Explore the strongest ocean current in the Western Pacific: the 2nd Cooperative Study of Kuroshio and Adjacent Regions – from its sciences to human wellbeings

It plays a key role in the regional climate and weather, serves as important spawning and nursery fishing grounds, and event influence the culture of some areas in Asia .

While the Kuroshio and adjacent regions had been studied from 1965 till 1979, many are yet unexplored, and a lot of changes are believed to take place due to a changing climate and human activities. Recent years have seen an increasing need of countries along the current to conduct the 2nd cooperative study, given its environmental, social and economic importance, and the half of century’s advance in ocean science and technology.

This incubator will present the needs and a preliminary plan for the 2nd CSK, initiate dialogues between the researchers and relevant ocean stakeholders particularly from meteorological and fishery sectors, and engage broad stakeholders into the co-design of the 2nd CSK, which will be proposed as a UN Ocean Decade Programme.