Research Advisors: Dr. Charles Jackson (UTIG)

Academic Advisor: Dr. Wendell Horton (UT Physics)

Awards/Honors:

Summer 2008 - Gale White Fellowship from University of Texas Institute for Geophysics.

Research Interests:

-          Data processing and interpretation

-          Stochastic Bayesian Inversion and uncertainty analysis

-          Numerical models

Current Research/Current Project:

Shaoping is working on a project of Abrupt Climate Change. He is using numerical climate models to interpret the observational glacial interglacial Dansgaard-Oeschger events during last ice age. The hypothesized freshwater forcing variation is reconstructed from models with the method of Bayesian Stochastic Inversion. Uncertainties coming along with climate models and inversion algorithm are tested through the probability distribution analysis of inversion solutions. Two different climate models with different complicity hierarchies, a one dimensional 4-box ocean circulation model and a 2.5 dimensional zonally averaged Bern model, are used to the experiments.

Presentation and Publications:

·         T. C. Li, and Shao-Ping Lu. "Quantum conductance of graphene nanoribbons with edge defects". Phys. Rev. B, 77, 085408 (2008) 

·         Shao-Ping Lu, Jackson, C. S., O. Marchal, Y. Liu, W. G. Thompson and T. Stocker (2007) Fresh water forcing hypothesis of abrupt climate change: A test of consistency with sea level reconstructions, AGU Fall Meet. Abstract PP41C-0683

·         Shao-Ping Lu, Jackson, C. S., An Introduction to Abrupt Climate Change, UTIG Brown Bag Seminars, Fall 2007

·         Shao-Ping Lu, Jackson, C. S., An Inverse Model Study of Abrupt Climate Change with A 4-Box Ocean Circulation Model, Qualifier seminar of the Department of Physics, Summer 2007

Professional Activities:

Student Member of AGU

Technical Skills:

-          Programming languages: Matlab, C, FORTRAN, Assembly, HTML

-          Operating Systems: UNIX, LINUX, Windows

Languages Speaking:

Mandarin Chinese (native), English

Other Interests:

Sports (basketball soccer badminton card), travelling, hiking