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Professor Xiao Hua Wang

Professor Xiao Hua Wang

Professor
UNSW Canberra
School of Science

Professor Xiao (Hua) Wang graduated from Ocean University of China, and holds a PhD in Physical Oceanography from James Cook University in Australia. He is a Co-leader of the Sino-Australian Research Consortium for Coastal Management (SARCCM), University of New South Wales, Australia, and an Associate Editor for Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (IF= 3.229 Q1) and Limnology and Oceanography: Methods (2.634 Q1), respectively. He was the Director of International Student Recruitment and Ex...
Phone
+61 2 5114 5044
E-mail
x.h.wang@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room G21 PEMS South (Bldg 26) School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, PO Box 7916, Canberra BC ACT 2610, AUSTRALIA

SARCCM Research Themes

Program 1: Coastal Oceanography

Program Leader: Prof. Xiao Hua Wang, opens in a new window
Prof. Peter Steinberg, Prof. Emma Johnston, Prof. Moninya Roughan, A/Prof Barbara Robson, A/Prof. Erick Fredj, opens in a new window, Dr Andrew Kiss, Mr Chris Lane, Ms Zhibing Li, Mr Guan Dong Gao, Ms Amanda Xiao, Ms Zhixin Cheng, Mr Fanglou Liao, Prof. Charles Lemckert, opens in a new window

Objectives:

  • To develop and apply hydrodynamics and sediment transport models in estuaries, ports, and turbid coastal environments;
  • To explore the structure, function, dynamics and interactions of marine ecosystems and their relationships with common environmental stressors within estuarine and coastal waters;
  • To develop regional coastal ocean observing and forecasting system.

 

Program 2: Coastal and marine natural resource management, people, policy, practice

Program Leader: A/Prof. Stuart Pearson
MA Yingjie, SONG N’iger, A/Prof. Stuart Pearson, Dr Jo Banks, Dr David Leary, Mrs Amanda Putri, Mr Saiful Marbun, Dr Shengnan Chen, Ms Bo Dong, Mr Maozeng Jiang

Objectives:

  • Fostering excellence in comparative research on natural resource management in China, Australia and with other international partners.
  • Sharing of research knowledge and development of new insights and capacity to contribute to marine and coastal natural resource management.

 

Program 3: Remote sensing/GIS

Program Leader: A/Prof. Yue Ma, opens in a new window
Prof. Linlin Ge, opens in a new window, A/Prof. Xiuping Jia, opens in a new window, Dr Zhi Huang, Dr Chunhui Zhou, Dr Qianguo Xing, Mr Haifeng Zhang, Miss Meng Xu

Objectives:

In this task, we will examine and assess to which extent the routine measurements from spaceborne sensors are combined and used together with model-based forecasting systems. The outcome shall form the basis of a series of recommendations concerning bridging the gap of Chinese/Australian capacity for utilizing spaceborne measurements in the framework of an operational ocean forecasting system.

Description:

  • Collect the data from current satellites and the information of future satellites which will be launched in the near future for coastal ocean observation (SST, wind, waves, sea ice, ocean colour and surface current).
  • Investigate multi-temporal data processing techniques for retrieving the ocean environmental parameters as a time series to match the goals of ocean applications in the China Seas and Australia waters. Develop cloud removal techniques to generate frequent optical images.
  • Investigate data fusion approach to integrate big data including multi/hyperspectral, SAR, and LiDAR from both optical and microwave sensors.
  • Collect remote sensed and field data for ground truthing and validation.

 

Building Resilience of Coastal Communities project

Program Leaders: Prof Xiao Hua Wang (Science), A/Prof Minako Sakai (Social science) and A/Prof Jianfeng Xue (Engineering)

This project aims to build a network/consortium of Australian-international academics and stakeholders to exchange knowledge and ideas to build coastal resilience in the Indo-Pacific. In this project, we conduct inter-disciplinary research such as community disaster relief and resilience building against coastal hazards and climate change (sea level rise, land subsidence, coastal erosion, flooding etc.).  The green energy transition to reduce CO2 emissions necessitates the mining of critical minerals and causes environmental destruction and risks livelihood losses in the downstream community. This project runs in partnership with HASS, Science, Business and Engineering at UNSW Canberra.  https://youtu.be/GkHmusXqHYU