The research activities were dealt with : 

• Physical Oceanography (waves, sea level, hydrodynamics, currents and hydrology).
• Chemical Oceanography (Major and Minor elements in the sea and CO2 system).
• Aquatic Geochemistry and Sedimentology.
• The pelagic system: primary productivity, phytoplankton, zooplankton and their dynamics in marine, lagoons and estuaries environments.
• Benthic ecosystem: including zoo-benthos, macro-algae and the effect of pollution stress.
• Modelling : Input/output models for coastal waters, dispersion models for major pollutants and numerical modelling for the Egyptian Shelf Zone.
• Eutrophication, Red tide and toxic algal blooms.
• Study the remote sensing techniques for oceanographic application (SST, SLA).