About National Institute of Oceanography:
The National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) with its headquarters at Dona Paula, Goa, and regional centers at Kochi, Mumbai and Visakhapatnam, is one of the 38 constituent laboratories of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi.NIO was established on 1 January 1966 following the International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE) in early 1960s.The institute has grown today into a large oceanographic laboratory of international repute.The focus of research has been on observing and understanding the special oceanographic features that the North Indian basin offers.The inferences from this research have been reported in about 5000 research articles so far.The institute has about 200 scientists (more than half of them hold doctoral degree) and 100 technical support staff.The major research areas include the four traditional branches of oceanography- biological, chemical, geological/geophysical, and physical-and some other areas such as marine instrumentation and archaeology.
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