He has also served on numerous science working groups and advisory panels of the World Climate Research Program and editorial boards of scientific journals.
[5] While a student at the University of Washington, Timothy Liu conducted both laboratory and field experiments to study inter-facial transport and turbulent transfer in the surface (constant flux) layer over the ocean.
[4] Since he joined JPL, he has been selected to the science teams of numerous space missions, including NSCAT, QuikSCAT, Topex/Poseidon, JASON, TRMM, EOS, Aqua, ERS-1, AMSR, and Aquarius.
He is leading research effort to combine a variety of satellite data synergistically to study global climate and environmental changes.
Through 17 years as team leader and 14 years as project scientist, Timothy Liu was able to lead various groups of scientists through many cycles of fiscal gyration and changes of national and institutional priority, securing their funding support, communicating and promoting their results to the science community and to the public, and keeping the team spirit and cohesiveness.