Title：Blue Economy CRC Aquaculture Projects: SeaFisher and SubSCI

Reporter：Prof.Chien Ming Wang

Time：2025.9.22（Monday）9:40-12:00

Venue：F3b-112, Guangzhou International Campus, South China University of Technology

Abstract：

As global demand for sustainable food and marine biomass intensifies, offshore aquaculture has become an increasingly vital contributor to food security and environmental resilience. This keynote paper focuses on two Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre’s offshore aquaculture projects: the SeaFisher - a submersible offshore fish pen and the SubsCI - a submersible seaweed cultivation infrastructure that can perform depth cycling in deep offshore waters.The conceptual design, modeling, structural and hydroelastic analyses, and t testing of these twooffshore aquaculture systems will be presented.

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C.M. Wang is Professor in Structural Engineering, The University of Queensland. He is a Chartered Structural Engineer, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore, a Fellow of Institution of Structural Engineers, a Fellow of Institution of Engineers Singapore, and a Fellow of Society of Floating Solutions (Singapore). His research interests are in the areas of structural stability, vibration optimization, plated structures and very large floating structures. He has published over 500journal papers and co-authored 10 books. He is an Editor - in - Chief of the International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics and an Editorial Board Member in several prestigious journals. He is also a Guest Professor in the School of Marine Science and Engineering at South China University of Technology.