Bochao Xu

Associate Professor

Telephone: +86-532-66783772

E-mail: xubc@ouc.edu.cn

Educational Background

lOcean University of China – B.S. Marine Chemistry, 2002-2006;

lOcean University of China – M.S. Marine Chemistry, 2006-2008;

lFlorida States University – Visiting scholar, Marine Chemistry, 2008-2009;

lOcean University of China – Ph.D. Marine Chemistry, 2008-2011.

Career History

lDec. 2014 – present, Ocean University of China, Associate Professor.

lJul. 2011 – Dec. 2014, Ocean University of China, lecture.

Research Interests

lElemental composition on Microfossils and its ecological indication.

lQuantify submarine groundwater discharge flux and its associated nutrients to coastal ocean.

lMulti-Radio-Tracer Technique to quantify hydrodynamics and sedimentary dynamics in Large-river Delta-front Estauries (LDE).

Journal Reviewers

《Water Research》、《Chemical Geology》、《Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems》、《Hydrology and Earth System Sciences》、《Journal of Hydrology》、《Science of the Total Environment》、《JGR-Ocean》、《Marine Chemistry》、《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》、《Continental Shelf Research》、《Scientific Reports》、《Aquatic Geochemistry》、《Progress in Earth and Planetary Science》

Project Funds

lNSFC general project, Using multi-isotopes to study the contribution of Submarine Groundwater Discharge to hypoxia formation off the Yangtze River Estuary (41876075), PI, 2019.01-2022.12

lNSFC general project, The Contribution of Submarine Groundwater Discharge to Nutrients in the Yellow River Estuary (41576075), PI, 2016.01-2019.12

lNSFC youth project, Using multi-tracers to assess submarine groundwater discharge in the Yellow River Estuary under the water sediment regulation (41206064), PI, 2013.01-2015.12

Publications

lXiaoyi Guo, Bochao Xu*, William C Burnett, Zhigang Yu, Shouye Yang, Xiangtong Huang, Feifei Wang, Haiming Nan, Peng Yao, Fenglin Sun. A potential proxy for seasonal hypoxia: LA-ICP-MS Mn/Ca ratios in benthic foraminifera from the Yangtze River Estuary. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2019, 245: 290-303.

lDisong Yang, Bochao Xu*, William Burnett, Zhigang Yu, Xueyan Jiang, Xiaojie Zhang, Shibin Zhao, Dong Xia. Radium isotopes-suspended sediment relationship in a muddy river. Chemosphere, 2019, 214, 250-258.

lBochao Xu, Disong Yang, Peng Yao, William C. Burnett, Xiangbin Ran, Matthew Charette, Xinying Huang, Sumei Liu, Zhigang Yu*. A new perspective for assessing water transport and associated retention effects in a large reservoir. Geophysical Research Letters.2018, DOI:10.1029/2018GL079687.

lShibin ZHAO, Bochao XU*, Xiaojie ZHANG, William C. BURNETT. Rapid ²²⁴Ra measurements in water via multiple radon detectors. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry,https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-5981-3.

lWang Feifei, Yu Zhigang, Xu Bochao*, Liu Jian, Guo Xiaoyi, Nan Haiming. Nepartak Typhoon Influenced Bottom Sediments From the Yangtze River Estuary and Adjacent East China Sea-Foraminiferal Evidence. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 2018, DOI 10.1002/2017GC007413.

lXiaoyi GUO, Bochao XU*, Zhigang YU, Xiuqin LI, Haiming NAN, Huimin JIAN, Xueyan JIANG, Shaobo DIAO, Maosheng GAO. Radium Isotopes Assess Water Mixing Processes and Its Application in the Pearl River Estuary.Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, doi.org/10.1007/s00343-017-6069 -6.

lBochao XU*, Disong YANG, William C. Burnett, Xiangbin Ran, Zhigang YU, Maosheng GAO, Shaobo DIAO, Xueyan JIANG. Artificial water sediment regulation scheme influences morphology, hydrodynamics and nutrient behavior in the Yellow River estuary, Journal of Hydrology, 2016, 539: 102-112.

lXiangbin Ran, Bochao Xu, Jun Liu, Chenying Zhao, Sen Liu, Jiaye Zang. Biogenic silica composition and δ¹³C abundance in the Changjiang (Yangtze) and Huanghe (Yellow) Rivers with implications for the silicon cycle. Science of the Total Environment, 2016, http:// dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.161.

lXiaojie Zhang, Bochao Xu*, Dong Xia, Xueyan Jiang, Huimin Jian, Using natural radium and radon isotopes trace the water transport process and nutrients distribution in the Yellow River estuary under the influence of the Water-Sediment-Regulation Scheme, Haiyang Xuebao, 2016, 38 (8): 36-43. (in Chinese)

lXu B., Bianchi T., Allison M., Dimova N., Wang H., Zhang L., Diao S., Jiang X., Zhen Y., Yao P., Chen H., Yao Q., Dong W., Sui J., Yu Z.*, 2015. Using multi-radiotracer techniques to better understand sedimentary dynamics of reworked muds in the Changjiang River Estuary and inner shelf of East China Sea, Marine Geology370, 76-86 .

lXia D., Yu Z., Xu B.*, Gao M., Mi T., Jiang X., Yao P., 2015. Variations of hydrodynamics and submarine groundwater discharge in the Yellow River Estuary under the influence of the Water Sediment Regulation Scheme. Estuaries and Coasts DOI 10.1007/s12237-015-9994-7.

lXu Bochao, Xia Dong, William Burnett, Natasha Dimova, Wang Houjie, Zhang Longjun, et al. Natural ²²²Rn and ²²⁰Rn indicate the impact of the Water–Sediment Regulation Scheme (WSRS) on submarine groundwater discharge in the Yellow River estuary, China. Applied Geochemistry, 2014, 51: 79-85.

lBochao Xu, William Burnett, Natasha Dimova, Shaobo Diao, Tiezhu Mi, Xueyan Jiang, ZhigangYu. Hydrodynamics in the Yellow River Estuary via radium isotopes: ecological perspectives. Continental Shelf Research, 2013, 66: 19-28

lBochao Xu, Natasha Dimova, Liang Zhao, Xueyan Jiang, ZhigangYu. Determination of water ages and flushing rates using short-lived radium isotopes in large estuarine system, the Yangtze River Estuary, China. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2013, 121: 61-68