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Kun Shi is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, with a primary focus in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans a range of topics related to aquatic and coastal ecosystems, illustrating a detailed engagement with environmental monitoring and water quality assessment.

Their published research includes investigations centered on water quality, remote sensing technologies, and aquatic ecosystem dynamics. Recent papers authored by or involving Shi include the following:

  • Monitoring water quality using proximal remote sensing technology, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Extreme Climate Anomalies Enhancing Cyanobacterial Blooms in Eutrophic Lake Taihu, China, 2021, Water Resources Research
  • Chromophoric dissolved organic matter in inland waters: Present knowledge and future challenges, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Remote sensing estimation of water clarity for various lakes in China, 2021, Water Research
  • Global divergent trends of algal blooms detected by satellite during 1982-2018, 2022, Global Change Biology

Shi frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Yunlin Zhang
  • Boqiang Qin
  • Yibo Zhang
  • Yongqiang Zhou
  • Guangwei Zhu

Publishing venues where Shi has regularly contributed comprise:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water Research
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Remote Sensing
  • Nature Communications

Shi's research domains include broader and subfields such as:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Oceanography
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change

The scientist's work engages main thematic areas reflecting the complexity of aquatic environments. These include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis
  • Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
  • Water Quality Monitoring Technologies

Best Publications

  • Global loss of aquatic vegetation in lakes

    Yunlin Zhang;Erik Jeppesen;Xiaohan Liu;Boqiang Qin

  • Why Lake Taihu continues to be plagued with cyanobacterial blooms through 10 years (2007-2017) efforts

    Boqiang Qin;Hans W. Paerl;Justin D. Brookes;Jianguo Liu

  • Dissolved oxygen stratification and response to thermal structure and long-term climate change in a large and deep subtropical reservoir (Lake Qiandaohu, China).

    Yunlin Zhang;Zhixu Wu;Mingliang Liu;Jianbo He

  • Long-term remote monitoring of total suspended matter concentration in Lake Taihu using 250 m MODIS-Aqua data

    Kun Shi;Yunlin Zhang;Guangwei Zhu;Xiaohan Liu

  • Fifteen-year monitoring of the turbidity dynamics in large lakes and reservoirs in the middle and lower basin of the Yangtze River, China

    Xuejiao Hou;Lian Feng;Hongtao Duan;Xiaoling Chen

  • Aquatic vegetation in response to increased eutrophication and degraded light climate in Eastern Lake Taihu: Implications for lake ecological restoration.

    Yunlin Zhang;Xiaohan Liu;Boqiang Qin;Kun Shi

  • Long-term MODIS observations of cyanobacterial dynamics in Lake Taihu: Responses to nutrient enrichment and meteorological factors.

    Kun Shi;Yunlin Zhang;Yongqiang Zhou;Xiaohan Liu

  • Improving water quality in China: Environmental investment pays dividends.

    Yongqiang Zhou;Jianrong Ma;Yunlin Zhang;Boqiang Qin

  • Optical properties and composition changes in chromophoric dissolved organic matter along trophic gradients: Implications for monitoring and assessing lake eutrophication

    Yunlin Zhang;Yongqiang Zhou;Kun Shi;Boqiang Qin

  • Thermal structure and response to long-term climatic changes in Lake Qiandaohu, a deep subtropical reservoir in China

    Yunlin Zhang;Zhixu Wu;Mingliang Liu;Jianbo He

  • Global divergent trends of algal blooms detected by satellite during 1982–2018

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  • Remote sensing of cyanobacterial blooms in inland waters: present knowledge and future challenges

    Kun Shi;Yunlin Zhang;Boqiang Qin;Botian Zhou

  • Monitoring water quality using proximal remote sensing technology.

    Xiao Sun;Yunlin Zhang;Kun Shi;Yibo Zhang

  • Extreme Climate Anomalies Enhancing Cyanobacterial Blooms in Eutrophic Lake Taihu, China

    Boqiang Qin;Boqiang Qin;Jianming Deng;Kun Shi;Jia Wang

  • Inflow rate-driven changes in the composition and dynamics of chromophoric dissolved organic matter in a large drinking water lake.

    Yongqiang Zhou;Yunlin Zhang;Erik Jeppesen;Kathleen R. Murphy

  • The persistence of cyanobacterial (Microcystis spp.) blooms throughout winter in Lake Taihu, China

    Jianrong Ma;Boqiang Qin;Hans W. Paerl;Justin D. Brookes

  • The role of tropical cyclones in stimulating cyanobacterial (Microcystis spp.) blooms in hypertrophic Lake Taihu, China

    Mengyuan Zhu;Hans W. Paerl;Guangwei Zhu;Tingfeng Wu

  • Phenology of Phytoplankton Blooms in a Trophic Lake Observed from Long-Term MODIS Data

    Kun Shi;Kun Shi;Yunlin Zhang;Yibo Zhang;Na Li

  • Chromophoric dissolved organic matter in inland waters: Present knowledge and future challenges.

    Yunlin Zhang;Lei Zhou;Yongqiang Zhou;Liuqing Zhang

  • How autochthonous dissolved organic matter responds to eutrophication and climate warming: Evidence from a cross-continental data analysis and experiments

    Yongqiang Zhou;Thomas A. Davidson;Xiaolong Yao;Yunlin Zhang

  • Long-Term Satellite Observations of Microcystin Concentrations in Lake Taihu during Cyanobacterial Bloom Periods

    Kun Shi;Yunlin Zhang;Hai Xu;Guangwei Zhu

  • Remote estimation of chlorophyll-a in turbid inland waters: Three-band model versus GA-PLS model

    Kaishan Song;Lin Li;L.P. Tedesco;Shuai Li

  • Monitoring the river plume induced by heavy rainfall events in large, shallow, Lake Taihu using MODIS 250m imagery

    Yunlin Zhang;Kun Shi;Yongqiang Zhou;Xiaohan Liu

  • The influence of changes in wind patterns on the areal extension of surface cyanobacterial blooms in a large shallow lake in China.

    Tingfeng Wu;Boqiang Qin;Justin D. Brookes;Kun Shi

  • Dissolved organic matter fluorescence at wavelength 275/342 nm as a key indicator for detection of point-source contamination in a large Chinese drinking water lake

    Yongqiang Zhou;Erik Jeppesen;Yunlin Zhang;Kun Shi

Frequent Co-Authors

Yunlin Zhang
Yunlin Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Boqiang Qin
Boqiang Qin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guangwei Zhu
Guangwei Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Justin D. Brookes
Justin D. Brookes University of Adelaide
Kaishan Song
Kaishan Song Liaocheng University
Lin Li
Lin Li Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Hans W. Paerl
Hans W. Paerl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Zhidan Wen
Zhidan Wen Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology
Yang Gao
Yang Gao Nanjing University

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