School of Ocean and Earth Science - State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology
2012 Annual Academic Conference Successfully Held
The Annual Academic Conference was successfully held from Dec. 22nd to 23rd, 2012 by School of Ocean and Earth Science and State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, with 83 participants including faculty members and some adjunct professors and chair professors of the school. The conference aims at activating academic communication and encouraging interdisciplinary researches within the School and the Laboratory.
The academic reports section of this conference were made up of 32 oral presentations and 22 poster presentations whose subjects targeted paleoceanography and paleoenvironment, marine sedimentology, petrology and biogeochemistry, geophysics and seafloor observation. Based on these reports, our research regions extend from South China Sea and East China Sea to the Arctic, Equatorial Pacific as well as Southwestern Indian Ocean, our research fields range from micro-scale studies of archaea to microorganism under high pressure condition, and regional mid-ocean ridge processes to global mantle convection. Closer links have been forged between paleoceanography, paleoenvironment, sedimentology and geochemistry, and interdisciplinary cooperation enhanced between geophysics, petrology, sedimentology, geotectology, seafloor observation, geoinformation system. These achievements give out a full demonstration of collaboration between different disciplines and integration of indoor scientific research and field situ observation technology. Poster presentations also introduced studies of integrated geophysics, gemology, microbial mineralization, etc. 
This year’s annual academic conference is unique in style. Its fruitful reports embody multidisciplinary integration and cooperation, and contain research highlights of international advanced level. As Academician Pinxian Wang pointed out in his summary, this conference has promoted internal communication in the school, and need to further explore the forming of multidisciplinary research groups, enhance academic cohesion, upgrade research quality and competitiveness of our Tongji ocean team. We also need to gather our research strength so as to bear the country’s major scientific projects on our shoulders. Mr. Wang also believed that in-depth cross-disciplinary cooperation should be enhanced concerning two major future research fields (as for Geodynamics, Macro Evolution in West Pacific, and for Paleoenvironment, Tropical Forcing of Climate Evolution). He encouraged our ocean researchers to seize the important opportunity to develop into an international frontier in marine science and technology, as the country has determined to strengthen its marine force and be a world “marine giant”.
This Academic Conference, as an important part of the school’s efforts to promote disciplinary construction, enhance communicative cooperation, and build scientific research cohesion, was under elaborate preparation by the School and the Laboratory as well. Since the first notification was released at the beginning of September, faculty members responded and participated enthusiastically. This conference is a prominent event in the development of ocean sciences of Tongji University, and its success marks an onset endeavor to enhance our internal strength and to response to the country’s call for building a “marine giant” country.
Last Updated (2013-01-16 10:53)
