Center for Polar Ecological Conservation
Polar Research Institute of China and Shanghai Jiao Tong University jointly established the Center for Polar Ecological Conservation in June 2021. The both sides have combined their scientific teams in polar and marine fields to carry out scientific research around ice/ocean ecological environment observation and monitoring, technical equipment, polar life system and adaptation strategy, biological resources, polar ecological conservation, etc., mainly committed to:
1) carry out polar ice/ocean environment and life science, and establish life physiology and survival strategy models in extreme environments;
2) carry out research on microbial populations, metabolism, evolution process and ecological environ ment in subglacial lakes, deep sea and deep ice core;
3) research on the mechanism of biological population, migration, adaptation, selection and competition under climate change, and the mechanism of co-evolution between ice/ocean environment and organisms and its correspondence with space-time scale;
4) carry out research on frontier scientific issues of ecological conservation and restoration of polar ecosystem to serve polar environmental protection, ecological restoration and the implementation of international conventions.