The early Department of Physical Oceanography was established by Hohai University in the 1950s, known as Oceanic Hydrology and later Marine Technology. Now it is one of the key disciplines of Jiangsu Province. In terms of the needs of the country and society at a new phase, the department made great efforts to forge ahead and continuously extended the research directions. Currently, the Key Laboratory of marine disaster prediction technology of Ministry of natural resources and the Key Laboratory of Coastal Disaster and protection of Ministry of education are jointly engaged to the department, by the cooperation with National Marine Environment Prediction Center and College of port, coastal and offshore engineering, Hohai University, respectively.
Now the department has board research interests including ocean multi-scale dynamics, climate change, air-sea interaction, polar oceanography, ocean observation, numerical simulation, data assimilation and prediction, and marine engineering environment. As to the research interests, six research institutes are set up as research groups. By present, the department has 37 full-time faculties, including 14 professors, 10 associate professors, 13 lecturers, and 5 post doctors. We are cooperating with some well-known institutes in oceanography, such as WHOI, AWI, UCLA, and NIOZ.
The department enrolls about 40 undergraduates every year. They get trained by theoretical courses, field investigations, marine surveys, and experiments, and about 80% of the students go on to their master studies. In recent three years, several students went to globally famous universities for their postgraduate studies, e.g., UCLA, University of Florida, University of Sydney, King's College London. You are welcome to join us.
