The discipline of marine geology in our college has been supported by the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the Tenth Five-Year Plan, the 2 1 1 project of the Ministry of Education and the Action Plan for Revitalizing Education (985). In 2000, it was rated as the "most important" discipline in Shanghai, the national key discipline in 2002 and the national key laboratory of marine geology in 2006. In 20 14, the first phase of the Shanghai Ocean Science and Technology Center and the deep-sea observation port base of Tongji University Ocean Science and Technology Center covering an area of 100 mu was completed.
The college organizes many international and domestic academic conferences every year. 20 14 In July, following 20 10 and 20 12 years later, the third Earth System Science Conference organized by the Institute, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Oceanographic Society of China and the International China Association for the Advancement of Earth Science was held in Shanghai, attended by more than 1000 scientists and researchers.
The college is in a leading position in the field of deep-sea marine scientific research and seismic oil and gas exploration in China.