Biography Minhan Dai is a Chair Professor of Marine Biogeochemistry at Xiamen University, China (http://mel.xmu.edu.cn/staff.asp?tid=13) where he serves as the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science. Minhan Dai’s research interests include ocean biogeochemistry of carbon and nutrients and geochemistry of radioactive elements in surface and ground waters. Born in 1965 and raised in Hangzhou, Minhan Dai earned his B.S. degree from Xiamen University and his Ph.D. from Université Pierre & Marie Curie, France in 1995. After a Doherty Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), he took a faculty position at Xiamen University in 1998. He was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017. Minhan Dai has published over 150 papers in leading international journals (http://www.researcherid.com/rid/G-3343-2010). He is a leading PI of a “973” project funded through National Basic Research Program of China on “Carbon cycling in China Seas - budget, controls and ocean acidification” (CHOICE-C) which is at her second phase funded through 2019. He has served on many national and international committees. The above bio is copied from https://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2019/public.asp?page=mhd_abs_bio.htm