About Me
I am a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Science, based at Caltech in Pasadena. I completed my Ph.D. in Chemical Oceanography at Florida State University in 2024.
My research focuses on understanding nutrient and organic matter cycles in the ocean, and I am both an observational oceanographer and a modeler. I analyze dissolved organic nutrient concentrations in the seawater samples collected around the world, describe their distributions and the mechanisms that drive these patterns. In addition, I am developing new modeling frameworks that incorporate microbial processes to explore the microbial mechanisms that shape the distribution of geochemical tracers in the sea.
Contact Information: zliang@carnegiescience.edu
Academic Positions
- 2024 - current Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Science (Caltech campus), supervisor: Dr. Emily Zakem
- 2018 - 2024 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science, Florida State University
- 2020 - 2024 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science, Florida State University
Education
- 2020-2024 PhD in Chemical Oceanography, Florida State University, advisor: Dr. Angela Knapp
- 2018-2020 M.S. in Chemical Oceanography, Florida State University, advisor: Dr. Angela Knapp
- 2014-2018 B.S.in Chemistry w/marine concentration, Ocean University of China
Research Interests
- Nutrient cycling in the ocean
- Dissolved organic carbon (DOC), dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) and dissolved organic phosphorus (DOP)
- Ocean inverse modeling
- Microbial-driven biogeochemical processes
- Ocean data science