The "MF-UBC Nereus Program - Predicting the Future Ocean," a joint program between the Nippon Foundation and the University of British Colombia, was formally established in autumn 2011. There is only one sea, and we all share it. The depletion of fishery resources is a problem shared by the whole of humanity. To achieve sustainable fisheries, we aim to train human resources in maritime fields who can deepen a shared understanding that transcends national frontiers and interests.
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The ocean's biogeochemical cycle is deeply connected with organisms' activity, environmental change, and human activities. In realizing coexistence between the ocean and mankind, it is important that strong linkage ocean's biogeochemical cycle and organisms' metabolic processes be understood together. It is important to understand about response of organism activity and ecosystem dynamics through the stress caused by global warming and human activities. Biogeochemical cycle and behavior is an important key for understanding response and adaptation of ocean ecosystem.

This article introduces the Deep Water Platform concept for installing a comprehensive observation and experimental station at great ocean depths. In future use and application projects, we must adopt ways of thinking that attach greater importance to nature by using assessment methods capable of reflecting opinions from the widest variety of fields possible.