Donglai Gong, Graduate Student
Oceanography

email: donglai@marine.rutgers.edu
Phone: 732-932-6555x377, 732-887-3514
Fax: 732-932-8578

Education:
2004 - Present, Ph.D. Oceanography, IMCS, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2004 M.S. Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
2001 B.S. Physics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
2001 B.A. Mathematics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

Honors & Distinctions:
NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2002
Highest Honor, B.S. & B.A., Rutgers College, Rutgers University, 2001
Phi Beta Kappa, 2001
Richard T. Weidner Prize (outstanding achievement as a physics major), 2000
Mary Wheeler Wigner Memorial Scholarship (physics), 1999
Henry Rutgers Scholar (undergraduate thesis project), 1999
Rutgers College Merit Scholarship, Fall 1998
Golden Key National Honors Society, 1998

Research Interests:
I study ocean circulation and biogeochemical cycling on the continental shelfs. Currently I'm focused on the New York Bight and I am involved in the LaTTE and NLIWI/SW06 experiments. I use coastal ocean observatory technologies such as HF Rader, gliders, satellite remote sensing and modeling in my research. I am also interested in the effect of pollution and stresses on the coastal and open ocean due to human activities. Using long time series of ocean observatory data we can explore the ocean dynamics over a large spatial and temporal scale.