Experts Guide

Research areas include ocean optics and optical remote sensing. Specialties include ocean color remote sensing, radiative transfer modeling, harmful algal blooms, coastal water quality and pollution.

Weisberg is an experimental physical oceanographer who studies ocean circulation and ocean-atmosphere interaction in the tropics, on continental shelves and in estuaries. His research emphasizes the West Florida Continental Shelf circulation and interactions between the shelf and deep-ocean and the shelf and estuaries. Through his Ocean Circulation Group he coordinates real-time, in-situ measurements, analyses and numerical circulation models aimed at describing and understanding the processes that determine West Florida Continental Shelf water properties.

Liu is the director of the Ocean Circulation Lab at the USF College of Marine Science. An oceanographer, he aims to better understand the coastal ocean circulation and air-sea interactions on the West Florida Shelf, including the exchanges of water properties between the estuaries, the shelf and the offshore (Loop Current) system of the Gulf of America. He can discuss ride tide forecasts, pollutant tracking, storm surge, oil spills and other issues related to our oceans.