Xiaoying Liu

Dr Xiaoying Liu

Environmental Chemist

Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences

Biography

Dr Xiaoying (Sha sha) Liu is an early-career environmental scientist with a research background in environmental biogeochemistry of aquatic ecosystems and the impact on ecosystem functions. Her major interests include cycling of nutrients and carbon in freshwater environments, monitoring and evaluation of ecosystem responses to environmental water actions, and studies of ecosystems impacted by hypoxic blackwater and algal blooms events and applying transdisciplinary approach to research inland aquatic ecosystems.

Sha sha is a member of a team of researchers from Charles Sturt University and several partner organisations undertaking a large multidisciplinary project focused on the evaluation of ecosystem responses to environmental flows in an agricultural landscape. She is leading the water quality and carbon component of the Monitoring and Evaluation and Research (Flow-MER) project in the Edward/Kolety-Wakool system (2019-present) funded by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office. She has also been involved in other research projects and works closely with staff from a number of partner organisations, including those from CSIRO, Forestry Corporation of NSW, NSW Department of Primary Industries, and local stakeholder groups.

Research
  • Environmental biogeochemistry of freshwater ecosystems
  • Monitoring and evaluation of water chemistry responses to environmental watering actions
  • Cycling of carbon and nutrients in aquatic environments, particularly impacts of hypoxic blackwater and algal bloom events including monitoring and experimental studies
  • Transdisciplinary research on inland aquatic ecosystems
Publications
Full publications list on CRO

Recent Publications

  • Liu, X., Watts, R., & Dyer, J. (2024). An environmental flow to an ephemeral creek increases the input of carbon and nutrients to a downstream receiving river. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 12(1213001), Article 1213001. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2024.1213001
  • Watts, R., Bond, N. R., Healy, S., Liu, X., McCasker, N., Michie, L., Siebers, A., Thiem, J., & Trethewie, J. (2022). Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Project: Edward/Kolety-Wakool Flow selected area summary report 2021-22. Commonwealth Environmental Water Office.
  • Watts, R., Bond, N. R., Healy, S., Liu, X., McCasker, N., Michie, L., Siebers, A., Thiem, J., & Trethewie, J. (2022). Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Project: Edward/Kolety-Wakool Flow selected area technical report 2021-22. Commonwealth Environmental Water Office.
  • Watts, R., Crew, D., Egan, L., Frazier, P., Gower, T., Hamilton, T., Healy, S., Liu, X., McCasker, N., Ross, L., Siebers, A., Trethewie, J., & Winkle, S. (2022). Edward/Kolety-Wakool Flow Monitoring, Evaluation and Research project: Werai Forest research report 2022. Charles Sturt University.
  • Liu, X., Watts, R., & Dyer, J. (2022). Outcomes of delivery of environmental water from irrigation escapes in ephemeral creeks on the instream productivity in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Abstract from Australian Freshwater Sciences Society , Batemans Bay, New South Wales, Australia. http://afss-2022.p.asnevents.com.au/days/2022-11-29/abstract/86829