Recently, a research group led by Associate Professor Wang Nan within Professor Bao Xianwen’s team at the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean University of China (OUC), collaborated with researchers from the National Marine Hazard Mitigation Service, Ministry of Natural Resources, and other institutions in China and abroad, published their latest findings in an article entitled “National restoration initiatives promote China’s marine ecosystem recovery” in Communications Earth En

Recently, a research team led by Professor Jiang Zhaoxia of the Key Laboratory of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Techniques, Ministry of Education, at Ocean University of China (OUC), published a research article entitled “Equatorial Indian Ocean productivity over the last 200,000 years and links to deep circulation variations” online in Communications Earth Environment, a Nature Portfolio journal.Ocean circulation and the biological pump (BP) are crucial mechanisms that regulate variati

From July 23 to 25, Ocean University of China (OUC), in collaboration with Tongji University, deployed a Wind3D 10K 3D Scanning Wind Lidar on “Tongji Hai-1,” a multi-tiered integrated observation tower in the East China Sea. The instrument subsequently collected continuous wind-field observations as Typhoon Dolphin, the 13thtyphoon of 2026, crossed the East China Sea and made landfall. It is currently operating stably, with data transmitted reliably in real time, providing important observationa

Recently, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) announced the recipients of its 2027 award and honors. Professor Zhang Zhiwei of Ocean University of China (OUC) was named the recipient of the Nicholas P. Fofonoff Award for his “outstanding contributions to our understanding of submesoscale-to-mesoscale ocean dynamics by integrating observations, theory, and modeling.”Established in 2007, the award is named after the world-renowned physical oceanographer Nicholas P. Fofonoff (1929-2003). Each

Recently, a joint research team led by Professors Lu Ling and Hao Jiejie of the School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China (OUC), made new progress in adaptation to hypoxia and the regulation of erythrocyte homeostasis. The findings were published in PNAS(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) in an article entitled “MORC2 controls HIF-1α stability via an HDAC4-dependent mechanism to regulate erythropoiesis.” Focusing on the Microrchidia

Recently, the large-scale scientific initiative “HEART” (Heart Evolution Atlas: a Repertoire across Tree-of-life), led by Ocean University of China (OUC), in collaboration with teams including Qingdao Women and Childrens Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Peoples Hospital, Liaoning Normal University, BGI-Qingdao, as well as Boston Childrens Hospital of Harvard Medical School (USA) and the Marseille Developmental Biology Institute (IBDM) of Aix-Marseille University (France), has achieved significant

Recently, a research team led by Professor Zhang Shaoqing at the Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China (OUC), in collaboration with research teams in China and abroad, has made new progress in research on the global ocean meridional overturning circulation (GMOC). Based on two independently developed coupled data assimilation systems and the coupled reanalysis datasets they generated, the study revealed that volcanic eruptions over the p

Recently, a research team led by Professor Song Fengfei at the Frontier Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China (OUC), made new progress in research on long-term changes in surface solar radiation. The findings were published in National Science Review(NSR) in an article entitled “Polar dimming and mid-latitude brightening in a warming climate.” The study found that changes in downward surface solar radiation under global warming exhibit a pronounce

Recently, a research team led by Professor Liu Weizhi at the Fang Zongxi Center for Marine Evo-Devo, Ocean University of China (OUC), made new progress in the self-assembly of marine adhesive proteins. To address the diversity of underwater adhesion strategies used by marine organisms and the elusive Dopa-independent self-assembly mechanisms of adhesive proteins, the team collaborated with researchers from City University of Hong Kong and the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy

On July 13, a research team led by Professor Ren Weiwu from the School of Medicine and Pharmacy of Ocean University of China (OUC) made new progress in the asymmetric total synthesis of marine polycyclic cembrane norditerpenoid natural products. The findings were published in an article entitled “Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Ineleganolide” in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.The structural complexity and diversity of natural products, together with the specificity of their biological

Recently, a research group led by Associate Professor Li Guangliang of the Faculty of Information Science and Engineering at Ocean University of China (OUC), in collaboration with Professor Xue Jianru’s team at the National Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence at Xi’an Jiaotong University, made new progress in embodied intelligence for robotics. The findings were published in an article entitled “Generative Adversarial Self-Imitation Learning with Large Language Model Fe

On July 3, a research team led by Professor Dong Shuanglin of the Key Laboratory of Mariculture of the Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China (OUC) published a research article entitled “Synergistic effect of abalone and macroalgae on carbon storage in a co-culture ecosystem” on Communications Earth Environmentunder the Springer Nature portfolio.Abalone is an economically important herbivorous gastropod. In 2022, global farmed abalone production exceeded 200,000 metric tons, with an o

Recently, a research team led by Professor Sui Zhenghong from the Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding of the Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China (OUC) published an important research article entitled “A C2H2zinc finger transcription factor links a GWAS locus to linear growth inGracilariopsis lemaneiformisvia MCM helicase activation” in New Phytologist. In this study, the team established, for the first time, a direct molecular link between a genetic variation signal ident

Recently, the article “Strategies and Tasks for China’s Deep and Far-Sea Development,” written by Professor Li Zhijun of the College of Management at Ocean University of China (OUC), was reprinted in full in Issue 5, 2026 of National Economic Management and Issue 12, 2026 of Xinhua Digest, and was included in the China Social Science Excellence database.Taking changes in global ocean governance and the new landscape of deep and far-sea competition as its point of departure, the article systemati