Pre-Symposium Stage2 Time Schedule

"OASIS Project Workshop and Inter-project Plenary Session"

Climate change and water use in the Heihe River Basin: information from historical documents: KATO, Yuzo (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature) and INOUE, Mitsuyuki (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature)
Religious faith and environmental necessity: a case study of Tibetan Tantric Buddhist practice in Khara Khoto area: SHEN, Weirong (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature)
break 11:00-11:20

Changes in natural environment reconstructed from natural proxies in the Heihe Basin: TAKEUCHI, Nozomu (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature))
Climatic information in tree-rings from tree species growing at the Qilian Mountains: KOBAYASHI, Osamu (Ehime University), ZHANG, Qi-bin (Institute of Botany), Takeshi Nakatsuka (Hokkaido University)
Lunch Break 12:50-14:00

Paleoenvironment and migration of rivers and lakes in the lower reaches of the Heihe River: ENDO, Kunihiko (Nihon University)
Ruins of Wall-surrounded cities and paleo-irrigation channels in the lower reaches of the Heihe River: SOHMA, Hidehiro (Nara Women's University)
Landforms and environmental evolution in the arid land, Northwest China: MU, Guijin (Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
break 16:00-16:20

Impacts of human activities on the hydrological cycle in the Heihe River: KUBOTA, Jumpei (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature)
Role of glacier runoff in the Heihe Basin: SAKAI, Akiko (Nagoya University)

Reception of OASIS PROJECT

A hydrologic model for simulating the historical change of water resources in the Heihe River Basin during these two millennia: UJIHASHI, Yasuyuki (Fukui University of Technology)
Research on current situation and change of agricultural water management in the middle reaches of the Heihe River Basin: CHEN, Jing (Hohai University), WATANABE, Tsugihiro (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature), Jazila (Hohai University)
break 10:00-10:20

Struggle for water in the region of the Heihe River Basin: KONAGAYA, Yuki (National Museum of Ethnology)
Population change, water consumption and environment in the upper Heihe River Basin: OZAKI, Takahiro (Kagoshima University)
Life and water utilization in the middle of the Heihe River Basin: an examples of Gaotai Prefecture and Minghua-qu of Sunan Yogur Autonomous Prefecture of Gansu Province: Mailisha (Rikkyo University)
Analysis of change in agriculture under Chinese development policy: NAKAMURA, Tomoko (Tohoku University)
Environmental and social changes of the past fifty years in the Ejine Oasis of the Heihe River Basin: KODAMA, Kanako (Nagoya University)
Lunch Break 12:20-14:00

Opening Address:: Prof. Yo-Ichiro SATO and/or Prof. Masayoshi NAKAWO
14:00-15:30 Speakers (prearranged): P1-1: Akio KITOH, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan
“Approach to Human Impact on Climate through Modeling the Past and Future ClimateE(provisional); P4-1: Qibin ZHANG, Institute of Botany, China and Osamu KOBAYASHI (Ehime University)
"Ecohydrological constraints on the growth of Oases forest in a semi-arid to hyper-arid inland watershed "; P2-4: Shaopeng HUANG, The University of Michigan, USA
"Penetration of human induced warming in the continental landmasses"
Commentators On climate change: P1-1: Akiyo YATAGAGAI, RIHN, Japan
P4-1: Koji FUJITA, Nagoya University, Japan
P2-4: Chung-Hu Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
15:30-15:45 Break

15:45-17:15 Speakers (prearranged): P1-1: Chieko UMETSU, RIHN, Japan
“Human Security and Water Resources in South IndiaE; P4-1: Goudong CHENG, Cold & Arid Regions Environmental & Engineering Research Institute, China
"Mitigation of water shortage in the Heihe Basin, western China"; P2-4: William C. Burnett, Florida State University, USA
"Human Impacts on Land-Ocean Interaction"
Commentators: P1-1: Mehmet Ekmekci, Hacettepe University, Turkey
P4-1: Maki TSUJIMURA, Tsukuba University
P2-4: Fernando Sirigan (University of the Philippines)
17:30-17:45: Speech by Director General of RIHN: Toshitaka Hidaka 18:00- reception