Xi Chen
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
University of Cincinnati
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Xi Chen's passion in research is to better understand hydrologic processes at the watershed scale. His work involves interdisciplinary study of the coupled human-water system in the Yahara Watershed in southern Wisconsin. In the study, his work is focused on modeling the water and nutrient transport in the watershed using coupled process-based models of Agro-IBIS (Integrated Biosphere Simulator) and THMB (Terrestrial Hydrology Model with Biogeochemistry). His current research goal is to explore the co-evolution of coupled human-water systems in the Anthropocene via watershed modeling. He has been active in the new field of socio-hydrology and developed a conceptual watershed modeling framework with temporal and spatial changes of community preferences to explain the movement of “channelization to restoration†in the Kissimmee River Basin, Florida.
Research Interest
Research Areas: Hydrology, water resources, environmental studies and modeling, physical geography, environmental engineering.
Publications
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Chen, X., Alizad, K., Wang, D., and Hagen, C. (2014), Climate change impact on runoff and sediment loads to the Apalachicola River at seasonal and event scales, Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue, 68, 35-42, doi:10.2112/S168-005.1.
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Chen, X., and Wang, D. (2015), Modeling seasonal surface runoff and baseflow based on the generalized proportionality hypothesis, Journal of Hydrology, 527, 367-379, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.04.059.
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Chen, X., Wang, D., Tian, F., and Sivapalan, M. (2016), From channelization to restoration: Sociohydrologic modeling with changing community preferences in the Kissimmee River Basin, Florida, Water Resources Research, 52, 1227-1244, doi: 10.1002/2015WR018194.
