International Symposium on Trans-boundary Pollution and Integrated
Research Studies
This symposium marks the adoption of Institute of Nature and Environmental Technology atKanazawa University as one of the Joint Usage/Research Centers (JURC) by Ministry ofEducation, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Japan (MEXT).
The symposium themes will be: atmospheric environment, water pollution, land-surface
processes, disaster prevention, and geochemical cycles
Date：March 7 – 9, 2016 (Monday - Wednesday)
Venue：Lecture Room B1, General Education Hall, Kakuma Campus, Kanazawa University

Program
DAY 1: Monday, March 7, 2016
Core symposium dedicated to the JSPS funded project ‘International collaborations forinteraction between atmosphere and marine-ecosystem caused by aerosols’
10:30-11:00 Registration
Opening Session
Chair: S. Tsukawaki
11:00-11:15 Opening address by Prof. K. Yamazaki, President of Kanazawa University, Japan
11:15-11:40 Opening remarks by Prof. K. Hayakawa Director of Institute of Nature andEnvironmental Technology (INET), Kanazawa University, Japan
11:40-13:00 Lunch break
Oral Session
Chair: A. Matsuki
13:00-13:30 Is PM2.5 the right measurement to probe aerosol health effects? by Prof. R. Flagan(California Institute of Technology, USA)
13:30-14:00 Characterization of optical properties of atmospheric aerosols by Prof. W. W.
Szymanski (University of Vienna, Austria)
14:00-14:30 Measurement of atmospheric nanoparticles by Prof. T. Seto (Kanazawa University,Japan)
14:30-14:50 Coffee break
Oral Session (continued)
Chair: N. Tang
14:50-15:20 Comparisons of the microbial communities in bioaerosol between Asian dust(Kosa) source and downwind areas by Associate Prof. T. Maki (Kanazawa University,Japan)

15:20-15:50 Desert dust, microbial dispersal and biogeography by Prof. S. B. Pointing(Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
15:50-16:20 Introduction to a major program of the National Natural Science Foundation ofChina: structure of the cloud system in the typical region of China and its radiationclimate effect by Dr. B. Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
16:20-16:50 Air pollution in northeast Asia caused by particulate matters containing polycyclicaromatic hydrocarbons and nitropolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by Prof. K.
Hayakawa (Kanazawa University, Japan)
Closing Session
16:50-17:00 Closing remarks by Prof. K. Hayakawa (Director of INET)

DAY 2: Tuesday, March 8, 2016
International symposium for environmental research in East Asia
08:30-09:00 Registration
Opening address
09:00-9:10 Prof. K. Hayakawa (Director of INET)

Chair: N. Hasebe

Thematic Symposium I: Atmospheric environment
09:10-09:15 Aims of the symposium by Associate Prof. A. Matsuki (Kanazawa University,Japan)
09:15-09:40 The role of photochemistry in secondary aerosol formation and evolution duringhigh particulate matter episodes at a suburban site in Hong Kong by Prof. C. K. Chan
(City University of Hong Kong, China)
09:40-10:05 Features of PAHs in atmospheric aerosols in the Primorsky Krai of Russia at least15 years. Joint investigations of Pacific Oceanological Institute RAS and Kanazawa
University by Dr. V. Mishukov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
10:05-10:30 Carbonaceous aerosols observed in Noto peninsula: Their source and impact onaerosol CCN activity by Associate Prof. A. Matsuki (Kanazawa University, Japan)
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
Thematic Symposium II: Marine pollution
Chair: T. Sekiguchi
10:45-10:50 Aims of the symposium Prof. N. Suzuki (Kanazawa University, Japan)
10:50-11:15 Implication of marine air emission from ocean-going vessels to neoghboring
coastal air quality by Prof. H. Lee (Inchean University, Korea)
11:15-11:40 Molecular genetics as indicator for marine pollution by Dr. F. Kh. Abdel-Gawad(National Research Center, Egypt)
11:40-12:05 Evaluation and risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on
the Egyptian marine environment by Dr. H. F. Nassan (National Research Center,Egypt)

12:05-12:30 Effective mechanisms of vertical water and material transport in the Japan Sea by
Dr. V. Lobanov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
12:30-13:30 Lunch BreakThematic Symposium III: Natural disaster and environmental change studies interrestrial area
Chair: K. Fukushi
13:30-13:35 Aims of the symposium Associate Prof. N. Hasebe (Kanazawa University, Japan)
13:35-14:00 The adaptation of natural hazards under the threaten of climate change in Taiwan
by Prof. J. -C. Lin (University of Taiwan, Taiwan)
14:00-14:25 Sea level fluctuations of the last five millennia recorded in macrotidal flats along
the west coast of Korea by Dr. W. H. Nahm (Korea Institute of Geoscience andMineral Resources, Korea)
14:25-14:50 On-going research on paleoenvironmental change in arid area of Mongolia by
Associate Prof. N. Hasebe (Kanazawa University, Japan)
14:50-15:05 Coffee break
Thematic Symposium IV: Integrated environmental research, study on land and sea
interactions with radioactive and isotopic tracers
Chair: M. Inoue
15:05-15:10 Aims of the symposium Prof. S. Nagao (Kanazawa University, Japan)
15:10-15:35 Water mass analysis using multi-tracers in the East China Sea: contribution of
Kuroshio Intermediate Water by Prof. J. Zhang (Toyama University, Japan)
15:35-16:00 Submarine groundwater discharge: a hidden pathway for the transport ofchemicals and radionuclides from land to ocean by Dr. M. A. Charette (Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute, USA)
16:00-16:25 Transport behavior of particulate organic matter in the Kumaki River system in
Noto Peninsula, Japan using carbon isotopes by Prof. S. Nagao (KanazawaUniversity, Japan)
Closing remarks
16:25-16:35 Prof. K. Hayakawa (Director of INET)
Banquet18:00-20:00 KKR Hotel Kanazawa Tel +81-76-264-3261 http://kkrhotelkanazawa.gr.jp/

DAY 3: Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Annual meeting on the results of the INET research activities and joint usage projects
8:30-9:00 RegistrationOpening remarks
Chair: N. Suzuki
09:00-09:10 Vice President of Kanazawa University by Prof. C. Mukai
1. Research activities
09:10-09:35 Research results in the fiscal year 2015 by Prof. K. Hayakawa (Director of INET)
09:35-10:05 Topics of recent researches: Track the past coastal disasters and environmental
change in Lake Kitagata sediment, Hokuriku district, Japan by Associate Prof. N.
Hasebe (Kanazawa University, Japan)
2. Joint usage projects
Chair: U. Nisikawa
1) Priority research
10:05-10:35 Clarification of atmospheric deposition of carbonaceous components and theircharacteristics in Northeast Asia by Dr. K. Sato (Asia Center for Air PollutionResearch, Japan)
10:35-10:45 Coffee break2) General scientific research
10:45-11:05 Secondary formation of chlorinated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on sea salt
and mineral dust aerosols by Associate Prof. T. Kameda (Kyoto University, Japan)
11:05-11:25 Environmental magnetic studies of roadside pollution along forest roads innortheast Asia by Assistant Prof. K. Kawasaki (Toyama University, Japan)
11:25-11:45 Effects of increasing nitrogen loading on coastal environment in Wakasa Bay byAssistant Prof. Ryo Sugimoto (Fukui Prefectural University, Japan)
3) Young scientists’ research
11:45-12:00 Study on the complexation mechanism of dissolved organic carbon in deep
underground water by Graduate student S. Kimuro (Tohoku University, Japan)
Closing remarks
12:00-12:05 Prof. K. Hayakawa (Director of INET)