Mission Statement
Tso-Ren Wu, Ph.D.
Director, Interdisciplinary Program of Earth System Science
Professor, Graduate Institute of Hydrological and Oceanic Sciences,
National Central University, TAIWANAOGS is a young and fast-growing community. The main participants are geoscientists fromthe Asia and Pacific regions. Among all the sessions in AOGS, the OS (Ocean Sciences)session has a more rapid development. However, facing the post-COVID era, OS can seize
this opportunity to reach an advanced stage.
Hello everyone. My name is Tso-Ren Wu. I specialize in scientific research on tsunamis,
storm surges, and internal waves. I am a professor at the Institute of Hydrology and OceanSciences, National Central University, and the Director of the Interdisciplinary Program ofEarth System Science. I have just stepped down as associate vice president of the Office ofInternational Affairs at NCU. This academic and administrative background will strongly
support me while running for the OS session president, and I will devote my time to pushing
the OS further.
In the post-COVID era, what OS needs most is to promote face-to-face communication andgive young scholars blocked by the epidemic more opportunities to show their faces.
Therefore, if given the opportunity to serve as OS president, I would strive to provide moreoral presentations and travel subsidies.
Compared with the OS in other international geoscience societies such as AGU, EGU, andJPGU, the OS of AOGS is already on an equal footing. However, we are on the tide ofembracing an excellent turning point. In the past, the OS focused on the issues of the Blue
Ocean and paid less attention to coastal zones and marine disasters. In other internationalseminars, topics such as coastal hazards are often classified under Nature Hazards, especiallytsunamis and storm surges. However, there has been no Nature Hazards session in AOGS up
till now, and natural hazards-related topics were classified in IG (InterdisciplinaryGeosciences) or HS (Hydrological Sciences) in the past. As a result, the Nature Hazards
community is dispersed, and the related issues take more work to focus on. If the issues ofcoastal zones and coastal disasters can be included in the OS, not only can the scale of OS beexpanded, but also the characteristics of AOGS-OS can be highlighted in many similarseminars.
I am currently the secretary-general of the Taiwan Society of Fluid Mechanics, and I havealso held and co-organized many large-scale international seminars, such as the Coastal
Engineering Seminar and the South China Sea Tsunami Seminar. The experience I have inadministrative procedures involved in international seminars will be helpful in promoting theobjectives.
To sum up, I have set two goals. The first goal is to encourage young people to participate in
AOGS-OS offline, including seeking financial subsidies, establishing undergraduate poster
sessions, encouraging student volunteer programs, and establishing OS discussion groups foryoung scholars. The second goal is to expand the OS community by including coastal
engineering, coastal hazards, tsunami, and storm surge disaster research.
Thanks for finishing reading this statement. Your support means a lot to me!