“Awaken New Depths” “Catalyzing Action for Our Ocean & Climate” On World Oceans Day 2024, the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research at East China Normal University, as the leading organization of the “Mega-Delta Programme” endorsed by the UN Ocean Decade, in collaboration with Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park and other organizations, organized the…
We are delighted to welcome Prof. Dongyan Liu from the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (SKLEC), East China Normal University, as the new Chair of the IMBeR Scientific Steering Committee (SSC), effective immediately, following approval by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research and Future Earth. Dongyan is a distinguished scientist with an…
From May 27 to 29, 2024, Dr. Peng Lian and Yurong Mu of the CLimate Impacts on TOp Predators (CLIOTOP) Regional Programme Task Team, attended the Third AI Oceanography Forum held at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Qingdao, China. The forum was co-organized by the AI Oceanography Committee of the Chinese…
ESA-Future Earth Joint Program funding provides mentoring for the next generation of marine monitoring scientists The basic building blocks of the marine biosphere are phytoplankton, which are tiny floating plants that get their energy from photosynthesis. There are more than 100,000 different species of phytoplankton that thrive in different ocean regions. In the northwest Pacific…
IMBeR supports the 2nd International Mega-Delta Meeting. Professor Richard Bellerby, Co-Chair of the IMBeR-FEC Continental Margins Working Group, gave a plenary talk titled “Opportunities from Mega-Delta Research through Cross-Fertilisation with UN Decade Programmes”. More information about the event is available on here. By: ECNU November 6th saw the grand opening of the 2nd International Mega–Delta Meeting hosted…
The IMBeR Eutrophication Study Group convened its eighth meeting and conducted its inaugural training session with a resounding success. This event took place from 22-23 September 2023, combining an in-person gathering in Weihai, Shandong province, China, with participants online. The occasion was one of the four sub-sessions of the Conference for the Northeast Asia Region…
Nominated by the IMBeR International Project Office – China, Dr. Maryam Ghaemi, director of the Persian Gulf Oceanography Center, was awarded the honor of SCOR Visiting Scholar in 2023 and was invited to the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research in East China Normal University for academic exchanges. On Oct. 10, Maryam gave…
The “Expanding Earth Observation Data Applications to Empower Marine Biosphere Responses to Climate Change (EO-WPI) program was jointly funded by the European Space Agency and Future Earth to the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University in 2023. This program stems from the ongoing IMBeR study group activities of the Ocean Colour-based Plant species…
On 10 May 2023, the IMBeR International Project Office (IPO-China) held its second IMBeR Coffee Reception at the SKLEC building, ECNU, featuring two captivating presentations. Jing WEN, a postgraduate student from the School of Urban and Regional Science and an intern at IMBeR IPO-China, presented “The River Network of Shanghai”, offering a historical account of Shanghai’s…
