Work Experience
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Zhi-Yuan Chair Professor & Dean, Institute of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2013–2016 Part time
2016– Full time
Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2007–2016
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2001–2007
Assistant Professor, Large Lakes Observatory/Department of Physics, UMD, 1998–2001
Assistant Research Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, 1994–1998.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, 1992–1994.
Research Assistant, Marine Sciences Research Center, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1987-1992.
ADJUNCT AND PART TIME PROFESSORSHIP:
Research Director, Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, 2010 - 2012
Taishan Scholar, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2009 - 2012
Marie Curie Fellow, Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, 2008 - 2009
Visiting Scientist, Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, 2007
Professor II, University of Tromsø, Norway, 2001–2009
Publications
Cleary, A.C., E.G. Durbin, M.C. Casas, M. Zhou, Winter distribution and size structure of Euphausia superba populations inshore in the West Antarctic Peninsula, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 552, DOI: 10.3354/meps11772, 2016.
Carlotti, F., M.-P. Jouandet, A. Nowaczyk, M. Harmelin-Vivien, D. Lefèvre, P. Richard, Y. Zhu, and M. Zhou, Mesozooplankton structure and functioning during the onset of the Kerguelen phytoplankton bloom during the KEOPS2 survey, Biogeosciences, 12, 4543-4563, 2015.
d'Ovidio, F., A.D. Penna, T. W. Trull, F. Nencioli, M.-I. Pujol. M.-H. Rio, Y.-H. Park, C. Cotté, M. Zhou · S. Blain, The biogeochemical structuring role of horizontal stirring: Lagrangian perspectives on iron delivery downstream of the Kerguelen Plateau, Biogeosciences, 12, 5567-5581, 2015.
Espinasse B, F. Carlotti, M. Zhou, J.L. Devenon, Defining zooplankton habitats in the Gulf of Lion (NW Mediterranean Sea) using size structure and environmental conditions, Marine Ecological Progress Series, 506, 31-46, 2014
Zhou, M., Y. Zhu, C.I. Measures, M. Hatta, M. Charette, S. Gille, M. Frants, M. Jiang, B.G. Mitchell, Winter mesoscale circulation on the shelf slope region of the southern Drake Passage, Deep Sea Research II, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.03.041, 2013.
Zhou, M., Y. Zhu, R.D. Dorland & C. Measures, Dynamics of the current system in the southern Drake Passage, Deep Sea Research I 57, 1039–1048, 2010.
Zhou, M., K.S. Tande, Y. Zhu, & S. Basedow, Productivity, trophic levels and size spectra of zooplankton in northern Norwegian shelf regions, Deep–Sea Research II, 56, 1934–1944, 2009.
Zhou, M., P.P. Niiler, Y. Zhu & R.D. Dorland, The western boundary current in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica, Deep Sea Research I, 53, 1244–1252, 2006.
Zhou, M., What determines the slope of a plankton biomass spectrum? Journal of Plankton Research, 28, 437-448, 2006.
Huntley, M.E. & M. Zhou, Influence of animals on turbulence in the sea, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 273: 65–79, 2004.
Zhou, M. Y. Zhu, S. Putnam & J. Peterson, Mesoscale variability of physical and biological processes in the southeastern Lake Superior, Limnology and Oceanography, 46, 679-688, 2001.
Zhou M., J. Paduan, & P. P. Niiler, The surface currents in the Canary Basin from drifter observations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 21,893-21910, 2000.
Zhou, M. & M. E. Huntley, Population dynamics theory of plankton based on biomass spectra. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 157, 61-73, 1997.
Zhou, M. & M.E. Huntley, The principle of biological attraction, demonstrated by the bio-continuum theory of zooplankton patch dynamics. Journal of Marine Res., 54, 1017-1037, 1996.
