Dr. WANG Shanlin joined the College of Ocean and Earth Sciences at Xiamen University and became a member of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science in 2018. She is now a professor in chemical oceanography. Dr. Wang studied at the University of California, Irvine, under the guidance of Professor Jefferson Keith Moore. She received her doctorate in Earth system science in 2011. In the same year, Dr. Wang received the highly competitive postdoctoral fellowship from the "Advanced Research Program" and conducted independent research at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. In addition, she was funded an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso for one semester. Dr. Wang then moved to Los Alamos National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 2014 and became full-time staff at the laboratory in 2015.
Dr. Wang has broad research interests in: (1) exploring the mechanisms controlling marine biogeochemical and ecological processes at high latitudes; (2) understanding responses and feedbacks of marine biogeochemical cycles on climate change; and (3) investigating interactions of biogeochemical cycles among different components of the Earth system and their impacts.
Understanding and projecting climate change has been one of the most important scientific issues in the world. Marine ecosystems and biogeochemical processes significantly affect climate change by regulating atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols. Systematic analyses of ocean biogeochemical processes and the dynamic coupling of biogeochemical cycles between different components of the Earth are essential for accurate climate simulations. Dr. Wang has carried out a number of studies on the marine carbon cycle and ecosystem processes, such as understanding the mechanisms controlling phytoplankton competition in different regions of the Southern Ocean, simulating changes in air-sea CO2 fluxes over the past decades, and comparing various estimates of anthropogenic carbon distribution in the global ocean. In addition, Dr. Wang has also investigated the biogeochemical coupling between the ocean and other components of the Earth system, including coupling of the iron cycle between sea water and sea ice, the impacts of dimethyl sulfide originated from phytoplankton on the atmospheric aerosol burden, clouds and climate, and impacts of shifts in phytoplankton community on clouds via the sulfur cycle.
For more information please contact Dr. Wang (shlwang@xmu.edu.cn) or visit her webpage:http:/teacherfile.asp?tid=1095.
