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Overview

Zhidan Wen is affiliated with the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology in China. Their research focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with specific attention to oceanography, water science and technology, global and planetary change, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and environmental chemistry.

Their work commonly addresses topics such as marine and coastal ecosystems, water quality monitoring and analysis, water quality monitoring technologies, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, and air quality monitoring and forecasting.

Zhidan Wen has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing, Water Research, Journal of Environmental Management, and the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

Recent publications include:

  • Composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in lakes responds to the trophic state and phytoplankton community succession, 2022, Water Research
  • Global divergent trends of algal blooms detected by satellite during 1982-2018, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Quantification of chlorophyll-a in typical lakes across China using Sentinel-2 MSI imagery with machine learning algorithm, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Climatic versus Anthropogenic Controls of Decadal Trends (1983-2017) in Algal Blooms in Lakes and Reservoirs across China, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Quantification of lake clarity in China using Landsat OLI imagery data, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

Zhidan Wen has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Notable frequent co-authors include Kaishan Song, Ge Liu, Yingxin Shang, Chong Fang, and Lili Lyu.

Best Publications

  • Phthalate esters in the environment: A critical review of their occurrence, biodegradation, and removal during wastewater treatment processes.

    Da-Wen Gao;Zhi-Dan Wen

  • Occurrence and fate of phthalate esters in full-scale domestic wastewater treatment plants and their impact on receiving waters along the Songhua River in China.

    Dawen Gao;Zhe Li;Zhidan Wen;Nanqi Ren

  • Large greenhouse gases emissions from China's lakes and reservoirs.

    Siyue Li;Richard T. Bush;Isaac R. Santos;Quanfa Zhang

  • Characterization of CDOM in saline and freshwater lakes across China using spectroscopic analysis

    Kaishan Song;Yingxin Shang;Zhidan Wen;Pierre-Andre Jacinthe

  • Quantification of chlorophyll-a in typical lakes across China using Sentinel-2 MSI imagery with machine learning algorithm.

    Sijia Li;Kaishan Song;Shuai Wang;Ge Liu

  • Climatic versus Anthropogenic Controls of Decadal Trends (1983-2017) in Algal Blooms in Lakes and Reservoirs across China.

    Kaishan Song;Chong Fang;Chong Fang;Pierre-Andre Jacinthe;Zhidan Wen

  • Quantification of lake clarity in China using Landsat OLI imagery data

    Kaishan Song;Ge Liu;Qiang Wang;Zhidan Wen

  • Membrane fouling related to microbial community and extracellular polymeric substances at different temperatures.

    Da-Wen Gao;Zhi-Dan Wen;Bao Li;Hong Liang

  • An OLCI-based algorithm for semi-empirically partitioning absorption coefficient and estimating chlorophyll a concentration in various turbid case-2 waters

    Ge Liu;Ge Liu;Lin Li;Kaishan Song;Yunmei Li

  • Biodegradation and kinetic analysis of phthalates by an Arthrobacter strain isolated from constructed wetland soil

    Zhi-Dan Wen;Da-Wen Gao;Wei-Min Wu;Wei-Min Wu

  • Microbial community structure characteristics associated membrane fouling in A/O-MBR system

    Da-Wen Gao;Da-Wen Gao;Zhi-Dan Wen;Bao Li;Hong Liang

  • Remote Sensing of Turbidity for Lakes in Northeast China Using Sentinel-2 Images With Machine Learning Algorithms

    Yue Ma;Kaishan Song;Zhidan Wen;Ge Liu

  • Characterization of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in an urbanized watershed using spectroscopic analysis.

    Lili Lyu;Ge Liu;Yingxin Shang;Zhidan Wen

  • Influence of environmental factors on spectral characteristics of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) in Inner Mongolia Plateau, China

    Z. D. Wen;K. S. Song;Y. Zhao;J. Du

  • Carbon dioxide emissions from lakes and reservoirs of China: A regional estimate based on the calculated pCO2

    Zhidan Wen;Kaishan Song;Yingxin Shang;Chong Fang

  • Dissolved carbon in a large variety of lakes across five limnetic regions in China

    Kaishan Song;Zhidan Wen;Yijun Xu;Hong Yang

  • Quantifying the trophic status of lakes using total light absorption of optically active components.

    Zhidan Wen;Kaishan Song;Ge Liu;Yingxin Shang

  • Comparison of different satellite bands and vegetation indices for estimation of soil organic matter based on simulated spectral configuration

    Xiuliang Jin;Kaishan Song;Jia Du;Huanjun Liu

  • Quantification of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) storage in lakes and reservoirs of mainland China.

    Kaishan Song;Zhidan Wen;Yingxing Shang;Hong Yang

  • Evaluation of CDOM sources and their links with water quality in the lakes of Northeast China using fluorescence spectroscopy

    Ying Zhao;Kaishan Song;Zhidan Wen;Chong Fang

  • Performance of the lysozyme for promoting the waste activated sludge biodegradability

    Jun-Guo He;Xiao-Dong Xin;Wei Qiu;Jie Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaishan Song
Kaishan Song Liaocheng University
Ying Zhao
Ying Zhao Ludong University
Pierre-André Jacinthe
Pierre-André Jacinthe Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Dawen Gao
Dawen Gao Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Lin Li
Lin Li Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Kun Shi
Kun Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zongming Wang
Zongming Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nanqi Ren
Nanqi Ren Harbin Institute of Technology
Wei-Min Wu
Wei-Min Wu Stanford University
Hong Yang
Hong Yang University of Reading

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