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What We Do
  • Ranching sea cucumbers to repair the oceans — and improve human health
    I aim to restore sea-cucumber populations to rebalance ocean ecosystems and so that people can use their beneficial compounds.
      Nature 617, 856 (2023)
      (Text by ZHANG Libin, zhanglibin@qdio.ac.cn)
      Libin Zhang aims to restore sea-cucumber populations to rebalance ocean ecosystems and so that people can use their beneficial compounds.
      Libin Zhang is executive deput...
    May 24, 2023
  • Tracing History of Earth Climate via Marine Sediments
    History is fascinating. I am a historian, but one who studies the history of earth climate. The tool I use is marine sediment.
      (Text by ZHAO Debo, zhaodebo@qdio.ac.cn)
      Debo and the X-ray diffractometer. This instrument has helped him analyze thousands of marine sediment samples. Credit: Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
      History is fascinating. I ...
    May 06, 2023
  • Using CRISPR to Study Marine Biodiversity
    Ocean has astonishing biodiversity and extreme adaptations. My passion is in nature. I love spending my time here, in the ocean.
      (Text by ZHANG Linlin, linlinzhang@qdio.ac.cn)
      Linlin was loading CRISPR molecules into microinjection needle. Credit: Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
      The marine ecosystem is a unique ecosystem that supports various ani...
    Apr 04, 2023
  • Coupling AI Technique and Physical Mechanism to Mine Internal Solitary Wave Information from Big Satellite Data
    For the past three years, we have applied AI algorithms coupling the ISW physical mechanism to realize ISW forecast and high-accuracy amplitude inversion.
      (Text by ZHANG Xudong, zhangxd@qdio.ac.cn)
      Xudong was processing a satellite image of internal solitary waves in the Andaman Sea. Credit: Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
      The ocean is highly dynamic with multi-scale dyna...
    Mar 07, 2023
  • Probing Deep Earth via Seafloor Volcanic Rocks
    As an igneous petrologist and geochemist, I'm fascinated by the seafloor volcanism although it is covered by the global deep sea water.
      (Text by ZHANG Guoliang, zhangguoliang@qdio.ac.cn)
      Guoliang was working on the ship of R/V Kexue located above the Caroline plateau in the western Pacific Ocean. Credit: Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
      I'm fascinated by...
    Feb 07, 2023
  • Shark Derived Single-Domain Antibody Generation
    Every week I go to the seafood market to purchase fish, shrimp and squid, not for my family, but for the lab's dozens of sharks as their next week's food.
      (Text by BI Yunchen, yunchenbi@qdio.ac.cn)
      Yunchen was operating shark experiment. Credit: Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
      Every week I go to the seafood market to purchase fish, shrimp and squid, not for my family, but...
    Jan 03, 2023
  • Diving Into the Subsurface Ocean to Understand Climate Change
    My main goal is to identify and understand the long-term ocean subsurface temperature and salinity changes and link them to climate change and variability.
      (Text by LI Yuanlong, liyuanlong@qdio.ac.cn)
      Yuanlong was giving a speech in an international workshop. Credit: Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
      This photo was photographed on May 24, 2018. I was talking about the Indo-P...
    Dec 02, 2022
  • CT for the Earth in the Ocean
    What we're doing is a lot like medical CT, except we're doing CT for the Earth instead of the brain.
      (Text by DONG Dongdong, dongdongdong@qdio.ac.cn)
      Dongdong was deploying the hydrophone streamer. Credit: Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
      The Earth we live on is infinitely spectacular. Plateaus, mountains, rivers, grass...
    Nov 16, 2022