International Workshop:

Promotion of integrated terrestrial environment research under the 
Global Land Project

Sponsor:
The International Affairs, The Administration Bureau, Hokkaido 
University

Date and Venue:
10:00 ___ 17:00, Thursday 28 July, 2005
Centennial Hall, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

To cope with global change, new interdisciplinary research activities 
have been promoted by international programs WCRP, IGBP, IHDP and 
DIVERSITAS and their joint partnership on Earth System Science.__To 
collaborate, and interrelate Japanese activities with them, this 
workshop aims to exchange the basis of new frameworks and relevant 
research experience, inviting core scientists who lead international 
programs.__Particular focus is on the new Global Land Project under 
IGBP/IHDP, which recently finalized its science plan.____Many recent 
integrate studies by Hokkaido University members and colleagues are 
based on rapidly changing land systems, thereby contributing to new 
GLP.

Tentative Titles

Will Steffen, Australian Government, IGBP.
Direction of integrated international initiative of Earth System 
Science, and terrestrial system studies.__

Dennis Ojima, Cololado State University, GLP-IGBP/IHDP
Science plan and implementation strategy of the Global Land Project.__

Gregor Laumann, IHDP IPO, Bonn.
Future directions of integrated terrestrial environment studies from a 
human dimensions perspective.

Mitsuru Osaki, Hokkaido University
Integrated studies for the restoration of degraded land: from the case 
study in Bornean peatland.

Takayoshi Koike, Hokkaido University
Ecosystem function of forests on different substrata.

Atsuko Sugimoto, Hokkaido University
Function of northern terrestrial ecosystem in earth system science.

Dennis Dye, Frontier Research Center of Global Change
TBA.

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Commentators

Noriyuki Tanaka, IARC Alaska University of Fairbanks, FRCGC
Masahiro Ichikawa, LIHN, Kyoto

Conveners__(correspondence)

Takashi Kohyama, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science
kohyama@ees.hokudai.ac.jp
Mitsuru Osaki, Graduate School of Agriculture
mosaki@chem.agr.hokudai.ac.jp

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