Curriculum Vitae

Meibing Jin

Research Associate Professor

International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7340
Tel./Fax/Email: 907-474-2442/907-474-2643/ffjm@uaf.edu
Web site: http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/~mbj

Education
B.Sc., July 1989, engineering physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
M.Sc., July 1992, physical oceanography, First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao, China
Ph.D., April 1998, physical oceanography, Institute of Oceanography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China

Employment History
July/92-Oct./98:
           First Institute of Oceanography, SOA, Qingdao, China: Research Scientist     
Nov./98-June 2004:
           Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Research Assistant Professor
July 2004-Present:
          International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Research Associate Professor  

• General ocean circulation modeling;
• Coupled ice-ocean modeling;
• Marine ecosystem and couple ice-ocean ecosystem modeling;
• Hydrological modeling for coastal freshwater runoff;
• Statistical analysis of the response of Arctic sea ice/ocean, biota to global climate change;
• Oil spill fate prediction in open ocean and sea ice covered areas..

Current Research Projects

• Ocean mixing processes associated with high spatial heterogeneity in sea ice and the implications for climate models (NSF-Climate Process Team (IARC, NCAR, LANL, GFDL) Project, PI, 2010-2013)
• International Collaboration to Achieve Circumpolar Synthesis and Integration: fate of sea ice and arctic ecosystem feedback (NSF-ARC-0652838, 2008-2010).
• Influence of Sea Ice on Arctic Marine Sulfur Biogeochemistry in the Community Climate System Model (U.S. Deptment of Energy/EPSCoR, co-PI, 2008-2011).
• Modeling study on the response of lower trophic level production to climate change (NPRB, 2006-2008).
• Sea ice-ocean-atmosphere coupled model for Earth Simulator (ES), and coupled physical biological model in the pan-Arctic Oceans (IARC - JAMSTEC funding).
• Collaboration on in-situ observation, remote sensing and modeling in the Pacific Arctic Ocean (IARC-JAXA funding).

Accomplished Research Projects

• Sea ice –ocean-oil spill modeling system (SIOMS) for the nearshore Beaufort and Chukchi Seas: Improvement and parameterization (Phase II) (MMS, 2004-2007).
• Developing coupled ice-ocean model of the pan Arctic and North Atlantic Ocean  (International Arctic Research Center, 1999-2004).
• Workshop on hydrological modeling for freshwater discharge from the Alaska Arctic coast (Mineral Management Service, 2004-2005).
• Nowcast/Forecast Models of Ice-Ocean-Oil Spill System in the Beaufort Sea (Mineral Management Service, 2000-2003).
• Coupled Ocean-DEM (Freshwater) Model in the Gulf of Alaska (Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, 2002-2003).
• 3-D Coupled Biological-Physical Model of Price William Sound, Alaska (Oil Spill Recovery Institute, Alaska, 1999-2002).
• 3-D Ocean State Simulations from 1995-98 in Prince William Sound, Alaska (Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, 1999-2001).
• Sound Ecosystem Assessment (SEA) project (1998-1999).

Professional Services, education and outreach

• Member of the U.S. CLIVAR Process Studies and Model Improvement (PSMI) Panel, 2011-2013.
• University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty senator 2008-2010.
• Proposal reviews for EVOS, NSF, ISTC, NPRB
• Reviews for several scientific journals
• Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Co-sponsor of "Workshop on hydrological modeling for freshwater discharge from the Alaska Arctic coast" (Dr. Jia Wang is PI)
• Supervisor for DOE/EPSCoR (U.S. Department of Energy's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) high school student intern in 2006.
• Supervisor of graduate students on summer research work on EVOS project in 2000 and 2001, MMS project in 2002 and 2003. NPRB project in 2007.
• Give lessons on "oil in Alaska -- oil spill modelling system in the Prince William Sound and Beaufort Sea" at Joy Elementary School in April 2007.
• Session chair at Ocean Science Meeting (March 2008), session 040: "Ecosystem in sea ice influenced areas: observations and modeling studies".
• Assistance on education and outreach at IARC fair booth at the Tanana Valley State Fair in 2005 and 2007.
• Professional development: Faculty Camp at Arctic Regional Supercomputer Center in 2004; Workshop on NCAR graphics, Matlab in 2006; workshop and tutorial of Earth System Model Framework (ESMF) in 2007, etc.
• Presentations and poster displays at UAF and a number of national and international meetings, e.g. AAAS, annual AGU meeting, Ocean Science Meeting (OSM), Alaska Science Symposium (ASM), the North Pacific Marine Science Organisation (PICES) meeting, European Conference on Ecological Modeling (ECM), Integrated Marine Biogeochemical and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) etc.

Peer-reviewed publications

1. Jin M., C. Deal, S.H. Lee, S. Elliott, E. Hunke, M. Maltrud and N. jeffery. 2011 Investigation of Arctic sea ice and ocean primary production for the period 1992 to 2007 using a 3-D global ice-ocean ecosystem model.  Deep-Sea Research II, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.06.003.
2. Deal C., M., Jin, S., Elliott, E., Hunke, M., Maltrud, and N., Jeffery, 2011. Large-scale modeling of primary production and ice algal biomass within arctic sea ice resulted from the 1992 model simulation. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 16, C07004, doi: 10.1029/2010JC0064​09.
3. Clainche,Y.L.Vezina A., Levasseur, M.,Cropp R., Gunson, J., Vallina, S.,Vogt, M.,Lancelot, C., Allen, I., Archer, S., Bopp, L., Deal, C., Elliott, S., Jin, M., Malin, G., Schoemann, V., Simo, R., Six, K., and Stefels, J., 2010. A first appraisal of prognostic ocean DMS models and prospects for their use in climate models. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 24, GB3021, doi: 10.1029/2009GB003721.
4. Lee, S., Jin, M., Whitledge, T.E., 2010. Comparison of bottom sea-ice algal characteristics from coastal and offshore regions in the Arctic Ocean. Polar Biology, doi:10.1007/s00300-010-0820-1.
5. Wu, J.,Rember, R., Jin, M., Boyle, E.A., and Flegal, R.A., 2010. Isotopic evidence for the source of lead in the North Pacific Abyssal Water. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2010.05.017, 74, 4629-4638.
6. Jin M., C.J. Deal, J. Wang, C.P. McRoy, 2009. Response of lower trophic level production to long-term climate change in the southeastern Bering Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, C04010, doi:10.1029/2008JC005105.
7. Wu J. and M. Jin, 2009. Competitive ligand exchange voltammetric determination of iron organic complexation in seawater: examination of accuracy using computer simulation and elimination of artifacts in ideal two-ligand case using iterative non-linear multiple regression. Marine Chemistry, 114, 1-10.
8. Jin M., C.J. Deal, J. Wang, 2008. A coupled ice-ocean ecosystem model for 1-D and 3-D applications in the Bering and Chukchi Seas. Chinese Journal of Polar Science, Vol 19, No. 2, 204-215.
9. Wang J., M. Jin, J. Takahasi, T. Suzuki, I.V. Polyakov, K. Mizobata, M. Ikeda, F.J. Saucier, and M. Meier, 2008. Modeling Arctic Ocean heat transport and warming episodes in the 20th century caused by the intruding Atlantic Water. Chinese Journal of Polar Science, Vol. 19, No. 2, 145-153.
10. Deal, C., M. Jin and J. Wang, 2008. The significance of water column nitrification in the southeastern Bering Sea. Chinese Journal of Polar Science, Vol. 19, No. 2, 171-178.
11. Wang J., K. Mizobata, H. Hu, M. Jin, S. Zhang, W. Johnson, K. Shimada, and M. Ikeda, 2008. Modeling seasonal variations of ocean and sea ice circulation in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas: A model-data fusion study. Chinese Journal of Polar Science, Vol. 19, No. 2, 154-170.
12. Jin, M., J. Wang, K. Mizobata, H. Hu, 2008. Observations and modeling of ice-ocean conditions in the coastal Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, Vol 27, No. 3, 79-87.
13. Jin, M., C. Deal, J. Wang, V. Alexander, R. Gradinger, S. Saitoh, T. Iida, Z. Wan, and P. Stabeno, 2007. Ice-associated phytoplankton blooms in the southeastern Bering Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L06612, doi:10.1029/2006GL028849. (This paper is featured in AGU Journal Highlights in EOS Vol 88, No. 15)
14. Holloway, G., F. Dupont, E. Golubeva, S. Hakkinen, E. Hunke, M. Jin, M. Karcher, F. Kauker, M. Maltrud, M. A. Morales Maqueda, W. Maslowski, G. Platovc, D. Stark, T. Suzhki, M. Steele, J. Wang, J. Zhang. 2007. Water properties and circulation in Arctic Ocean models. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, C04S03, doi:10.1029/2006JC003642.
15. Jin M., C.J. Deal, J. Wang, K.H. Shin, N. Tanaka, T.E. Whitledge, S.H. Lee, and R.R. Gradinger, 2006. Controls of the landfast ice-ocean ecosystem offshore Barrow, Alaska. Annals of Glaciology, Vol. 44, 63-72.
16. Jin M., C.J. Deal, J. Wang, N. Tanaka, and M. Ikeda, 2006. Vertical mixing effects on the phytoplankton bloom in the southeastern Bering Sea mid-shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, C03002,doi:10.1029/2005JC002994.
17. Wang J., Q., Liu, M., Jin, M., Ikeda and F. J., Saucier, 2005. A Coupled Ice-Ocean Model in the Pan Arctic and North Atlantic Ocean:  Simulations of Seasonal Cycles. Journal of Oceanography, Vol. 61, 213-233.
18. Wang, J., M. Jin, D.L. Musgrave, and M. Ikeda, 2004. A Hydrological Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for Freshwater Discharge into the Gulf of Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, C07009, doi:10.1029/2002JC001430.
19. Jin M., J. Wang, 2004, Interannual variability and sensitivity study of ocean circulation in Prince William Sound, Alaska from 1995-1998. Continental Shelf Research, Vol. 24, Issue 3, 393-411. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2003.10.012.
20. Jin M., J. Wang, and P. McRoy, 2003, A 3-D coupled physical-biological model and its application to the spring plankton bloom of 1996 in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Ecosystems and Sustainable Development, WIT press, 81-91.
21. Wang J., M. Jin, E. V. Patrick, J.R. Allen, C. Mooers,  D.L. Eslinger and T. Cooney, 2001, Numerical simulations of the seasonal circulation patterns and thermohaline structures of Prince William Sound, Alaska. Fisheries Oceanography, 10 (supplement 1): 132-148.
22. Wang J., V. Patrick, J. Allen, S. Vaughan, C. Mooers, M. Jin, 1999, Modeling seasonal ocean circulation of Prince William Sound, Alaska using freshwater of a line source, Coastal Engineering and Marina Developments, 57-66.
23. Jin, M., J. Zhang, Y. Yuan, 1998, Analysis of the Bathymetric Features Using SAR Image: An example from the Southern North Sea. Chin. J. Oceanol. Limnol. Vol.16, No.2, 128-136.
24. Yu, W., F., Hua, M., Jin, Z., Pan, Y., Yuan, 1998, Hydrodynamical basis for interpreting the features of a kind of ocean objects on synthetic aperture radar images, Chinese Physics Letters, Vol., 15, issue 12, 931-933.
25. Jin, M., 1997, Study on the method of the dynamical prediction of oil spill inshore, Chinese Journal of Marine Environmental Science vol.16, No.1,30-36.
26. Jin, M. and Y. Yuan,1997, Simulation and analysis of the visibility of sea topography on SAR image. Oceanologia et limnologia Sinica, Vol.28, supplement, 21-26.
27. Jin, M., Y. Yuan,1997, Formulation and solution to the mathematical and physical inverse problem of detecting sea topography by SAR image. Oceanologia et limnologia Sinica, Vol.28, supplement, 27-31.
28. Jin, M. and T. Jiang, 1997, A numerical model of the three-dimensional barotropic tidal- current field in the East China Sea. Oceanography in China, Vol.8, 1-13.
29. Jin, M., T. Jiang and J. She,1997, Three-dimensional numerical research of nonlinear interaction between surge and tide in the East China Sea. Oceanography in China, Vol.8,21- 30.
30. Jin, M. and T. Jiang, 1997, Environmenatal impact prediction of suspended sands caused by the Lingdingyang bridge construction of Zhuhai. Oceanography in China, Vol.8, 47-57.
31. Jin, M. and T. Jiang, 1997, An implicit difference method of three-dimensional baroclinic current field. Oceanography in China, Vol.8, 14-20.
32. Jin, M., Z. Wang, and B. Xu, 1993, Three-dimensional numerical prediction of vertical temperature structure of the Huanghai and the Bohai Seas. Acta Oceanological Sinica, vol.12, No.4, 511-520.
33. Jiang, T. and M. Jin, 1997, Numerical modeling of oil spill of the East China Sea. Oceanography in China, Vol.8, 31-37.
34. Wang Z., M. Jin, E. Zou and B. Xu, 1993, The inversion of the Equatorial Undercurrent in the western tropical Pacific during 1986/1987 EI Nino event. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 12(4): 487-498.

Project reports and conference papers

1. Jin M., C. Deal, and J. Wang, 2008. Modeling study on the response of lower trophic level production to climate. Final Report, North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) Project 607.
2. Wang, J., M. Jin, 2003. A Nowcast/Forecast Model for the Beaufort Sea Ice-Ocean –Oil Spill System (NFM-BSIOS). Final Report, University of Alaska, MMS/Alaska OCS Region, Anchorage, Dept. of the Interior.
3. Jin M. and J. Wang, 2003, Shelf dense water transport in the Beaufort Sea. Seventh Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography and Joint Symposium on High-Latitude Climate Variations. Paper 3.23.
4. Wang, J., C. M. Deal (Jodwalis), Z. Wan, M. Jin, N. Tanaka, M. Ikeda. 2003. User's Guide for A Physical Ecosystem Model (PhEcoM) in the Subpolar and Polar Oceans. IARC-FRSGC Technical Report 03-01version 1: 75pp.
5. Wang, J., Q. Liu and M. Jin, 2002. A User’s Guide for a Coupled Ice-Ocean Model (CIOM) in the Pan-Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans. International Arctic Research Center, Tech. Rep. 02-01, 65 pp.
6. Jin M. and J. Wang, 2002, Implementation of an Ocean Circulation Model in the GOA: A transition from SEA to GEM. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Project Final Report (Restoration Project 02603), Chugach Development Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska.
7. Jin M., J Wang, F.J. Saucier and M. Ikeda, 2001, General circulation and transport in the pan Arctic and North Atlantic Ocean, 6th Conference of Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, San Diego, American Meteorological Society, pp182-185.
8. Wang J. and M. Jin, 2001, 3-D ocean state simulation for ecosystem application in Prince William Sound, Alaska from 1995-1998. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Project Final Report (Restoration Poject 00389), Chugach Development Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska.