Proceedings
The Sixth Steering Committee
Meeting (SC-6) of
Ocean Models and Information System for the APEC Region
June 6-8, 2002, Taipei
OMISAR Project
Publication
(Ocean Models and
Information System for the APEC Region)
ASIA-PACIFIC
ECONOMIC COOPERATION
MARINE
RESOURCE CONSERVATION WORKING GROUP
Sponsors
APEC Marine Resource Conservation Working
Group
Environmental Protection Administration,
Chinese Taipei
Organized by
Chinese Undersea
Technology Association, Chinese Taipei
Coastal Ocean
Monitoring Center, NCKU,
Chinese Taipei
Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan
University, Chinese Taipei
Proceedings
The Sixth Steering Committee
Meeting (SC-6) of
Ocean Models and Information System for the APEC Region
Chinese Undersea
Technology Association, Chinese Taipei
June 6-8, 2002, Taipei
Project Overseer:
Dr. Gwo Dong ROAM
Director General
Office of Science & Technology Advisors
Environmental Protection Administration
41, Sec
1, Chung-Hwa Road, Taipei, Taiwan,
Chinese
Taipei
Tel: +886-2-2382-2841
Fax: +886-2-2311-5486
Email:
gdroam@sun.epa.gov.tw
Meeting Co-Chairs
Prof. Dr. Cho-Teng Liu
Institute of Oceanography
National Taiwan University
No.1 Sec.4 Roosevelt Road, Taipei 106
Tel: +886-2-23620624
Fax: +886-2-23635165
Email: ctliu@ntu.edu.tw
Prof. Dr. Chia Chuen KAO
Director
Coastal Ocean Monitoring Center,
National Cheng Kung University
No.1 Ta-Hsueh Road, Tainan, Taiwan 701,
Chinese Taipei
Tel: +886-6-275-7575ext.63201
Fax: +886-6-274-1463
Email: kaoshih@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Contents
Remarks
by the OMISAR Project Overseer,
Dr. Gwo-Dong Roam
Meeting
Summary of SC-6
Agenda
of SC-6
Directory
of Participants
Appendix
A:
History and Progress of OMISAR-2002 Project
Drs. Cho-Teng LIU and Chia Chuen KAO
Appendix
B:
Progress Report on Organizing WOM-9
MSc. Nguyen Phi Khu and MSc. Vo Khac Tri
Remarks by the OMISAR
Project Overseer
Dr. Gwo-Dong Roam
June 6, 2002
Distinguished Colleagues,
On behalf of Chinese Taipei, I would like to extend to all of you my
warmest welcome to the Sixth Steering Committee of the APEC Ocean Models and
Information System in the APEC Region.
This project has been ongoing for about six years now. In those years, you have all showed your
strong support of this project, for which I would like to thank you. Your valuable suggestions and expertise
have indeed benefited this project greatly.
One of the mandates of the ministers in the Seoul Oceans Declaration is
“to promote improved regional science collaboration and coordination to develop
and facilitate ocean observing, assessment and forecasting systems, rapid
response mechanisms for extreme weather and climate events.” This project is a direct response to
such a mandate. An important aspect
of this project is to share information and knowledge about our oceans, and the
results of this project will contribute to ocean forecasting. As the overseer of this project, I would
like to ask you to offer us your expert opinions to guide the direction of this
project.
This project has become a common discussion topic for experts in many
APEC economies, giving me a chance to get to know some of the best scientists
in our region, and some of us have become close friends as a result of this
project. This project will conclude
one day, but I hope that our friendships will last well into the future. Thank you again for taking the time to
be here. I hope you will have a
pleasant stay in our city.
Meeting Summary of SC-6
The Sixth Steering Committee (SC-6) Meeting was held on
June 6-7 in the conference room of the Chinese Undersea Technology Association
in Taipei, and on June 8 in the conference room of Institute of Oceanography,
National Taiwan University.
The meeting was co-chaired by Prof. Cho-Teng Liu and Prof.
Chia Chuen Kao. It was participated
by delegates from China; Hong Kong, China; Singapore and Vietnam.
Because of emergency condition of his family member, the
Overseer of project OMISAR, Dr. Roam was not able to attend the meeting. He asked Prof. Liu to read his remarks
at the beginning of the meeting.
The followings are summaries from the discussion among
participants:
1.
Prof. Liu
presented the history of OMISAR project, the plan and the progress of the
project since last meeting SC-5 that was held in the Department of
Environmental Protection, Hong Kong, China.
2.
Delegate
from Hong Kong, China, Prof. LI Chi-Wei presented the preparation of WOM-8 (The
Eighth Workshop on Ocean Models) that is to be held in Hong Kong late
August. The central topic is
comparing resultes of wave forecasting models that are based on the same data
set. Prof. Kao also briefed the
participants that most of the requested wind, wave and ancillary data for the
comparison of wave-forecasting models, are available on internet and on
CD. The venue of WOM-8 is the
Kimberly Hotel in Hong Kong.
3.
Delegates
from Singapore, Prof. CHAN Eng-Soon and Dr. Pavlo Tkalich, presented the
preparation of WOM-7. The central
theme shall be the hydrodynamic models that aim at studying environmental
problems. The venue of WOM-7 will
be in the campus of National University of Singapore. The targeted dates are the beginning of
October 2002.
4.
Delegates
from Vietnam, Mr. Khu and Mr. Tri presented their progress in preparing WOM-9
that is on the application and the networking of satellite data. Although Vietnamese are new in the
OMISAR project, their approach in organizing international conference is well
respectable. The venue of WOM-9 is
in the conference room of National Centre of Science and Technology (NCST) of
Vietnam. The targeted dates are
Nov. 1-3, 2002.
5.
Prof. Liu
asked the participants to comments on the direction of OMISAR project. The suggestion of keeping the project
name by members of SC-5 that was held in Hong Kong, China in May 2001 is
sustained by members of SC-6.
6.
On the
central theme of future OMSIAR project, the following suggestions were raised
among participants: study an event of natural marine disaster (like typhoon
related disaster), red tides, shore erosion, salt intrusion, flooding, marine
pollution, etc. The decision is
left to the next Steering Committee Meeting.
Agenda of SC-6
Venue: Chinese
Undersea Technology Association
6F-3,
No. 160, Sec 1, Chien-Kuo S. Road, Taipei
June 6 (Thursday)
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Time
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Program
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8:30
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Depart from hotel for meeting
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9:00 ~9:30
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Registration and Welcoming Remarks
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9:30~10:30
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Section I：Review of the 2001
OMISAR activities: WOM-6 and WOM-5
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10:30~11:00
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Tea break
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11:00~12:00
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Section II：OMISAR 2003 proposal
presentation; Group photos
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12:00~13:30
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Lunch break
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13:30~15:30
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Section III：Report of progress
on WOM-7, WOM-8, and WOM-9
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15:30~16:00
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Tea break
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16:00~17:30
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Section IV：Discussion the planning of OMISAR 2003 and beyond
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18:00
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Dinner
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June 7 (Friday)
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8:30~17:00
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1. am: Computex 2002
2. noon and pm: Field trip to the Dansui River Estuary
|
June 8 (Saturday):
there will be
discussion sessions on NOAA data collected at the joint satellite ground
station of OMISAR project in the Southern Institute of Water
Resources Research (SIWRR), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Directory of
Participants
Prof. CHAN Eng
Soon
Physical
Oceanography Research Laboratory of TMSI
National University
of Singapore
10 Kent Ridge
Crescent
Singapore 119260_
Tel: 65 874 2275/4513
Fax: 65 779 1635
Email: cveces@nus.edu.sg
Prof. Dr. Chia
Chuen KAO
Director
Coastal Ocean Monitoring
Center,
National Cheng Kung
University
No.1 Ta-Hsueh Road,
Tainan, Taiwan 701,
Chinese Taipei
Tel: +886-6-275-7575ext.63201
Fax: +886-6-274-1463
Email: kaoshih@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Prof. Li Chi-Wei
Department of Civil
& Structural Engineering
The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
Tel: 85-2-27666043
Fax: 85-2-23346389
E-mail:
cecwli@polyu.edu.hk
Prof. Dr. Cho-Teng Liu
Institute of Oceanography
National Taiwan University
No.1 Sec.4 Roosevelt
Road, Taipei 106
Tel: +886-2-23620624
Fax: +886-2-23635165
Email: ctliu@ntu.edu.tw
Professor LIU Defu
Director
Disaster Prevention Research Institute
Ocean University of Qingdao
CHINA
Tel: 86 53 2203 2559
Fax: 86 53 2203 2799
Email: liu@mail.ougd.edu.cn
MSc. Nguyen Phi
Khu
Institute of Applied
Mechanics (IAM) – NCST
291, Dien Bien Phu
Road
Dist.3, Ho Chi Minh
City, Vietnam.
Tel. +848-9230652
Fax. +848-8369333
Email: ktsoft@hcm.vnn.vn
Dr. Pavel Tkalich
Physical
Oceanography Research Laboratory of TMSI
National University
of Singapore
10 Kent Ridge
Crescent
Singapore 119260_
Fax: 65 779 1635
Email:
tmspt@nus.edu.sg
MSc. Vo Khac Tri
Southern Institute
for Water Resource Research (SIWRR)
2A, Nguyen Bieu Road
Dist. 5, Ho Chi Minh
City, Vietnam.
Tel. +848-8365116
Fax. +848-8325320
Email:
siwrr2@hcm.vnn.vn
Appendix
A: History and Progress of OMISAR-2002 Project
Drs. Cho-Teng LIU and Chia Chuen KAO
Appendix
B: Progress Report on Organizing WOM-9
MSc.
Nguyen Phi Khu and MSc. Vo Khac Tri
ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION 
MARINE RESOURCE
CONSERVATION WORKING GROUP
The Sixth
Steering Committee of OMISAR
June,
6-7th 2002 - Chinese Undersea Technology Association Meeting Room
6F.3.No.
160, Sec 1, Chien-Kuo S.Rd. Taipei, Taiwan 106. Chinese Taipei
REPORT ON
THE PROGRESS OF ORGANIZING THE NINTH-WOM
Nov 1-2nd 2002 - Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam
Khu N.P.
NATIONAL
CENTRE FOR NATURAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Institute
of Applied Mechanics
No.
291 Dien Bien Phu, District No. 3, Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam
Phone:
848-9230652 Fax 848-8369333 Email: ktsoft@hcm.vnn.vn
On behalf of NCST/IAM I would like to welcome all
participants of the Sixth Steering Committee which is organized by the Ocean
Models and Information System for APEC Region or OMISAR, and the APEC Marine
Resource Conservation Working Group or MRC-WG.
Firstly, I wish to thank Professors Gwo-Dong Roam - OMISAR
Project Overseer, Shiuan-Wu Chang EPA - Senior Research Fellow and Cho-Teng Liu
-OMISAR Project Contractor who made many good chances for us to participate
this meeting as well as some other OMISAR workshops.
I wish this sixth meeting a success and wishing that partnership
among all participants will continue well beyond the end of this meeting.
Our working on the small satellite station technology will
not be possible without strong technical support and funding from the
Environment Protection Administration and the National Taiwan University, the
Institute of Oceano-graphy.
On April, 16th 02, the project of NCST/IAM small
satellite station to study the coastal circulation was approved and funded by
the EPA - such a station has also been setup at the Southern Institute of Water
Resource Research of Vietnam since Nov, 01. These projects has really opened a
new scientific research co-operation for us base on the small satellite station
technology.
With these scientific truthful relationships, we wish an
Agreement will be signed between NTU and IAM to start a science and training
co-operation in the field of Marine
Research.
Under the sponsorship of APEC MRC-WG ,EPA and my NCST the
next small satellite workshop has been planed to open by the IAM and
SIWRR. So, an urgent meeting of
NCST’s Scientific Council, IAM and SIWRR has been organized on June, 30th
02.
The attachment outline has been discussed and agreed to
suggest as the main procedure and progress of organizing the ninth workshop of
OMISAR or WOM-9. According to this meeting, our suggestions are as follows:
Scientific
Committee:
N.D. Canh (IAM,Ho Chi
Minh City) Leader and Secretary of IAM
S.W. Chang
(EPA,Taipei) Senior Research Fellow
D.V. Khuong (RIMF,Hai
Phong City) Deputy
Director
C.T. Liu (NTU,Chinese Taipei) APEC
Contractor
D.V. Luong (HCMCity) Director
of
Science,
Technology & Environment Department of HCM city
D.V. Minh (Co-chair,NCST,Hanoi) General
Director of
National
Centre for Natural Science and Technology of Vietnam
T.Q. Ngoc (Ho Chi Minh City) Director
N.A. Nien (SIWRR, Ho
Chi Minh City) President of
Scientific Council of Southern Institute of Water Resource
Research
G.D. Roam (Chair, OMISAR,Taipei) Project
Overseer of OMISAR
L. Sam (SIWRR, Ho
Chi Minh City) Director
N.K. Son (NCST,Hanoi) Vice-General Director of NCST
P.H. Tien (Hanoi) Director of Marine Research Program
L.M. Triet (Co-chair,
NCST,HCM City) President
of
Council
of United ScientificBranches in Southern of Vietnam
Organizing
Committee:
N. Dung (IAM, HCM City)
N.X. Hao (IAM, HCM City)
N.P. Khu (IAM, HCM City)
T.V. Lang (sIIT, HCM City)
C.T. Liu (NTU, Taipei)
V.T. Loan (IAM, HCM City)
T.D. Thang (SIWRR, HCM
City)
V.K Tri (SIWRR, HCM City)
L.N. Xuyen (NCST, HCM City)
Contact
Address:
Nguyen Phi Khu - Insitute of Applied Mechanics
291,
DienBienPhu, Dist. 3, HoChiMinh City, Vietnam.
Phone:+84-8-9230652
fax: +84-8-8369333
Email: ktsoft@hcm.vnn.vn siwrr2@hcm.vnn.vn
Topics: Satellite Data and Applications
· Ocean Color Imager-Data Processing and Application
· Satellite Image Analysis and Remote Sensing
· Satellite Database Management System
· Small Satellite Data and Marine Conservation
· Small Satellite Data and Environment Protection
Place: NCST’s
Meeting Room.
at: No. 1, Mac Dinh
Chi St., Dist. No.1, Ho Chi Minh
City - Vietnam.
Date : November, 1-2nd
2002.
Deadlines: Registration and Submission of Abstracts :
SEP.15th 2002
Notification
of Acceptance : OCT.1st
2002
Anouncements:
The 1st anouncement About
WOM9: AUG. 1st 2002
The 2nd About registration and submission abstracst: SEP.1st 2002
The 3rd About notification and the workshop last-Info: OCT.5th 2002
Website : A website for
the ninth-WOM and to communicate between the APEC/OMISAR small satellite
stations and scientists in this field will be designed and issued in two-weeks
before the ninth-WOM opened.
Tentative
Agenda :
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Day
|
Time
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Section
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FRI
Nov.
1st
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8:00 -
9:00
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Registration
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9:00
-10:15
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Opening. WOM Overview
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10:15-10:30
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Coffee Break
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10:30-12:00
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WOM9 reports
|
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12:00-13:00
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Lunch
|
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13:30-15:00
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WOM9
reports (cont.)
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|
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15:00-15:30
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Coffee Break
|
|
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13:30-15:00
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WOM9
reports (cont.)
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8:30
-10:30
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Technical tours of local agencies
|
|
SAT
Nov.
2nd
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10:30-15:30
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Cultural tours
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|
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17:00-19:00
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WOM9
close and Banquet
|
The obligation of local host is providing: meeting room,
transportation between airport and hotel, logistics, technical-tours of local
agencies, cultural-sightseeing tour.
We would like to suggest that APEC will cover travel expenses
of some speakers of the workshop. Every APEC-sponsored participants have to
give a report with computer files to be recorded in the workshop proceeding.
Hopefully, more information from our EPA staff on details of
APEC administration and on publishing the proceeding according to APEC
requirement will be early issued to have enough time for our preparation.
Although, the local host fees for holding the workshop may
not require to be paid, but we wish to get some special supports from the APEC
and the other fund sources to be sure our first workshop in Vietnam will be
quite successful.
We are very grateful for the sponsorship of APEC, OMISAR, EPA
and NTU in organizing the ninth-workshop on small satellite station technology.
Lastly, I wish to thank our colleagues for all hardworks
preparing for this meeting and our partnership will continue well beyond.
Thank you.
