Director Lai Ming-Chih of NSTC Natural Sciences Department Visits NTU Core Facility – Marine Exploration Team Presents Advanced Research Highlights
Date: May 6, 2025 (Tuesday)｜Venue: Room 215, Institute of Oceanography, NTU
On the morning of May 6, 2025, Director Lai Ming-Chih of the Department of Natural Sciences and Sustainable Development, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), led a delegation of academic guests to visit the Marine Exploration Group and Oceanography Data Repository at the Core Facility Center, College of Science, National Taiwan University (NTU).
The visit was held at Room 215 of NTU’s Institute of Oceanography, where Professor Chien-Fen Huang and the team’s advisory faculty gave a comprehensive presentation on the center’s mission, major research highlights, and interdisciplinary integration efforts over the current five-year term. Professor Huang noted that the center has established internationally competitive research platforms to advance Taiwan’s capacity in deep-sea exploration, long-term ocean monitoring, and air-sea interaction studies.
A live demonstration showcased key oceanographic instruments including: Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), Vertical Microstructure Profiler (VMP), Seaglider, Automated Nutrient Analysis System, and a Marine Meteorological Buoy. Technical staff introduced each instrument’s function and shared field application results.
Director Lai praised NTU’s long-standing commitment to marine science and reaffirmed NSTC’s support for developing large-scale research platforms and instrumentation-sharing mechanisms, to foster deeper international collaboration and elevate Taiwan’s presence in the global oceanographic research community.
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