17 November 2025
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Oceans

Oceans (ISSN: 2673-1924) is pleased to add the following 20 researchers to the 2025 Early Career Editorial Board and congratulate them on becoming part of the Oceans community! 

Name: Dr. Nicolò Parrino
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 22, 90123 Palermo, Italy
Homepage: https://www.unipa.it/persone/docenti/p/nicolo.parrino
Research interests: coastal landscape evolution; coastal tectonics; active tectonics

Name: Dr. Zhuangcai Tian
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Geomechanics and Deep Underground Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221000, China
Homepage: https://faculty.cumt.edu.cn/TZC/zh_CN/index.htm
Research interests:
marine engineering geology

Name: Dr. Xiaojun Mei
Affiliation: Merchant Marine College, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China
Homepage: https://johnnymei.github.io/
Research interests:
marine; ocean; underwater wireless sensor networks and path planning for AUVs; ASVs

Name: Dr. Xiaobo Li
Affiliation: School of Marine Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Homepage: https://marine.tju.edu.cn/info/1316/2812.htm
Research interests: polarization optics (polarimetry and polarimetric imaging); oceanic optics; deep learning and signal processing

Name: Dr. Teng Wang
Affiliation: Key Laboratory of South China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation and Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou 510300, China
Homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Teng-Wang-4
Research interests:
marine fish ecology; coral reef fish ecology

Name: Dr. Zhengyu Hou
Affiliation: School of Ocean Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Homepage: https://soet.sysu.edu.cn/zh-hans/teacher/730
Research interests:
marine geology; marine sedimentary acoustics; marine geophysics; ocean acoustics; ocean engineering

Name: Dr. Gustavo De Carvalho-Souza
Affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Conservação e Manejo da Biodiversidade, Universidade Católica do Salvador (UCSal), Campus de Pituaçu, Av. Prof. Pinto de Aguiar, Pituaçu, Salvador 41.740-090, BA, Brazil
Homepage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=pt-BR&user=SUrODg0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Research interests:
biodiversity and conservation; coastal and marine ecology; estuarine ecosystems; fisheries management; ecosystem modeling; coral reef ecology

Name: Dr. Xiao Zhou
Affiliation: College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Homepage: http://faculty.ccnu.edu.cn/2023980017
Research interests:
geographic information system; remote sensing; environmental management; risk assessment; spatial analysis; environmental policy analysis; big data analysis; sustainable cities; sustainability

Name: Dr. Daomin Peng
Affiliation: Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Homepage: https://oceans.ubc.ca/2023/05/19/dr-daomin-peng/
Research interests: aquaculture and fisheries; food security; social–ecological system; marine biogeography and ecology; species distribution models; ecological economics; shellfish; marine policy

Name: Dr. Jian Zhao
Affiliation: Department of Biosystems Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310000, China
Homepage: https://person.zju.edu.cn/0618129
Research interests: computational fish behavior/artificial intelligence; game; intelligent decision-making; underwater noise; aquacultural engineering

Name: Dr. Changxu Tian
Affiliation: Fisheries College, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China
Homepage: https://scxy.gdou.edu.cn/info/1078/2736.htm
Research interests: genome; aquaculture; fish; sequencing; molecular biology; genetics; breeding; molecular marker; qtl

Name: Dr. Jianan Liu
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Marine Resources Utilization in South China Sea, School of Marine Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou, China
Homepage: https://hb.hainanu.edu.cn/nanhaihaiyang/info/1071/2702.htm
Research interests:
radioisotope tracing; biogeochemical cycles; submarine groundwater discharge

Name: Dr. Wenzhao Liang
Affiliation: 1. Trent University, Peterborough, ON K9J 7B8, Canada;
2. Department of Ocean Sciences, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Homepage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9HrAKb0AAAAJ&hl=zh-TW
Research interests: coastal hydrogeology; marine ecology; harmful algal bloom; carbon cycle; machine learning

Name: Dr. Huajie Lu
Affiliation: College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China
Homepage: https://hyxy.shou.edu.cn/2017/1219/c7721a217042/page.htm
Research interests: climate change impacts on marine fishes; microplastics in marine fishes and environments; marine fish biology and ecology

Name: Dr. Carmen Juan Valenzuela
Affiliation: Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC), COCAD Headquarters (Cádiz), Department of Marine Geosciences and Benthic Habitats, Cádiz, Spain
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3752-4919
Research interests: coastal and deep water geomorphology; seismic stratigraphy; sedimentary systems (contourites, turbidites, hemipelagites); sediment transport; Fe-Mn nodules; (palaeo-)oceanography

Name: Dr. Rita Garcia Seoane
Affiliation: Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO-CSIC), Centro Oceanográfico de A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
Homepage: https://es.linkedin.com/in/rita-garc%C3%ADa-seoane-1a68002b6
Research interests: marine food webs; biological oceanography; ocean biogeochemistry; nitrogen cycle; stable isotopes; fatty acids; zooplankton ecology; pelagic fish ecology; heavy metal pollution

Name: Dr. Miaohua Mao
Affiliation: Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Homepage: http://ir.yic.ac.cn/profile/mhmao
Research interests: numerical modeling; coastal dynamics; physical oceanography; wave-current interactions; wave dynamics; storm surge; hydrodynamics; ocean dynamics

Name: Dr. Mariusz Specht
Affiliation: Department of Transport and Logistics, Gdynia Maritime University, Morska 81-87, 81-225 Gdynia, Poland
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6026-306X
Research interests: hydrography; satellite geodesy; satellite navigation; UAV; USV

Name: Dr. Sachinandan Dutta
Affiliation: Department of Marine Science and Fisheries, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O. Box 34, Al-Khoud 123, Oman
Homepage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachinandan-dutta-526b81176/
Research interests: fisheries management; ecosystem modelling; artificial reef; marine pollution; fish stock assessment

Name: Dr. Robert Mayon
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
Homepage: https://faculty.dlut.edu.cn/RobertMayon1/en/index.htm
Research interests: marine energy systems; wave energy; coastal engineering; hydrodynamics; wave-structure interaction

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