Assistant Professor
Phone: 973-596-5389
Email: liping.wei@njit.edu
Dept: Chemistry and Environmental Science
Room: 234 York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science (YCEES)
Website: http://web.njit.edu/~wei

Education

Ph. D. 2004 Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
M.Sc.1998 Environmental Chemistry - Organic Pollutant Chemistry, Nanjing                   B. Sc. 1995 Environmental Chemistry, Nanjing University, China

Research Interests

• Trace metal nutrition and pollution in aquatic environment.
• The physiology and biochemistry of metal and other nutrient stress in marine phytoplankton.
• Biogeochemical cycling of metals in marine environment.
• Bioremediation.

Selected Recent publications

Wei, L. P., B. A. Ahner. 2005, Sources and sinks of dissolved phytochelatin in natural seawater, Limnology and Oceanography, 50(1):13-22.

Dupont, C. L., T. J. Goepfert, P. Lo, L. P. Wei, B. A. Ahner. 2004, Diurnal cycling of glutathione in marine phytoplankton: Field and culture studies, Limnology and Oceanography, 49 (4):991-996.

Wei, L. P., J. Donat, G. Fones, B. A. Ahner. 2003, Interaction between Cd, Cu and Zn influence particulate phytochelatin concentration in marine phytoplankton: Laboratory results and preliminary field data, Environmental Science  and Technology, 37:3609-3618.

Ahner, B. A., L. P. Wei, et al. 2002, Glutathione and other low molecular weight thiols in marine phytoplankton under metal stress, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 232: 93-103.

Wei, L. P., H. X. Yu, J. S. Cao, Y Sun, J. F. Feng, L. S. Wang. 1999, Determination and prediction of partition coefficient and toxicity for sulfonylurea herbicides and their degradation products, Chemosphere, 38 (7) 1713-1719.

Cao, J. S., L. P. Wei, Q. G. Huang, L. S. Wang, S. K. Han. 1999, Reducing degradation of azo dye by zero-valent iron in aqueous solution, Chemosphere, 38(3) 565-571.

Wei, L. P., H. X. Yu, Y Sun, J. F. Fen, L. S. Wang. 1998, The effects of three sulfonylurea herbicides and their degradation products on the green algae Chlorella pyrenoidosa, Chemosphere, 37 (4) 747-751.