Seagrass Education Events for Schools During the month of September, our seagrass education team once again, came together and gave several lectures on seagrass and other important coastal ecosystems for more than 100 students from two primary schools in Hainan. The seagrass education team has already compiled seagrass education handbook…
This Tuesday, June 8, is World Oceans Day. The theme of this year’s World Ocean Day is ‘The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods’, focuses on the importance of sustaining the ocean for all forms of life on Earth. On this special occasion, supported by TICAS project and its project partners, a…
With the technical support from TICAS project and Hainan Academy of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, the 2021 seagrass monitoring activity was conducted by the locals on March 18. The event was organized by Hainan Squirrel School and Hainan Bird watching Society, with more than 10 volunteers attended.
With the support of TICAS project, a new seagrass conservation project has been launched in Hainan since Jan, 2021. This project is funded by Zhilan Foundation, with the aim of protecting seagrass ecosystems in Hainan by promoting the knowledge exchange and collaborations between research institutes (Hainan Academy of Ocean and…
Like other coastal ecosystems, seagrass beds are under severe threat from eutrophication of coastal waters and the progressing use and development of coastal zones in Hainan. According to our recent study in ECOLOC project conducted by Tim Jennerjahn and his team at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT),…
Seagrass meadows are natural filters for nutrients and organic matter (OM). However, excessive enrichment is detrimental for seagrasses. Our ECOLOC subproject6 ‘Response of seagrasses to aquaculture effluents and the filtering capacity of seagrass meadows for anthropogenic nutrients and organic matter’ has recently published results in Marine Environmental Research, biogeochemist Tim…
Stakeholders from the German-Chinese project TICAS (Tackling Environmental Change Issues of China’s Coastal Aquatic Systems) recently met for a workshop in Haikou, Hainan, China. A total of 54 participants from 23 different organizations participated in the event, almost half of whom were representatives of the local government, nature reserves, NGOs…
TICAS project has sponsored the first exchange student- Chunxia Jiang from Hainan University to stay in Bremen for two month. Her master study mainly addresses the pollution characteristics of antibiotic resistance genes in Hainan mangrove area. During her stay at ZMT, she will also conduct some laboratory tests regarding TC,…
Prof. Hongwei Zhao from the Hainan University received a new grant for his research project entitled “Molecular responding mechanisms of reef-building coral-zooxanthellae symbionts to prometryn”. This new project is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and will run from January 2019 until December 2022.
Nan Xiang from the Hainan University was granted a China Scholarship Council scholarship for a 4-year PhD study in Bremen, Germany. She will join the Tropical Marine Microbiology Group (Group leader: Dr. Astrid Gärdes) investigating coral reef microbiology. Her research topic is “Nitrogen fixation in coral holobionts in the Anthropocene”.
