A summary of the 26th IHP training course on“Coastal Vulnerability and Freshwater Input”

1. Outline
A short training course “Coastal Vulnerability and Freshwater Discharge” will
be programmed for participants from Asia-Pacific regions as a part of the Japanesecontribution to the International Hydrological Program (IHP). The course is composedof a series of lectures and practice sessions.

2. Objectives
Large number of population is living in coastal area of Asian countries. Thearea is also important for various human activities including fisheries, transportation,farming, and many other industries. The population explosion of the coastal area often
makes pollution of waters, both fresh and salt waters, inducing environmental problems
in the area. Freshwater input to the coastal area modified the circulation of waters.
Large amount of materials are known to be discharged to the coastal water with thefreshwater as natural, and they played important roles to keep the coastal ecosystem;
however, the pollution of the freshwater also alternate the coastal ecosystem. River isknown as a major source of freshwater, and more recently importance of underground
discharge has been also recognized. Those freshwater discharges are also changing
significantly by the climate change, construction of dams on the river, and use offreshwater. Coastal shallow area is often destructed to make a land for farming,industry or living area with reclamation and other human activities. Recently, it was
shown that those coastal areas are vulnerable for tsunami caused by earthquake andstorm surge caused by typhoon, and radical changes can be happened by those natural
hazards. It is necessary to manage the area to make comfortable, productive and safe.
In this training course, the basic knowledge of physical, biological andchemical environments of coastal waters, and forcing including freshwaters from riverand underground discharge, will be covered. Furthermore, interaction between natureof coastal area and human will be discussed. Technical training on-board of Training
Vessel Seisui-Maru, Mie University, will cover the basic technics to sample waters,
analyze the quality and interpret the data in large estuarine Ise and Mikawa Bay.
Demonstration of satellite and numerical models will be also covered.

13. Course Contents
3-1. Conveners
ConvenerAssistant: Prof. ISHIZAKA, Joji: Assoc. Prof. AIKI, Hidenori
Assist. Prof. MINO, Yoshihisa
Assist. Prof. TOMITA, Hiroyuki
Secretary: Ms. HAGA, Saori
Ms. NIIZUMA, Ryoko
Ms. ASAI, Ayumi
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University

3-2. Lecturers
ISHIZAKA, Joji
AIKI, Hidenori
MINO, Yoshihisa
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University
ISHIKAWA, Satoshi
TANIGUCHI, Makoto
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
TOMITA, Takashi
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University
KASAI, Akihide
Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido UniversityTANAKA, Kenji
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
TERAUCHI, Genki
Northwest Pacific Region Environmental Cooperation Center
UMEZAWA, Yu
Graduate School of Fisheries Science and Environmental Studies, Nagasaki University
YAMASHITA, Hiromi
College of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

3-3. Key Note Speakers
YANAGI, Tetsuo
International EMECS Center
CHEN, Chen-Tung Arthur
Taiwan National Sun Yat-sen University

23-4. Contents of Key Note Speeches
K1: Satoumi Concept
K2: Melting Tibetan Ice Shield

Nov. 29 pm
Nov. 30 pm

YANAGI T.
CHEN A.

Nov. 28 am
Nov. 28 pmNov. 29 am
Nov. 30 am
Dec. 5 am
Dec. 6 am
Dec. 7 am
Dec. 8 am

TANAKA K.
TANIGUCHI M.
KASAI A.
UMEZAWA Y.
ISHIZAKA J.
ISHIKAWA S.
TOMITA, T.
YAMASHITA H.

3-5. Contents of Lectures
L1: River Discharge
L2: Submarine Ground Water Discharge
L3: Coastal Water Circulation
L4: Nutrient Dynamics
L5: Plankton Ecosystem
L6: Influence to Fisheries
L7: Tsunami and Disaster Prevention
L8: Tidal Flat Conservation

3-6. Contents of Exercise
E1: Satellite Data Analysis
E2: Cruise Data Analysis
E3: Coastal Model Output Analysis
E4: Making Reports and Disucssions

Dec. 5 pm
TERAUCHI G.
Dec. 6 pm
ISHIZAKA J.
Dec. 7 pm
AIKI H.
Dec. 8 pm
ISHIZAKA J., AIKI H., and YAMASHITA H.

3-7. Field Workshop and Exercise
W1: Cruise in Ise Bay by T/V Seisui-Maru, Mie University
ISHIZAKA J., AIKI, H., and MINO Y.

4. Schedule (27 November to 10 December, 2016)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------27 (Sunday)
Arrival at Central Japan International Airport and Move to Nagoya
University
28 (Monday)
09：30-09：40 Registration & Guidance
09：40-12：10 Lecture 1
13：30-16：00 Lecture 2
17：00-19：00 Welcome Party
29 (Tuesday)
09：30-12：00 Lecture 3
14：00-16：30 Keynote 130 (Wednesday)
09：30-12：00 Lecture 4
14：00-16：30 Keynote 2(Move to Mie)1 (Thursday)
Cruise in Ise/Mikawa Bay,
2 (Friday)
Cruise in Ise/Mikawa Bay
3 (Saturday)
Tour to Ise Shrine (Back to Nagoya)
4 (Sunday)
Off35 (Monday)
6 (Tuesday)
7 (Wednesday)
8 (Thursday)
9 (Friday)

10 Saturday)

09：30-12：00 Lecture 5
13：30-17：00 Exercise 1
09：30-12：00 Lecture 6
13：30-16：00 Exercise 2
09：30-12：00 Lecture 7
13：30-17：00 Exercise 3
09：30-12：00 Lecture 813：30-17：00 Exercise 4
09：30-11：30 Report presentations and discussions
11：30-12：00 Completion ceremony of this course
13：30-15：30 Farewell party
Departure from Central Japan International Airport

5. Downloading the Textbook for Participants from the Website
The textbook of “the 26th IHP Training Course”, which is converted in PDF
style, will be prepared and will be put on the IHP Nagoya/Kyoto website of“http://www.hyarc.nagoya-u.ac.jp/japanese/02activity/ihp/textbook/ihp_textbook.html”.
The participants are requested to download such a PDF file from the website in advanceas a preparation to the several lectures of the training course. The textbook should beconstituted of contents (referred sentence bodies, figures, tables, pictures, equations andobserved/calculated results) with authorized copyrights.

6. Participants
We had 15 participants; five each were supported by Institute for Space-EarthEnvironmental Research of Nagoya University (ISEE), PICES (North Pacific MarineScience Organization) and ISEE, and Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto
University (DPRI).
We also had 7 participants from Graduate School ofEnvironmental Studies, Nagoya University. Their home countries were also diverse
from Northeastern and Southeastern Asia (China (5), Japan (3), Indonesia (3), Korea (2),Russia (2), Thailand (2), Vietnam, Singapore) and US, Bulgaria, Mozambique. We also
invited 2 keynote speakers from Taiwan (National Sun Yat-sen University) and Japan(International EMECS Center), and 11 lecturers (ISEE (3), Research Institute for
Humanity and Nature (2), DPRI, Hokkaido University, Nagasaki University, Nagoya
University, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, North Pacific Environmental Center)using the support from ISEE as well as The Oceanographic Society of Japan, andSpecial Monitoring & Coastal Environmental Assessment Regional Active Center(CEARAC)/UNEP.

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7. Participants Skill and Reactions
The participants are very active to learn from the training course. Not
only just listen the lectures, they asked many questions during and after the lectures,and there are many interactions between lectures and participants. Some of them
discussed with lectures and decided to have further communication after thetraining course. The participants experienced real oceanographic observation
during the cruise on T/V Seisui-Maru of Mie University in Ise Bay. Theyexperienced fun and serious parts of filed observation. Hands-on exercises fordata analysis for satellite, cruise, and model data were also conducted, andparticipants could learn how to process the ocean environments data from various
sources. Finally, they spend time to be divided four groups including three groups
using data sources of hands-on exercises and one group using more brain-storming,and successfully conducted final presentations. This is a very hard and intensive
work for them to deal with new opportunity and discuss with five to six participants
to make one presentation, and it was a very good experience to work together withinternational participants.

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