There are more than 400 professional technicians in SIO, including 2 academicians of CAS and 3 academicians of CAE, 4 senior specialists at Zhejiang Provincial level, 110 senior professional technicians, 196 associate senior professional technicians as well as a large group of influential academic leaders at home and abroad, thus forming a team of high-quality, high-level and high-skilled talents for science and technology.

Among all staff in SIO, 2 have obtained the “Science Grant for Outstanding Youth” from the state, 2 have been listed in the “One-hundred plus One-thousand plus Tenthousand Talent Project” , 4 have received the Excellent Young Scientists Fund, 2 have been recognized as Young and Middle-Aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions and 3 have been awarded as Young and Middle-Aged Leading Talents in Scientific and Technological Innovation by the Ministry of Science and Technology. In addition, 26 have been receiving special allowance from the State Council, and 7 others are recipients of various national-level talent programs.

Apart from these, SIO is also home to a large group of influential academic leaders, including 4 chief scientists in the National ‘973’ Program, 2 National Advanced Collective of Outstanding Technical Personnel, 1 winner of “Scienceand Technology Award for Chinese Youth”, 3 Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions in Zhejiang Province, 1 “Qianjiang Scheme” talent and 6 Outstanding Sci-tech Youths in the national oceanic system, 35 awardees of the Zhejiang “151 Talent Program”, 6 Outstanding Young Scientists in the national marine science and technology system (field). Three important teams also emerged from the large group of academic leaders, including 1 innovation team in the state key fields, 1 innovation research team granted by National Research Foundation and 1 key sci-tech innovation team in Zhejiang Province.

In recent years, SIO has signed long-term cooperation agreements with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang University, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Guangdong Ocean University, Zhejiang Ocean University, as well as research institutes such as the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences to carry out co-building plans in laboratories, marine science disciplines and talent cultivation. And it is now also possible for universities to hire graduate supervisors from other institutes in a mutual way. SIO also build co-research mechanism through scientific research programs so as to work together to cultivate high-level and innovative marine talents. By establishing special hiring mechanism, SIO has managed to hire more than 20 guest professors from Taiwan and Hong Kong regions as well as some foreign countries.

SIO was given permission to confer Master Degrees of Science by Academic Degree Commission of the State Council in 1981. It is authorized to confer master’s degrees in three first-level disciplines: Marine Science, Remote Sensing Science and Technology, and Resources and Environment, and in two second-level disciplines: Geophysical Exploration and Information Technology, and Port, Coastal and Offshore Engineering. And in total, there are more than 145 master supervisors. In disciplines such as Remote Sensing Science and Technology, Physical Oceanography, Marine Geology, Marine Chemistry, and Marine Biology, SIO recruits jointly supervised doctoral students in cooperation with leading universities and research institutes in China and abroad. A total of 40 researchers of the institute serve as part-time doctoral supervisors at universities.

SIO also has postdoctoral workstation that is qualified to recruit postdoctoral researchers independently and a platform for visiting scholars for cooperation and joint researches. The postdoctoral research station received an “Excellent” rating in the comprehensive evaluations conducted by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the National Postdoctoral Management Committee in both 2015 and 2020. To date, two postdoctoral researchers have been selected for the China Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Program, and more than 60 have received funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Program) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.