On October 13-15, the “3rd International Symposium of Advanced Research on Green Tides” was held at SHOU under co-organization by SHOU, the North China Sea Branch of State Oceanic Administration, National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, the Key Laboratory of Integrated Monitoring and Applied Technology for Marine Harmful Algal Blooms of SOA, HuaiHai Institute of Technology, Jiangsu Marine Fishery Research Institute, Shanghai Society for Bio-chemistry and Molecular Biology and the Marine Branch of the Chinese Society of Bio-chemistry and Molecular Biology. Li Jiale, SHOU Vice President, delivered a welcome speech on behalf of SHOU; chief engineering Hu Xiang gave a speech on behalf of the North China Sea Branch of State Oceanic Administration; Liu Guimei, Deputy Director and researcher of National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, also attended the event. The opening ceremony was directed by He Peimin, President of the Marine Branch of the Chinese Society of Bio-chemistry and Molecular Biology and professor and expert in green tides of the College of Marine Ecology and Environment of SHOU. Also present at the symposium were more than 80 experts, scholars and graduate students of China, the US, Germany, the UK, Australia, Japan, South Korea and many other countries.
The symposium, themed by “Ten Years of Green Tide Blooming in the Yellow Sea: Outbreak Mechanism and Control”, mainly discussed and summarized the occurrence, outbreak mechanism, control scheme and resource utilization of Green Tide Blooming in the Yellow Sea and other related critical scientific and technological issues. The symposium especially invited three distinguished guests to make keynote speech, including researcher Sun Song, Dean of the College of Marine Sciences of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; professor John K. Keesing from the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, and professor John H. Bothwell from Durham University. Doctor Zhang Jianheng of SHOU, on behalf of the research team led by professor He Peimin, presented a theme-based report entitled “Species population succession trend and control strategies for green tide blooming in the Yellow Sea”, which exhibited the research level and strength of the green tide programs of SHOU and won acclaim from experts in this field.
The symposium also invited 17 well-known domestic experts, scholars and graduate students to make special reports, including professor Thomas Wichard from the University of Jena,; professor Trey Melton from Spelman College; professor Masanori Hiraoka of National Kochi University; professor Jang Kyun Kim from the University of Incheon; researchers Wang Guangce, Jiang Peng and Liu Feng from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; professor Liu Dongyan from East China Normal University; professor Xu Nianjun from Ningbo University; researcher Zhang Hongliang from the North China Sea Environmental Monitoring Center of State Oceanic Administration; professor Ye Shufeng from the Key Laboratory of Integrated Monitoring and Applied Technology for Marine Harmful Algal Blooms of SOA; associate researcher Wang Dan from National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center; associate researcher Wu Lingjuan from the North China Sea Marine Forecasting Center of State Oceanic Administration; associate professor Gao Guang from HuaiHai Institute of Technology; Doctor Zhu Wenrong, General Manager of Xiangshan Xuwen Seaweed Development Co., Ltd., and so on. 23 organizations also sent their representatives to the symposium for academic exchanges, including the East China Sea Environmental Monitoring Center of State Oceanic Administration, Jiangsu Marine Fishery Research Institute, BGI Shenzhen Co., Ltd., Wuhan Nextomics Biosciences Co., Ltd., Shanghai MAP Biotech Co., Ltd. and so on.
This symposium gathered the latest results of researches on green tides both at home and abroad, and held in-depth discussions about the occurrence mechanism and control strategies of green tide blooming in the Yellow Sea in the past decade and other critical scientific and technological issues. Excellent reports and the latest results presented by experts attracted many participants, and received unanimous praise. The convocation of this symposium enhanced public understanding of the outbreak mechanism of green tides, and provided a basis for revealing the deep outbreak mechanism of green tides and proposing related control strategies in China.
