As a result of the epidemic control, the Deep Sea Exploration Pavilion received a total of 5,968 visitors in 2020. There were 86 group appointments with 3,556 visits. A total of 22 popular science events was held, 14 of them were online with 840,000 online participants and 8 offline, including indoor science activities and 422 participants. In 2020, a total of 7 science awards was received with 8 popular science works and publications coming off the press.
On January 18, a live-streaming event about IODP 378 Expedition was jointly conducted by the MGLab, IODP-China Office and the Green Snail Forum of the Shanghai Nature Museum.
On April 22, a live online lecture on science and technology and focused on climate change was held by our office and XinhuaNet at the program of Talks by Frontier Masters of Science and Technology , using the Science and Technology of China, XinhuaNet client, Today's Headlines and a number of other media platforms.
On October 1, Academician Pinxian Wang's popular science work Elementary Introduction to the Deep Sea was published, which aroused great reverberation.
On October 11, Academician Pinxian Wang was invited to the TV program “Lecture Hall of Chinese Economy” to discuss the subject Why do we need to march into the deep sea? with the TV audience at CCTV-2 financial channel of CCTV.
On November 15-19, Professor Zhimin Jian was invited by the CCTV News Channel to be a guest for the Deep Sea Laboratory of CCTV News and make a special report on the whole deep sea research.
Academician Pinxian Wang, Associate Professor and Director of Deep Sea Museum Wei Huang, and Tongji’s Ocean program got settled in Tiktok, using short video platform to make deep sea culture even more popular.
In December, the Deep-sea science popularization base won the first prize of 2020 Science Popularization Contribution Award (Organization) of the Shanghai Science Popularization Education Innovation Award.
In the same boat help each other for the South China Dream- Notes from Chinese Scientists in the Ocean Drilling Project , a book edited by the IODP-China office, was awarded “Excellent Shanghai Popular Science Book in 2020”.