Program (10-Nov-99)
International Symposium on Ocean Color Remote Sensing and Carbon Flux by CEReS and JUWOC
Dec.13 Monday
Opening Session
Chairman : Yasuhiro Senga (Tokai University)
08:00 - Registration
09:00 - 09:10 Opening session
Session A : Ocean Color Remote Sensing System
Chairman : Yasuhiro Senga (Tokai University)
09:10 - 09:35 A1. OCTS summary
Tasuku Tanaka (Earth Observation Research Center/NASDA)
09:35 - 10:00 A2. An Overview of the SeaWiFS Mission
Bryan A. Franz (Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA)
10:00 - 10:25 A3. An Overview of SIMBIOS Project
Giulietta S. Fargion (SIMBIOS PROJECT, GSC-SAIC)
10:25 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 11:10 A4. A Status of MODIS
Bryan A. Franz (Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA)
11:10 - 11:35 A5. GLI Project : Current Status
Vu Saito(Eearth Observation Research Center/NASDA)
11:35 - 12:00 A6. Status of GLI
Masanobu Shimada (Earth Observation Research Center/NASDA)
12:00 - 12:25 A7. International Coordination of Long-Term Ocean Biology Time Series Derived from Satellite Ocean Color Data
Janet W. Campbell (University of New Hampshire)
P.M.Schlittenhardt (ECJRC), T.Tanaka (EORC/NASDA)
12:25 - 13:30 Lunch
Session B1 : View from Ocean Color Sensors
Chairman : Ichio Asanuma (JAMSTEC)
13:30 - 13:55 B1. Early results from SeaWiFS observations of the NE Pacific nd BC coast
Jim Gower (Institute of Ocean Science)
13:55 - 14:20 B2. A hypothesis of Cloud-Phytoplankton-Ocean interaction in the subarctic North Pacific
Hiroshi Kawamura (Tohoku Univ.)
14:20 - 14:45 B3. Using Scatterometer winds to predict potential productivity in eastern boundary current regions
Mary-Elena Carr (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA)
14:45 - 15:10 B4. Application of ocean color imagery for Japanese fisheries
Hideo Tameishi (Japan Fisheries Information Service Center)
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Session B2: View from Ocean Color Sensor
Chairman : Hiroshi Kawamura (Tohoku University)
15:30 - 15:55 B5. Variability of pigment biomass and mesoscale thermal features along First Oyashio Intrusion as determined from satellite and ship data
Kedar N. Mahapatra & Yoshihiro Okada (Tokai Univ.)
16:20 - 16:45 B6. Ocean Color Variability of Japan JGOFS time series station KNOT and its adjacent waters, northwestern North Pacific observed by OCTS and SeaWiFS
Kosei Sasaoka, Sei-ichi Saitoh (Hokkaido Univ.),
Ichio Asanuma, Keiri Imai, Makio Honda and Toshiro Saino
16:45 - 17:10 B7. Interannual Variability in the Optical Characteristics of the Equatorial Pacific: Consequences for the Upper Ocean Heat Budget
Marlon Lewis (Dalhousie University) and Ichio Asanuma
17:30 - 19:00 Reception
Dec.14 Tuesday
Session C : Primary production
Chairman : Joji Ishizaka (Nagasaki University)
09:00 - 09:25 C1. Photosynthetic characteristics of phytoplankton in the subarctic Pacific Ocean in summer
Ken Furuya and Takashi Yoshikawa (University of Tokyo)
09:25 - 09:50 C2. Remote Sensing of Primary Production
Trevor Platt (Bedford Institute of Oceanography)
09:50 - 10:15 C3. Chlorophyll and Primary Production in a Cyclonic Eddy off the Island of Hawaii
Carrie L. Leonard and Robert R. Bidigare (University of Hawaii)
10:15 - 10:35 Coffee break
Session D: Optical Properties
Chairman : Sei-ichi Saitoh (Hokkaido University)
10:35 - 11:00 D1. In-situ measurement of chlorophyll-a specific absorption coefficient in the sea
S.M.Kobara, M.Kishino, and S.Taguchi (Soka Univ.)
11:00 - 11:25 D2. Variations in the Absorption Characteristics of Phytoplankton: Implications for Remote Sensing
Shubha Sathyendranath (Bedford Institute of Oceanography)
11:25 - 11:50 D3. Evaluation of ocean color algorithms for the Sea of Japan using a merged Japan-Korea-US data set, and plans for East Asian regional algorithm Development
Gregg Mitchell (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
M.Kishino (Riken), S.Saitoh (Hokkaido Univ.),
J.Ishizaka (Nagasaki Univ.), Yu-Hwan Ahn (KORDI)
11:50 - 12:15 D4. Oceanic chlorophyll a algorithm for several cases of waters
Toru Hirawake (National Institute of Polar Research)
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
Session E : Carbon Flux
Chairman : Marlon Lewis (Dalhousie University)
13:30 - 13:55 E1. Air-sea carbon flux simulated in an upper ocean biogeochemical model
Y.Sasai and Motoyoshi Ikeda (Hokkaido Univ.)
13:55 - 14:20 E2. Variations in CO2 outflux from the central and western equatorial Pacific
H.Y.Inoue, M.Ishii, H.Matsueda, T.Tokieda, S.Saito (Meteolorgical
Research Institude ), I.Asanuma, T.Kawano, and A.Murata (JAMSTEC)
14:20 - 14:45 E3. Comparison between carbon fluxes collected by time-series sediment trap experiment and the primary productivity estimated with satellite data
Makio C. Honda, Masashi Kusakabe, Fumiko Hoshi (JAMSTEC),
Toshikatsu Sugawara (MWJ), and Ichio Asanuma (JAMSTEC)
14:45 - 15:10 Coffee Break
Session F : Regional Study
Chairman : Giulietta S. Fargion (SIMBIOS PROJECT, GSC-SAIC)
15:10 - 15:35 F1. A comparison of CZCS, OCTS, POLDER and SeaWiFS chlorophyll imagery of the North Atlantic
James Yoder (University of Road Island)
15:35 - 16:00 F2. Chlorophyll control of sea-surface temperature in the Arabian Sea
Robert Frouin (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), and
Shoichiro Nakamoto (ESTO,JAMSTEC)
16:00 - 16:25 F3. East China Sea
Joji Ishizaka (Nagasaki University)
16:25 - 16:50 F4. Banda Sea, Indonesia
John Marra (NASA)
16:50 - 17:15 F5. Blooming Mechanism off Lombok Strait
Ichio ASANUMA (JAMSTEC)
Closing Session
Chairman : John Marra (NASA)
17:15 - 17:25 Closing Address: Yoshizumi YASUDA (Chiba University)