A research team led by academician Wu Lixin from the Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System and the Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography under the Chinese Ministry of Education has made significant progress in extreme weather and climate change research. Using a vortex resolution climate model to evaluate changes in extreme atmospheric river events under future warming scenarios on a global scale, the team has attained innovative results. The research, entitled

Recently, the research team led by Prof. Wan Xiuquan from OUC’s College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences has made great progress in tropical Pacific air-sea interaction in cooperation with scholars from the US and Japan. It reveals for the first time the key role played by the topographically complex region of oceanic continents in the air-sea interactions between the tropical Atlantic-Pacific basins. On June 7, the research result was published in Nature Communications under the title of “Ro

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Zhang Shaoqing from the Frontier Science Center of Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System (OUC) has successfully developed a series of coupled Earth system models based on the newly developed Sunway heterogeneous-architecture supercomputer in collaboration with Tsinghua University/National Supercomputing Centre in Wuxi and other institutions such as the University of Science and Technology of China. The research result was published by National Science Re

Recently, the research team led by Prof. Zhou Chunfu, Prof. Zhao Wei and Prof. Tian Jiwei from the Frontier Science Center of Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System (OUC) has made significant progress in the Deep Circulation between Luzon Strait and South China Sea. For the first time, the team conducted continuous observation to identify a long-term enhancement of the deep-water overflow in the Luzon Strait. Its research outcome was published in Nature Communications under the title “Increasi

A research team from OUC’s College of Food Science and Engineering, led by Professor YI Huaxi, and a research team from the National University of Singapore led by Professor Jiong-Wei Wang, have jointly made new progress in improving intestinal inflammation and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) using milk-derived extracellular vesicles (mEVs). The findings were published in Science Advances under the title of Milk-derived Extracellular Vesicles Protect Intestinal Barrier Integrity in Gut

On January 4, 2023, Nature published an online article entitled “Neogene Burial of Organic Carbon in the Global Ocean”. This research was led by Dr. Li Ziye from OUC’s College of Marine Geosciences, in collaboration with Dr. Zhang Yige from Texas AM University and renowned scholars from Rice University and the University of Leeds.This study reveals for the first time the variation of organic carbon burial on the seafloor during the Neogene (23.0-3.0 Ma) and finds that its spatiotemporal variabil

Recently, Prof. Li Sanzhong’s team from OUC’s College of Marine Geosciences published its latest research entitled “I-type and S-type granites in the Earths earliest continental crust on Communications Earth Environment” in Communications Earth Environment.The team conducted the world’s first study on the source rock type of the Jack Hills zircon, based on big data analysis and artificial intelligence. The result shows that an active capping system similar to the present plate tectonics was in

On January 27, Prof. Zhang Yuzhongs team from OUC’s College of Marine Life Sciences and Frontier Science Center of Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System published a paper entitled ‘Ubiquitous occurrence of a dimethylsulfoniopropionate ABC transporter in abundant marine bacteria’ online in The ISME Journal.Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), an important carrier for the global carbon and sulfur cycles, is an organic sulfur compound prevalent in the marine environment, which plays an important r

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

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

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”.