• December 2001
IOT started to develop self-contained Cycle Profiling Float, and it was planed to produce some sample floats in 2004.
• March 20-22, 2001
Prof. Xu Janping and Engineer Zhu Bokang from SIO and Prof. Yu Lizhong from IOT attended the 3th IAST meeting held in IOS, Sidney, Canada (Word version).
• March 5-9, 2001
Prof. Xu Jianping attended the Forum on Argo Float Deployment and Operation held in Yokosuka, Japan.