OCEAN-HK News

Symposium on OCEAN_HK 2018

2018-03-14

“Symposium on Ocean Circulation, Ecosystem, HypoxiA and CoNsequences (OCEAN) 2018” was successfully held from 4 March to 6 March at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

This symposium is organized by the OCEAN-HK Theme-based Research Scheme project, and co-organized by HKUST  School of Science, Department of Mathematics, Department of Ocean Science and HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study (IAS).

In this year symposium, an ad hoc Assessment and Advisory Committee has been formed and chaired by Prof. Jilan Su (SOA), with committee members: Prof. Dunxin Hu (CAS), Prof. Dake Chen (SOA), Prof. Renhe Zhang (Fudan U) Prof. Don Anderson (WHOI) and Prof. Jim McWilliams (UCLA). The purpose of forming this committee is serve to assess the project progress and give comments and calibrate for the future plan.

This symposium was attended by around 100 scientists, professionals and specialists, from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, United States and other countries/ regions and had high-level scientific discussion regarding to ocean circulation, ecosystem and hypoxia in the framework of our OCEAN-HK research project.