Title: Associate Scientist with Tenure
Institution: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Address: 266 Woods Hole Road, McLean 216, MS 08, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
Email: zawang@whoi.edu
Phone: (508) 289-3676
Visit Zhaohui Aleck’s Research Website
Research Interests: Aquatic carbonate chemistry, Ocean acidification; Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and its monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV), Blue carbon and carbon exports from coastal wetlands, Coastal carbon cycling, Sensing technology development
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Zhaohui Aleck Wang is an Associate Scientist with Tenure in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He is a marine chemist with expertise in seawater carbonate chemistry, in situ sensor technologies, marine CO2 removal (mCDR), coastal carbon cycling, ocean acidification (OA), and carbon fluxes in tidal wetlands. His current projects focus on studying Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) and enhanced weathering as CO2 removal (CDR) approaches; Measurements, Recording, and Verification (MRVs) for CDRs; the impacts of OA in coastal systems; blue carbon exports from tidal wetlands; and developing in situ sensors and sensor networks to study and monitor the carbon cycle and OA. Aleck earned his M.S. in Oceanography from University of New Hampshire in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Marine Sciences from University of Georgia in 2003. He has been a scientist at WHOI since 2009.
Education:
1998-2003 Ph.D., Marine Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
1996-1998 M.Sc., Oceanography, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.
Other Research:
- mCDR 2023: Tidal wetlands as a low pH environment for accelerated and scalable olivine dissolution
- A Seagoing Field Trial Program for Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement on the Northeast Shelf of the United States
- Developing a Reagentless In situ Sensor for Measurements of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in Seawater
- Collaborative Research: Deciphering Drivers and Variability in Salt Marsh Lateral Carbon Export
- Collaborative Research: How are estuarine carbon and alkalinity dynamics influenced by macrobiota?