Dr Wee Cheah is a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Malaya’s Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences (IOES), where he leads the Earth Observation and Climate Change Unit. He earned his PhD in Oceanography from the University of Tasmania and completed postdoctoral research at Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute and Taiwan’s Academia Sinica. From 2022 to 2024, Dr Cheah served on the Executive Committee of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR). His research investigates how atmospheric and oceanic changes regulate marine ecosystems. By integrating field observations, satellite remote sensing and numerical modelling, he aims to advance our understanding of complex ocean-climate-ecosystem interactions.