Time:12:00pm – 1:00pm, Monday, January 22

Venue: LIB 1113

Zoom ID: 3121005572

Speaker:

Prof. Zhixuan Feng

State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University

Host:

Prof. Zuchuan Li

Assistant Professor of Data and Environmental Sciences, Duke Kunshan University.

Speaker’s bio: Dr. Zhixuan Feng is a research professor at the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University. He earned a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Nanjing University (2003), Louisiana State University (2007), and the University of Miami (2014), respectively. In 2014-2019, he worked as a postdoctoral investigator at Woods Hole Oceanography Institution. In 2020, he was awarded the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program. His research projects have been funded by the US National Science Foundation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality. He has published more than 30 papers on multi-scale physical-biological interactions in respected journals, such as Global Change Biology, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Progress in Oceanography, Water Resources Research, and Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Abstract: Changes in the Arctic’s atmosphere, cryosphere, and ocean are dramatically altering various aspects of the polar marine environments, including sea ice, ocean dynamics, planktonic and benthic ecosystems, and marine mammals. In this seminar, I will highlight ongoing regime shifts in the phytoplankton, zooplankton, and benthos, and underlying biophysical mechanisms related to sea ice loss, upper ocean dynamics, planktonic phenology, and productivity. It is critical to understand those interacting physical and biological drivers as they exert pressure on the Arctic marine ecosystems under rapid environmental changes in the recent decade.