Jie XU – Faculty of Science and Technology

Jie XU 徐杰

Associate Professor

Head of Department of Ocean Science and Technology

Interim Director of Centre for Regional Oceans

Welcome to join us!

Perspective postdocs and graduate students are interested, please contact me (xujiest@um.edu.mo)

Academic Qualification

PhD (Marine Environmental Science), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2007)
MEng (Environmental Science), Zhejiang University, China (2004)
BEng (Environmental Project and Management), Zhejiang University, China (2000)

Working Experience

12/2022-present: Associate Professor, Head of Department of Ocean Science and Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, UM
02/2022-present: Interim Director, Centre for Regional Oceans, Faculty of Science and Technology, UM
12/2021-12/2022: Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, UM
2016-2021 Associate Director, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2015-2021 Professor, College of Earth and Planetary Sciences and College of Marine Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2013-2021 “Hundred Talent Program” Research Professor, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2007-2013 Research Associate, Atmosphere, Marine and Coastal Environment Program and Division of Environment, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Awards and Honors

2019 Excellent Teaching Prize, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2014 “Hundred Talent Program” Professorship of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2013 Best Poster Award, Croucher Summer Course on Climate Change and Marine Ecosystem, HKUST

Research

Research Interests

Ocean environment: nutrient dynamics, eutrophication, water quality
Ocean ecology: plankton ecology, algal blooms
Marine biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nutrients
Interactions of physical-biogeochemical processes in oceans

Research Grants

Heterotrophic bacteria-mediated carbon cycle in coral reef, PI, MYRG, UM internal fund, 2022-2024.
Dynamics of nutrients and phytoplankton community in the Pearl River Estuary. PI, CORE, HKUST, 2022-2023.
Effect of oyster farming on nutrient structure and shifts in phytoplankton community composition in the Beibu Gulf. PI, NFSC, Key Project, 2021-2024.
NSFC Shiptime Sharing Project on scientific investigation in the Pearl River Estuary-the western South China Sea in 2020, Chief scientist, NFSC, 2021-2023.
Phage therapy of bacterial diseases in aquaculture. PI, Science and Technology Bureau of Guangzhou, 2019-2022.
Marine physical-biogeochemical processes coupling and its prediction in the Gangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area under global change. Co-PI, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong laboratory (Guangzhou), 2019-2022.
Coupling of physical-biogeochemical processes in typical regions in the South China Sea. PI, Innovation and Development, Innovation Academy of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019-2020.
NSFC Shiptime Sharing Project on scientific investigation in the Pearl River Estuary-the western South China Sea in 2018, Chief scientist, NFSC, 2018-2020. .
Platform of remote sensing monitoring, PI, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2018-2020.
Eco-environmental investigation in the South China Sea. PI, Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, 2018-2020.
Effect of ocean acidification on carbon flow in microbial loop. PI, Qingdao National Laboratory of Marine Science and Technology, 2017-2020.
Response of microbial ecological processes to the Pearl River Plume and warming in the northern South China Sea. PI, NFSC, General Project 2017-2020.
Coupling of mesoscale- and fine scale physical-biogeochemical processes in tropical oceans. PI, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, 2017-2020.
NSFC Shiptime Sharing Project on scientific investigation in the Pearl River Estuary-the western South China Sea in 2017. Chief scientist, NFSC, 2017-2018.
NSFC Shiptime Sharing Project on scientific investigation in the Pearl River Estuary-the western South China Sea in 2016. Chief scientist, NFSC, 2016-2017.
Marine carbon sequestration: multiscale regulation and response to global change. Co-PI, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, 2016-2021.
Marine Ecosystem Modeling and Forecasting System in the China Seas and Northwestern Pacific. Co-PI, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, 2016-2021.
Material transport induced by coastal currents and its ecological consequence in the Pearl River Estuary and adjacent coastal waters. Co-PI, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2016-2021.
Response of new production and f-ratio to upwelling intensity and its mechanism in the Qiongdong upwelling. PI, NFSC, General Project, 2015-2018.
Interactions of dissolved organic carbon-bacteria-viruses and its underlying mechanism in the Pearl River estuary. PI, Hundred Program Fund by Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2015-2017.
Response of microbially ecological processes to the Pearl River discharge on the shelf of the northern South China Sea. PI, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, 2015-2017.
NSFC Shiptime Sharing Project on scientific investigation in the Pearl River Estuary-the western South China Sea in 2015. Chief scientist, NFSC, 2015-2016.
NSFC Shiptime Sharing Project on scientific investigation in the Pearl River Estuary-the western South China Sea in 2014. Chief scientist, NFSC, 2014-2015.
Response of marine ecosystem to climatic changes in the upwelling zone in the northern South China Sea. PI, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2013-2016.

Selected Publications

Hu X, Li XF, He MQ, Long AM, Xu J* (2022) Regulation of bacterial metabolic activity and community composition by temperature in a fringing coral reef. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127, e2022JC018823
HU CQ, Li XF, Shi Z, Xu J* (2022) Environmental regulations on viral abundance in the upper South China Sea inferred from statistical models. Progress in Oceanography, 208: 102900
Li RH, Xu J*, Cen X, Zhong WX, Liao J Shi Z, and Zhou SQ (2021) Nitrate fluxes induced by turbulent mixing in dipole eddies in an oligotrophic ocean. Limnology and Oceanography, doi:10.1002/lno.11794
Liao JZ, Xu J*, Li R, Shi Z (2021) Photosynthesis-irradiance response in the eddy dipole in the western South China Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, e2020JC016986, doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016986
Shi Z, Xu J*, Li XF, Li RH, Li Q (2019) Links of extracellular enzyme activities, microbial metabolism and community composition in the river-impacted coastal waters. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124: 3507-3520
Xu J*, Li XF, Shi Z, Li RH, Li Q (2018) Bacterial carbon cycling in the river plume in the northern South China Sea during summer, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 121: 8106-8121
Li RH, Xu J*, Li XF, Shi Z, Harrison PJ (2017) Spatiotemporal variability in phosphorus species in the Pearl River Estuary: Influence of the river discharge, Scientific Reports 7: 13649
Xu J*, Jing H, Sun M, Harrison PJ, Liu H (2013) Regulation of bacterial metabolic activity by dissolved organic carbon and viruses. Journal of Geophysical Research, 118: 1573-1583.
Xu J*, Jing H, Kong L, Sun M, Harrison PJ, Liu H (2013) Effect of seawater-sewage cross-transplants on bacterial metabolism and diversity. Microbial Ecology, 66: 60-72.
Xu J*, Ho AYT, He L, Yin K, Hung Craig, Choi N, Lam PKS, Wu RSS, Anderson DM, Harrison PJ (2012) Effect of inorganic and organic nitrogen and phosphorus on the growth and toxicity of two Alexandrium species from Hong Kong. Harmful Algae, 16: 89-97
Xu J*, Yin K, Liu H, Lee JHW, Anderson DM, Ho AYT, Harrison PJ (2010) A comparison of eutrophication impacts in two harbors in Hong Kong with different hydrodynamics. Journal of Marine Systems 83: 276-286.
Xu J, Yin K*, He L, Yuan X, Ho AYT, Harrison PJ (2008) P Limitation in the northern South China Sea during the late s Deep-Sea Research I 55: 1330-1342.

Professional Services

Associate editor, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2023-
Editorial board member, Harmful Algae, 2022-
Associate editor, Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021-
Editorial board member, Acta Oceanologia Sinica, 2016-
Guest Associate Editor for Special Issue, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017-2019
Member, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO) Working Group to Investigate Climate Change and Global Trends of Phytoplankton in the Oceans, 2017-
Member of Academic Committee of the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019-2021
Member of Academic Degrees Committee of the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019-2021
Co-organizer, 4^th Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) International Workshop, Hangzhou, April 2019
Steering committee and co-organizer, 10^th International Workshop on Tropical Marine Environmental Changes, Guangzhou, November 2019
Steering committee and co-organizer, 11^th International Workshop on Tropical Marine Environmental Changes, Guangzhou, November 2021

Contact Details

Faculty of Science and Technology
University of Macau, E11
Avenida da Universidade, Taipa,
Macau, China

Room: E11-4055
Telephone: (853) 8822-4353
Fax: (853) 8822-2426
Email: xujiest