Building Oceanographic Data Utilization Capabilities: An Experiment in the Equatorial Pacific

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Building Oceanographic Data Utilization
CapabilitiesAn Experiment in the Equatorial
Pacific

• Japan Marine Science and Technology Center

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1. Training and Education Activities in JAMSTEC
Activities for general publics Activities for
professionals
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1. Training and Education Activities in JAMSTEC

• Activities for publics

?Open house / research vessels to the public
?training course on marine science and
technology for high school students
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1. Training and Education Activities in JAMSTEC

• Activities for professionals
• ?Marine Science education
• for high school teachers
• ? Diving training courses
• for researchers, engineers and rescue
  members
• ? Training program
• for Asia-Western pacific Ocean Research
  Network
• ? Training program for professionals of
• Oceanographic observation

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2. The purpose of Training Program for
Asia-Western pacific Ocean Research Network
As a Capacity Building program, the aim of
Training program for Asia-Western pacific Ocean
Research Network is Establishing an
oceanographic observation network in the Asia and
Western Equatorial Pacific.
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2. The purpose of Training Program for
Asia-Western pacific Ocean Research Network

• The workshop provides
• ? training on basic marine scientific and
• technological knowledge
• ? handling techniques of ocean observational
• and analytical equipment
• ? opportunity of communications
• among participants

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2. The purpose of Training Program for
Asia-Western pacific Ocean Research Network

• Participants would acquire capabilities
• to forecast marine condition of their countrys
• surrounding waters.
• to carry out the first level processing of
  their
• organizations and/or countrys oceanographic
  data
• to establish an oceanographic observation
• network in the Asia and Western Equatorial
  Pacific
• through human relations developed during the
• workshop
• to participate in global scale elucidation and
• prediction of anomalous climatic change

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3. The outline of the program

• Period
• ?1st January 15 March 9, 2001 (8 weeks)
• ?2nd November 4 November 30, 2001 (4 weeks)
• ?3rd (scheduled)
• October 28 December 8, 2002 (6 weeks)

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3. The outline of the program

• Selection of participating country
• - the countries near to the area where JAMSTEC
  carries out oceanographic research and surveys by
  research vessels, TRITON buoys and ARGO floats.
• -the countries located in the area suffering from
  El-Nino, La-nina, and cyclone.

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Latest Development of TRITON buoy array
3. The outline of the program
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TRITON buoy and research vessel MIRAI
3. The outline of the program
Training workshop focused on ? data handling of
oceanic and atmospheric data available ?
technologies for oceanic and atmospheric
observations, especially on maintaining TRITON
buoy system and equipment on-board the research
vessel Mirai
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3. The outline of the program

• Required qualification to participants

?Knowledge of natural science or
technology ?Basic operation of PC ?Either in
occupants of -ocean observation
-fisheries -marine forecasting
-meteorological observation ? younger than around
35 years old
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3. The outline of the program

• Participants are requested
• -to bring their countrys or organizations
  available oceanographic and meteorological data.
• -to present a brief report on their countrys
  ocean observation and related service system.
• The kind of data which participants brought
• ----gt sea level, precipitation, fish catch
  yield,etc

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Lecture about observational facility
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Lecture on board research vessel Mirai
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Training on board research vessel Mirai
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Data processing exercise
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Workshop in SOPAC, Fiji(2003.10.628)
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4. The result of the training program

• Participants of the workshop became
• ? understand the importance of oceanographic
  observation due to confirmation of availability
  of participants own data.
• ? be able to know the oceanic condition of their
  own countries by getting and analyzing the data
  which JAMSTEC opens on the web-site.
• ? exchange information about oceanic condition
  using the human relationship.
• ? Making use of the result of the workshop,
  actively execute their job at their own country.

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5. Future Development

• To elucidate mechanism of various changes in the
  global environment, it is indispensable to make
  more wide, dense and precise observation than
  ever.
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• to understand the importance of the
  oceanographic observation
• to make use of the knowledge and the network
  built by the capacity building program in
  regional observational activities.

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Southern Hemisphere Cruise by R/V MIRAI in
2003-04 BEAGLE 2003 (Blue Earth for Global
Expedition 2003)
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Brisbane
Jul. 30, 2003 - Aug. 3, 2003
Tahiti
Tamatave
Santos
Valparaiso
Sep. 6, 2003 - Sep. 9, 2003
Dec. 20, 2003
Nov. 2, 2003 - Nov. 6, 2003
Oct. 16, 2003 - Oct. 19, 2003
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Cape town
Port Louis
Fremantle
Dec. 6, 2003 - Dec. 9, 2003
Dec. 27, 2003
Jan. 24, 2004 - Jan. 27, 2004 Feb. 19, 2004 -
Feb. 22, 2004
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Specification Length 128.6 m Breadth 19.0
m Depth 10.5 m Draft 6.9 m Gross
Tonnage 8,687 tons Complement 80 persons
Crew 34 Observation
Staff 18 Researcher 28