The Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), which is located in Qingdao, Shandong Province, was founded in 1950. It is the first ocean research institute in China.The institute is home to five CAS key laboratories in the fields of experimental marine biology; marine ecology and environmental sciences; ocean circulation and wave studies; marine geology and environment; and marine corrosion and protection. It also has an institute-level key laboratory devoted to marine organism taxonomy and phylogeny studies.The CAS Marine Biological Specimen Museum is the largest of its kind in China and houses the most comprehensive collection in Asia, with more than 778,000 specimens. The museum has 1,475 type specimens discovered and named by institute scientists. Among its specimens, more than 50,000 have been digitized and nearly 30,000 have achieved digital sharing.The CAS Mariculture Core Gene Bank has preserved 60 macro and micro marine alga species and more than 1,000 culture systems, thus providing support for the sustainable development of China's aquaculture industry.
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