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Overview

Shu Gao is affiliated with East China Normal University in China and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. This researcher's work spans multiple subfields, including Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of Shu Gao's research include:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Shu Gao frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, among whom are Ya Ping Wang, Qian Yu, Jianhua Gao, Jianjun Jia, and Yunwei Wang. The volume of joint publications with these collaborators ranges from 14 to 35 works per author.

The scientist publishes regularly in well-known venues such as Marine Geology, Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, Frontiers in Marine Science, Anthropocene Coasts, and Geophysical Research Letters. Notably, Marine Geology features seven of their publications, while several other journals host multiple papers.

Shu Gao's recent research contributions include:

  • "Anthropogenic, Direct Pressures on Coastal Wetlands" (2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
  • "Role of delta-front erosion in sustaining salt marshes under sea-level rise and fluvial sediment decline" (2020, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • "Runup of landslide-generated tsunamis controlled by paleogeography and sea-level change" (2022, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • "Northwestern Pacific tropical cyclone activity enhanced by increased Asian dust emissions during the Little Ice Age" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Extreme floods of the Changjiang River over the past two millennia: Contributions of climate change and human activity" (2021, Marine Geology)

These publications reflect the scientist's focus on a combination of ecological dynamics, geological processes, and atmospheric and oceanographic phenomena, often tied to significant environmental contexts such as coastal wetlands and climate change impacts.

Best Publications

  • Holocene development of the Yellow River's subaqueous delta, North Yellow Sea

    J.Paul Liu;John D. Milliman;Shu Gao;Peng Cheng

  • Net sediment transport patterns inferred from grain-size trends, based upon definition of “transport vectors”—reply

    Shu Gao;Michael Collins

  • Socio-economic Impacts on Flooding: A 4000-Year History of the Yellow River, China

    Yunzhen Chen;James P. M. Syvitski;Shu Gao;Irina Overeem

  • Analysis of grain size trends, for defining sediment transport pathways in marine environments

    S. Gao;M.B. Collins

  • Sediment transport over an accretional intertidal flat with influences of reclamation, Jiangsu coast, China

    Ya Ping Wang;Shu Gao;Jianjun Jia;Charlotte E.L. Thompson

  • Holocene sedimentary systems on continental shelves

    S. Gao;M.B. Collins;M.B. Collins

  • Fate of sediments delivered to the sea by Asian large rivers: Long-distance transport and formation of remote alongshore clinothems

    J.P. Liu;Z. Xue;K. Ross;H.J. Wang

  • Grain size trends associated with net sediment transport patterns: An example from the Belgian continental shelf

    S. Gao;M.B. Collins;J. Lanckneus;G. De Moor

  • Changes in water and sediment exchange between the Changjiang River and Poyang Lake under natural and anthropogenic conditions, China

    Jian Hua Gao;Jianjun Jia;Albert J. Kettner;Fei Xing

  • A critique of the "McLaren Method" for defining sediment transport paths; discussion and reply

    Shu Gao;Michael Collins;Patrick McLaren;Donald Bowles

  • The Shandong mud wedge and post-glacial sediment accumulation in the Yellow Sea

    J. P. Liu;J. D. Milliman;S. Gao

  • Changes in material fluxes from the Changjiang River and their implications on the adjoining continental shelf ecosystem

    Shu Gao;Ya Ping Wang

  • Last deglaciation in the Okinawa Trough: Subtropical northwest Pacific link to Northern Hemisphere and tropical climate

    Youbin Sun;Youbin Sun;Delia W. Oppo;Rong Xiang;Weiguo Liu

  • Exploring continental margin carbon fluxes on a global scale

    K.-K. Liu;L. Atkinson;C. T. A. Chen;S. Gao

  • A FORTRAN program for grain-size trend analysis to define net sediment transport pathways

    Shu Gao

  • Modeling the tidal channel morphodynamics in a macro-tidal embayment, Hangzhou Bay, China.

    Dongfeng Xie;Zhengbing Wang;Shu Gao;H.J. De Vriend

  • Net sediment transport patterns over the Bohai Strait based on grain size trend analysis

    Peng Cheng;Shu Gao;Henry Bokuniewicz

  • Shifting perspectives on coastal impacts and adaptation

    Sally Brown;Robert J. Nicholls;Susan Hanson;Geoff Brundrit

  • Sediment resuspension, flocculation, and settling in a macrotidal estuary

    Ya Ping Wang;George Voulgaris;Yan Li;Yang Yang

  • Is “morphodynamic equilibrium” an oxymoron?

    Zeng Zhou;Zeng Zhou;Giovanni Coco;Ian Townend;Maitane Olabarrieta

Frequent Co-Authors

Ya Ping Wang
Ya Ping Wang Nanjing University
Michael Collins
Michael Collins National Oceanography Centre
Zheng Bing Wang
Zheng Bing Wang Delft University of Technology
Albert J. Kettner
Albert J. Kettner University of Colorado Boulder
James P. M. Syvitski
James P. M. Syvitski University of Colorado Boulder
Youbin Sun
Youbin Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chunyan Li
Chunyan Li Louisiana State University
Shilun Yang
Shilun Yang East China Normal University
John D. Milliman
John D. Milliman William & Mary
Alice Newton
Alice Newton University of Algarve

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