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Yawei Luo(Wayne)
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Email: luo@vims.edu Education
B.A., Fishery Resources and Management, Ocean University
of China, Qingdao, China, 2000 M.S.,
Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2003 Major Advisor
Research
Modeling microbial processes in oceanic gyres. The importance of marine ecosystem is more than providing
food for us, it has profound relations to global climate change such as
uptaking CO2, releasing green-house gas N2O and so on.
I am currently focusing on the North Pacific and North Atlantic Ocean about
the N2-fixation process, which probably supports about half of new
primary production. Although upwelled nitrate can also support part of new
production, dissolved inorganic carbon will also be transported along with
it. However, N2-fixation is independent of dissolved carbon fluxes
from the deep ocean and therefore can potentially drive a net uptake of CO2
and export of carbon. N2-fixation may be more important than
vertical nitrate flux on global carbon cycle. My work is to construct models
based on known theories, hypotheses and field observations, code them with
computer languages, and let computers simulate ecosystems of tens, hundreds
years or even longer. The goal of work is to reproduce observations, verify
hypotheses and provide possible directions for field-works. My research is supported by NOPP/PARADIGM project. Research Experience
Graduate
Research Assistant. Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of
William and Mary, Gloucester Point, VA. Department of Biological Sciences.
Dr. Hugh W. Ducklow. (Aug. 2003 - present). Modeling microbial processes in the North Pacific and
North Atlantic Ocean. Graduate
Research Assistant. Peking University, Beijing, China. Department of
Environmental Sciences. Drs. Huiding Wu and Xuhui Cai (Aug. 2000 - Jul.
2003). Modeling dynamics of the plankton ecosystem of the Bohai
Sea. Application of the HY-1 satellite to sea ice monitoring
and forecasting. Graduate
Research Assistant. Peking University, Beijing, China. Department of
Environmental Sciences. Dr. Baozhang Liu. (Sep. 2000 - Dec. 2001). Wind tunnel experiment: studies on the pollution
characteristics and control strategy of automobile flux in streets in Macau. Undergraduate
Research Assistant. Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China. Dr. Kai You.
(Mar. - Jun. 2000). Study on Ponderal Index Dynamics of Pseudosciaena
polyactis in Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea. |
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