3rd International Symposium on Environmental Problems
A Homage to Professor Yukimasa Saito
29 November to 3 December, 2012
Moon Beach Hotel, Onna Village, Okinawa, Japan
Organized by The International Steering Committee of
the International Symposium on Environmental
Problems
The International Symposium on Environmental Problems
(ISEP) is an open forum for scientists from different fields for
sharing knowledge and expertise about complex phenomena in the
environment. The need for this venue is driven by the rise of
scientific and public concern about pollution, rapid epidemic
dispersion, environmental hazards, and related biogeochemical and
ecological problems. From 29 November to 3 December 2012 the 3rd
ISEP will be held in Okinawa, Japan, following the tradition of the
previous ISEP meetings (Nago
city, Japan, 2010,
and Naha
city, Japan, 2011). Okinawa is a
subtropical island, part of the Ryukyu Archipelago, with mild
winters and beautiful natural and architectonic scenery. The meeting
is to be held in the wonderful installation of Moon
Beach Hotel in Onna Village, an ideal setting for this
meeting. Additional cultural activities will take place in the city
of Nanjo rich in Ryukyu
mythology.
This ISEP is especially dedicated to Professor Yukimasa Saito, one of Japan's pioneer environmental scientists in the post-war era, who passed away in August 2011. Professor Saito made outstanding contributions toward establishing and strengthening the environmental dimension in Japanese public policy, particularly in Western Japan. Throughout his profound life-long pursuit of scholarship in physical sciences, Professor Saito emphasized the importance of harmonizing the physical and ecological perspectives in order to more accurately understand the complexity of the environment; the complexity that may not necessarily be adequately explained by well established classical physical theories. Therefore, the 3rd ISEP is celebrated as a homage to his figure and trajectory.
TOPICS: The primary goal of ISEP-2012 is to assess the state of the art in understanding how environmental processes affect ecosystems and influence global change. The summary of the different sessions is given next. The names in parenthesis show the scientists in charge of the different sessions.
PART I: CLIMATE and COMPLEXITY
Ocean Physiology (Pelegrí)
One possible approach to understanding the Earth’s climate is through global, or physiological-like, variables that reflect the temporal evolution of the Earth’s state. The characteristics of such variables may share key properties with other complex systems.
Molecular Dynamics Model for Climate System (Matsuda)
Theoretical study of climate has been on fluid dynamics
and thermodynamics. In contrast to such an approach, Matsuda
proposed a simple model in which molecules of the atmosphere
transport energy from the ground to the space following the law of
classic physics. The results explain the temperature and pressure of
the Earth’s troposphere without introducing many arbitrary
parameters.
Marine Biogeochemical Cycles, Ecosystems and Climate (Kumar)
Ocean plays a key role in climate because of it’s (1) very large heat content and (2) capacity to store and regulate CO2, with long temporal and spatial scales. Ocean data set are examined from the perspective of physical and biogeochemical interactions.
Data Analysis Methodology (Nakamoto)
Environmental data sets hardly obey Gaussian Probability Distribution because of the space-time inhomogeneity. High-order stochastic moments are used as indicators of stochastic dynamics to demonstrate complex climate variations.
Measure of Diversity (Kirwan)
Diversity is a measure of separation paths in descriptive biology, a toy model of ink-blub distribution paths showed that conventional notion of entropy does not describe complex distributions in space. A new notion, coined as KONTON, is useful for describing the diverseness of paths.
PART II: ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS
Ecomaterials (Shinohara)
Past Japanese scientists activities in developing Ecomaterials are reviewed.
Environmental Education (Kano)
Since the establishment in year 2000 of Environmental Physics in the Physical Society of Japan, Environmental Education plays a growing role in advancing the public's awareness and concern regarding environmental problems. A unique activity of RYOKUINJUKU will be introduced.
PART III: ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Alternative Energies (García-Olivares)
How much energy do we need? Are we approaching an oil-crash? Where and how we may obtain alternative energies?
PART VI: POSTERS and PRESENTATIONS
Scientific Papers solicited
Abstract submission:
30 September 2012
Full paper submission:
30 October 2012
INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE
A.D. Kirwan (Delaware, USA)
M. Kano (Tokyo, Japan)
S.P. Kumar (Goa, India)
J.L. Pelegrí (ICM, Barcelona, Spain)
S. Nakamoto (Nago, Japan)
LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
M. Kano (Yokohama, Japan)
G. Takaesu (Tokyo, Japan)
G. Shaw (Shuri, Japan)
K. Ohtsu (Tokyo, Japan)
S.Shimabukuro (Haebaru, Japan)
S. Nakamoto (Nago, Japan)
CALENDAR
Please keep in mind the following deadlines:
Early registration: September 30, 2012
Abstract submission: September 30, 2012
Acceptance of abstract: October 20, 2012
Full paper submission: October 30, 2012
On site registration: Nov 29, 2012
REGISTRATION FEE:
Early registration fees are as following (on site
registration fees in parenthesis):
Regular: 30,000JPY (40,000JPY on site)
Student: 20,000JPY (30,000JPY on site)
For Science: sn@okinawa-ct.ac.jp
For Arts & Culture: presidentnobo@gmail.com
For ISEP Hotel Reservation, please send an e-mail or
FAX to
reserve@moonbeach.co.jp FAX number 098-965-0555
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