Recently, a research team consisting of Academician Wu Lixin, Prof. Jing Zhao and Dr. Wang Shengpeng from OUC’s Frontier Science Center of Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System made great advances in the research of eastern boundary currents and climate change. The team applied high-resolution Earth system models to reveal the response and control mechanisms of the major eastern boundary upwelling systems in the oceans to global warming for the first time. The research results were reported o

On November 25, 2022, the Blue Governance Workshop, jointly hosted by OUC and the University of Portsmouth (UoP), was held online. Representatives from both universities, UNESCO and FAO attended the event.

Recently, Prof. Zhuang Guangchao’s team and Prof. Yang Guipeng’s team from OUC’s Frontier Science Center of Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System made new progress in the study of biogeochemical cycling of marine methane. The research was published as ‘Aerobic oxidation of methane significantly reduces global diffusive methane emissions from shallow marine waters’ inNature Communications.As an important form of greenhouse gas and a major component of natural gas hydrates (combustible ice), th

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Jing Zhao from the Frontier Science Center of Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System made important progress in ocean thermal energy and climate change, assessing changes in the prospective reserves of ocean thermal energy under global warming and revealing its regulation mechanism for the first time. The research results were reported online by Nature Communications.Replacing fossil fuels with renewable and clean energy has become a major solution to the

In November 2022, EMBO Reports published a paper entitled “Rassf7a Promotes Spinal Cord Regeneration and Controls Spindle Orientation in Neural Progenitor Cells” by Prof. Zhao Chengtian’s team from OUC’s Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, and Dr. Cao Muqing’s team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The paper reveals that Rassf7a in the RASSF regulates neuronal regeneration and repair after injury by controlling the orientation of the spindle of neural precursor cells and influencin

The Annual Academic Conference of the China-Norway Marine University Consortium Alliance 2022 (hereinafter referred to as “CNMU”) was held online from November 14th to 16th. Vice-Rector Mette Halskov Hansen of University of Oslo , Vice President LIU Yong and Vice President WEI Zhiqiang of OUC attended the meeting.

The 1st International Symposium on Polar Ocean and Global Change was held at Ocean University of China (OUC). The online event, spanning two days from November 10th to 11th, attracted more than 300 delegates from 41 Chinese universities and 14 foreign research institutions that focused on marine-related studies.

On November 20, the 2022 China-ASEAN International Forum on “Sustainable Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture under the Blue Transformation Strategy” convened.

Recently, Prof. Jiang Wensheng's team from OUC’s Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology (Ministry of Education), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment under the title of “Accumulation, Transformation and Transport of Microplastics in Estuarine Fronts”, in cooperation with scholars from Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and other institutes.

Recently, the research team led by Prof. Ru Shaoguo at the Key Lab of Marine Environment and Ecology Engineering at Ocean University of China (OUC) published in Water Research under the title of “Unraveling the key driving factors involved in cometabolism enhanced aerobic degradation of tetracycline in wastewater”.

According to the latest issue of Essential Science Indicators (ESI) released by Clarivate, Ocean University of China (OUC) ranks top 1% globally in social sciences, general.

The leading international academic journal GEOLOGY published online an article entitled “Calcitic shells in the aragonite sea of the earliest Cambrian”, by Prof. Li Luoyang from the OUC College of Marine Geosciences as the first author and corresponding author. The study reports the crucial progress in the correlation between the origin of mineralized skeletons and the evolution of ancient oceans, including the initial acquisition of low-Mg calcitic shells in the aragonite sea of the earliest Ca

On November 11, Prof. Dong Bo's team and Prof. Wang Shi's team from the Sars-Fang Centre for Marine Molecular Biology (Ocean University of China) jointly published “EDomics: a comprehensive and comparative multi-omics database for animal evo-devo” in Nuclear Acids Research, a top international journal in molecular biology, marking the successful establishment and official launch of the world’s first multi-omics database for animal evo-devo.

Recently, the Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China) has made a series of significant achievements in the construction of a genome editing system for Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis.