Progress in the Industry-University-Institute Cooperative Use of Research Vessels

With the support of Ministry Oceans and Fisheries Korea, Korea Institute Ocean Science Technology (KIOST) promoted ‘The study for industry-university-institute cooperative use research vessels’, which was an opportunity to advance domestic ocean next level, in line with launch R/V Isabu 2017. A brief history relation project is described Lee (Ocean Sci J 57(2), 2022) this issue. Celebrating 5th year project, KIOST (Marine scientists on a boat, Technology, Busan, 2021) has published resource book progress excluding scientific papers. In special issue, some results from are grouped together introduced. The joint vessels started large gradually expanded small vessels. Thus, target area also included open coastal waters (KIOST, Marine as shown papers featured