Oct 18 (Tue)

13:15-13:45 Makoto Taniguchi (RIHN) Project Introduction

Session A "Urban and Materials Environments" (Convener: Gullaya Wattayakorn, Chulalongkorn University)

13:45-14:15 Socio-economics in Asian cities

Shinji Kaneko (Hiroshima University)

14:15-14:45 Urban Geography of Asia

Akihisa Yoshikoshi (Ritsumeikan University)

14:45- 15:00 Comments by

DELINOM, Robert M. (Indonesia Institute of Science, Indonesia)

15:00-15:15 Coffee break

15:15-15:45 Material transports from the Asian coastal cities

Shin-ichi Onodera (Hiroshima University

15:45-16:15 Sediment environments in Asia

Takanori Nakano (RIHN)

16:15-16:30 Comments by

William Burnett (Florida State University)

16:30-18:00 Poster session with ice break

Oct 19 (Wed)

Session B "Subsurface Environments in Asian Cities" (Convener: Makoto Taniguchi, RIHN)

9:00-9:30 Bangkok, Thailand

BUAPENG Somkid (Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Thailand)and :Gullaya Wattayakorn (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

9:30-10:00 Seoul, Korea

Guebuem Kim and Kang-Kun Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)

10:00-10:30 Jakarta, Indonesia

Robert M. Delinom (Indonesia Institute of Science, Indonesia)

10:30-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-11:15 Manila, Philippines

Fernando Siringan (University of the Philippines, Philippines)

11:15-11:45 Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Ho Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

11:45-12:30 Discussion

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Inter-Project Plenary Session Session 1 "Human History in the Changing Climate"
Room C

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 Climate"
(provisional)

P4-1: Qibin ZHANG, Institute of Botany, China
"Tree-ring Data for Climate Reconstructions Relation with Human History - " (provisional)

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

Session2 "Challenging for Better Human/Water Relationships"

15:45-17:15
Speakers (prearranged)

P1-1: Chieko UMETSU, RIHN, Japan
(provisional)

P4-1: Goudong CHENG, Cold & Arid Regions Environmental & Engineering Research Institute, China
"Chinese Challenge against the 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

Oct 20 (Thu)

Session C "Water and Heat Environment" (Convener: Gayl Ness(University of Michigan))

Room B

9:00-9:30 Subsurface water environment in Asia

Jun Shimada (Kumamoto University)

9:30-10:00 Gravity and groundwater in Asia

Yoichi Fukuda (Kyoto University)

10:00-10:15 Comments by

Kang-Kun Lee (Seoul National University)

10:15-10:45 Subsurface thermal conditions in Asia

Makoto Yamano (The University of Tokyo)

10:45-11:15 Heat Island in Asian cities

Toshiaki Ichinose (Environmental Research Center)

11:15-11:30 Comments by

Shaopeng Huang (University of Michigan)

11:30-12:30 Discussion

Business meeting (Session D)(at RIHN)

14:00-17:00

(1) MOU
(2) Future cooperation in each countries (Korea, Taiwan, Phillipine, Thailand, Indonesia)
(3) Further Funding (Urban, Material, Water, and Heat)
(4) Others

17:00 Closing