The 15th ODC Training Course Programme - 2026


Date: 2026-09-24 10:29 Author: Yan Wang Clicks:

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Tuesday 1 September 2026

 

8:30-9:00

Registration

 

 

9:00-09:50

Opening Ceremony

Chaired by Yafeng Yang

 

Opening remarks from FIO.

Zhenya Song

 

Opening remarks from ODC Center.

Fangli Qiao

 

Speech from lecturer representative.

Joseph Kojo Ansong

 

Introduction to the 2026 ODC training course.

Xunqiang Yin

 

09:50-10:10

Group photos and break

 

10:10-10:25

Frontier Lectures:
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: How Open Science Empowers Early-Career Researchers

Haiyan Sun

PDF / Video

10:25-10:40

Frontier Lectures:
Cracking the publishing code, Insight from Elsevier Oceanography journals

Xiang Lian

PDF / Video

10:40-12:00

Training Lecture:
New generation ocean to climate coupled models and their applications.

Fangli Qiao 

PDF / Video

12:00-14:00

Lunch

 

14:00-14:30

Frontier Lectures:
From Simulations to Stories: Your Role in Ocean Literacy

Bernardo Reduto Leal

PDF / Video

14:30-16:00

Frontier Lectures:
How Do We Rethink the Earth? Rethinking Our Place on an Ocean Planet?

Shweta Naik

PDF / Video

16:00-16:10

Health break

 

16:10-16:40

Group Discussion 1:
Brain storm for the proposal

All trainees and teachers

 

16:40-17:10

Buffet Reception

All trainees and teachers

 

Wednesday 2 September 2026

 

9:00-10:20

Training Lecture & Practice:
Wave-turbulence interaction -induced vertical mixing and its effects in ocean and climate models.

Dejun Dai

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10:20-10:40

Health break

 

10:40-11:10

Training Lecture & Practice:
Wave-turbulence interaction -induced vertical mixing and its effects in ocean and climate models.

Dejun Dai

 

11:10-12:00

Frontier Lectures:
Global Marine Governance under the Background of the BBNJ Agreement.

Linlin Zhao

PDF 

12:00-14:00

Lunch

 

14:00-15:40

Training Lecture & Practice:
Application and practice of the Toolkits.

Jiechen Zhao

PDF / Video

15:40-16:00

Health break

 

16:00-17:00

Trainee report: 
Trainees in group 1 

All trainees and teachers

 

Thursday 3 September 2026

 

9:00-12:00

Special Activities:
Engagement in International Organizations: SeaForAll as an example.

All trainees and teachers

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12:00-14:00

Lunch

 

14:00-17:00

Special Activities:
Deepening Ocean Literacy, Building a Dream for a Blue Future.—UN Ocean Decade International Conference on Ocean Literacy.

All trainees and teachers

 

Friday 4 September 2026

 

9:00-17:00

Special Activities:
Approaching the Ocean, Feeling the Deep Blue—UN Ocean Decade International Conference on Ocean Literacy.

All trainees and teachers

 

Monday 7 September 2026

 

9:00-10:20

Frontier Lectures:
21st Century projection of tropical climate variability.

Agus Santoso

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10:20-10:40

Health break

 

10:40-12:00

Training Lecture & Practice:
Automatic simulation system for marine environment.

Wanqing Chi

PDF / Video

12:00-14:00

Lunch

 

14:00-15:00

Training Lecture & Practice:
Automatic simulation system for marine environment.

Wanqing Chi

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15:00-15:20

Health break

 

15:20-17:00

Trainee report: 
Trainees in group 2 & 3

All trainees and teachers

 

Tuesday 8 September 2026

 

9:00-10:20

Training Lecture & Practice:
Data Assimilation Methods Based on Deep Representation Learning for Fusing Multi-Source Heterogeneous Observations.

Yanfei Xiang

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10:20-10:40

Health break

 

10:40-12:00

Training Lecture & Practice:
Data Assimilation Methods Based on Deep Representation Learning for Fusing Multi-Source Heterogeneous Observations.

Yanfei Xiang

 

12:00-14:00

Lunch

 

14:00-15:40

Training Practice:
Data Assimilation Methods Based on Deep Representation Learning for Fusing Multi-Source Heterogeneous Observations.

Yanfei Xiang

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15:40-16:00

Health break

 

16:00-17:00

Trainee report: 
Trainees in group 4

All trainees and teachers

 

Wednesday 9 September 2026

 

9:00-10:20

Training Lecture & Practice:
An introduction to operational ocean forecasting.

Joseph Kojo Ansong

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10:20-10:40

Health break

 

10:40-12:00

Training Lecture & Practice:
An introduction to operational ocean forecasting.

Joseph Kojo Ansong

 PDF / Video

12:00-14:00

Lunch

 

14:00-15:40

Training Lecture & Practice:
An introduction to operational ocean forecasting.

Joseph Kojo Ansong

 PDF / Video

15:40-16:00

Health break

 

16:00-17:00

Trainee report: 
Trainees in group 5

All trainees and teachers

 

Thursday 10 September 2026

 

9:00-12:00

Training Lecture & Practice:
Introduction to Regional Ocean Modeling with CROCO: Theory and Hands-on Practice.

K M Azam Chowdhury

PDF / Video

10:20-10:40

Health break

 

10:40-12:00

Training Lecture & Practice:
Introduction to Regional Ocean Modeling with CROCO: Theory and Hands-on Practice.

K M Azam Chowdhury

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12:00-14:00

Lunch

 

14:00-15:40

Training Lecture & Practice:
Introduction to Regional Ocean Modeling with CROCO: Theory and Hands-on Practice.

K M Azam Chowdhury

 PDF / Video

15:40-16:00

Health break

 

16:00-17:00

Trainee report: 
Trainees in group 6

All trainees and teachers

 

Friday 11 September 2026

 

9:00-10:30

Group Reports:
Report progress of the proposal

All trainees and teachers

 

10:30-11:00

Health break

 

11:00-12:00

Completion Ceremony

 

 

 

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