The International Digital Twins of the Ocean Summit 2022 took place in London on 4-5 May, 2022. It was hosted by the UK Government and led by the Digital Twins of the Ocean (DITTO) programme of the UN Ocean Decade.
On June 15th, the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) announced the recipient of the 2022 Axford Medal - Professor DAI Minhan.The AOGS established the AOGS Axford Medal in honour of Professor W. Ian Axford for his “vision of academic excellence and unselfish scientific cooperation in Asia and Oceania.” He was a distinguished scientist responsible for developing many fundamental theories o...
Dr. Yonglong Lu was elected as a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences at the Annual General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences on June 2nd 2022, as informed by Professor Alexander Sergeev,
Prof. Qiang Zheng spoke with Nature about his work, as well as efforts by China’s funders and government to encourage research into solutions for climate change.
On March 31st, 2022, The 14th University Consortium on Aquatic Sciences (UCAS) concluded.
On January 25th, the “Volunteer Rapid Disaster Monitoring and Mapping (Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Volcanic Eruption)”, which was jointly developed by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and New Zealand Tonkin + Taylor, was recommended to Tongan government through academic channels.
The First Symposium on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and Climate Variability, hosted by MEL, was held in Xiamen from January 21st - 22nd , 2022.
The Research Center for Marine Carbon Sink and Biogeochemical Process (simplified as the Center below) under the National Natural Science Foundation of China as applied for by the XMU College of Ocean and Earth Sciences was officially approved.
COASTAL-SOS, or “Coastal Zones Under Intensifying Human Activities and Changing Climate: A Regional Programme Integrating Science, Management and Society to Support Ocean Sustainability,” is a recently endorsed project under the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) (UN-Decade) (https://www.oceandecade.org/).
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