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

      1. Yasuhiro Sugimori (Chiba University)
      2. John Marra (NASA)


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)