Tuesday, 9 January 2007:
   
9:30 - 9:45 1. Opening
  1.1 K. Musiake ( Chairman of Organizing Committee )  
  1.2 O.Ochiai ( GEO Secretary )  
  1.3 S. Sakamoto ( MEXT )  
  1.4 T. Koike ( Professor, the University of Tokyo )  
 
9:45 - 10:30 2. AWCI Activity Reports
  2.1 The 1st Asian Water Cycle Symposium and the International Task Team Meeting
    T. Koike ( Professor, the University of Tokyo )
     
  2.2 GEO/IGWCO Capacity Building
    C. Ishida (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA))
       
  3  Co-Chairs  
       
 
10:45 - 12:00 3. A Baseline of GEOSS/AWCI Demonstration Projects
  3.1 Objectives
     
       
  3.2 Criteria of candidate river basins  
       
  3.3 Timeline  
       
  3.4 Which data do we need?  
       
  3.5 Data Policy  
       
  3.6 Japan’s ODA on s ODA on Water and Sanitation
    M.Nishimura(Mofa)
 
13.00 - 15:00 4. Country Proposals (1)
  4.1 Country Proposals for Asian Water Cycle: Bangladesh
    S. Karmakar (Bangladesh Meteorological Department)
       
  4.2 The State of Water Resources in Bhutan
    K. Chhophel (Hydro-met Services)
G.K. Chhopel (National Environment Commission)
       
  4.3 Cambodia
    L. Saravuth (Hydrologist Department Hydrology and River Works/MOWRAM)
       
  4.4 Demonstration Project on Flood Forecast in the HuaiheRiver Basin of China
    Q. Mingkai (HuaiheRiver Commission, Ministry of Water Resources)
W. Xinping (Bureau of Hydrology, Ministry of Water Resources)
Y. Dawen (TsinghuaUniversity)
       
  4.5 India Meteorological Department
    N.Y.APTE (Director)
       
  4.6 Indonesia
     
       
  4.7 Japan
    T. Koike (Professor, the University of Tokyo)
       
  4.8 Demonstration River Basins in Korea
    Deg-Hyo Bae (Professor, Dept. of Civil & Env. Engrg., Sejong University)
       
  4.9 Strengthening data collection for Flooding in Sebangfai River, Lao PDR
    C. Amphaychith (Lao National Mekong Committee Secretariat)
       
  4.10 Malaysia  
       
  4.11 Demonstration project proposal on IWRM in Selbe River basin, Mongolia
    D. Gombo (Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology)
       
  4.12 Country Report, Myanmar
    Htay Htay Than (Dept. of Meteorology and Hydrology)
 
15:30 - 16:40 4. Country Proposals (2)
  4.13 INTRODUCTION TO PROPOSED DEMONSTRATION BASIN, Nepal
    S.K. SHARMA
       
  4.14 Demonstration River Basins in Pakistan
    B. AHMAD (Water Resources Research Institute National Agriculture Research Center Islamabad, Pakistan)
       
  4.15 PAMPANGA RIVER BASIN, Philippines
    F. Hilario (Weather Services Chief, Climatology and Agrometeorology Branch PAGASA/DOST)
       
  4.16 Country proposal - SRI LANKA
    P. M. Jayatilaka Banda (Department of Meteorology)
N. Rupasinghe (Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau)
S. B. Weerakoon (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)
       
  4.17 FLOOD DISASTERS and WARNING SYSTEM MANAGEMENT in NORTHERN THAILAND
    T. Sukhapunaphan (Hydrology and Water Management Centre for Upper Northern Region)
       
  4.18 Uzbekistan
    S. MYAGKOV
       
  4.19 Somes problemes for nominated river basins involved in the demonstration project of the AWCI
    DUONG VAN KHANH
       
 
16:40 - 18:00 5. CCooperative Existing Projects, Programs, and Systems (1)
  5.1 Outline of ICHARM and its strategy to contribute to flood disaster reduction
    K.Fukami (Hydrologic Engineering Research Team, ICHARM, Public Works Research Institute)
       
  5.2 United Nations University Activities
    S.Herath (Environment and Sustainable Development Programme, UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSTY)
       
  5.3 Medium Term Flood Forecasts in Mekong River Commission & Possible Cooperation
    T.H.Tien (MRC/FMMP)
       
  5.4 JAXA/Earth Observation Program for Water Resource Management
    C.Ishida (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA))
       
  5.5 Hydrological Cycle studies in Institute of Observational Research for Global Change
    T.Ohata (JAMSTEC)
       
  5.6 Outline of the Japanese Alliance for Climate Change Observation (JACCO)
    T.Fujitani (Office for Coordination of Climate Change Observation/MOE & JMA)
       
  5.7 GWSP Activities Regarding Asian Regions
    C.Liu (Institute of Goegraphic Science and Natural Resource Research)
       
  5.8 DATA COORDINATION AND MANAGEMENT
    S.Williams (NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory)
       
   

   
Wednesday, 10 January 2007:
   
9:00 - 10:20 5. Cooperative Existing Projects, Programs, and Systems (2)
  5.9 MAHASRI
    J.Matsumoto & M.C.Yen (MAHASRI)
       
  5.10 From planning to implementation
    C.Fu (MAIRS)
       
  5.11 PUB
    S.B.Weerakoon (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)
       
  5.12 JEPP  
   
HARIMAU
M.Yamanaka (HARIMAU)
   
Tibet_Promotion of integrated research on energy water circulation
H.Ishikawa
   
Mae Waang River Basin in Thailand for GEOSS Asian Water Cycle Initiative
T. Oki (Institute of Industrial Science)
S. Kanae (The University of Tokyo)
   
Precipitation in Indochina Peninsula
J.Matsumoto
   
 
10:50 - 12:30 6. Summary of a Implementation Plan of Demonstration Projects
  6.1 Discussion Summary
  6.2 Step Forward
 

 

Open Session "Toward Convergence -GEOSS/AWCI-"

 
13:40 - 14:00  
  Opening Remarks  
K. Itatani, MEXT  
S. Okamura,Vice President, the University of Tokyo  
 
14:00 - 14:30  
  GEO: Understand Trends, Forecast Changes, Support Informed Decisions
Jose Achache (GEO)
 
14:30 - 14:50  
  Water Issues and Capacity Building in Asia
Srikantha Herath(UNU)
 
14:50 - 15:10  
  Collaboration in Asia and Pacific Region
Andrew Matthews (APN)
 
15:10 - 15:30  
  Water Issues in Bangladesh
Iqbal Bg. Gen. Shah Mohammad Sultan uddin (Beer Protik NDU PSC)
 
16:00 - 16:20  
  Data Integration and Information Fusion  
Masau Kitsuregawa (UT)
 
16:20 - 16:40  
  Interoperability Arrangements -- from syntactic to semantic interoperability --
Ryosuke Shibasaki (UT)
 
16:40 - 17:00  
  Application to Agriculture
Seishi Ninomiya (NARC)
 
17:00 - 17:20  
  A Challenge by AWCI to Flood Disaster Reduction in Asia
Toshio Koike (UT)
 
17:20 - 17:30  
  Closing Remarks