Lei Zhang

Currently a Researcher at the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (8/2022) ~~~ Brief Bio: Dr. Lei Zhang joins the Oceans and Climate Lab from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Hawaii. Previously, Lei earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Atmospheric Sciences from the Ocean University of China. Lei is a climate dynamicist interested in large-scale tropical ocean and atmospheric circulations, and will join a project focused on the impacts of changing climate on Pacific island-based defense installations funded by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) in collaboration with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).