Academician JIAO Nianzhi was granted the Nan’qiang Outstanding Contribution Award.
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/).
Recently, Professor Lu Yonglong, academician of the Academy of Sciences for Developing Countries, the Academy of Europe, and chair professor at Xiamen University, was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as a member of the Ten-Member Group on Technology Facilitation Mechanisms (TFM) for SDGs.
Approved by Xiamen University, the International Project Office (IPO)-China of the Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) project was officially launched at the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science (MEL) in January 2021.
The first university originated ocean remote sensing small satellite in China, HISEA-1, was launched into sun-synchronous orbits by a medium-lift rocket, the new “Long-March 8 Rocket”, from the coastal Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site at 12:37 a.m. China Standard Time, Dec. 22.
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