MEC2009 was successfully held in Guangzhou
Sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Guangzhou Association for Science and Technology，and the British Consulate-General Guangzhou together，MEC2009-the 5th International Workshop on Marine Environmental Change of the South China Sea was successfully held in Guangzhou, China on Dec. 3-4, 2009. It attracted around sixty experts from ten different countries and fifteen institutes , who gathered in MEC2009 to discuss with more than fifty scholars and graduate students from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, CAS during the two-day meeting. There are five keynote speeches, thirty-five academic presentations with dozens of excellent posters in this workshop.
Around theTopics on Indian Ocean collaborative observation, high-tech ocean observation, the Chinese-British cooperation of maritime climate and the establishment of Chinese-Norwegian joint institute of marine science, etc, the host of South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, CAS held bilateral / multilateral talks separately with Indian Scientist, Canadian Delegation, British Delegation and Norway Experts Delegation, in the manner of Lunch Break, Evening Discussion and Tea Break on the meeting dates.Guangzhou Branch of CAS paid much attention to this international conference. Accompanied by Mr. Si Zhang, Executive Director of SCSIO, CAS and Mr. Liangmin Huang, Secretary of SCSIO, CAS, Mr. Jun Guo, Secretary of Guangzhou Branch，CAS presented himself in MEC2009 and addressed the audience in the Welcome Banquet.
It is our great pleasure to invite the world-renowned experts to participate in MEC2009, such as the Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Dr. Guohong Fang; Deputy Director of Indian National Institute of Oceanography, Dr. S.Prasanns Kumar; Chief Scientist of Monsoon Observation in Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Dr. Manabu Yamanaka; Director of International “Asian Monsoon Plan” Project, Dr. Liqun Ai; Professor of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, Dr. Ruixin Huang; Senior Researcher of CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Victoria, Dr. Wenju Cai; Remote Sensing and Ocean Front Expert from the University of Rhode Island, USA, Dr. Igor Belkin and so on. Moreover, excellent reports on regional ocean research were given by scholars of Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and so on.
Since 2001, a series of international conferences on the South China Sea Marine Environment began and continued every other year, hosted by Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Environmental Dynamics, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. To date, the conference has been successfully held five times and is well known in the scientific community. The conference has provided a communication platform for the scientists who are engaged in the study of South China Sea and tropical marine environment. It’s promised that we will get together in Yangcheng-Guangzhou in two years.
