Group
Ocean BioGeosciences
Site
Southampton
Email
feifei.deng at noc.ac.uk

I am a marine geochemist, interested in the ocean processes that play a role in the climate system. I employ geochemical analytical techniques, particularly elemental and isotopic analysis (e.g. U-series isotopes, Sr, Li, Pb, and Nd isotopes), to understand the sources and sinks of trace elements in the ocean, and their potential uses as ocean tracers of climate-change related processes. I am also interested in understanding how natural processes (e.g. weathering) and systems (e.g. seagrasses) could provide a solution to climate change.

 

Education

10/2010 - 11/2014       D. Phil. in Earth Sciences, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK

Thesis: Assessing the uses of 230Th, 232Th, and 231Pa as proxies in the past and modern ocean

 

Employment

05/2022 - present       Research scientist, National Oceanography Centre, UK

03/2019 - 03/2022       Postdoctoral scientist, Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz Zentrum   Hereon, Germany

09/2018 - 02/2019       Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay, Guangzhou University, China

09/2015 - 12/2017       Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford, UK

 

Publications

You can find my list of publications on ORCiD and GoogleScholar.

 

Research scientist

Ongoing

2022-2025       UK Enhanced Rock Weathering Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstrator: Quantify Carbon Dioxide (CO2) removal via enhanced rock weathering in UK-based field trials

 

Past

2019-2022      Developing isotope fingerprinting tools (Sr-Nd-Pb isotope and Fe isotope systems) to understand impacts of climate- and human-induced changes in coastal regions

 

2018-2019      Developing the uses of heavy metal isotopes (Tl and Cd isotopes) as fingerprinting tools for environmental pollution in Greater Bay area, China

 

 

2017-2018       Developing automated methodology for chemical separation of Sr, Li and B isotopes from Shale gas fracking fluids as enhanced water fingerprinting tools – collaboration with Shell

 

2010-2016       GEOTRACES: Water-column distribution of 231Pa, 230Th, and 232Th in the ocean settings and their potential uses to assess the operation of the climate and ocean system (e.g. deep ocean circulation, dust input to the ocean and sediment dissolution)