Kam-Biu Liu
George W. Barineau III Professor
Mailing and Contact Information:
3277 Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
E-mail: kliu1@lsu.edu
Phone: (225) 578-6136
Fax: (225) 578-6423
Link to Abbreviated CV of Kam-Biu Liu
Link to Kam-Biu's LSU Global Paleoecology Lab
Educational Background:
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1982
M.S. University of Toronto, 1978
B.Sc. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1974
Research Interests:
Thematic: paleotempestology, coastal paleoecology, ice-core paleoclimatology, global environmental change, palynology and lake-sediments
Regional: U.S. Gulf coast and Atlantic coast, Caribbean region and Central America, South America (Andes and Amazon Basin), Tibetan Plateau, Central Asia ( Mongolia and Kazakhstan), China, Africa
Grants:
2008-2009 DOE National Institute for Climate Change Research – Effects of past and recent hurricanes on Gulf Coast ecosystems: implications for future climate changes (PI K.B. Liu, Co-PIs N. Lam and W.J. Platt).
2006-2011 Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research – Paleotempestology of the Caribbean region: a multi-proxy, multi-site study of the spatial and temporal variability of Caribbean hurricane activity (PI K.B. Liu, Co-PIs N. Lam and 11 other scientists from four different countries in the Americas).
2006-2008 National Science Foundation – Collaborative research: Bioclimatic reconstruction of the past 50,000 years from eolian sequences in westerlies-dominated Central Asia (PIs K.B. Liu and Z.D. Feng).
2006-2008 National Science Foundation (Doctoral dissertation research improvement) – Proxy records of palohurricane activities for the western and southern Caribbean (PI K.B. Liu, Co-PI T. McCloskey).
2006-2008 National Science Foundation (Doctoral dissertation research improvement) – Tracking Donna across the northern Caribbean: developing a modern analog methodology for paleotempestology (PI K.B. Liu, Co-PI J. Knowles)
2006-2007 National Science Foundation – Do hurricanes spur responses of coastal communities to changing sea level? (PI W.J. Platt, Co-PIs K.B. Liu, J. Whitbeck, and L. Battaglia).
2006-2008 National Science Foundation – Paleoclimatic change, landscape evolution, and cultural transformations in far western Tibet (PI M.S. Aldenderfer, Co-PI J. Overpeck, J. Cole, J. Pelletier, and K.B. Liu).
2005-2008 National Science Foundation – Collaborative research: an integrative study of vulnerability and cultural response to hurricane hazards among indigenous populations on the Miskito coast of Honduras and Nicaragua (PI K.B. Liu, Co-PIs C.A. Reese and D. Cochran).
Recent Publications:
Liu, K.B., H.Y. Lu, and C. M. Shen. 2008. A 1,200-year proxy record of hurricanes and fires from the Gulf of Mexico coast: testing the hypothesis of hurricane-fire interactions. Quaternary Research 69:29-41.
Elsner, J.B., T.H. Jagger, and K.B. Liu. 2008. Comparison of hurricane return levels using historical and geological records. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 47:368-374.
Liu, K.B. 2007. Uncovering prehistoric hurricane activity. American Scientist 95:126- 133.
Liu, K.B. 2007. Paleotempestology. in S. Elias. Ed. Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science. Elsevier, Amsterdam. Pp. 1974-1985.
Liu, K.B., C.A. Reese, and L.G. Thompson. 2007. A potential pollen proxy for ENSO derived from the Sajama ice core. Geophysical Research Letters 34, L09504.
Kiage, L.M., K.B. Liu, N. Walker, N.S. Lam, and O. Huh. 2007. Recent land-cover/use change associated with land degradation in the Lake Baringo catchment, Kenya, East Africa: evidence from Landsat TM and ETM+. International Journal of Remote Sensing 28:4285-4309.
Lu, H.-Y., N.-Q. Wu, K.B. Liu, H. Jiang, and T.-S. Liu. 2007. Phytoliths as quantitative indicators for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions in China II: palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in the Loess Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews 26:759-772.
Feng, Z.D., X.W. Zhai, Y.Z. Ma, C.Q. Huang, W.G. Wang, H.C. Zhang, P. Khosbayar, T. Narantsetseg, K.B. Liu, and N.W. Rutter. 2007. Eolian environmental changes in the northern Mongolian plateau during the past ~ 35,000 yr. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 245:505-517.
Kiage, L.M. and K.B. Liu. 2006. Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental changes in east Africa: a review of multi-proxy evidence from palynology, lake sediments, and associated records. Progress in Physical Geography 30:633-658.
Lu, H.Y., X.Y. Yang, M.L. Ye, K.B. Liu, Z.K. Xia, X.Y. Ren, L.H. Cai, N.Q. Wu, and T.S. Liu. 2005. Millet noodles in Late Neolithic China. Nature 437:967-968.
Courses Taught:
OCS 7001. Global Change in the Quaternary
OCS 4001. Hurricanes and Typhoons
