Activities
Zhankun Wang is a physical oceanographer with expertise in observational oceanography, ocean observing systems, and advanced data management. After earning his B.S. from the Ocean University of China (2002), he completed his M.S. (2007) and Ph.D. (2009) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. His work centers on the end-to-end processing, QA/QC, analysis, and management of massive oceanographic datasets, as well as turbulence measurements. Dr. Wang joined NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) in Silver Spring, MD, in January 2016. There, he leads the Surface Underway Marine Database as its data manager and plays a critical role in managing the World Ocean Database and World Ocean Atlas. He is also a Principal Investigator (PI) for the Turbulence Measurements in the Northern Gulf of Mexico project, which is to study the role of turbulence during an oil/gas spill.
Sea regions of study
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of Oman
Arabian Sea
Eastern China Sea
Gulf of California
Southern Ocean
Global
Skills
CTD
• ADCP •
ECO BB2F Fluorometer •REMUS AUV
• RDCP •
RCM • Sidescan Sonar •
XBT • XCTD • Numeric Ocean
Modeling (POM Model) • Slocum glider G2
• Rockland MicroRider •
MATLAB • Python • Fortran •
Basic C • SQL
