Jiangsu Provincial Key laboratory of coastal zone and islands development
The Jiangsu Provincial key laboratory of coastal zone and islands development focuses on the study of coastal zones. The laboratory has a multi-disciplinary based research center, involving subjects of oceanography, geology, geography, chemistry, biology, information technology and constructive planning. The laboratory is dedicated to studies of coastal zones, islands, resources around shallow continental shelf, and researches of ocean environment and ecology. It also aims to explore natural laws of coastal and oceanic evolvement under the background of global changes and helps constructive planning and decision making as well as do experiments of exploring resources and predicting natural disasters.
There are a group of outstanding experts and researchers in the laboratory including an academician of Chinese Academy of science, three “Yangtze River” scholars, two obtainers of national outstanding youth funds, one winner of Education Ministry’s New Century Excellent Talents Supporting Plan, 13 professors, 10 assistant professors and 12 technicians. The laboratory is based on nation-level key discipline of physical geography and province-level key discipline of oceanic geology and center of national talents of sciences.
The laboratory makes full use of the key disciplines of Nanjing University and carries out original researches in areas mentioned in the national medium and long-range program including study of fundamental science, scientific study of energy, resources and the ocean, study of ecology, environment protection and eco-efficient economy, meeting the demands of resources exploitation and environment protection during the process of building a moderately-prosperous society and achieving moderate modernization by the middle of this century. The laboratory aims to provide technological support related to exploitation of coastal and island resources, water resource, harbor resource, biological resources, and ecological improvement for the social and economic development of Jiangsu Province, increasing Jiangsu Province’s proportion of marine economic development in the country’ whole economic development.
The laboratory does experiments in coastal sedimentary system, coastal interaction of ocean-continent-atmosphere, ecological evolvement of coastal zone and island, coastal hydrologic cycle, cainozoic environmental changes East-Asian climate changes and regional responses of environmental changes. It also does researches in the protection of national interests, construction of key harbors, ecologic improvement of coastal zones, sustainable development of marine territory and biological resources, coastal city planning, coastal zone development and management technologies. We are devoted to the building of first-class marine laboratories, the education of talents with high capacity of innovation and the building of advanced data acquisition and analysis systems, improving Jiangsu Province’s competitiveness in the area of sustainable development and marine economy.
