RESEARCH INTERESTS: Surface water quality dynamics, nutrient transport and loading, harmful algal blooms, river–estuary systems, hydro-climatic drivers, extreme precipitation and hydrologic events, machine learning applications in water quality analysis, and environmental data integration.

Xiuming Sun, Research Faculty — Xiuming Sun is a Research Faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the FAMU–FSU College of Engineering. She received her PhD in Hydrology and Water Resources Management from Kiel University, Germany. Her research focuses on understanding and predicting water quality dynamics in regulated river–estuary systems, with particular emphasis on nutrient pollution, harmful algal blooms, and the combined effects of climate variability, hydrology, and human water management. Her work integrates long-term environmental monitoring data, hydrological analysis, and machine-learning approaches to identify spatiotemporal patterns and key drivers of water quality change. Dr. Sun’s research supports applied decision-making for water resources management and ecosystem resilience in Florida’s coastal and estuarine environments. She collaborates closely with interdisciplinary teams involving hydrology, environmental engineering, ecology, and data science, and contributes to multiple state- and federally funded projects related to estuarine water quality and harmful algal bloom prediction.