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87
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25943
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341
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Wei-Jun Cai is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Oceanography, which comprises the majority of their work. Additional subfields include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology.

Their work addresses key topics within marine and coastal ecosystems, ocean acidification effects and responses, and marine biology and ecology research. Other significant areas of study include Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, methane hydrates and related phenomena, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, as well as marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

Wei-Jun Cai has published extensively in several frequently appearing scientific venues. These include:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Marine Chemistry

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Wei-Jun Cai are:

  • Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Acidification in Large Estuaries, 2020, Annual Review of Marine Science
  • Controls on surface water carbonate chemistry along North American ocean margins, 2020, Nature Communications

Their coauthors frequently include researchers such as Di Qi, Zhangxian Ouyang, Jeremy M. Testa, Liqi Chen, and Yingxu Wu, reflecting collaboration across multiple projects and studies.

Wei-Jun Cai's research often intersects with studies on carbon fluxes, coastal vegetation impacts on greenhouse gas sinks, and microbial carbon processes related to climate change. For instance, some recent contributions beyond those co-authored include works published in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Nature Climate Change, and Nature Reviews Microbiology.

The scientist was recognized in 2017 as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Best Publications

  • The changing carbon cycle of the coastal ocean

    James E. Bauer;Wei-Jun Cai;Peter A. Raymond;Thomas S. Bianchi

  • Acidification of subsurface coastal waters enhanced by eutrophication

    Wei-Jun Cai;Xinping Hu;Wei-Jen Huang;Michael C. Murrell

  • Estuarine and Coastal Ocean Carbon Paradox: CO2 Sinks or Sites of Terrestrial Carbon Incineration?

    Wei-Jun Cai

  • The chemistry, fluxes, and sources of carbon dioxide in the estuarine waters of the Satilla and Altamaha Rivers, Georgia

    Wei-Jun Cai;Yongchen Wang

  • A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO2 data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

    Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Benjamin Pfeil;Benjamin Pfeil;Camilla S. Landa;Camilla S. Landa;Nicolas Metzl

  • Air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide in ocean margins: A province-based synthesis

    Wei-Jun Cai;Minhan Dai;Yongchen Wang

  • The biogeochemistry of inorganic carbon and nutrients in the Pearl River estuary and the adjacent Northern South China Sea

    Wei-Jun Cai;Minhan Dai;Yongchen Wang;Weidong Zhai

  • Eutrophication-driven deoxygenation in the coastal ocean

    Nancy N Rabalais;Wei-Jun Cai;Jacob Carstensen;Daniel J Conley

  • Eutrophication Induced CO2-Acidification of Subsurface Coastal Waters: Interactive Effects of Temperature, Salinity, and Atmospheric PCO2

    William G. Sunda;Wei-Jun Cai

  • Mesoscale eddies drive increased silica export in the subtropical Pacific Ocean.

    Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson;Robert R. Bidigare;Tommy D. Dickey;Michael R. Landry

  • Carbon sequestration in wetland dominated coastal systems—a global sink of rapidly diminishing magnitude

    Charles S Hopkinson;Wei-Jun Cai;Xinping Hu

  • Decrease in the CO2 uptake capacity in an ice-free Arctic Ocean basin.

    Wei-Jun Cai;Liqi Chen;Baoshan Chen;Zhongyong Gao

  • Spatial distribution of riverine DOC inputs to the ocean: an updated global synthesis

    Minhan Dai;Zhiqiang Yin;Feifei Meng;Qian Liu

  • Comparison of hypoxia among four river-dominated ocean margins: The Changjiang (Yangtze), Mississippi, Pearl, and Rhone rivers

    C. Rabouille;D.J. Conley;M.H. Dai;W.-J. Cai

  • Oxygen depletion in the upper reach of the Pearl River estuary during a winter drought

    Minhan Dai;Xianghui Guo;Weidong Zhai;Liangying Yuan

  • High partial pressure of CO2 and its maintaining mechanism in a subtropical estuary: the Pearl River estuary, China

    Weidong Zhai;Minhan Dai;Minhan Dai;Wei-Jun Cai;Yongchen Wang

  • A comparative overview of weathering intensity and HCO3− flux in the world's major rivers with emphasis on the Changjiang, Huanghe, Zhujiang (Pearl) and Mississippi Rivers

    Wei-Jun Cai;Xianghui Guo;Xianghui Guo;Chen-Tung Arthur Chen;Minhan Dai

  • Oxygen penetration depths and fluxes in marine sediments

    Wei-Jun Cai;Frederick L. Sayles

  • Eutrophication-Driven Hypoxia in the East China Sea off the Changjiang Estuary

    Hongjie Wang;Minhan Dai;Jinwen Liu;Shuh-Ji Kao

  • A uniform, quality controlled Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

    B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;A. Olsen;D.C.E. Bakker;S. Hankin

  • Carbon dioxide degassing and inorganic carbon export from a marsh‐dominated estuary (the Duplin River): A marsh CO2 pump

    Zhaohui Aleck Wang;Wei-Jun Cai

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven E. Lohrenz
Steven E. Lohrenz University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Minhan Dai
Minhan Dai Xiamen University
Simone R. Alin
Simone R. Alin National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Adrienne Sutton
Adrienne Sutton Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Joe Salisbury
Joe Salisbury University of New Hampshire
Jeremy T. Mathis
Jeremy T. Mathis National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
Charles S. Hopkinson
Charles S. Hopkinson University of Georgia
Rik Wanninkhof
Rik Wanninkhof Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University

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