• Email Address: hsun@rider.edu
• Phone: 609-896-5185
• Fax: 609-895-5782
• Office: SCI 323C
• Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-3099

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Dr. Hongbing Sun received his doctorate from Florida State University in 1995, specializing in coastal hydrology, and currently holds the rank of Associate Professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences. Prior to joining the Rider faculty in 1997, Hongbing was an Assistant Professor of Geology at Temple University. His research has focused on the interaction of groundwater and ocean tides along the New Jersey Coast, estuary dynamics of Apalachicola Bay, Florida, and the effect of the fluctuation of water level on gasoline contamination in New Jersey aquifers. More recently, Hongbing has begun examining the tidal effect on the borehole fluid and temperature change in the deep-ocean sediments of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, eastern Pacific Ocean. Finally, Hongbing continues as a member of a research team, funded by the Edwin B. Forsythe Wildlife Refuge in Brigantine, NJ, investigating the control of phragmites through tidal inudation at the Refuge.

For more detailed information about Dr. Sun's research interests, publications, presentations, course syllabi, curriculum vitae, and other professional activities, click here.

Primary Teaching Responsibilities:

• Earth Materials and Processes Lab
• Environmental Geology
• Environmental Biogeochemistry
• Soils and Surficial Processes
• Hydrology and Water Resources

Selected Publication Titles and Sources:

• A two-dimensional analytical solution of groundwater response to tidal loading in an estuary. Water Resources Research.
  
  
• Analysis and forecasting of salinity in the Apalachicola Bay, Florida: Use of ARIMA models. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering.
  
  
• Land subsidence due to groundwater withdrawal: Potential damage of subsidence and sea level rise in southern New Jersey. Journal of Environmental Geology.