Jianjun Xu Author

Dr. Chongwei Zheng is the creator and organizer of the Marine Resources and Environment Research Group on the Maritime Silk Road. His research fields cover physical oceanography, wind energy and wave-energy resources evaluation, wind and wave climate, and climate change. He has published more than 90 papers in various leading, peer-reviewed journals. He has also published six books as the first author. He is a reviewer for more than 40 high-impact journals (including Applied Energy, Remote Sensing of Environment). He is also a monograph reviewer for Elsevier. He has provided data and theoretical/technical assistance to researchers from Russia and Canada. His project titled “Wave energy and offshore wind energy resources evaluation of the Maritime Silk Road” won the Marine Engineering Science and Technology award from the China Association of Oceanic Engineering. 

Jianjun Xu is currently a Professor at the College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University. His expertise is mesoscale numerical modelling, satellite remote sense and air–sea interaction. He holds bachelor and master degrees in Atmospheric Sciences from Nanjing University in China and a Ph.D. degree from Nanjing Institute of Meteorology. He was a research scientist at the City University of Hong Kong, New Mexico Tech, and the University of Arizona, a project scientist at JCSDA and Research Professor at George Mason University. He has published over 140 papers in professional journals. He has mastered all kinds of statistical methods for data analysis, and the global/regional modeling for weather forecasts. 

Chao Zhan holds a Doctor of Environmental Science degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has long been engaged in estuarine coastal environment and monitoring research. In the past 5 years, she has been involved in projects for the National Natural Science Foundation, National Key Research and Development, Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, Ministry of Ecology and Environment and Ministry of Natural Resources. She was the main researcher in five National Natural Science Foundation projects. She has published more than 10 papers in various peer-reviewed journals as the first author or corresponding author. 

Qing Wang graduated in 1997 with a Doctor of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology degree from Peking University. He is a Professor and Ph.D. supervisor at Lu Dong University and team leader. He is a member of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education Department of Geography Science in Higher Education Institutions and the Chairman of Shandong Province. He is the Vice Chairman of the Estuary Coastal Branch of the Chinese Society for Oceanology and Limnology. He has long been engaged in estuarine coastal environment and monitoring research. In the last 5 years, he has been involved in 5 National Natural Science Foundation projects (including a key project). He has published more than 60 papers in various peer-reviewed journals as the first author or corresponding author.