Wenfei Ni

Wenfei Ni serves as an executive Knauss Fellow at the Climate Program Office in NOAA. She works as a team member of Climate Program Office on the research funding programs focusing on climate science, adaptation and resilience issues.

Wenfei obtained her bachelor’s degree in Marine Science from Nanjing University, China. Then she continued her graduate study on sediment dynamics of underwater sand ridge system in the East China Sea. After bearing witness to a massive macroalgae bloom on a research vessel, Wenfei decided to change her research topic to environmental issues in the ocean and continued her Ph.D. study at University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Her thesis work is to use numerical models to study the impacts of regional climate change and watershed nutrient management on Chesapeake Bay oxygen depletion zone. Her research findings can provide insights to the climate adaptation strategies of water quality restoration in the Chesapeake Bay. In her spare time, she also dedicates herself to the public education and outreach, as part of the tour guide team at the Horn Point Laboratory and a volunteer of ShoreRivers to monitor water quality in Harris Creek.