Shuguang Liu
Project Lead
CLIMATE & LAND-USE
Email: sliu@usgs.gov
Phone: 605-594-6168
Address:
47914 252Nd Street
Sioux Falls, SD 57198
Expertise
Biography
Dr. Liu is leading an interdisciplinary team to develop advanced data assimilation systems to improve the monitoring and forecast of land surfaces conditions including carbon sources and sinks, hydrological cycle, and ecosystem goods and services. He developed the Erosion-Deposition-Carbon-Model (EDCM) to dynamically simulate the impact of soil erosion and deposition on carbon dynamics. Dr. Liu also developed the General Ensemble Biogeochemical Modeling System (GEMS) for spatially explicit simulations of the land-atmosphere-human interactions with measurements of uncertainty. He leads an USGS/NASA effort to develop innovative upscaling approaches to quantifying the spatial and temporal dynamic changes of contemporary carbon stocks and fluxes in the US. He has played key roles in several interdisciplinary studies on estimation of carbon sequestration supply and prediction of ecological sustainability under various physical, socioeconomic, and environmental conditions at local to continental scales in the United States, Central and North America, Asia, and Africa.
Publications
Selected Publications (out of more than 100):
Zhou, D, S Liu, J Oeding, S Zhao, 2013. Forest Cutting and Impacts on Carbon in the Eastern United States. NATURE Scientific Report (in press)
Tan, Z and S Liu, 2013. Soil nutrient budgets following projected corn stover harvest for biofuel production in the conterminous United States. Global Change Biology Bioenergy (in press)
Kasischke, Eric S., Brian D. Amiro, Nichole N. Barger, Nancy H.F. French, Guido Grosse, Scott J. Goetz, Mark E. Harmon, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Shuguang Liu, Jeffrey G. Masek, 2013. Impacts of disturbance on the terrestrial carbon budget of North America. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 118, 1–14, doi:10.1002/jgrg.20027
Zhao, S, S Liu, T Sohl, C Young and J Werner, 2013. Land Use and Carbon Dynamics in the Southeastern United States from 1992 to 2050. Environmental Research Letters, 8, 044022, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044022
Xue, Y, S Liu, L Zhang, Y Hu, 2013. Integrating Fuzzy Logic with Piecewise Linear Regression for Detecting Vegetation Greenness Change in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska. Int. J. Remote Sensing 34: 4242-4263
Zhou, Decheng, Shuqing Zhao, Shuguang Liu, Jennifer Oeding, 2013. A Meta-Analysis on the Impacts of Partial Cutting on Forest Structure and Carbon Storage. Biogeosciences 10: 3691–3703.
Liu, S., Z. Tan, M. Chen, J. Liu, A. Wein, Z. Li, S. Huang, J. Oeding, C. Young, S.B. Verma, A.E. Suyker, S. Faulkner, and G.W. McCarty. 2012. The General Ensemble Biogeochemical Modeling System (GEMS) and its Applications to Agricultural Systems in the United States. p. 309-323. In Liebig, M.A., A.J. Franzluebbers, and R.F. Follett (Eds.) Managing agricultural greenhouse gases: Coordinated agricultural research through GRACEnet to address our changing climate. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
Wu, Y, S Liu, and Z Li, 2012. Identifying the Potential Areas for Biofuels Production and Evaluating the Environmental Effects: a Case Study of the James River Basin in the Midwestern US. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, doi: 10.1111/j.1757-1707.2012.01164.x
Wu, Y and S Liu, 2012. Automating Calibration, Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Complex Models Using the R Package Flexible Modeling Environment (FME), SWAT as an Example. Environmental Modeling & Software v. 31, p. 99-109.
Tan, Z., S Liu, N Bliss, and L L. Tieszen, 2012. Current and potential sustainable corn stover feedstock for biofuel production in the United States, Biomass and Bioenergy (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2012.09.022
Liu, S., Wu, Y., Young, C.J., Dahal, D., Werner, J.M., Liu, J., Li, Z., Tan, Z., Schmidt, G.L., Oeding, J., Sohl, T.L., Hawbaker, T.J., and Sleeter, B.M., 2012, Projected future carbon storage and greenhouse-gas fluxes of terrestrial ecosystems in the western United States, in Zhu, Z., and Reed, B.C., eds., Baseline and projected future carbon storage and greenhouse-gas fluxes in ecosystems of the western United States: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1797, p. 109-124, available at http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp1797.
Liu, S., Liu, J., Young, C.J., Werner, J.M., Wu, Y., Li, Z., Dahal, D., Oeding, J., Schmidt, G.L., Sohl, T.L., Hawbaker, T.J., and Sleeter, B.M., 2012, Baseline carbon storage, carbon sequestration, and greenhouse-gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems of the western United States, in Zhu, Z., and Reed, B.C., eds., Baseline and projected future carbon storage and greenhouse-gas fluxes in ecosystems of the western United States: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1797, p. 45-63, available at http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp1797.
Euliss, Jr., N H, L M Smith, S Liu, W G Duffy, S P Faulkner, R A Gleason, and S D Eckles. 2011. Integrating estimates of ecosystem services from conservation programs into data-assimilation models for decision makers: the vision for CEAP—wetlands. Ecological Applications, 21(3) Supplement, pp. S128–S134
Huang, S, D Dahal, C Young, G Chander, S Liu, 2011. Integration of Palmer Drought Severity Index and remote sensing data to simulate wetland water surface from 1910-2009 in Cottonwood Lake area, North Dakota. Remote Sensing of Environment 115: 3377–3389
Schwalm, C R, C A Williams, K Schaefer, R Anderson, M A Arain, I Baker, A Barr, T A Black, G Chen, J Chen, P Ciais, K J Davis, A Desai, M Dietze, D Dragoni, M L Fischer, L B Flanagan, R Grant, L Gu, D Hollinger, R C Izaurralde, C Kucharik, P Lafleur, B E Law, L Li, Z Li, S Liu, E Lokupitiya, Y Luo, S Ma, H Margolis, R Matamala, H McCaughey, R K Monson, W C Oechel, C Peng, B Poulter, D T Price, D M Riciutto, W Riley, A K Sahoo, M Sprintsin, J Sun, H Tian, C Tonitto, H Verbeeck, S B Verma, 2011. A model-data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 115, G00H05, doi:10.1029/2009JG001229
Feng, M. S Liu, N H Euliss, Jr., C Young, and D M Mushet, 2011. Prototyping an Online Wetland Ecosystem Services Model using Open Model Sharing Standards. Environmental Modeling & Software 26: 458-468, doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.10.008
Liu, S, Z Tan, Z Li, S Zhao, W Yuan, 2011. Are soils of Iowa USA currently a carbon sink or source? Simulated changes in SOC stock from 1972 to 2007. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 140: 106–112, doi:10.1016/j.agee.2010.11.017
Liu, S, B Bond-Lamberty, J A Hicke, R Vargas, S Zhao, J Chen, S L Edburg, J Liu, A D McGuire, J Xiao, R Keane, W Yuan, J Tang, Y Luo, C Potter, and J Oeding, 2011. Simulating the Impacts of Disturbances on Forest Carbon Cycling in North America: Processes, Data, Models, and Challenges. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 116, doi:10.1029/2010JG001585
Tang, X, S Liu and G Zhou. 2010. Erosion and vegetation restoration impacts on ecosystem carbon dynamics in a tropical area in South China. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 74:2010, doi:10.2136/sssaj2009.0007
Yuan, W., S Liu, H. Liu, J. T. Randerson, G. Yu, and L. L. Tieszen, 2010. Impacts of precipitation seasonality and ecosystem types on evapotranspiration in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, Water Resour. Res., 46, W02514, doi:10.1029/2009WR008119.
Zhu, Zhiliang, ed., Bergamaschi, Brian, Bernknopf, Richard, Clow, David, Dye, Dennis, Faulkner, Stephen, Forney, William, Gleason, Robert, Hawbaker, Todd, Liu, Jinxun, Liu, Shuguang, Prisley, Stephen, Reed, Bradley, Reeves, Matthew, Rollins, Matthew, Sleeter, Benjamin, Sohl, Terry, Stackpoole, Sarah, Stehman, Stephen, Striegl, Robert, Wein, Anne, and Zhu, Zhiliang, 2010, A method for assessing carbon stocks, carbon sequestration, and greenhouse-gas fluxes in ecosystems of the United States under present conditions and future scenarios: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5233, 188 p.
Yuan, W, S Liu, et al., 2010. Global Estimates of Evapotranspiration and Gross Primary Production Based on MODIS and Global Meteorology Data. Remote Sensing of Environment 114: 1416-1431, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.01.022
Zhao, SQ, S Liu, Z. Li and T. L. Sohl, 2009. Ignoring detailed fast-changing dynamics of land use overestimates regional terrestrial carbon sequestration. Biogeosciences, 6, 1647–1654, 2009
Liu, S, P Anderson, B Kauffman, F Hughes, D Schimel, G Zhou, V Watson and J Tosi, 2008. Resolving Model Parameter Values From C and N Stock Measurements in a Wide Range of Tropical Mature Forests Using Nonlinear Inversion and Regression Trees. Ecological Modeling 219: 327-341
Harden, J W, A A Berhe, M Torn, J Harte, S Liu, R.F. Stallard, 2008. Soil erosion: data say C sink. Science 320 (April): 178-179
Yuan, W, S Liu, G Zhou, G Zhou, L L Tieszen, D Baldocchi, C Bernhofer, H Gholz, A H Goldstein, M L Goulden, D Y Hollinger, Y Hu, B E Law, P C Stoy, T Vesala, S C Wofsy, 2007. Deriving a Light Use Efficiency Model From Eddy Covariance Flux Data For Predicting Daily Gross Primary Production Across Biomes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 143: 189-207, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.12.001.
Tang X, S Liu, Zhou G, Zhang D, Zhou C, 2006. Soil-atmospheric exchange of CO2, CH4 and N2O in three forest ecosystems in southern China. Global Change Biology 12: 546–560, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01109.x
Zhou, G, S Liu, Z Li, D Zhang, X Tang, C Zhou, J Yan, and J Mo, 2006. Old growth forests can accumulate carbon in soils. Science 314: 1417
Liu, S, Loveland, T R, Kurtz, R, 2004. Contemporary Carbon Dynamics in Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Southeastern Plains of the United States. Environmental Management 33: S442-S456
Liu, S, Kaire, M, Wood, E, Dialio, O, Tieszen, L, 2004. Impacts of Land Use and climate Change on Carbon Dynamics in South Central Senegal. Journal of Arid Environments 59: 583-604
Liu,S. N. Bliss, E. Sundquist and T.G. Huntington, 2003. Modeling carbon dynamics in vegetation and soil under the impact of soil erosion and deposition. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1074, doi:10.1029/2002GB002010.
Reiners, W.A., S Liu, K.G. Gerow, M. Keller and D.S. Schimel, 2002. Historical and future land use effects on trace gas emissions using an ensemble modeling approach: Costa Rica's Caribbean Lowlands as an example. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 16: 223-240, 10.1029/2001GB001437.
Liu, S., 2001. Evaluation of the Liu model for predicting rainfall interception in forests worldwide. Hydrological Processes 15: 2341-2360.
Liu, S., W.A. Reiners, M. Keller and D.S. Schimel, 1999. Model simulation of changes in N2O and NO emissions with conversion of tropical rain forests to pastures in the Costa Rican Atlantic Zone. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 13: 663-677.
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