1.Personal Information

Full Name :	Zeng ZHOU
Academic Position :	Professor
Telephone :	+86-13815408337
E-mail :	zeng.zhou@hhu.edu.cn

2.Education

Degree	University	Year
Ph.D(Estuarine Morphodynamics):	University of Cantabria,Spain	03/2012 – 03/2015
MSc(Coasts/Estuaries):	Delft University of Technology,Netherlands University of Southampton,UK Norwegian University of Science and Technology,Norway	08/2009 – 07/2011
MEng(Harbour/Coastal Engineering):	Hohai University,China	09/2008 – 07/2009
BEng(Harbour/Coastal Engineering):	Hohai University,China	09/2004 – 06/2008

3.Work Experience

4.Research Areas

•Estuarine and Coastal Hydrodynamics, Sediment Transport and Morphology

•Harbour, Waterway and Coastal Engineering

•Biophysical Processes on Tidal Flats and Carbon Dynamics

5.Teaching

Jiangsu Provincial Excellent Course “Advanced coastal dynamics”. This is a two-credit graduate students’ course focusing on estuarine and coastal processes and morphodynamics.

6.Major Research Funds

•Morphological evolution and regime shift of saltmarsh edges (Grant NO. 41976156), 640,000RMB, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 01/2020-12/2023, Principle investigator (PI).

•Evolution and resilience of tidal flats and marshes: A comparison between the outer Thames estuary and the Jiangsu coast (NSFC-RS, Grant No. 4171101405), National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Royal Society of UK, 2018.04-2020.03, Collabration with Dr Iris Moller from Cambridge University, Principle investigator (PI).

•Geomorphic characteristics and morphodynamic evolution of tidal networks influenced by salt marshes (Grant NO. 41606104), 200,000RMB, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 01/2017-12/2019, Principle investigator (PI).

•Sediment sorting processes and morphodynamic evolution of tidal flat-marsh system (Grant NO. BK20160862), 190,000RMB, Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation, 07/2016-07/2019, Principle investigator (PI).

•Erosion and expansion of salt marshes on tidal flat wetlands and environmental protection, 20,000RMB, Excellent Science and Technology Activity Funding for Researchers Having Studying Experience Abroad, Principle investigator (PI).

•Multiple sediment sorting dynamics on tidal flats (Grant NO. 2016B00714), 150,000RMB, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, 01/2016-12/2018, Principle investigator (PI).

•Multi-factor driven bio-morphodynamic evolution of silt-muddy tidal flats: mechanisms and modeling (Grant NO. 51620105005), 2,430,000RMB, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 01/2017-12/2021, Co-PI (2/11).

•Vegetation morphodynamics of silt-muddy tidal flats (Grant NO. 2015B24814), 300,000RMB, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, 09/2015-09/2017, Co-PI (2/11).

7.Main Publications

•Monograph 

Zhou Z. (2015). Tidal network morphodynamics: Processes, feedbacks and long-term evolution, Published by Tratamiento Gráfico del Documento, S.L. (ISBN：9788461735747).

•Selected peer-reviewed Journal papers

1.Fan Xu, Giovanni Coco, Jianfeng Tao, Zeng Zhou*, Changkuan Zhang, Stefano Lanzoni, Andrea D'Alpaos (2019) On the Morphodynamic Equilibrium of a Short Tidal Channel. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124: 639-665, doi: 10.1029/2018JF004952

2.Chen, X. D., Zhang, C. K., Paterson, D. M., Townend, I. H., Jin, C., Zhou, Z., Gong, Z., and Feng, Q. (2019) The effect of cyclic variation of shear stress on non‐cohesive sediment stabilisation by microbial biofilms: The role of “biofilm precursors”. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 44(7): 1471-1481, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4573.

3.Geng L., Gong Z., Zhou Z., Lanzoni S. and D’Alpaos A. (2019) Assessing the relative contributions of the flood tide and the ebb tide to tidal channel network dynamics. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 44(7): 1471-1481, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4727.

4.Tao, J., Wang, Z. B., Zhou, Z.*, Xu, F., Zhang, C., & Stive, M. J. F. ( 2019). A morphodynamic modeling study on the formation of the large‐scale radial sand ridges in the Southern Yellow Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004866 

5.Zhou Z., Coco G., Townend I., Gong Z., Wang Z.B., and Zhang C.K. (2018) On the stability relationships between tidal asymmetry and morphologies of tidal basins and estuaries. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 43(9): 1943-1959, doi: 10.1002/esp.4366.

6.Gong Z., Zhao K.*, Zhang C.K, Dai W., Coco G., Zhou Z. * (2018) The role of bank collapse on tidal creek ontogeny: A novel process-based model for bank retreat, Geomorphology. 311, 13-26, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.03.016.

7.Zhou Z., Chen L.Y., Townend I., Coco G., Friedrichs C., and Zhang C.K. (2018) Revisiting the relationship between tidal asymmetry and basin morphology: A comparison between 1D and 2D models. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 85: 151-155, doi: 10.2112/SI85-031.1.

8.Winterwerp J.C., Zhou Z., Battista G., Van Kessel T., Jagers B., Van Maren B., and Van der Wegen M. (2018) An efficient consolidation model for morphodynamic simulations in low SPM-environments. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 144(8): 04018055(1-14), doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001477.

9.Xu, F., Coco, G., Zhou, Z., Tao, J., & Zhang, C. (2017). A numerical study of equilibrium states in tidal network morphodynamics. Ocean Dynamics, 67(12), 1593-1607, doi: 10.1007/s10236-017-1101-0.

10.Chen, X. D., Zhang, C. K., Zhou, Z., Gong, Z., Zhou, J. J., Tao, J. F., Paterson, D. M. & Feng, Q. (2017). Stabilizing effects of bacterial biofilms: EPS penetration and re-distribution of bed stability down the sediment profile. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122(12): 3113-3125. doi:10.1002/2017JG004050.

11.Gong, Z., Jin, C., Zhang, C., Zhou, Z., Zhang, Q., & Li, H. (2017). Temporal and spatial morphological variations along a cross-shore intertidal profile, Jiangsu, China. Continental Shelf Research, 144: 1-9, doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2017.06.009.

12.Dai W., Li H., Zhou Z., Cybele S., Lu C., Zhao K., Zhang X., Yang H. and Li D. (2018) UAV photogrammetry for elevation monitoring of intertidal mudflats. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue for International Coastal Symposium 2018. Special Issue No. 85, pp. 236–240, doi: 10.2112/SI85-048.1.

13.Tao, J., Xu, F., Yao, P., Zhou, Z., and Zhang, C., 2018. The variations of sediment transport patterns in the radial sand ridges along the Jiangsu coast, China over the last 30 years. In: Shim, J.-S.; Chun, I., and Lim, H.S. (eds.), Proceedings from the International Coastal Symposium (ICS) 2018 (Busan, Republic of Korea). Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 85, pp. 216–220, doi: 10.2112/SI85-044.1.

14.Zhou Z., Coco G., Townend I., Olabarrieta M., van der Wegen M., Gong Z., D’Alpaos A., Gao S., Jaffe B. E., Gelfenbaum G., He Q., Wang Y., Lanzoni S., Wang Z. B., Winterwerp H. and Zhang C.K. (2017) Is “Morphodynamic Equilibrium” an oxymoron. Earth-Science Reviews, 165:257–267, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.12.002.

15.Chen, X. D., Zhang, C. K., Paterson, D. M., Thompson, C. E. L., Townend, I. H., Gong, Z., Zhou, Z. and Feng, Q. (2017), Hindered erosion: The biological mediation of non-cohesive sediment behaviour. Water Resources Research 53(6): 4787-4801, doi:10.1002/2016WR020105

16.Townend I., Wang Z. B., Stive M., & Zhou Z. (2016). Development and extension of an aggregated scale model: part 1 – background to ASMITA. China Ocean Engineering, 30(4), 483-504, doi: 10.1007/s13344-016-0030-x.

17.Townend I., Wang Z. B., Stive M., & Zhou Z. (2016). Development and extension of an aggregated scale model: part 2 — extensions to ASMITA. China Ocean Engineering, 30(5), 651-670, doi: 10.1007/s13344-016-0042-6

18.Zhou Z., van der Wegen M., Jagers B., and Coco G. (2016) Modeling the role of self-weight consolidation on the morphodynamics of accretional intertidal mudflats. Environmental Modelling & Software, 76, 167-181, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.11.002.

19.Zhou Z., Ye Q., and Coco G. (2016) A one-dimensional biomorphodynamic model of tidal flats: Sediment sorting, marsh distribution, and carbon accumulation under sea level rise. Advances in Water Resources, 93, 288-302, doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.10.011.

20.Zhou Z., Coco G., van der Wegen M., Gong Z., Zhang C.K., and Townend I.  (2015) Modeling sorting dynamics of cohesive and non-cohesive sediments on intertidal flats under the effects of tidal currents and wind waves. Continental Shelf Research, 104, 76-91, doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2015.05.010. 

21.Zhou Z., Coco G., Jiménez , M., Olabarrieta M., van der Wegen M., and Townend I.  (2014) Morphodynamics of river-influenced tidal back-barrier basins: The role of landscape and hydrodynamic settings. Water Resour. Res, 50(12), 9514-9535, doi:10.1002/2014WR015891. 

22.Jiménez M., Castanedo S., Zhou Z., Coco G., Medina R. and Rodriguez-Iturbe I. (2014) Scaling properties of tidal networks. Water Resour. Res., 50(6), 4585-4602, doi:10.1002/2013WR015006. 

23.Zhou Z., Olabarrieta M., Stefanon L., D'Alpaos A., Carniello L. and Coco G. (2014) A comparative study of physical and numerical modeling of tidal network ontogeny. J. Geophys. Res., 119(4), 892-912, doi:10.1002/2014JF003092. 

24.Zhou Z., Stefanon L., Olabarrieta M., D'Alpaos A., Carniello L. and Coco G. (2014) Analysis of the drainage density of experimental and modelled tidal networks. Earth Surf. Dyn., 2(1), 105-116, doi:10.5194/esurf-2-105-2014.

25.Jiménez M., Castanedo S., Zhou Z., Coco G., Medina R. and Rodriguez-Iturbe I. (2014) On the sensitivity of tidal network characterization to power law estimation.  Adv. Geosci., 39, 69-73, doi:10.5194/adgeo-39-69-2014.

26.Coco G., Zhou Z., van Maanen B., Olabarrieta M., Tinoco R. and Townend I. (2013) Morphodynamics of tidal networks: advances and challenges. Mar. Geol., 346, 1-16, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2013.08.005. 

27.Zhou Z., de San Roman B. L. and Nicholls, R. (2013) An OpenMI-based combined model for alongshore sediment transport and shoreline change. Marit. Eng., 166(4), 175 -186, doi:10.1680/maen.2012.14. 

28.Xu F., Tao J.F., Zhou Z., Coco G., and Zhang C.K. (2016) Mechanisms underlying the regional differences of the Jiangsu radial sand ridges, China. Marine Geology, 371, 1-17, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2015.10.019

29.Zhang Q., Gong Z., Zhang C. K., Zhou Z. and Townend I. (2016) Hydraulic and sediment dynamics at times of very shallow water on intertidal mudflats: the contribution of waves. Journal of Coastal Research, SI75, 507-511, doi: 10.2112/SI75-102.1

•Conference papers and abstract

30.Zeng Zhou, Mengpiao Xu, Changkuan Zhang and Giovanni Coco (2017). Modeling the role of storms on tidal flat sorting dynamics, The 10th Symposium River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM2017), September 14-21, Padova, Italy.

31.Xu F., Coco G., Tao J., Zhou Z. and Zhang C (2017) On the initial formation and long-term equilibrium of tidal channels, The 10th Symposium River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM2017), September 14-21, Padova, Italy.

32.Xu B., Gong Z., Zhang Q., Zhou J., Zhou Z. and Zhang C (2017) Field Observations of Short-term Sediment Dynamic Processes on Intertidal Zone of Jiangsu Coast, China, The 10th Symposium River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM2017), September 14-21, Padova, Italy.

33.van der Wegen M., de Vet L., Zhou Z., Coco G. and Jaffe B. (2017) Modeling tidal morphodynamics at the channel-mudflat interface, The 10th Symposium River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM2017), September 14-21, Padova, Italy.

34.Chen X.D., Zhang C.K., Gong Z., Zhou Z. and Feng Q. (2017) Sediment bed stability re-distributed by bacterial biofilms, The 10th Symposium River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM2017), September 14-21, Padova, Italy.

35.Zeng Zhou, Jianfeng Tao, Zheng Gong, Leicheng Guo, and Mick van der Wegen (2016). Long-term morphodynamics: Can we neglect salinity difference? The 18th Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas Conference (PECS2016), September 9-14, Scheveningen, Netherlands. (abstract)

36.Kun Zhao, Zheng Gong, Zeng Zhou, Yunwei Wang, and Changkuan Zhang (2016). Morphodynamic evolution of tidal creeks: A numerical model considering bank collapse. The 18th Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas Conference (PECS2016), September 9-14, Scheveningen, Netherlands. (abstract)

37.Tao Jianfeng , Kuai Yu, Zhou Zeng, Zhang Changkuan (2016). Morphodynamic modelling of radial sand ridges in the Southern Yellow Sea: Formation and grain-size sorting. The 18th Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas Conference (PECS2016), September 9-14, Scheveningen, Netherlands. (abstract)

38.Zheng Gong, Liang Geng, Tingyu Li, Zeng Zhou and Changkuan Zang (2016). Physical modelling of tidal network evolution: the influence of tide asymmetry and spring-neap tides. The 18th Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas Conference (PECS2016), September 9-14, Scheveningen, Netherlands. (abstract)

39.Fan Xu, Giovanni Coco, Changkuan Zhang, Jianfeng Tao, and Zeng Zhou (2016). A morphodynamic study on the equilibrium of tidal channels. The 18th Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas Conference (PECS2016), September 9-14, Scheveningen, Netherlands. (abstract)

40.Maitane Olabarrieta , W. Rockwell Geyer , Zhendong Cao, Zeng Zhou and Giovanni Coco (2016). Relative contribution of barotropic and baroclinic processes to the subtidal bottom-shear stress: possible implications for the morphodynamic evolution of estuaries. The 18th Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas Conference (PECS2016), September 9-14, Scheveningen, Netherlands. (abstract)

41.Mick van der Wegen , Lodewijk de Vet , Zeng Zhou, Giovanni Coco, Bruce Jaffe (2016). Modeling morphodynamics at the channel-mudflat interface. The 18th Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas Conference (PECS2016), September 9-14, Scheveningen, Netherlands. (abstract)

42.Jin, C., Gong, Z., Zhang, C., Zhou, Z., & Li, H. (2015). The role of surface and subsurface processes on the morphodynamics of a vegetated mudflat. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, 1317–1324. (paper)

43.Olabarrieta M., Coco G. and Zhou Z. (2013) Effect of external overtides on tidal basin hydro-morphodynamic feedbacks, CERF 2013, USA. (abstract)

44.Zhou Z., Coco G., Olabarrieta M. and van der Wegen M. (2013) On the transition between tide- and river-dominated back-barrier estuarine environments. in Zhaoyin Wang, Joseph Hun-Wei Lee, Jizhang Gao and Shuyou Cao (eds.), Proceedings of the 35th IAHR World Congress, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing. China. (paper)

45.Olabarrieta M., Coco G., Zhou Z. and Castanedo S. (2013) Effects of externally and internally generated overtides on tidal basin hydro-morphodynamic feedbacks. The 8th IAHR symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM 2013), Santander, Spain. (abstract)

46.Jiménez M., Zhou Z., Castanedo S., Coco G., Medina R. and Rodriguez-Iturbe I. (2013) Tidal channel networks: hydrodynamic controls of their topological structure. The 8th IAHR symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM 2013), Santander, Spain. (abstract)

47.Zhou Z., Olabarrieta M., Stefanon L., D'Alpaos A., Carniello L. and Coco G. (2013) Morphodynamic modelling of tidal networks and comparison with laboratory experiments.  The 8th IAHR symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM 2013), Santander, Spain. (abstract)

48.Zhou Z. and Lopez de San Roman B. (2011) Development and application of a combined model for longshore sediment transport and beach response. in Z. Wang, (ed.), Proceedings of the 7th IAHR symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM 2011), Tsinghua Unviersity Press, Bejing, China. (paper)

 

8.Awards 

1.Second Prize for the Science and Technology Progress Award of Chinese Universities, “Monitoring, modeling, development and protection key techniques and applications of tidal flats along South Yellow Sea”, awarded by The Ministry of Education of China, 2011 (5/15)

2.Distinction Doctoral Thesis of Spain (Cum laude), 03/2015.

3.Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, for journal Continental Shelf Research, Elsevier.

4.Attracting Talents International Funding for PhD Studies, Spain, 03/2012-03/2015.

5.Erasmus Mundus Master Funding on Coastal and Marine Engineering and Management, European Union, 08/2009-07/2011.

6.Best Presentation Award, The 7th IAHR symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM 2011), 09/2011.

7.Distinction Master (Cum laude) Awarded by Delft University of Technology and University of Southampton, 07/2011.

9.Academic  services  

•  Associate editor for journal of “Anthropocene Coasts”, Canadian Science Publishing

•  Member of International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), and Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS).

•  Reviewer for Continental Shelf Research, Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Advances in Water Resources, Estuaries and Coasts

1.Associate editor for journal of “Anthropocene Coasts”, Canadian Science Publishing

2.Board member of International Symposium of River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics (IAHR-RCEM)

3.Member of International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), and Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS).

4.Reviewer for Continental Shelf Research, Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Advances in Water Resources, Estuaries and Coasts

10 Additional introduction

I am working on a wide range of coastal and estuarine research and engineering topics. My research group consists of 2 PhD students and 8 MSc students (including a foreign student from Ecuador). The small group is very active with easy-going students. If you are interested in my research directions, join the group and let’s do some cool research together!