Email shen@vims.edu Office Franklin 201 Phone (804) 684-7359

Jian Shen Research Assistant Professor of Marine Science B.S., Shanghai Teacher's University M.A., College of William and Mary Ph.D., College of William and Mary

Research Interests Current Projects Selected Publications Current Students Past Students Professional Memberships Collaborative / Interdisciplinary Efforts

Estuarine circulation; numerical model simulations of hydrodynamics and water quality in estuaries and coastal sea; numerical modeling of watershed processes; inverse modeling of estuarine water quality; storm surge and inundation predictions.

• Development of hydrodynamic and Water Quality Models for the Lynnhaven River System, funded by Army Corps of Engineers.
• Support for Use Case Scenarios and Development of Coupling Mechanisms to Wave and Rainfall Effects on Storm Surge Models, funded by SURA
• Development of Fecal Coliform TMDLs for Shellfish Growing Waters in the Chesapeake Bay, funded by Maryland, Maryland Department of the Environment
• Evaluation of storm surge models for the Florida coast, funded by FEMA through Florida International University.
• Development of DO and Fecal Coliform TMDLs for Onancock Creek, funded by Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.
• Integrated modeling approach for TMDL development of Virginia's small coastal basins with fecal coliform, funded by Virginia Environmental Quality.
• Development of pH TMDLs for Western Maryland, funded by Maryland Department of the Environment.
• Development of a Watershed-Tidal Prism Model for Jarrett Bay and It's Tributaries for Supporting Fecal Coliform TMDL Studies, funded by North Carolina Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources

Shen, J., Gong, W., Wang, H. V. Water Level Response to 1999 Hurricane Floyd in the Chesapeake Bay, Continental Self Research (in press)

Shen, J., Jia, J., Sisson, M. Inverse Estimation of Nonpoint Sources of Fecal Coliform for Establishing Allowable Load for Wye River, Maryland, Water Research (in press)

Lin, J., Xie, L., Pietrafesa, L.P., Shen, J., Malin, M., Durako, M. Dissolved Oxygen Stratification in Two Micro-tidal Partially-mixed Estuaries. Estuarine,Coastal and Shelf Science (in press)

Shen, J., Zhang, K., Xiao C., Gong, W. Improved prediction of storm surge inundation using a high-resolution unstructured grid model. Journal of Coastal Research (in press)

Shen, J., Lin, J. 2006. Modeling Study of the Influences of Tide and Stratification on Age of Water in the Tidal James River. Coastal and Shelf Science, 68, 101-112.

Shen, J., Wang, H., Sisson, M., Gong, W. 2006. Storm Tide Simulation in the Chesapeake Bay Using an Unstructured Grid Model. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 68, 1-16.

Shen, J. 2006. Optimal Estimation of Parameters for an Estuarine Eutrophication Model. Ecological Modelling, 191, 521-537.

Shen, J. Gong, W., Wang, H., 2005. Simulation of Hurricane Isabel using the Advanced Circulation Model (ADCIRC). Hurricane Isabel in perspective. Proceedings of a conference. Chesapeake Research Consortium. K. G. Sellner (ed.), 107-116.

Shen, J., Parker, P., Riverson, J., 2005. A new approach for a windows-based watershed modeling system based on a database-supporting architecture. Environmental Modelling and Software, 20, 1127-1138.

Shen, J., Sun, S., Wang, T., 2005. Development of the fecal coliform total maximum daily load using loading simulation program C++ and tidal prism model in estuary shellfish growing areas: A case study in the Nassawadox Coastal Embayment, Virginia. Journal of Environmental Science and Health (Part A), 40 (9), 1791-1807.

Shen, J., Haas, L., 2004. Calculating Age and Residence Time in the Tidal York River Using Three-Dimensional Model Experiments. Coastal and Shelf Science, 61, 449-461.

Shen, J. Boon, J., Kuo, A.Y. 1999. A numerical study of a tidal intrusion front and its impact on larval dispersion in the James River estuary, Virginia, Estuary, 22(3), 681-692.

Shen, J., Kuo, A.Y. 1999. Numerical investigation of an estuarine front and its associated topographic eddy, ASCE, Journal of Waterways, Ports, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 125 (3), 127-135.

Park, K., Shen, J., Kuo, A.Y. 1998. Application of a multi step computation scheme to an intratidal estuarine water quality model, Ecological Modeling, 110, 281-292.

Shen, J., Kuo, A.Y. 1998. Application of inverse method to calibrate an estuarine eutrophication model, ASCE, Journal of Environmental Engineering, 124 (5), 409-418.

Shen, J. and Kuo, A.Y. 1996.Inverse estimation of parameters for an estuarine eutrophication model, ASCE, Journal of Environmental Engineering, 122 (11), 1031-1040

Kuo, A.Y., Shen, J., Hamrick, J.M. 1996. The effect of acceleration on bottom shear stress in tidal estuaries, ASCE, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 122 (2), 75-83.

• Yuepeng Li, Ph.D. Student (co-advising with Harry Wang)

• Taiping Wang, M.S. Student (co-advised with Harry Wang)

• American Geophysical Union

• Development of Fecal Coliform TMDLs for Shellfish Growing Waters in the Chesapeake Bay (collaborate with Dr. Tom R Fisher, University of Maryland)
• Integrated modeling approach for TMDL development of Virginia small coastal basin with fecal coliform impairment (collaborate with Dr. Carl H. Hershner, Center for Coastal Resource Management)
• Evaluation of storm surge models for the Florida coast (collaborate with Dr. K. Zhang, Hurricane Research Center, Florida International University)