Team leader (or leader) and title:Jun Sun, Professor

Team members and titles:

Changling Ding, Engineer

Guicheng Zhang, Associate researcher

Haijiao Liu, Associate researcher

Xiangwei Zhao, Assistant researcher

Team Introduction::

The team is mainly engaged in the research of Marine plankton diversity and carbon measurement methods, Marine biological functional groups and their carbon sink processes, offshore ecological environment monitoring, assessment and pollution control, and the development and utilization of Marine microalgae resources.

Representative projects:

1) National Key Research and Development Project, Research on Ecological Environment Monitoring and Assessment and Pollution Control Technology of Bohai Bay, Principal Investigator

2) Sub-project of 973 Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Carbon sequestration by phytoplankton and its regulation mechanism on carbon cycle in the South China Sea, Principal Investigator

3) National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Silicon accumulation in single cell of Syrinococcus and its regulation mechanism on silicon carbon cycle in the Eastern Indian Ocean, Principal Investigator

4) National Natural Science Foundation of China, The process of spring phytoplankton bloom and its contribution to biological carbon sequestration in the central Yellow Sea, Principal Investigator

5) Key Project of Tianjin Natural Science Foundation of China, Study on the transmission mechanism of dinoflagellate cysts and harmful dinoflagellate blooms in coastal areas of Tianjin, Principal Investigator

Representative papers:

1)Fu X, Qin J, *Ding C, Wei Y, *Sun J. Effect of increased pCO2 and temperature on the phytoplankton community in the coastal of Yellow Sea. Science of The Total Environment, 2024, 918:170520.

2)Fu X, Shi W, Liu Z, Wang X, Zhang G, *Sun J. Impact of environmental variables on the distribution of phytoplankton communities in the Southern Yellow Sea. Environmental Research, 2024, 243:117862.

3)Chen Z, Gu T, *Sun J. Community assembly and network stability of picoeukaryotic plankton communities in the northeast Indian Ocean. Progress in Oceanography, 2023, 219:103157.

4)Liu Y, Liu X, Long Y, Wen Y, Ma C, *Sun J. Variations in dissolved organic matter chemistry on a vertical scale in the eastern Indian Ocean. Water Research, 2023, 232:119674.

5)Thangaraj S, *Sun J. Ocean warming and acidification affect the transitional C:N:P ratio and macromolecular accumulation in the harmful raphidophyte Heterosigma akashiwo. Communications Biology,2023, 6(1):151.