OUC SARCCM meeting, Qingdao, China, 8 May 2014

Assoc. Prof. Xiao Hua Wang chaired an OUC SARCCM meeting in Bohai Hall, Blue Horizon Hotel Qingdao, on 8 May 2014. The purposes of the meeting were to: (1) summarize the progress made after the UNSW-OUC Workshop in mid-October 2013; (2) discuss the future SARCCM work plans.

Assoc. Prof. Xiao Hua Wang chaired an OUC SARCCM meeting in Bohai Hall, Blue Horizon Hotel Qingdao, on 8 May 2014.

Then five topics were discussed in the meeting:

1. ECSS Special Issue (ECSS Yellow Sea Special Issue)

Assoc. Prof. Xiao Hua Wang said the periodical has received 36 papers from countries and regions including China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, in which 11 were rejected, 1 was received for publication, 5 needed further modification and 19 were still in examination as of March 31, 2014. The periodical is planned to be published by the end of this year. The quality of papers is generally good, especially those contributed by scholars from Ocean University of China (OUC), for there is no paper being rejected for language issues.

2. The establishment of Jiaozhou Bay Institute for Marine Science and Management (JIMSAM) 
Assoc. Prof. Wang proposed to establish JIMSAM with reference to the Sydney Institute of Marine Science. Prof. Li Guangxue said that OUC once proposed to the Qingdao Municipal Government for the establishment of a special institute for the Jiaozhou Bay research during the demonstration period of “Development through Environmental Protection around the Jiaozhou Bay” and also negotiated with the Bureau of Science and Technology, but due to the government transition, there were no follow-up results. Assoc. Prof. Wang suggested that with the providence of the application documents by Prof. Li Guangxue and discussion during the meeting, Assoc. Prof Liang Kangshen will formulate a new application and submit it to OUC again.

3. Application for the State Key Sino-Australian Laboratory 
The development of the application for the State Key Sino-Australian Laboratory was reported by Prof. Ma Yingjie. Also, the related policies of Ministry of Education (MOE) on the approval of key Sino-foreign laboratories were introduced by Prof. Lin Xiaopei.

4. UNSW-OUC Research Workshop on 24 Oct 2014 
Assoc. /Prof. Wang introduced the schedule of the October UNSW-OUC Workshop 2014: in the morning of October 23, 2014, the Australian delegation will arrive at Qingdao, and in the afternoon, a meeting with OUC CSC students and interviews will be arranged; On October 24, 2014 the UNSW-OUC Research Workshop will be held; on October 25, 2014 some of the delegation members will attend the 90th anniversary celebrations of OUC and OUC Global Ocean Summit on 25-26 October. The workshop will be attended by three delegations from Australia: UNSW Sydney, Sydney Institute of Marine Science and UNSW Canberra, and two delegations from the East China Normal University (ECNU) and the East China Sea Branch, SOA. The workshop will also be attended by members of Qingdao Municipal Institute of Environmental Protection and Qingdao City Construction Investment Group. The workshop title was identified as “The Comparative Study of Sydney Harbour, Shanghai Port and Jiaozhou Bay”. The main topics include: sediment; interaction between estuaries and shelves; the impact of dredging, dam construction and reclamation on the environment; the impact of eutrophication on ecology; wetland research; ecology; ocean colour and light physics; coastal management and policy (law); disaster assessment and risk management; observation and remote sensing; coastal ecology economy and coastal engineering.

5. IUCN World Parks Congress (November 11 to November 19, 2014) 
Assoc. Prof. Wang briefed the World Parks Congress and proposed OUC sending a delegation led by one of its Vice Presidents to attend the Congress, and the Qingdao Municipal Institute of Environmental Protection and Qingdao City Construction Investment Group can be members of the delegation. The deadline for the registration in grace period is June 30, 2014, while the deadline for registration is October 1, 2014.

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