Organisers
DITTO was established in 2021 as an Ocean Decade endorsed programme. The Vision of the DITTO Programme is a world where Digital Twins of the Ocean are used to support ocean protection, ocean governance and a sustainable Blue Economy. DITTO is dedicated to develop and share a common understanding of digital twins of the ocean (DTO); to establish best practice in the development of DTOs; and advance a digital framework for DTOs to empower ocean professionals from all sectors around the world including scientific users, to effectively create their own digital twins.
MEL was established in 2005 under sponsorship from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST). It has been awarded the Excellent State Key Laboratory in two recent consecutive official reviews by MOST.MEL is dedicated to interdisciplinary cutting-edge research in marine environmental sciences, with particular strengths in marine biogeochemistry and ecosystem studies.
Co-Organisers (an updating list)
- Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Ocean Development, China
- Laoshan Laboratory, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), China
- National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, Ministry of Natural Resources, China
- National Marine Data Information Center, Ministry of Natural Resources, China
- National Ocean Technology Center, Ministry of Natural Resources, China
- National Satellite Ocean Application Service, Ministry of Natural Resources, China
- Institute of Oceanography, Chinise Academy of Science, China
- South China Sea Institute of Oceanography, Chinise Academy of Science, China
- State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics (Second Institute of oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, China)
- The Third Institute of oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, China
- The Fourth Institute of oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, China
- The International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), China
- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
- City University of Hong Kong, China
- East China Normal University, China
- Southern University of Science and Technology, China
- Jimei University, China
- Sun Yat-sen University, China
- Decade Collaborative Center on Ocean-Climate Nexus and Coordination Amongst Decade Implementing Partners in P.R.China (DCC-OCC)
- Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions (ONCE) Programme
- Coastal Zones Under Intensifying Human Activities and Changing Climate: A Regional Programme Integrating Science, Management and Society to Support Ocean Sustainability（Coastal-SOS) Project
- Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS)
- Climate and Ocean - Variability, Predictability, and Change (CLIVAR)
- UNESCO-IOC WESTPAC
- The North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)
- Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON)
- Ocean Acidification Research for Sustainability (OARS)
- The International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP)
- National Observation and Research Station for the Taiwan Strait Marine Ecosystem (T-SMART), China