Jianwei Wei
earned his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie
University, Canada, in 2013. He then moved to Boston to pursue postdoctoral
training at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and continued as a
research associate from 2015, and took a position as research assistant
professor in 2017. Starting from September of 2019, he has been a senior
remote sensing scientist contracting with GST to work at NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications
and Research (STAR) at College Park, Maryland.
Dr. Wei's research experiences include ocean color instrumentation,
development of ocean color calibration and validation techniques,
development of ocean color algorithms for retrieval of water-column
and bottom properties, ocean color classification and data quality
assurance, and primary production estimation, etc. In his research career,
he has authored and coauthored about 20 peer-reviewed papers. He
participated in the NASA GEO-CAPE and HyspIRI missions and multiple
NOAA ocean color Cal/Val missions. He is currently a science team member
for NASA's Geosynchronous Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer
(GLIMR) and Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) missions.