08/2016 — present, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida (Ph.D. Student)
09/2012 — 06/2016 B.S. in Marine Sciences(marine meteorology and physical oceanography), School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, NUIST, Nanjing, China
2016 — present - Graduate Research Assistant, Optical Oceanography Laboratory, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida
2013 — 2015 - Research Assistant, Ocean Dynamics and Satellite Oceanography Laboratory, School of Marine Sciences, NUIST
Bio-physical interactions in coastal oceans; detection and extraction of ocean surface features such as eddies and fronts (sub-mesoscale and mesoscale) from satellite data.
- 08/2017 GoMRI Scholar, Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative
- 2016-2017 Anne And Werner Von Rosenstiel Fellowship, USF/CMS
- 11/2015 National Endeavor Fellowship, NUIST, China
- 05/2015 Merit student, Jiangsu Province, China
- 11/2014 National Scholarship, China
- 11/2013 National Endeavor Fellowship, NUIST, China
Y. Zhang and C. Hu. “Frontal density of Gulf of Mexico derived from satellite ocean color measurements”. USF/CMS 2018 Graduate Student
Symposium, St. Petersburg, FL, January 12, 2018.
C. Hu, Y. Zhang, V. H. Kourafalou, O. Garcia-Pineda. “Frontal density of northern Gulf of Mexico derived from satellite ocean color measurements”. Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference. New Orleans, Feb 5-8, 2018.
July 18 - August 21, 2017 Gulf of Mexico Ecosystems and Carbon Cruise (GOMECC-3), R/V Ronald H. Brown
