Research Interests                                                               

·     Understanding estuarine and coastal hydrodynamics, turbulence, and sediment dynamics through the use of field experiments and theory. 

Projects

·     Turbulent mixing in estuarine benthic boundary layer under the impact of large breaking tidal bores, National Nature Science Foundation of China, CNY 270,000, 2020.1~2022.12 (PI).

·     Turbulent mixing and sediment dynamics in Qiantang estuary with the influence of tidal bore, China Post-doctor Science Foundation, CNY 50,000, 2018.12~2020.06 (PI)(C) Selected Presentations

·     Tu, J.B., Fan, D. D., Liu, W., Lian, Q., Liu, Z.Y., Smyth, W. Shear Instability in Hyperturbid Jiaojiang Estuary. The Fourth Xiamen Symposium on Marine Environmental Sciences, Xiamen, China, Jan. 06-09, 2019. (Poster).

·     Tu, J.B, Fan, D. D., Voulgaris, G. In-situ Estimates of turbulence from a hypertidal estuary (Qiantang, China): Tidal variability and the effects of Tidal Straining. Feb. 10-16, 2018. Portland, OR, United States. AGU Ocean science meeting. (Poster).

·     Tu, J., D. Fan, G, Voulgaris, Turbulence, Tidal Straining, and Suspended Sediment Stratification in Qiantang Estuary.The 6th sedimentary conference，Nanjing，Oct. 28-30, 2017. Invited talk for sediment dynamics session.

·     Tu, J., D. Fan, G, Voulgaris, In—situ Estimates of turbulence from a hypertidal estuary (Qiantang, China): Tidal variability and the effects of Tidal Straining. Feb. 10-16,2018.  Portland, OR, United States. AGU Ocean science meeting. Poster.

·     Tu, J., Fan, D. Turbulence dynamics in a tidal bore estuary. 13th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Beijing, China, July 31 - August 5, 2016. (Oral)

·     Fan, D., Tu, J. Hydrodynamics and turbulence dynamics in related to tidal bores in the Qiantang Estuary, China. International Workshop on Turbulent Mixing and Sediment Transport in the Ocean, Guangzhou, China, September 12 - 14, 2016. (Oral)

·     Junbiao Tu, Daidu Fan. Hydro- and Sediment- dynamic observations of Qiantang Tidal bore. Tidal bore workshop: Recent studies and further researches. University of Caen, Caen, France. May 2015. (Oral)

·     Junbiao Tu, Daidu Fan. Hydrodynamic observation under Qiantang tidal bore. The 2rd Seafloor Observation Symposium. Xiamen, China. Nov. 2014. (poster)(D)

Publications

·     Tu, J., D. Fan, G. Voulgaris (2021), Field observations of turbulence, sediment suspension, and transport under breaking tidal bores, Marine Geology. 437, 106498, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106498.

·     Tu, J., D. Fan, Q. Lian, Z. Liu, W. Liu, A. Kaminski, and W. Smyth (2020), Acoustic Observations of Kelvin-Helmholtz Billows on an Estuarine Lutocline, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125(4), e2019JC015383, doi:10.1029/2019jc015383. SCI

·     Tu, J., D. Fan, Y. Zhang, and G. Voulgaris (2019), Turbulence, Sediment-Induced Stratification, and Mixing Under Macrotidal Estuarine Conditions (Qiantang Estuary, China), Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124(6), 4058-4077, doi:10.1029/2018jc014281. SCI

·     Tu, J., and D. Fan (2017), Flow and turbulence structure in a hypertidal estuary with the world's biggest tidal bore, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 122(4), 3417-3433. SCI

·     Qi Y.K., Tu J.B.*(corresponding author), Yu J.J, Fan D.D. Summertime bottom boundary layer dynamics and sediment transport in Sansha Bay, Ocean science, 2021,45(06):1-12 (In Chinese with English abstract).

·     Tu J.B., Fan D.D., Shang S., Chen L.L., Zhang Y. 2014. Evolution and Sedimentary Sequence of Tidal Channel-Flat System at Bore-Affected Reach of the Qiantang Estuary. Journal of Earth Science, 39(3): 261-270 (In Chinese with English abstract).

·     Fan D.D., Tu J.B., Shang S., Cai G.F. 2014. Characteristics of tidal-bore deposits and facies associations in the Qiantang Estuary, China. Marine Geology, 348:1-14. SCI

·     Fan D.D., Tu J.B., Cai G.F., Shang S. 2015. Intercomparison of textural parameters of intertidal sediments generated by different statistical procedures, and implications for a unifying descriptive nomenclature. Geo-Marine Letters, 2015, 35(3):175-188. SCI

·     Fan, D.D., Shang, S., Cai, G.F., Tu, J.B. 2015. Distinction and grain-size characteristics of intertidal heterolithic deposits in the middle Qiantang Estuary (East China Sea). Geo-Marine Letters. 35(3): 161-174. SCI

·     Fan, D., J. Tu, S. Shang, L. Chen, and Y. Zhang (2016), Morphodynamics and sedimentary facies in a tidal‐fluvial transition with tidal bores (the middle Qiantang Estuary, China), paper presented at Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology: Proceedings of the Tidalites 2012 Conference, John Wiley & Sons.

·     Lu, J., Fan, D.D., Tu, J.B., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y.W., 2016. Application of ADV in the tidal flat to observe wave processes and calculate their characteristic parameters. Marine Science Bulletin, 35 (5), 523-531 (In Chinese with English abstract).