Recently, OUC’s research paper titled Maintenance of the Great Late Ediacaran Ice Age has been published in Nature Communications. This study utilized numerical simulations based on climate and weathering models to reveal the significant role of Earth system True Polar Wander (TPW) activity in sustaining the Great Late Ediacaran Ice Age.

Recently, the research group led by Professors Su Ying and Zhao Long from the Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, in collaboration with BGI-Qingdao, has achieved significant progress in the field of zebrafish heart regeneration. Their findings have been published in Nature Communications on April 19th under the title An Organ-wide Spatiotemporal Transcriptomic and Cellular Atlas of the Regenerating Zebrafish Heart.Zebrafish possess a remarkable capacity for heart regeneration. Follow

Recently, Professor Li Ming from the School of Medicine and Pharmacy, in collaboration with Professor Li Xuechen from the University of Hong Kong and Professor Chen Sheng from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, has made significant progress in the synthesis of capsular oligosaccharides from Campylobacter jejuni and the evaluation of their immunogenicity. Their research findings, titled “Synthesis of Campylobacter jejuni Capsular Oligosaccharides and Identification of a Potential O-Antigen aga

Recently, Wang Shaoxin, a doctoral candidate from the School of Foreign Languages, published a study titled Reanalysis in English “Direct Object/Subject” Garden Path Sentence Processing” in the journal Foreign Language Teaching and Research. This research was collaboratively conducted by members of the Shandong Provincial Higher Education Humanities and Social Sciences Experimental Laboratory (Class A) - the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory of Second Language Acquisition.The garden path phe

Associate Professor Shi Xiaofeng from the Faculty of Information Science and Engineering and the Engineering Research Center of Advanced Marine Physical Instruments and Equipment, and Professor Zhao Jian from the College of Environmental Science and Engineering and the Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology have made significant progress in the precise manipulation, enrichment, and detection of nanoplastics in water. Their latest research findings, titled Capturing, enriching and detec

On April 20, the Inaugural Meeting of the First Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Ocean Dynamics-Physical Environment and Intelligent Sensing (hereinafter referred to as “the Laboratory”) was held in Qingdao.President Zhang Junfeng pointed out that marine science has long been one of OUC’s strongest and most distinctive disciplines and that the university shoulders an important mission in serving China’s endeavor to become a strong maritime country. In recent years, OUC has achie

On March 30, the Inaugural Meeting of the First Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, co-established by Dalian University of Technology, Ocean University of China, and China Three Gorges Corporation, was held in Dalian.Academician Jia Zhenyuan, President of Dalian University of Technology, presented letters of appointment to the newly appointed members of the Academic Committee. He stated that Dalian University of Technology will earnestly implement

On April 5, in celebration of OUC’s upcoming 101th anniversary, OUC hosted the Alumni Group Wedding Ceremony, where 101 alumni couples returned to their alma mater.

Recently, OUC’s research paper titled “The Motivation and Impact of the Rise of Government-Created Platform Enterprises Under the Transformation of Public Service Platformization” has been published in the fourth issue of Journal of Management World (2025), a top-tier journal in the field of management studies. Xu Yaqian, lecturer from the School of International Affairs and Public Administration, is the corresponding author of the paper.

The research team led by Professor Zhang Wei and Professor Dong Junyu from the Faculty of Information Science and Engineering has published a series of research outcomes on AI-based weather radar inpainting in top-tier journals, including ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. Guided by the implicit knowledge of weather radar specific to certain climate and terrain conditions, the research introduce

The latest research from the Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology at OUC has made new progress in the research on Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) and its contributions to coastal nutrient budgets. This study, titled “Large-scale submarine groundwater discharge dominates nutrient inputs to China’s coast”, has been published in Nature Communications.Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) refers to all the water exchange processes at the seabed interface, which include both

OUC’s research team led by Professor Gao Qinfeng from Fisheries College, in collaboration with Shandong Marine Group Co., Ltd., and Higentec Co., Ltd., has developed Chinas first SNP breeding chip for rainbow trout by utilizing cGPS-targeted sequencing genotyping technology. The newly developed chip was named Hongxin No.1 (Figure 1). This achievement represents the only industry-specific chip in Chinas rainbow trout breeding sector with independent intellectual property rights. It marks a signif

On March 12, the selection results for the Top Ten Scientific Advances in Marine and Limnological Sciences of 2024 were announced. Two achievements from OUC made it to the list, which marked that OUC’s research has been selected into this rank for ten consecutive years.

On March 6, the Theory Section of People’s Daily published an article titled A Deep Understanding of China’s Long-Standing Maritime Culture co-authored by Associate Professor Wang Kai and Master’s student Li Yuan from the School of Marxism at Ocean University of China.