Meibing Jin
Research Associate Professor
Email: mjin@iarc.uaf.edu. Tel: 1-907-474 2442.

Current Research Projects:

• 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, PI, 2006-2008).
• Sea ice-ocean-atmosphere coupled model for Earth Simulator (ES), and coupled physical biological model in the pan-Arctic Oceans (IARC funding from NSF-CA 2008-2010 and JAMSTEC).

Accomplished Research Projects:

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

Outreach and education:

• Student intern in summer 2006.
• Presentation to students on 'Oil spill in Alaska' at Joy Elementary School, April 19, 2007
  
• A graduate student is working on statistics of the model variables, climate index and fishery catch data in summer 2007.
• I chaired a session in the 2008 Ocean Science Meeting in Orlando on March 2-7. Session 040: Ecosystem in sea ice influenced areas

Recent Publications

• Jin M., C.J. Deal, J. Wang, C.P. McRoy, 2008. Response of lower trophic level production to long-term climate change in the southeastern Bering Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research, in press.
• Jin, M., J. Wang, K. Mizobata, H. Hu, K. Shimada 2008. Observations and modeling of ice-ocean conditions in the coastal Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, Vol 27, No. 3, 79-87.
• 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)
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.