Current and Past Research Projects

  • 2005 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA), Office of Global Programs — Measuring Surface Water pCO 2 in the Polar Oceans: Outfitting and Initial Operation of a pCO 2 System on the Chinese Icebreaker Snow Dragon . Rik Wanninkhof, NOAA-AOML (Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Lab) and Wei-Jun Cai. (07/05-07/08)

  • 2005 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA), Office of Global Programs —Coastal CO 2 Measurements and Databases for the North American Carbon Program. Group proposal, lead PI, R. Feely, NOAA-PMEL (Pacific Lab). (07/05-07/08)

  • 2005 NASA--Satellite Assessments of Regional pCO2 Distributions and Air-Sea Fluxes of Carbon Dioxide in a River-Dominated Margin. PIs: Steve Lohrenz (University of Southern Mississippi) and Wei-Jun Cai. (1/05-1/08)

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  • 2004 National Science Foundation--Marsh-Dominated Ocean Margins as a Source of CO2 to the Atmosphere and Open Oceans: A Field Study in the U.S. Southeastern Continental Shelf. Wei-Jun Cai (sole PI), (NSF-OCE-0425153, 8/04 to 8/08).

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    Prelimiary Results

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  • 2004 National Science Foundation--Mechanisms and Rates of Preservation of Biogenic Remains in Continental Shelf and Slope Environments. (NSF, 10/1/2004-9/30/2007, subcontract to Dr. Karla Parsons-Hubbard, Oberlin College)
  • 2001 Carbonate dissolution in coastal sediments off Texas and at the Bahamas Bank: Quantifying fine scale porewater saturation states and dissolutionrates (ACS PRF, 9/1/2001-8/31/2003).


  • 2001 The effect of aquatic photochemistry on the proton and metal binding properties of dissolved organic matter in freshwater systems (NSF, Mar 2001 to Mar 2004 with Ollie Zafariou).
  • 2000 Luces (NOAA, Mar. 2000 to Mar 2005)
  • 2000 Field Evaluation of New pH and pCO2 Microelectrodes and an In-situ Profiler. (NSF OCE9911786, Mar 2000 to Mar 2001).

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  • 2000 LTER (NSF, June 2000- June 20006, as a senior participant, Lead PI, J.T. Hollibaugh).
  • 1999 American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Foundation, Diffusion of Individual Species of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Determined by pH and pCO2 Microelectrodes in Coastal Marine Sediments (April 15, 1999-August 31, 2001)
  • 1998 National Science Foundation, Biogeochemical processing of bloom-derived organic matter as a function of sediment mixing regime. (Aug.1, 1998-July 31, 2001, with M. Sun, S. Joye and J.T. Hollibaugh).
  • 1998 State of Georgia, Saltwater intrusion in the Upper Floridan Aquifer and the Surficial Aquifer Beneath/Around the Savannah Area. (Coastal Management Program Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Resources Division, State of Georgia, Oct.1, 1998-Sept.30, 2000).
  • 1998 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, A sampling and monitoring system for laboratory column studies. (July 1, 1998-June 30, 1999).
  • 1998 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/ LU-CES Program, Analysis of the state of knowledge of respiratory processes and net productivity of intertidal salt marshes in the South Atlantic Bight. (March 1, 98 to Feb. 28, 99 with L. Pomeroy).
  • 1997 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/ LU-CES Program, The influence of land use on groundwater derived nutrient and organic inputs to the South Atlantic Bight. (NAOO/Lu-ces Program, Dec.1, 97-June 30, 98, with S. Joye and D. Bronk).
  • 1998 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/ Sea Grant. The fluxes and sources of carbon dioxide in the estuarine waters of Georgia. (March 1 1997-Feb.28, 1998).
  • 1996 National Science Foundation, Collaborative Studies: Carbon and electron acceptor cycling in lake and estuarine sediments during early diagenesis. (Aug.15, 1996-Aug.14, 1999).
  • 1996 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/ Sea Grant, Measuring carbon dioxide in the estuarine waters of Georgia- New Project Development. (1996-97).
  • 1994 National Science Foundation, Development and evaluation of pH and pCO2 microelectrodes for in situ determination of deep sea pore water carbonate chemistry and carbon recycling rates. (Nov. 1994 to April 30, 1998).

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