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Environmental Technology Research Network
in the Asia-Pacific Region

DB for Research Project
Category(1) : Ocean
Category(2) : Modeling


  1. Project Name
  2. Duration
  3. Research Catagory 1
  4. Research Catagory 2
  5. Research Field
  6. Researchers
  7. Affiliation 1
  8. Affiliation 2
  9. Address
  10. Country
  11. Phone
  12. Fax
  13. Project Summary
  14. Publications
  15. International Joint Study with

National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology(NIBH), Japan

  1. Methods for characterizing microbial ecosystems of oil biodegradation in sea water
  2. 1993-1997
  3. water, ocean
  4. monitoring
  5. biology
  6. Takanori HIGASHIHARA, Akihiko MARUYAMA, Yasuhiro KAWANO
  7. Applied microbiology department
  8. NIBH, AIST, MITI
  9. 1-1, Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305
  10. Japan
  11. 81-298-61-6022
  12. 81-298-61-6005
  13. The research aims to develop techniques for monitoring vehavior of oil-degrading microorganisms under some oil-contained model environments, characterizing marine microbial community in oil-polluted environments and evaluating the effectiveness of various insitu biological oil-cleanup methods from the microbial ecological viewpoint.

National Institute for Resources and Environment(NIRE), Japan

  1. Japanese Study on the Behavior of Greenhouse Gases and Aerosols
  2. 1990-1999
  3. global change, air, water, ocean
  4. counter measures, reaction mechanism, measurement, monitoring, modeling
  5. chemistry, geophysics
  6. Takashi IBUSUKI, Koji TAKEUCHI, Shuzo KUTSUNA, Kazuhide KOIKE, Hitomi KOBARA
  7. Photoenergy Application Div., Global Warming Control Dept.
  8. NIRE, AIST, MITI
  9. 16-3 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305
  10. Japan
  11. 81-298-61-8168
  12. 81-298-61-8158
  13. This project aims at conducting research and observation on long-term trend of greenhouse materials and on the material circulation and quantitative analysis of natural balance in order to estimate and predict influence of anthropogenic and natural greenhouse gases.
  1. Elucidation of Material Cycle in Coasl Environment and Development of Monitoring Techniques 2 1994-1998
  3. water, ocean, hazardous substances, sediments
  4. measurement, fate, monitoring, reaction mechanism
  5. chemistry
  6. Akira MIYAZAKI, Kenji BANSHO, Mamoru TOMINAGA, Hiroaki TAO, Akira@KIMURA, Takashi IMAGAWA, Nobuyoshi YAMASHITA
  7. Water Analysis Lab, Hydrospheric Environmental Protection Dept.
  8. NIRE, AIST, MITI
  9. 16-3 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305
  10. Japan
  11. 81-298-61-8338
  12. 81-298-61-8308
  13. The objectives of this project are to use artificial chemical substances, rare earth metals, heavy metals and lead isotopes as tracers to investigate the material cycle in the coastal environments and to develop analytical techniques and monitoring technique. Based on three-dimensional analysis of the tracers, the transition in the flow of substances into the marine environments in recent years and behavior in the environment will be elucidated.
  14. 1)Nobuyoshi Yamashita, Ultra-trace level measurement of non-orhto planar PCBs in sea water using in situ filtrate/adsorption water sampler, Journal of NIRE, 4, 4, 315(1995)
  15. Kiel Univ.,Germany

Chugoku National Industrial Research Institute(CNIRI), Japan

  1. Influence of Wind-induced Mixing on Ecosystem in the Semi-enclosed Sea
  2. 1996-2000
  3. ocean
  4. monitoring, diagnosis
  5. physics, ecology
  6. Hideki UESHIMA, Hideaki NOGUCHI, Yosio TAKASUGI, Hideichi YASUDA, Takehiko HIGO
  7. Marine Dynamics Section, Marine Environmental Science and Technology Division,
  8. CNIRI, AIST, MITI
  9. 2-2-2 Hiro-Suehiro, Kure, Hiroshima 737-01
  10. Japan
  11. 81-823-72-1926
  12. 81-823-73-3284
  13. In a semi-enclosed sea such as at Seto Inland Sea, eutrophic level of the water has been progressing by increasing of organic materials that discharged from a land or due to excessive primary production in a sea. In the eutrophic sea, occurrence of red tide or shellfish toxification has frequently done considerable damage to fish and/or shellfish culture. When it blows hard, wind-induced strong mixing occurs in the sea and dense nutrient salts and cysts curl up from bottom layer of the eutrophic sea. Diffusion of these materials often plays important roles of a trigger in occurrence of read tide and shellfish toxification. The purpose of this task is to make clear how the wind-induced mixing of water has the influence on ecosystem in the semi-enclosed sea.