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3-19-2007	Paul Liu was invited to talk at the Sun-institute of Geography, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Ho Chi Minh City.
3-18-2007	Dave DeMaster, Zuo Xue, and Paul Liu have just finished a two-week cruise off the Mekong River delta. Mekong_2007_Sampling, Mekong_2007_Chirp
2-14-2007	Paul Liu was invited to join the Editorial Board of the Journal of Coastal Research.
2-1-2007	Yiyi Wong gets a good news about a new award from NSF EAPSI
12-18-2006	Paul Liu was invited to join the Editorial Board of the journal MARINE GEOLOGY, for an initial period of three years until the end of 2009.
12-05-2006	Prof. Jia Yonggang, vice-dean of Vice Dean of College of Environmental Science & Engineering from Ocean University of China, arrived at NCSU, as a visiting professor in our lab. Welcome, Prof. Jia!
1 Oct 2006	NOAA Funds $12.5 Million to build an Interdisciplinary Scientific Environmental Technology (ISET)  Cooperative Research and Education Center.  This team is led by Dr. Solomon Bililign from NCAT.  Drs. Fred SEMAZZI, Lian XIE and Paul LIU are co-PIs from MEAS, NCSU. Together the NCSU team will work on the hurricane analyses and related inland flooding simulations.
24-29 Sept. 2006	Paul attended “ International Conference on Sea Level Change” held in France. Paul gave a talk about the Western Pacific Post-glacial sea-level Change.
17-22 Sept. 2006	Zuo and Paul attended NSF Margins Source-to-Sink Workshop (Teleconnections Between Source and Sink in Sediment Dispersal Systems) held in Eel River Basin, N. California. Paul gave a talk about the fate of large river-derived sediments to the global ocean. Together, we also presented three posters about our research in Taiwan, Vietnam and Yangtze River.
28-30 July. 2006	Dr. Liu attend “2006 Chinese Academy of Science Marine  Science and  Technology Workshop” held in Qingdao
24-27 July 2006	Dr. Liu attended the AGU-Western Pacific Geophysical Meeting (WPGM), and co-convened a session called “OS09: Sediment and Carbon Transport  and Cycling in the Western Pacific Marginal Seas”
8 July, 2006	Yiyi Wong went to Taiwan for EAPSI, and would sample the Lanyang River basin
5-7 June 2006	Dr. Liu was invited to attend the Workshop on Climate-Tectonic Drilling in  Southeast Asia, held in Kochi, Japan, the IODP Core Center.
3-8 May 2006	Dr. Liu finished a cruise for Taiwanese Rivers Source-to-Sink Studies with Prof. Char-shine Liu’s group from National Taiwan University. A large subaqueous sandy-delta was found off the Choshui River and other TW west coast rivers.
25 April 2006	Dr. Houjie Wang, from Ocean University of China, visit our lab. Dr. Wany will be here for a month to discuss the collaborations and work on some cruise data.
8-20 April 2006	Dr. Liu and a graduate student Zuo Xue visited HCM city and conducted our first survey  off the Mekong River Delta with Dr. Lap from VAST: see picture1; picture2, picture3
20 February 2006	We just get a great news from NSF today: Yiyi Wong, a first-year PhD student of this group, is awarded the NSF Asian Summer Institution Fellowship to Taiwan. Yiyi is working with Dr. Liu and Dr. Neal Blair on the Mountainous River-derived Carbon Cycles study. She will go to Taiwan this coming summer  to sample the Lanyang River watershed and continue to work in Dr, Saulwwod Lin’s lab in NTU.   Congratulations, Yiyi.
17-22 November 2005	Drs. Dave DeMaster and Paul Liu visited the IMGG, IMER and Inst. of Geography of Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (VAST).
15-16 November 2005	Drs. Dave DeMaster and Paul Liu attended the first “US-Vietnam Science and Technology Days” held in Hanoi, Vietnam. We are parts of US scientific delegation teams. During the events, Dr. DeMaster was interviewed by Vietnam National Television and other local medias.
10-25 October, 2005	Dr. Liu just finished two geological and geophysical cruises off the Lanyang River and Choshui River mouth, in Taiwan. Working with scientists from National Taiwan University, we collected over one thousand kilometers high-resolution seismic profiles and 15 piston cores.
7 August 2005	Mr. Hongzhou Xu, a visiting scholar, from SCSIO, arrived. Hongzhou will stay here one year and work on the watershed and water quality models.
3 August 2005	Mr. Zuo Xue, the new Ph.D. student of our lab, has arrived. Zuo is from FIO, SOA Qingdao, China.
1-20 July 2005	Dr. Liu was invited to ECNU, SCSIO, OUC, IOCAS for scientific talks,  exchange and future collaborations.
26-30 June 2005	Dr. Liu was invited by Nanjing University of Science and Technology for the “International Workshop for Environmental Pollution and Protection for Taihu Lake and Yangtze River Delta Region”
26-29 May 2005	Dr. Jingping Xu from USGS, Menlo Park, CA visited our lab and gave a department seminar: “Turbidity Currents in Monterey Submarine Canyon”
24-26 April 2005	Dr. Jeff Donnelly, from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, visited our lab and group. Jeff, Zhuanghua and I, we discussed the problem of mid-Holocene sea- level highstand-data, evidence, problems, and possible solutions. He also gave a department seminar titled “Chasing Hurricanes From Coastal Sedimentary Records” ?/span>?/span>?/span>
5 April-2 May 2005	Dr. Zhanghua Wang, East China Normal University, and Dr. Fuqing Jiang Inst. of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Science, are visiting our lab.
4 April 2005	Dr. Rob Thieler from USGS at Woods Hole visited our Lab, and gave a departmental seminar: “Late Quaternary evolution of the U.S. Atlantic margin: insights from high-resolution mapping of the continental shelf"
1 April, 2005	Our group’s first graduate student, David Velozzi, has just passed his thesis defense this morning very successfully. His research topic is "Sedimentary Features of the Yangtze Derived Mud Deposits on the Inner Shelf of the East China Sea ".  Dave, Congratulations!
13-15 March, 2005	Dr. Wei-Jun Cai, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia visited our lab, and gave a talk about Air-Sea CO2 flux in the global marginal seas
07 February, 2005	Dr. Nguyen Van Lap gave a talk in the MEAS: “Life in Vietnam; Holocene Evolution of the Mekong River Delta”
27 Jan-10 Feb. 2005	Drs. Nguyen and Ta from Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) are visiting our lab and group to talk about the international collaborative study of the Mekong River Delta
12-14 January 2005	Dr. Liu served as a review panelist for NSF international office’s EAPSI.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
13-17 December 2004	Dave Velozzi and Dr. Paul Liu attended the AGU Fall Meeting at San Francisco. Two posters were presented. 1) Sediment Flux and Fate of the Yangtze River Sediments Delivered to the East China Sea; 2) Sedimentary Features of the Yangtze Derived Mud Deposits in the Inner Shelf of the East China Sea
6-7 December 2004	Prof. Zuosheng Yang, from Ocean University of China, visited our lab and group. During his visit, we had discussed our present and future collaborative research in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea. He also gave a department seminar titled "Dam Effects on the Yangtze River's Sedoment Dischage to the Sea in Last 53  Years and Future"
19 November 2004	Dr. Liu was invited to pay a visit to Coastal Studies Institute and Dept. of Geological Science at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. A talk of "Postglaical rapid and stepwise sea-level rise, its geological and climatic impacts" was given there.
15-18 November 2004	Drs. Dave DeMaster, Neal Blair, Elana Leithold, and Paul Liu have been invited for the workshop of “River-dominated Ocean Margins (RioMar)-Linkages with the Global Changes” held in New Orleans by Tulane University.
28-29 October 2004	Dr. John D. Milliman, Chancellor Professor of the College of William and Mary, visited our lab and group.  He gave a MEAS Shell Distinguished Lecturer tilted "Fluvial Fluxes to the Global Ocean: The Importance of Episodic Events" Thursday (10/28/04) at 2:30 pm in room 1132 Jordan.  John Milliman is a world renown marine geologist, who has published extensively on topics ranging from fluvial processes to sea level rise to carbonate sedimentology.   He received the Francis Shepard Medal for excellence in marine geology in 1992.
17-18 October 2004	Dr. Jesse McNinch from VIMS visited here and gave a department Monday seminar.
15 October 2004	Dr. Liu gave an invited seminar at Duke University:
17 September 2004	Dr. Liu was invited to East Carolina University for a seminar titled “Postglacial stepwise sea-level rise, climatic change, and deltaic deposits in the shelf”