controlling organic carbon storage in riverine wetlands along South Korea’s four rivers,” Scientific Reports 15(1): 539.
- Liu, K.B. and McCloskey, T.A., 2024. “A 7000-year sedimentary record of paleohurricane activity from northern Nicaragua.” Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 113, pp. 976-980.
- Cohen, M.C.L., Yao, Q., de Souza, A.V., Liu, K.-B., Pessenda, L.C.R., 2024. “Hurricanes are limiting the mangrove canopy heights in the Gulf of Mexico.” Science of the Total Environment 927: 172284
- Cohen, M.C.L., Yao, Q., de Souza, A.V., Liu, K.-B., Pessenda, L.C.R., Culligan, N., 2024. “Do hurricanes or freezing events regulate the sustainability of subtropical mangroves on the Gulf of Mexico?” Regional Environmental Change 24(2): 1-19.
- Xu, Y.J., Lam, N.S.N., Liu, K.B., and Xu, K.H., 2024. Mississippi River Delta. In: Delta Sustainability: A Report to the Mega-Delta Programme of the UN Ocean Decade, pp. 187-215. Springer Nature, Singapore.
- Tao, S., Liu, K.B., Yan, H., Meng, M., Yu, K., Shi, Q., and Zhang, H., 2024. “The history of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and sea surface salinity during 1376–1500 CE reconstructed by Porites coral δ18O from Huangyan Island, South China Sea,” Global and Planetary Change, 243:104622.
- 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
- Natural Hazards and Human Responses
- 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 (2023) 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)
- Review Editor, Frontiers in Earth Science (Geoscience and Society section) (2012-present)
- Review Editor, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Paleoecology section) (2014-present)
- Associate Editor, Quaternary (publisher: MDPI) (2017-present)
- Associate Editor (Earth Sciences), Science China (Springer) (2012-2017)
- Associate Editor (Geosciences), Chinese Science Bulletin (Springer) (2008-2017)
- Editorial Board member, Journal of Geographical Sciences (Springer) (2001-)
- External Examiner, GRM, CUHK (1998-2001)
- Member, U.S. National Committee for INQUA (1988-1996)
Awards
Major Honors and Recognitions:
- Gilbert F. White Award and Distinguished Lecture (2024), American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Lifetime Achievement Award (2023), Climate Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers (AAG)
- Lifetime Achievement Award (2018), Paleoenvironmental Change Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers (AAG)
- Fellow (2022-), American Association of Geographers (AAG)
- Fellow (2008-), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- SLLW Visiting Fellow (黃林秀蓮訪問學人) (2015), Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
- Warren Nystrom Award (1983), Association of American Geographers (To honor the best paper presented in a special session of the AAG meeting that is based on a recently completed dissertation in Geography)
University Honors:
- LSU Presidential Laurels (the highest honor given to top-performing LSU faculty each year) (2024)
- LSU Distinguished Research Master Award (the highest research honor bestowed by LSU upon its faculty each year) (2019)
- LSU Rainmaker (Senior Scholar Award) (2013)
- Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, LSU School of Coast and Environment (2010)
- LSU “Rainmaker” (named for being one of the year’s top 100 research and creative faculty at LSU) (2008)
- LSU Distinguished Faculty Award (university-wide) (2004)
- LSU Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award (university-wide) (2001)