Dr. Zhou is in charge of the overall administration of SOED (including the Oceanology Application Center of the Indian Ocean), disciplinary inspection, human resources, application of scientific researches, and SOED office.

Dr. Bai is in charge of party building, development of scientific researches, security and popularization, and project financial issues.

Dr. Zhang is in charge of technology development, metrology accreditation, confidentiality, civil-military cooperation and regional cooperation.

Dr. Lian is in charge of post-graduate education, post-doc administration, the Youth League Committee, and the labor union.

Dr. Wang is in charge of International cooperation, platform building for observation and research stations, Fixed asset and infrastructure management, and management for logistics and lin’an base.