Sino-German workshop on marine science
During the week of March 31st to April 3rd 2025, the Second Institute of Oceanography (SIO) in Hangzhou, China, hosted a joint workshop combining the 7th workshop of the "Comparative Study of Ecosystem Dynamics in Nearshore and Shelf Marine Ecosystems of China and Europe" (CHESS) and the 2nd workshop of the "Natural hazards and marine ecosystem response – causal linkage and predictability" (NECO). Both projects are coordinated by Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon (Prof Corinna Schrum and Dr Wenyan Zhang) from the German side.
The participants appreciate the mutual exchange on a wide range of topics. Photo: SIO/ Dr. Qicheng Meng
Eleven scientists from Hereon participated in the workshop, introducing research progress and exchanging ideas with over 50 scientists from the Chinese project partnering institutions including the State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics at SIO, Ocean University of China, East China Normal University and Zhejiang University.
The workshop focused on natural disasters, marine carbon sinks, hypoxia, heat waves and other coastal ecosystem processes, and explored innovative applications of artificial intelligence methods in prediction of coastal natural hazards (floods, storms/cyclones, marine heat waves) and ecosystem response. The workshop was organized into seven sessions including “Dynamics of Organic Carbon Cycling in Marginal Seas”, “Sediment Dynamics and Associated Ecosystem Functioning”, “Ecosystem Dynamics and Coastal Zone Management”, “Compound Marine Ecological Hazards”, ”Carbon Sequestration Driven by Human Activities and Natural Processes“, and ”Prediction and Risk Management of Marine Disasters".
This workshop not only deepened the scientific cooperation between China and Germany in the key areas of ecological impact of marine disasters, hypoxic acidification and the complex mechanism of carbon source-to-sink pathways within the project framework but also opened new windows to promote future joint research in marine science between Hereon and its project partners in China.
About CHESS and NECO
The CHESS mobility program (2020 to 2025) is a bilateral German-Chinese Mobility program funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). It aims to understand marine ecosystem dynamics and responses to climate change by comparing nearshore and shelf systems in China and Europe. Focusing on four marine shelf systems, including the North and Baltic Seas in Germany, and the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea in China, researchers involved in the program examine variations in atmospheric influences and their impact on primary productivity, ecosystem structure, benthic response to organic enrichment, and anthropogenic influences on ecosystem function.
The project NECO (2023 to 2026) is a bilateral German-Chinese cooperation project funded by the Ministry of Natural Resources of China (MNR) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It focuses on those natural hazards which may impact coastal and marine ecosystem functioning and modulate carbon storage and cycling. Specifically, we focus on the impact of heavy precipitation, floods, heat waves, and cyclones (typhoons and storms) on development of harmful algal blooms (HAB) and oxygen deficiencies in two coastal shelf seas (the North Sea and the East China Sea) and explore their predictability
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