COE Program Symposium + GLP Symposium

<<< February 19>>>
COE Program Symposium on
"Prediction and Avoidance of an Abrupt Change in the Bio-geosphere System"

*Program*
9:00-9:20　Center of Excellence summary report　
Motoyoshi Ikeda "A drastic change in the bio-geosphere system"

Session 1 Global warming and climate variability
(Chair: Naoto Ebuchi)
9:20-10:00 Keynote speech 1
　Peter Lemke (WCRP Exchairperson) "Climate variability in the 20 century: WCRP Report"
10:00-10:20　Koji Yamazaki "Net precipitation in polar regions and its change due to global warming"
10:20-10:40　Takeshi Tamura "Estimation of sea ice production from passive microwave data in Antarctic coastal polynyas"

10:40-11:10 Poster Session

(Chair: Yutaka Watanabe)
11:10-11:30　Yasuhiro Yamanaka "Modeling for understanding the effect of global warming on the marine ecosystem and fisheries”
11:30-11:50　Naoki Yoshie "Development and applications of an ecosystem model reproducing complex marine ecosystems around Japan"
11:50-12:10　Vinu Valsala "Simulation of CFC cycle in the ocean using Offline Tracer Transport Model (OTTM)"
12:10-12:30　Ai Sakamoto "The reconstraction and those trend of the marine biogases (DMS, N2O) in the North Pacific"

12:30-13:30 Lunch

Session 2 Bio-geosphere interactions through geochemical compounds
(Chair: Atsuko Sugimoto)
13:30-14:10 Keynote speech 2　
　John Gibson "Isotope Hydrology and Geochemistry"
14:10-14:30 Toshihiko Hara "Modelling climate-vegetation interactions with special reference to boreal forests"
(Chair: Ayumi Tanaka)
14:30-14:50　Eri Nabeshima "Growth responses of trees in a mature cool-temperate forest under climate variability"
14:50-15:10　Kohei Takenaka "Pollination mutualisms between Colocasiomyia flies (Diptera: Drosophilidae) and Araceae plants"

15:10-16:00 Poster session

(Chair: Seigo Higashi)
16:00-16:20　Fumio Hasebe "Modification of the stratospheric circulation field due possibly to the ozone depletion"
16:20-16:40　Takefumi Kataoka "UV-radiation effects on marine bacteria using molecular techniques"
(Chair: Tatsufumi Okino)
16:40-17:00　Sunitz Tanaka "Search, assessment and remediation for low concentration pollutants"
17:00-17:20　Bunshi Fugetsu "Nano-functional materials for environmental remediation"
(Chair: Toshio Iwakuma)
17:20-17:40　Takeshi Nakatsuka "Linkage between inland and open ocean ecosystems by material transports through river and ocean flows - An example from Amur-Okhotsk system"
17:40-18:00　Masao Minagawa "Role and pattern of nutrient impact in a coastal system border on contemporary farming land"



<<< February 20>>>
GLP Symposium on
"Impacts of Global Change on Vegetation and Cycling of Materials in Ecosystems"

*Program*
Session 1: Effect of land use and vegetation change on water and material cycling
9:30-Chair: Atsuko Sugimoto
9:40-10:25 Keynote speech 1
　Richarrd Aspinall (The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, UK) "Towards integrated models of change in land systems - some design criteria from the Global Land Project"
10:25-10:50 Hideaki Shibata (Hokkaido Univ.) "Effect of human activity on biogeochemical cycling of terrestrial watershed in Hokkaido, northern Japan"

10:50-11:05 Break

11:05-11:30 Futoshi Nakamura (Hokkaido Univ.) "Rapid shrinkage of Kushiro Mire, the largest mire in Japan, due to increased sedimentation associated with land-use development in the catchment"
11:30-11:55 Atsuko Sugimoto (Hokkaido University) and Buhe Aosier (Rakuno Gakuen University)
"Climate and Human impacts on vegetation and water cycle in Taiga forest of northern Eurasia"

11:55-13:15 Lunch

Chair: Mamoru Ishikawa (Hokkaido Univ.)
13:15-13:40 Maki Tsujimura (Univ. of Tsukuba) "Source of groundwater and river water in Kherlen River basin, eastern Mongolia"
13:40-14:05 Teiji Watanabe (Hokkaido Univ.) "Sustainable land management in the Pamir, Central Asia"
14:05-14:30 Toshio IWAKUMA (Hokkaido Univ.) "Environmental change and sustainable management of tropical wetland ecosystem of Indonesia"

14:30-14:45 Break

Session 2: Response of vegetation on environmental change: modelling approach
14:45- Chair: Takashi Kohyama (Hokkaido Univ.)
14:50-15:35 Keynote speech 2　
　Heike Lischke (Swiss Federal Insitute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL) "Keynote 2: Simulating biome response to climate change: Lags by succession and migration"
15:35-16:00 Hisashi Sato (Frontier Research Center for Global Change, JAMSTEC) "An introduction of SEIB-DGVM, a new dynamic global vegetation model using a spatially explicit individual-based approach, and its applications to tropical rain forest"

16:00-16:15 Break

16:15-16:40 Akihiko Ito (Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, and Frontier Research Center for Global Change, JAMSTEC) "Model simulations of carbon budget in terrestrial ecosystems from plot to global scales"
16:40-16:55 Akio Takenaka (Natural Institute for Environmental Studies) "Comments on forest dynamics projection"
16:55-17:25 General discussion


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<<< February 19-20>>>
Poster Presentation
Norifumi Terui "Electrochemical detection and remediation of environmental pollutants"

Motomu Toda “More asymmetric tree competition brings about more evapotranspiration and less runoff from the forest ecosystems”

Kazuhiro Oshima “Boreal Forests in Climate System -global warming in northern high latitude-”

Md.,Jahangir Alam “Transport and characteristics of dissolved organic matter in the Isikari River”

Yoshihiro Akiyama “Decrease of freshwater pearl mussel populations with environmental change”

Shumpei Yasuda “Molecular Phylogeography of the Japanese Dormouse, Glirulus japonicus”

Takayuki Hiratani “Optical sensing of metal ions in aqueous media by using hydrophilic semiconductor nanoclusters”

Roxy Mathew “Role of SST over Indian Ocean in influencing the intraseasonal variability of the Indian summer monsoon”

Kazuhiro Misumi “Modeling of marine biogeochemical cycles in the mid-Cretaceous focusing on causes of Ocean Anoxic Events”

Taro Sugimoto “Genetic analysis of Amur leopard and Siberian tiger using fecal samples”

Maki Hayakawa “Differences in cell viabilities of phytoplankton between spring and late summer in the northwest Pacific Ocean”

Chungwan Lim “Construction of alkaline tephrochronology by high-resolution INAA core analysis in the southern Japan Sea”

Teppei Yasunari “Seasonal cycles of atmospheric dust and tritium reconstructed from Mount Wrangell ice core, Alaska, and comparison with statistical-backward trajectory analysis”

Takashi Ida “Impact of canopy closure on carbon allocation of a spring-ephemeral species Trillium apetalo (Liliaceae) in deciduous forest: plastic response of reproductive output to light availability”

Makoto Kobayashi “Geographical transition of tree community structures at the boundary of forest zones and the regeneration mechanism of invading species”

Hiroaki Sone “Carbon nanotubes as adsorbents for affinity-based elimination of aromatic VOCs”

Hiroshi Matsuura “Metamorphosis inducers of sea urchin and sea cucumber”

Yuriko Higashioka “Studies on microbial degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons under the sulfate-reducing condition”

Takafumi Hino “The effects of deer on plant diversity and soil nutrient in a cool-temperate forest”

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Hokkaido University
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