XMU Ocean Carnival Academic Month opens
The 2022 Xiamen University Ocean Carnival Academic Month was launched in Xiamen University Xiang’an Campus on November 27 and will last until December.
As one of the supporting activities of the 2022 World Ocean Week in Xiamen, the event was hosted by the College of Ocean and Earth Sciences of Xiamen University and the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science (Xiamen University) and organized by the College of the Environment and Ecology of Xiamen University.
A total of eight activities will be held during the event, including an ocean science open day, a marine culture exhibition, a series of lectures on interesting ocean, an ocean science popularization and experience, a visit to the mangrove laboratory, a marine knowledge competition, a marine culture innovation competition, and 70.8 marine science communication summit forum.
These interesting and science-based activities will help the public, the youth in particular, further understand and take care of ocean, said the organizers.
At the opening ceremony, the students from Xiamen No.1 Middle School, Xiamen Music School, Xiang’an First Experiment Primary School, Xiang'an Jiuxi Primary School, and Xiang'an District Teacher Training School Affiliated Primary School took part in the ocean carnival where they not only played interesting scientific games, but also visited some key labs, having close contact with marine science.