On June 1, the first academic symposium of the China-Norway Marine University Consortium Alliance (the Alliance) focusing on the “Arctic Ocean” was held online.Prof. Nils Christian Stenseth, Chairman of the Norwegian Marine University Consortium (NMU) and fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, delivered a welcome speech on behalf of NMU. He encouraged the experts to engage in win-win cooperation in Arctic research with this symposium serving as a cornerstone of Sino-Norwegian cooperation i

On May 30, 2022, the winners of the 14th Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award were announced in Beijing. Prof. Bao Zhenmin of Ocean University of China (OUC) won the Award.

Seven students and faculty members of OUC participated in China’s 38th Antarctic expedition. At the end of April, they completed their research mission and returned.

On April 19, the Chinese Society for Oceanography announced the winners of the 2021 Ocean Science and Technology Award and Best Books Award. OUC won the Special Prize for the first time along with two Second Prizes.

The Japanese Society of Fisheries Oceanography (JSFO) has recently announced the winner of the 27th JSFO Uda Award. Prof Tian Yongjun from OUC’s College of Fisheries, became the first non-Japanese scientist to win this award.JSFO is a key academic organization that specializes in fisheries oceanography, with significant international influence. Established in 1995, the JSFO Uda Award was named after the famous Japanese oceanographer and meteorologist Uda Michitaka (1905-1982). Each year, this aw

On May 9, Prof. Örjan Gustafsson gave a talk on the topic of “Cryosphere-Climate-Carbon Interactions in the Eurasian Arctic Ocean Shelf-Slope System”, as part of OUC’s “Future Ocean” lecture series. Prof. Gustafsson teaches at Stockholm University, and he is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering.Prof. Gustafsson shared with the audience his study on the composition, storage and operation of different cryosphere-carbon reservoirs. The study

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, inspects the city of Sanya, South China's Hainan province on April 10.

On February 26, a delegation led by Liu Zhanjiang, Vice President of Syracuse University, visited Ocean University of China (OUC). President Yu Zhigang received the guests, and the two sides engaged in a discussion about strengthening the in-depth cooperation between the two universities.

The ocean is of strategic importance to high-quality development. To make China a strong maritime nation, we at OUC see it as our mission to protect, further understand, and make good use of the ocean.

The ocean is a determining factor for the prosperity of countries. All nations attach great importance to the development of their maritime industries. China is no exception. Its various marine-related undertakings rely on the continuous innovation of science and technology.

During his visit to Tsinghua University on April 19, 2021, President Xi Jinping stressed that amid the national rejuvenation within the wider context of once-in-a-century changes in the world, China’s higher education institutions should focus on the countrys top priorities, fulfill their duties and contribute to the prosperity of the country and the well-being of the people.On May 28, Xi addressed the general assembly of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, an

On October 25, 2021, the team led by Prof. Zhang Yuzhong published an article entitled “Acrylate protects a marine bacterium from grazing by a ciliate predator” in Nature Microbiology. This research finding was enabled by the collaboration between Zhang’s team at OUC’s College of Marine Life Sciences and its counterparts at partner universities such as Shandong University.For many years, the team has been engaged in marine microbiological and microbial oceanographic research, producing research

Prof. Dong Yunwei’s team, under the OUC’s College of Fisheries, has made progress in physiological adaptation and distribution patterns of shellfish, in collaboration with Prof. George Somero of Stanford University. The results were published online in Bioactive Materials, a top journal in the field of biomaterials, under the title of “An integrated, multi-level analysis of thermal effects on intertidal molluscs for understanding species distribution patterns”.Shellfish, widely distributed in in

On October 20, 2021, the inaugural meeting of China-Norway Marine University Consortium Alliance was held at Ocean University of China (OUC).