Qin Jim Chen
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor,
Marine and Environmental Sciences
Office
- 471 SN
- 617.373.5465
Research Focus
Coastal engineering and science, particularly in the development and application of state-of-the-art numerical models to address coastal resiliency and sustainability.
Education
- Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Old Dominion University in collaboration with Danish Hydraulic Institute
- M.Sc. Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Hohai University, China
- B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Hohai University, China
Research Overview
Coastal engineering and science, particularly in the development and application of state-of-the-art numerical models to address coastal resiliency and sustainability.
Selected Research Projects
- A Coastal Resilience Collaboratory: Cyber-Enabled Discoveries for Sustainable Deltaic Coasts
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Collecting Ecological Data and Models of Living Shoreline Restoration Projects (MD, NJ, NY, VA).
- – Principal Investigator, U.S. Geological Survey
- Convergence: RAISE Nearshore Water-Land Interface During Extreme Storms
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Updating USACE’s Nearshore Coastal Numerical Model to Calculate Benefits of Vegetated Shorelines
- – Principal Investigator, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Selected Publications
- L. Zhu, Q. Chen, Y. Ding, N. Jafari J.D. Rosati, A Semi-Analytical Model of Depth-Integrated Vegetal Drag Force Based on Stokes Second-Order Wave Theory, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 145(2), 2019, 04018041
- L. Zhu, Q. Chen, Phase-Averaged Drag Force of Nonlinear Waves Over Submerged and Through Emergent Vegetation, Journal of Geophysical Research–Oceans, 124, 2019
- K. Liu, Q. Chen, K. Hu, K. Xu, R. Twilley, Modeling Hurricane-Induced Wetland-Bay and Bay-Shelf Sediment Fluxes, Coastal Engineering, 135, 2018, 77-90
- K. Hu, Q. Chen, H .Wang, E.K. Hartig, P.M. Orton, Numerical Modeling of Salt Marsh Morphological Change Induced by Hurricane Sandy, Coastal Engineering 132, 2018, 63-81
Aug 28, 2020
Defending Against Mother Nature
While Hurricane Laura was the strongest storm to hit Louisiana in 160 years, CEE Professor Qin Jim Chen worked with local officials to best prepare for and predict the damage caused by the storm.
Jan 30, 2019
Wind and Waves- Lessons in Resiliency from Hurricane Hydrodynamics
CEE/COS Professor Jim Chen and his Coastal Hydrodynamics Lab are studying the development and application of state-of-the-art computational models to address coastal resiliency and sustainability.
Jan 03, 2019
Chen to Lead Grant in Creating Sustainable Deltaic Coasts
CEE/COS Professor Qin Jim Chen is leading a $866K CyberSEES NSF grant, in collaboration with Louisiana State University and Texas A&M University, for “A Coastal Resilience Collaboratory: Cyber-enabled Discoveries for Sustainable Deltaic Coasts”.
May 21, 2018
2018 GRI Seed Grant Awardees
Congratulations to the four COE teams out of eight total receiving 2018 Seed Grant funding from the Global Resilience Institute (GRI). The resilience project topics range from coastal flooding prediction to combating opioid addiction. This year’s pool of proposals was particularly robust, with submissions demonstrating both strengths in their interdisciplinary approaches and in their promise […]