Kam-biu Liu / Biogeography

Recent and Currently Funded Research Projects
(as Principal Investigator)

(1) Hurricanes

Liu, K.B., "Reconstructing a 1,000-year record of typhoon landfalls from Chinese historical documentary evidence" National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant ($39,937), Earth System History Program, ATM-9905329, 10/99-1/01.

Liu, K.B., "Reconstructing the hurricane landfall probabilities of the northern Atlantic coast: Lake-sediment records from Cape Cod, Massachusetts." Bermuda Biological Station for Research (BBSR), Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI) research grant ($70,000), 7/99-6/00.

Liu, K.B., "Reconstructing the landfall probabilities of catastrophic hurricanes from lake-sediment records along the mid-Atlantic coast." Bermuda Biological Station for Research (BBSR), Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI) research grant ($75,000), 7/98-6/99.

Liu, K.B., "Reconstructing the recurrence intervals of catastrophic hurricanes: Lake and marsh sedimentary records from the Gulf Coast." Bermuda Biological Station for Research (BBSR), Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI) research grant ($140,000), 6/96-6/98.

Liu, K.B., "Reconstructing a 1,000-year record of typhoon activities from Chinese historical documentary evidence: A pilot study for Guangdong Province." Bermuda Biological Station for Research (BBSR), Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI) research grant ($4,200), 6/96 6/97.

Liu, K.B., "Reconstructing the Late-Holocene hurricane climate of the northern Gulf of Mexico coast." National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant ($97,879), Geography and Regional Science Program, SES-9122058, 6/92-6/94.

Liu, K.B., "Lake sediment and pollen records of hurricane disturbance along the Alabama Gulf Coast." National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant ($13,485), Geography and Regional Science Program, SES-8922033, 1/90-1/91.

(2) Tibetan Plateau / Paleomonsoon

Liu, K.B., "Long-term dynamics of the SW Indian monsoon: New high resolution paleoclimatic data from Tibet." National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant ($230,570), Climate Dynamics Program, ATM-9410491, 6/94-12/97.

(3) Ice Cores

Liu, K.B., "Modern pollen-vegetation relationships in the Bolivian Altiplano: Key to deciphering the pollen record from ice cores." National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Supplement grant ($4,690), Geography and Regional Science Program, 7/00-6/01.

Liu, K.B., "Paleoenvironmental changes in the Bolivian Altiplano: A high-resolution pollen record from the Sajama Ice Cap." National Science Foundation (NSF)

Liu, K.B., "A high-resolution pollen record from the Dunde Ice Cap, western China." National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant ($40,890), Geography and Regional Science Program, SBR-9410411, 7/94-6/97. research grant ($70,466), co-funded by the Geography and Regional Science Program and the Earth System History Program, BCS-9906002, 9/99-8/01.

(4) China

Liu, K.B., "Towards establishing a Quaternary pollen database in China." National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research grant ($17,466), Climate and Global Change Program. 3/95-3/96.

Liu, K.B., "Environmental Change in East China during the last 30,000 years." National Geographic Society (NGS) research grant #3369-86 ($23,900), 6/86-12/87.

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(5) Graduate Student Projects

Tabanez, A., "Holocene history of Atlantic tropical forest and cerrado in southeastern Brazil: The role of climate, fire, and human disturbance ." National Science Foundation (NSF) doctoral dissertation improvement grant ($9,850), Geography and Regional Science Program, BCS-0002346, 7/00-6/01.

Tabanez, A., "Dynamics of tree populations, tree species diversity, and patch structure in the Atlantic forest fragments of southeastern Brazil," World Wildlife Fund-Brazil research grant ($6,200), 3/99-2/00.

Shen, Caiming, "Long-term dynamics of the SW Indian monsoon: Palynological evidence from central and western Tibet," Geological Society of America (GSA) dissertation research grant ($2,600), 6/99-5/00. (Also funded by AAG dissertation research grant).

Maxwell, A., "Paleo-environmental change in mainland Southeast Asia: Palynological evidence from Cambodia." National Science Foundation (NSF) doctoral dissertation improvement grant ($9,970), Geography and Regional Science Program, SBR-9506344, 7/95-12/97. (Also funded by GSA ($1,500), Sigma Xi, and AAG dissertation research grants).

Fearn, M.L., "Louisiana's Cajun prairie: Holocene history of a subtropical grassland." National Science Foundation (NSF) dissertation improvement grant ($5,980), Geography and Regional Science Program, SES-9105493, 7/91-7/92. (Also funded by NSF Global Change Research and Travel Fellowship to University of Minnesota, and AAG and Sigma Xi dissertation research grants).

Qiu, H.L., "Late-Quaternary vegetation and monsoon climate history of Southeast China," National Science Foundation (NSF) doctoral dissertation improvement grant ($9,290), Geography and Regional Science Program, SES 9001343, 5/90-5/91. (Also funded by AAG dissertation research grant).

Li, X., "A 6200-year environmental history of the Pearl River Marsh, Louisiana." Geological Society of America dissertation research grant ($1,500), 5/92-4/93. (Also funded by AAG Biogeography Specialty Group dissertation research grant).

Ph.D. Dissertations and M.Sc. Theses (1990-2000)

Completed:

Yao, Z., 2000. "Ice-core pollen studies from the Dunde and Guliya ice caps, China," Ph.D. dissertation, 248 p.

Reese, C.A., 2000. "Late-Holocene vegetation changes at Bluff Swamp, Louisiana," M.S. thesis, 102 p.

Maxwell, A.L., 1999. "Holocene environmental change in mainland Southeast Asia: Pollen and charcoal records from Cambodia," Ph.D. dissertation, 290 p.

Zhou, X., 1998. "A 4,000-year pollen record of vegetation changes, sea level rise, and hurricane disturbance in the Atchafalaya Marsh of southern Louisiana," M.Sc. thesis, 137 p.

Pace, L.C., 1998. "A palynological study of two upland bogs in the Gulf Coastal Plain, Alabama and Mississippi," M.N.S. thesis, 103 p.

Thomas, K.L., 1996. "A palynological study of swamp sediments at the Poverty Point archaeological site, northeastern Louisiana." M.Sc. thesis, 134 p.

Fearn, M.L., 1995. "Louisiana's Cajun Prairie: Holocene history of a southern grassland." Ph.D. dissertation, 283 p.

Gathen, K., 1994. "Ecological impacts of historic and prehistoric hurricanes on Horn Island, Mississippi." M.Sc. thesis, 134 p.

Qiu, H.L., 1994. "Late-Holocene vegetational history of a subtropical mountain in southeast China," Ph.D. dissertation, 138 p.

Li, X., 1994. "A 6200-year environmental history of the Pearl River Marsh, Louisiana." Ph.D. dissertation, 208 p.

Coggins, C., 1991. "Mapping the modern distribution of major tree genera in China." M.Sc. thesis, 169 p.

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In Progress:

Shen, C.: Long-term dynamics of the SW Indian monsoon - pollen records from west-central Tibet (Ph.D. research)

Tabanez, A.: Holocene history of the Atlantic forest fragments in southeastern Brazil (Ph.D. research)

LeBon, W.: Palynological study of Pascagoula Marsh in Mississippi coast (Ph.D. research)

Zhou, X.: Holocene vegetational history and hurricane disturbance along the Gulf of Mexico coast (Ph.D. research)

Reese, C.A.: Pollen dispersal and deposition in tropical and subtropical ice caps (Ph.D. research)