WS Time Schedule (Version: 2008/08/25)

August 27, 2008 (1st Day of PICES Okhotsk Sea WS)

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09:00     Registration

09:30      Opening Ceremony:

              Welcome Addresses:

YOKOHAMA Michinari (Dean, Faculty of Bio-Industry, TUA)

KAMADA Koji (Director, Abashiri Construction and Development Department Office, Hokkaido Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)

              Workshop Objectives, Structure and Outputs:

                                          Co-Convener:                      KASHIWAI Makoto (TUA)

                                                                      KANTAKOV Gennady (SakhNIRO)

10:00      Plenary Session (PS1): Climate / Ocean Dynamics                   

Session Chairs: Andreev/Ohshima

              10:00     GLEBOVA Svetlana, USTINOVA E. I. and SOROKIN Y. D.:

Long-term changes atmosphere center and climatic regime of the Okhotsk Sea in the last three decades.

              10:20      TACHIBANA Yoshihiro and OGI Masayo:

Influence of the annual Arctic Oscillation on the negative correlation between Okhotsk sea ice and Amur River discharge.

10:40      OHSHIMA Kei-Ichiro, NAKANOWATARI Takuya, NAKATSUKA Takeshi, NISHIOKA Jun, and WAKATSUCHI Masaaki:

Changes in the Sea of Okhotsk due to global warming. -Weakening pump function to the North Pacific.

              11:00       ANDREEV Andrey G.:

Interannual variations of the East-Kamchatka and East-Sakhalin Currents transport and its impact on the temperature and chemical parameters in the Okhotsk Sea.

              11:20       MUKTEPAVEL Larisa and SHATILINA T. A.:

Some regularities of formations of extremely low-ice winter seasons in the Okhotsk Sea. 

    11:40       SASAJIMA You-ichiro, HASUMI Hiroyasu and NAKAMURA Tomohiro:

A sensitivity study on the dense shelf water formation in the Okhotsk Sea.

12:00                    Lunch Break:                    [Jungle Pocket]

13:00      Plenary Session (PS2): Amur River / Geochemical Cycle                        Session Chairs: Peña/Kishi

              13:00      LOBANOV Vyacheslav, DUDAREV O., TISHCHENKO P., ZHABIN I.,

                            ZVALINSKY V., CHARKIN A., KOLTUNOV A., SAGALAEV A. and

                            SHVETSOVA M.:

Review of the POI program on the Amur River Estuary and adjacent marine areas.

              13:20      NAKATSUKA Takeshi, NISHIOKA Jun, SHIRAIWA Takayuki and All members

                            “Amur-Okhotsk” Project.

Biogeochemical linkage between Amur River basin and western subarctic Pacific by iron transport through Okhotsk Sea Intermediate Water: A new paradigm to explain changes in ocean primary productivity.

              13:40      PEÑA Angelica:

Modelling of biogeochemical cycles and climate change on the Continental Shelf: An example from the Pacific coast of Canada.

              14:00      NOMURA Daiki, TOYOTA Takenobu, MATOBA Sumito, NISHIOKA Jun and                         SHIRASAWA Kunio:

Nutrient status of snow cover and sea-ice in the southern Sea of Okhotsk.

              14:20      HIWATARI Takehiko, KOSHIKAWA Hiroshi, KOHATA Kunio, FUKAMACHI                       Yasushi and SHIRASAWA Kunio:

Interannual material fluxes under seasonal sea ice in the Okhotsk Sea north of Hokkaido, Japan.

14:40                    Tea/Coffee Break:                            [Jungle Pocket]

15:00      Plenary Session (PS3): Primary production / Zooplankton / Marine mammal      

Session Chairs: Saitoh/Trukhin

              15:00      MUZZNEENA Ahmad Mustapha and SAITOH Sei-Ichi:

Satellite measured seasonal and interannual variability of primary production at the scallop farming area in the Okhotsk Sea.

              15:20      KASAI Hiromi, ONO T. and HIRAKAWA K.:

Seasonal variability of primary production off Abashiri, the southern Okhotsk Sea.

              15:40      ISADA Tomonori, SUZUKI Koji, LIU Hongbin, NISHIOKA Jun and

                            KATSUKA Takeshi:

Primary productivity and photosynthetic features of phytoplankton in the Sea of Okhotsk during late summer.

              16:00      KOBAYASHI Mari, KOUNO Y., NISHINA M., FUJIMOTO Y., and KATO K.:

Seasonal change in number and movement pattern of spotted seals (Phoca largha) migration around the Sea of Japan.

              16:20      TRUKHIN Alexey M.:

Current status of pinnipeds in the Sea of Okhotsk.

              16:40      TAGUCHI Mioko , ABE S. and MATSUISHI T.:

Mitochondrial DNA variation in Japanese Harbor Porpoise.

17:00      Announcement

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17:30      Open “Welcome Party      [Jungle Pocket]

19:30      Close

19:50      Route Bus to Down Town leaves Campus

20:00      School Bus to Hotel leaves Campus

 

 

 

 

 

 


August 28, 2008 (2nd Day of PICES Okhotsk Sea WS)

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09:30      Session A (A1): Current dynamics: [2-204]                 

Session Chairs: Samko/Nakanowatari

              09:30      UCHIMOTO Keisuke, NAKAMURA Tomohiro, NISHIOKA Jun and                                       MITSUDERA Humio:

Modeling the circulation of the intermediate layer in the Sea of Okhotsk.

              09:50      NAKANOWATARI Takuya, MITSUDERA Humio, MOTOI Tatsuo and

                            OHSHIMA Kay I.:

Recent decrease in the intermediate water temperature in the Western North Pacific: the effect of cross gyre transport. 

              10:10      KANTAKOV Gennady:

Vertical movements of water masses in the western part of Sea of Okhotsk.

              10:30      Tea/Coffee Break:              [Jungle Pocket]

              10:40      SHEVCHENKO George, KANTAKOV Gennady and CHASTIKOV Valery:

Mooring current observations in the areas adjacent to Shmidt Peninsula (Northern Sakhalin). 

              11:00       SHEVCHENKO George, KANTAKOV Gennady and CHASTIKOV Valery:

Mooring current observations on the Sea of Okhotsk's shelf of Urup and Kunashir Island (Kuril Ridge).

              11:20       SHEVCHENKO George and ROMANOV Alexander:

Energetic characteristics of tidal and residual level oscillations in the Okhotsk Sea from satellite altimetry data.

              11:40       SAMKO E. V. and BULATOV N.V.:  [canceled]

Structure and dynamics of eddies in the Southern Okhotsk Sea.

12:00                    Lunch Break:      [Jungle Pocket]

13:00      Session A (A2): Sea-ice, Watermass and Freshwater process / Coastal lagoon: [2-204]

Session Chairs: Tachibana/Abrosimova

              13:00      MOTOI Tatsuo, CHAN Wing-Le and MIYAKAWA Takuya:

Sea-ice flow from the Okhotsk Sea to the Pacific Ocean through the Nemuro Strait in 2008.

              13:20      NAGATA Yutaka:

Outflow of the Okhotsk Sea Water and the Oceanic condition of the sea to the east of Hokkaido

              13:40      KASHIWAI Makoto:

World Ocean Atlas 2005 indicates occurrence of winter convection at open ocean polynya in the eastern part of Okhotsk Sea.

              14:00      ABROSIMOVA Anastasiya, ZHABIN Igor and DUBINA Vyacheslav:

Influence of the Amur River discharge on the hydrological conditions of the Amurskii Liman and Sea of Okhotsk during spring-summer flood.

              14:20      OSHIMA Kazuhiro, TACHIBANA Yoshihiro and OGI Masayo:

Seasonal and interannual variations of Amur River discharge and their relationships to large-scale atmospheric patterns and moisture fluxes.

              14:40      BROVKO Peter F.:

The Okhotsk Sea coastal lagoons: types, evolution and use of resources.

15:00      Tea/Coffee Break:              [Jungle Pocket]

15:20      Session A (A3): New Technology: [2-204]                      Session Chairs: Romanov/Ebuchi

              15:20      EBUCHI Naoto, FUKAMACHI Yasushi, OHSIMA Kay I., and WAKATUCHI                          Masaaki:

HF-Radar technology in the Sea of Okhotsk.

              15:40      ROMANOV A. A., TRUSOV S. V. and ROMANOV A. A.:

Automated information technology for ionosphere monitoring on the low orbit navigation satellite signals.

              16:00      ROMANOV A. A., URLICHICH U. M., PULINETS S. A. and ROMANOV, A. A.:

The pilot project on complex diagnosis for earthquake precursors in Sakhalin Island: the experiment results in 2007.

              16:20      MKRTCHYAN Ferdenant A., KRAPIVIN V. F.; KOVALEV V. I. and KLIMOV V.                     V.:

An adaptive spectroellipsometric technology for ecological monitoring of the sea water.

              16:40      KRAPIVIN V. F. and MKRTCHYAN Ferdenant A.:

Remote sensing radiometry technology for the Okhotsk Sea ecosystem biocomplexity assessment

              17:00      CHERNOOK Vladimir, GOLDIN Yurij, LISOVSKI Alexander and VASILEV                             Alexander:

The using of airplane-lidar for registration of fish schools and plankton.

17:20      Tea/Coffee Break:              [Jungle Pocket]

17:40      Session A (A4): Discussion on Research Proposal [2-204]        Session Chairs: Lobanov/Kashiwai

19:30      Session A: adjourned

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19:50      Route Bus to Down Town leaves Campus

20:00      School Bus to Hotel leaves Campus

 


August 28, 2008 (2nd Day of PICES Okhotsk Sea WS)

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09:30      Session B (B1): Biological processes / Disturbance by Oil&Gas development          [2-203]

Session Chairs: Yamaguchi/Zaitseva

              09:30     SHIMADA Hiroshi, SAWADA Mayumi, KURIBAYASHI Takanori, NAKATA

                            Akifumi, MIYAZONO,Akira, ASAMI Hiroki:

Spatial distribution of toxic dinoflagellate, Alexandrium tamarense in summer in the Okhotsk Sea off Hokkaido, Japan.

              09:50      ASAMI Hiroki, SHIMADA Hiroshi, SAWADA Mayumi, MIYAKOSHI                                       Yasuyuki, ANDO Daisei, FUJIWARA Makoto and NAGATA Mitsuhiro:

Spatial and seasonal distributions of copepods during spring to summer in the Okhotsk Sea off Eastern Hokkaido, Japan

              10:10      YAMAGUCHI Atsushi, UENO Yasuhiro, SEKI Jiro and IKEDA Tsutomu:

Characteristics of zooplankton community of the Okhotsk Sea in Autumn: a comparison with Oyashio region.

10:30      Tea/Coffee Break:              [Jungle Pocket]

              10:40      KANAIWA Minoru, INOUE Takuya and YAMAMOTO Atsuya:

Determinants of fish species composition in Abashiri River.

              11:00       KASHIWAI Makoto and KANTAKOV Gennady:

Scientific evidences and questions identified by Hanasaki Program.

              11:20       ZAITSEVA Julia:  canceled

On the retention of fisheries under influence of oil and gas expanding at the continental shelf of the Pacific Ocean based on example of Sea of Okhotsk.     

       11:40       SAMATOV Andrey D., LABAY Vyacheslav S.:

Benthos community of the dumping area during liquid natural gas plant construction: effects of technical impacts or natural changes?

12:00      Lunch Break:      [Jungle Pocket]

13:00      Session B (B2): Walleye Pollock      [2-203]                          Session Chairs: Sakurai/Bulatov

              13:00      BUSLOV A. V. and VARKENTIN Alexander I.:

Walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) spawning in the Okhotsk Sea waters off the north Kuril Islands and south-western Kamchatka.

              13:20      KULIK Vladimir:

Responses of relative abundance of dominants in fish communities to the Sea of Okhotsk climate variability.

              13:40      OVSYANNNIKOV Evgeny E., SMIRNOV A. V. and AVDEEV G. V.:

Walleye pollock researches in the open waters of the Okhotsk Sea.

              14:00      OVSYANNIKOVA Svetlana:

Walleye pollock distribution and stock condition off the Southern Kuril Islands in 2006-2007

              14:20      KOTENEV, B. and BULATOV,O.:

Stock dynamics of walleye pollock in the Sea of Okhotsk.

              14:40      SAKURAI Yasunori, OOSATO M. and YAMAMOTO J.:

Does the extent of ice cover affect the fate of walleye pollock?

15:00      Tea/Coffee Break:              [Jungle Pocket]

15:20      Session B (B3):

                            Join to Session A: New Technology       [2-204]

17:20      Tea/Coffee Break:              [Jungle Pocket]

17:40      Session B (B4): Discussion on Research Proposal from Session B       [2-203]

Session Chairs: Sakurai/Kantakov

19:30      Session B: adjourned

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19:50      Route Bus to Down Town leaves Campus

20:00      School Bus to Hotel leaves Campus

 

 



August 29, 2008 (3rd Day of PICES Okhotsk Sea WS)


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09:30      Working Session: [2-203]

Session Chairs: Kashiwai/Kantakov

Session Chairs work for session report;

10:30      Tea/Coffee Break:              [Jungle Pocket]

Session Chairs work for session report;

10:50   Working Session: [2-203] continued

 

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09:30 Communication Session:[Jungle Pocket]

No Session Chairs

                      Information exchange for possible collaboration among participants;

10:30      Tea/Coffee Break:              [Jungle Pocket]

Information exchange for possible collaboration among participants;

10:50 Communication Session:[Jungle Pocket]

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12:00      Lunch Break:                    [Jungle Pocket]

13:00      Plenary Session (PS4): [2-204]                      Session Chairs: Kantakov/Kashiwai

                            Presentation of Session Reports by Session chairs

                            Discussion on Session Reports;

                            Discussion on Crossover items;

14:30      Tea/Coffee Break:                            [Jungle Pocket]

16:30      Plenary Session (PS4): [2-204] continued

                            Discussion for WS Summary:

17:30      Closing of Workshop:

                            Closing Remarks: Co-Conveners

                            Announcement:

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18:00      School Bus to Hotel leaves Campus

18:05      Route Bus to Down Town leaves Campus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


August 30, 2008 (Day for TUA Program)   

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Okhotsk Practical Learning Open Seminar “How can we develop resilience of ecosystem and fishery of Okhotsk Sea against global warming?”                        [with Russian/Japanese sequential translation]

09:30      Open doors/Registration;

10:00      Opening Ceremony:

Opening address:

KUROTAKI Hidehisa (Director, Center of Okhotsk Practical Learning, TUA)

HIRATSUKA Tsutomu (Director, Hokkaido Abashiri Branch Office)

10:15      Objective and Structure of Seminar:

                            KASHIWAI Makoto (Aqua-BioScience, TUA)

10:30      Keynote Reports:

10:30      “Possible changes in oceanographic conditions of the Okhotsk Sea with global warming”:                LOBANOV Vyacheslav (Pacific Oceanological Institute)

              11:00       “Impacts of changes of oceanographic conditions and ecosystems associated with

global warming on fisheries in the Okhotsk Sea”:

     KANTAKOV Gennady (SakhNIRO)

              11:30       “Effect of rise in summertime water temperature associated with global warming on                survival of scallop fishery”:           NISHIHAMA Yuji (Visiting professor, TUA,)

12:00      Lunch Break:                     [Jungle Pocket]

              13:30      “Influence of global warming on northern fish populations”:

            KISHI Michio J. (Hokkaido University)

14:00      Discussions: “In order the fisheries of the Okhotsk Sea to be able to tolerate through severe changes with global warming, what subjects should be addressed by marine sciences?”

                            Coordinator:                       TANIGUCHI Akira (Aqua-BioScience, TUA)

                            Question Posing:    

                                          From Fisheries practices:

KITAMURA Yoshio (Abashiri Fisheries Cooperative)

                                          SASAKI Noboru (Nishi-Abashiri Fisheries Cooperative)

                                          From Questionnaire Survey on Concerns of Fishermen:           

SUZUKI Yasuaki (Okhotsk Practical learning / A-class, TUA)

                            Discussions and Comments from Keynote Reporters and Floor:

15:00      Tea/Coffee Break:                            [Jungle Pocket]

15:20

                                          Evolutionary view on global warming and local fishery

                   CHIBA Susumu (Aqua-BioScience, TUA)

                                       On the Environment and Fisheries of Brackish Waters:

                                                        SONODA Takeshi (Aqua-BioScience, TUA)

                            Discussions and Comments from Keynote Reporters and Floor:

16:20      Tea/Coffee Break:                            [Jungle Pocket]

16:40                    Discussions:  (continued)

17:30      Closing

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18:05      Route Bus to Down Town leave Campus

18:15      School Bus to Hotel leave Campus

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19:00      Open “SAYONARA Party”, [Central Hotel]

21:00      Close