The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China explicitly called for “developing the ocean economy, protecting the marine ecological environment, and accelerating the building of a strong maritime country.” According to the latest China Marine Economic Statistics Bulletin, the gross ocean product has approached RMB 10 trillion, accounting for approximately 8% of the national GDP. The ...
Observation is the most direct and fundamental means for human beings to understand and manage the ocean. During his academic career, Dr. Wang Wei-Lei's research expeditions have covered the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea, and he has embarked on five research expeditions to the Bermuda region (see Figure 1), accumulating over 300 days of fieldwork at sea. These extensive fieldw...
"All things grow with the sun." The energy provided by the sun, namely light, drives and maintains the entire Earth system. Therefore, the composition of substances in the ocean and the movement of seawater are closely related to light. Conversely, this makes the light spectrum a messenger. By analyzing the spectrum, the transmission of light in the water can be calculated, and a more realistic...
Dr. ZHOU Kuanbo recently joined Xiamen University's College of Ocean and Earth Sciences as an Associate Professor and became a member of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science in December 2021.Dr. Zhou obtained his PhD in Environmental Science from Xiamen University in 2014 under the co-supervision of Professors Minhan Dai and Ken Buesseler from the Woods Hole Oceanographic In...
There are 13 provinces along the coast of the Chinese mainland. Although they occupy less than 14% of the nation's territorial area, they produce 41% of the country's annual CO2 emissions. Not far from the coast are 11 offshore sedimentary basins that provide potential large-scale carbon storage reservoirs and sufficient permanent geologic sequestration capabilities for more than 100 years of c...
Dr. CHEN Bicheng is an associate professor of physical oceanography at the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science. He received his B.S. and M.S degrees from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Peking University in 2010 and 2013. In 2017, he received his Ph.D. from the Department of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University. From September 2017, Dr. Chen was enga...
Dr. Feili Li received his PhD in physical oceanography in 2014 from the University of Delaware. Shortly after he graduated, Li worked at George Mason University and then Duke University as a postdoctoral researcher. He was a senior research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology before joining MEL. Li joined the Department of Physical Oceanography at Xiamen University (XMU) and became...
Known as the Roof of the World or the Third Pole, the Tibetan Plateau affects over 2 billion people directly by affecting Asian monsoons and providing precious water resources and ecosystem services. In the eyes of climate scientists, it's an excellent and unique natural laboratory. The Tibetan Plateau works like an engine, strengthening the activities of Asian monsoons, which have affected the...
Dr. LUO Ya-Wei is an associate professor of oceanography at the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science. He joined Xiamen University in 2013 after several years of postdoctoral experience at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry. Before that, he obtained his PhD in ecology from a joint program between Brown University and the Marine...
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