Ocean Science Education and Research in Nanjing University

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Ocean Science Education and Research in Nanjing
University

• Chendong Ge
• MOE Key Laboratory of Coastal and Island
  Development
• Nanjing University

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Main Ocean Science Education in School of
Geography and Oceanography

• The main ocean science education are taken in
  Department of Coastal Ocean Sciences, School of
  Geography and Oceanography.
• PhD students (5)and Master Degree students (10)
• in Coastal Study area in Physical
• Geography since
  1980s
• in Marine Geology since 2000
• Bachelor Degree students (15-20)
• in Marine Sciences since 2006

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strong fundamental subject training

• The students in Nanjing University were chosen
  from top 5 in per thousand candidates who passed
  the University Entrance Examination.
• Those students in Marine Sciences studied in the
  fundamental school in our university in the first
  two years, got a strong fundamental subjects
  training in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry ,
  Biology and Computer Science etcs.

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marine science subjects

• From the second year, they began to learn marine
  science subjects such as
• Introduction to Oceanography,
• Marine Geology,
• Physical Oceanography,
• Marine Chemistry
• Marine Biology

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Subjects related to Ocean Sciences

• Introduction to Geology
• Physical Geography
• An introduction to Atmospheric Sciences
• Principles of Environment Sciences
• Principles of Hydrology
• There are full geo-science disciplines in Nanjing
  University

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Ocean Science Researches

• Coastal Geomorphology study group started at
  1960s.
• Centre of Marine Sciences in the middle of 1980s.
• State Pilot Laboratory of Coastal and Island
  Development in 1990.
• MOE Key Laboratory of Coastal and Island
  Development in 2000.

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Study areas focus on coastal Ocean

• Land-sea interaction, including river-sea
  interaction, coastal landscape formation and
  evolution, and coastal ecology system.
• Coastal Ocean dynamic processes and their
  resource and environment response, including
  sediment and geomorphological dynamic process,
  coastal and Island development, environment
  protection and Vulnerability of coastal systems
  and hazards to human societies.

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• Earth system behavior and globe change related to
  coastal ocean, including sedimentation sysytem
  and sediment record process, polar coast and
  globe climate change record, and margin sea
  evolution dynamics.

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Study on river-sea interaction and plain coast
development.
River sea interaction played a very
important role in the development of coastal
plain, plain coast and accumulated continental
shelf.
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Study on river-sea interaction and plain coast
development.

• More than thousand rivers flow to the sea in
  China. The sediment discharge were ever up tp
  2.01109 t/a

River is the main channel of land-sea
interactiopn
Dam construction in Upper an Middle River
Water flow and discharge decreaded.
Delta and plain coast changed?
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North Jiangsu coastal plain used to be a palaeo
embayment, developed gradually from sand barrier
lagoon under the interaction of Yangtze River and
Yellow River, and also the accumulated radiant
sand ridges which dominated by sediments from
ancient Yangtze River. During Quternary, they
suffered the sea environment for 4 times.
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This research can be applied to harbour
construction in plain coast
Yangkou Harbour,
Harbour Construction
Caofeitian
Caofeitian
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Yangkou Harbour
Caofeidian
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Geomorphological stability modelling
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Ocean Science Researches in other schools

• Coastal wetland ecology in School of Biology
• Air-sea interaction study in School of
  Atmospheric Science
• Marine geochemistry in School of Earth Sciences
• Marine Environmental Chemistry in School of
  Environmental Sciences

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