Wang Fan

El Niño change and its impacts on weather and climate in the East Asia under global warming

China
Institute of Oceanology of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Oxygen solubility drops as water temperatures increase. It’s estimated that the ocean’s dissolved oxygen content will decrease by 3-4% by the year 2100.

Increasing the ecological awareness of young people in the field of marine ecosystems
Tomasz Kijewski

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Wang Fan

Prof. Wang Fan, Director of the Institute of Oceanology, CAS. Dean of College of Marine Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). He is mainly working on ocean circulation dynamics, including the western boundary currents in the low-latitude Pacific, tropical ocean circulation, shelf circulations in the China Seas and mesoscale processes, etc.

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About IOCAS

Founded in 1950 in the coastal city of Qingdao, the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) is China’s first ocean research institute. Bolstering marine science and technology is a national strategy to support China’s sustainable development goals, and IOCAS is leveraging its research strengths to drive multidisciplinary development in the field.

Our action for climate change

The Institute of Oceanology of Chinese Academy of Sciences strives to serve the national and global strategic needs in addressing climate change and provide strong support for the sustainable development of human society through fundamental research, technical breakthrough and high-level education.