The UNESCO/IOC Regional Training and Research Center on Ocean Dynamics and Climate (hereafter referred to as “ODC Center”) was officially launched in Qingdao on June 9, 2011 through an agreement signed by IOC and the host institute, the First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration of China, at WESTPAC-VⅢ in Bali, Indonesia on May 11, 2010. Being the first regional training and research center within the framework of UNESCO/IOC, the objective of the ODC center is to enhance regional research capacity on ocean dynamics, air-sea interactions, climate change and numerical modeling through the provision of international annual training courses and workshops to junior scientists and doctoral/master students mainly from the member states in the WESTPAC region of IOC.