Activities to Promote
Industry-Academic-Government
Collaborative Researchon the Arctic Region
January 15-18, 2018
Japan Arctic Research Network Center(J-ARC Net)

Rapid decrease of Arctic sea ice
Prospects for Arctic sea ice area in September

Current situation and Prediction⚫ Decrease of sea ice⚫ Rise of sea level, Climate Changes⚫ Changes of vegetation and ecosystem
by rise of sea temperature, and Sea
souring etc.
⚫ Changes of economic activities andutilization for industries

For future proposal

Prospects for Arctic sea ice area in September,
2050（IPCC AR5 WG1 Technical Summary TS-Fig.17）⚫ What happens ?
⚫ Influence for Region and Society？
⚫ Countermeasure and sustainableutilization ?
⚫ Geographic environment changes inHokkaido？

Activities of J-ARC Net for the Arctic Region founded in April, 2016
Supporting
Research Communities

HU-ARC

Promoting Industry-AcademicGovernment Collaboration

Industries
Governments

Research Communities

Stakeholders

NiPR-AERC

JAMSTEC-IACE

Creation of new academic field conductive to solve issues in the Arctic region regarding
sustainable utilization and preservation of the Arctic region(1) Promoting advanced and interdisciplinary research(2) Planning and Coordinating between research community, industry and government(3) Nurturing personnel having broad outlook and leadership for international

Activities of J-ARC Net for the Arctic Region founded in April, 2016
Researcher’s Community
Supporting ProjectIndustry-Academic-Government
Collaboration Supporting Project(1) Innovative Interdisciplinary Collaborativeresearch(1)Feasibility Study for Problems-Solving JointResearches(2) Collaborative Promoting Research from Naturalscience, Social science and Engineering(2) Planning Meeting for Setting Issues(3) Meeting for Collaborative Research in various
Fields to plan Research Project(3) Arctic region Open Seminar

Promoting Researcher nurture
Providing Field Courses in Arctic region and Arctic lectures etc. for not only
personnel in researchers but also in industries and governments

Disseminating results
Inviting experts to International symposium for discussion of our future activities
Opening intensive information to the public with website

Prospective effects
Creation of innovative academic fields and new industries, Adoption of new viewpoints and technologies,
Promotion of international collaboration, Supply of personnel with broad outlook and Contribution toincrease Japanese presence,
through advanced and interdisciplinary research

Open Seminar for the Arctic region
To provide the latest information of Arctic region in natural and social sciences
To promote new entry to activities to solve issues in Arctic region
For personnel in industries and governments

Jan. 17,2017@Sapporo

Future Arctic Region, North SeaRoute(NSR) and Hokkaido(1)Utilization strategy for NSR in Hokkaido(2)Perspective & Challenge for transit shipping by NSR(3)Application Technology & Dev. needed by NSR(4)Investigation for NSR & Russia in Hokkaido(5)Arctic & World (6)Future Arctic

Mar. 17,2017@Tokyo(1)Utilization strategy for NSR in Hokkaido(2)Arctic Shipping and its perspective in Finland
Utilization for NSR and its Perspective (3)Arctic Shipping and its perspective for Yamal-LNG(4)Perspective & Challenge for transit shipping by NSR(5)Utilization for submarine cable in the Arctic region

Jul.24,2017@Sapporo

Utilization for Arctic Region
Conductive to creation ofIndustries

Dec.14,2017@TokyoTrend of the economic development
and international governancearound the Arctic region(1)Shipping Logistics(2)Oil & Gas Development(3)Yamal LNG-PJ(3)Tele-communication(4)Fishery(5)Agriculture & Food(1)Necessity and possibility of economic Dev. in Russian Arctic(2)International relations around the Arctic region(3)Current situation & perspective international law related
to the Arctic(4)The Arctic region policy & its perspective in Russia(5)The Arctic region policy & its perspective in China(6)International situation & Japanese correspondence
around the Arctic region

Int’l Collaboration

Promoting issue

The other

4

3222

1000

重機、生産…

流通、小売

造船

林業、製紙

建築、土木

医療、福祉

金融、保健

教育

航空、宇宙

不動産

娯楽

その他

漁業、水産

観光、ツーリ…

農業、食品

5

通信、放送

The otherAmusement
Real estate
Aviation･space
EducationMoney market
Medicine･Welfare
Architec.･Civil Eng.
Forestry
Shipbuilding
Distribution
Heavy industry
Telecommunication
Agriculture･FoodTourism
Fishery
MineralOil･LNG
Shipping NSR

Breadth of Possibility

I-G-R collaboration

Deepening interest

Economic assessment

Political Proposal

05

鉱物資源

118・

12

数字、統計

医、歯、薬

氷雪

動植物生態

大気

陸域、凍土

航空、宇宙…
自然災害

建築、土木

気象、観測

環境保全

通信

気候変動と…
船舶

海域、海氷

1222
33

健康、保健

Math･Statistics
Health･Sanitation
Medicine･Dent
Cryosphere
Biological ecology
Atmosphere
Terrestrial permafrost
Aviation･space
Natural disaster
Architecture･Civil engineering
Meteorological Observation
Environmental preservation
Telecommunication
Climate change
Shipping
Ocean･Sea Ice

21

10 10 10
哲学、宗教
考古学

教育、心理
政策、ガ…

経済

国際関係

人間、地…

政治

法律、規制

民族、言…

文学、歴史

その他…

Philosophy･Religion
Indigenous people
Education･Psychology
Archaeology
Literature･History
People･Language
Low and Regulation
Politics
Human･SocietyInternational Relation
EconomyGovernance

36

1516
16 16 15

121

未回答

【Q5】What are you expected to the Open
Seminar to promote new entry to industrial
activities in the Arctic region ?
2125875【Q4】Which industrial fields in the Arctic region are you
interested in ?

2202136787

石油、天然…

あまり約に立たなかった

11 10

No answer【Q3】Which fields of the natural science in theArctic region are you interested in ?
【Q2】Which fields of human and social
in the Arctic region are you interestedin ?
【Q1】Was the seminar useful for you ?
Quite useful

14 13

役に立たなかった

57%

28 28

Enough useful
2%
0%

1641%

8

海運、北極…

Survey from stakeholders on the Arctic region Open SeminarAccepted Themes in FY2016 and FY2017
J-ARC Net
Activities

Research’sCommunities
SupportingProjectCategories

FY

Innovative Interdisciplinary
Collaborative research2016Collaborative Promoting
Research in Natural, Humanities,
Social and Practical Sciences
Meeting for Collaborative
Research in various Fields toPlan Research Project
Feasibility Study for
Problems-Solving JointResearches

2016

IndustryAcademicGovernment
Collaboration
Planning Meeting for Setting
Supporting
Issues
ProjectTotal

2017

2017
2016
2017
2016
2017
2016
2017

Tern(Years)

Subsidy(Max)(1000Yen/Y)

Max 2

2500

1700

1500

Max 2

2500

1500

Adoption(Themes)
10
9
16
873
1232016

23

2017

28

Promoting Industry-Academic-Government Collaboration

Categories

FYFields

2016
2017

NSR20162017

PlanningSubjects
Study on Estimation Technology for Navigability
depending on Sea Ice Conditions in the NSR*1 Hokkaido Univ., *2 The Univ. of Tokyo, *3Kitami Inst. of Tech., *4 Mitsui
O.S.K. Line Ltd.

Scenario for Industry Development in Arctic Region*1 Hitachi Ltd., *2 Hokkaido Research Inst. for the 21st Century, *3 Esri Japan
Corp, *4 Hokkaido Univ., *5, Sapporo City Univ.

Feasibility
Study20162017

Engineerring

Arctic Technology & Research Forum toconsolidate opinions from industries*1 Engineering Advancement Association of Japan, *2 The Univ. of Tokyo, *3
Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Ltd, *4Hokkaido Univ., *6 National Inst. of PolarResearch, *7 JAMSTEC

2017
2018

Permafrost

Assessing and mediating damage on infrastructure
and changes in ground surface due to permafrostthaw*1 Hokkaido Univ.,*2 Iwatajizaki Construction Co., Ltd.,*3 JAXA･EORC,*4
Yakutsk State Design and Research Inst. for Const.,*5 Mie Univ., *6 Yakutsk
Permafrost Inst., *7 Inst. of the Humanities and the Indigenous people ofNorth

Researchers●Natsuhiko OTSUKA*1,
Hajime YAMAGUCHI*2,
Kazutaka TATEYAMA*3,
Takao KASHIWAGI*4●Taro OSABE*1,
Hiroyuki YASUNAGA*2
Jun FUKUDA*3,
Natsuhiko OTSUKA*4,
Seiichi SAITO*4,
Minori TAKAHASHI*4,
Fujio ONISHI*4,
Toshihiko HARA*5●Akira KUROKAWA*1,
Hajime YAMAGUCHI*2,
Hiroshi YOSHINAGA*3,
Keiichiro OSHIMA*4,
Hironori YABUKI*5,
Yuji KODAMA*6,
Takashi KIKUCHI*7●Go IWAHANA*1,
Takumi KAWAMURA*2,
Syunji KANIE*1,
Takao TADONO*3,
Masato FURUYA*1,
Anastasia TSEEVA*4,
Yoshihiro IIJIMA*5,
Takahiro ABE*3,
Alexsander FEDOROV*6,

Promoting Industry-Academic-Government Collaboration
Categories

FYFields2016

Planning

Subjects
Future scenario for the Arctic 2050

*1 HITACHI Ltd., *2 Hokkaido Research Inst. for the 21st Century, *3 EsriJapan Co., *4 Hokkaido Univ., *5, Sapporo City Univ.

PlanningMeetingfor settingissues

2016
2017

NSR

2017

Permafrost

Study on Technical Issues for Possibility of NSR*1 Kokkaido Univ., *2 The Univ. of Tokyo, *3Kitami Inst. of Tech., *4 Mitsui
O.S.K. Line Ltd.

Activity of Sea Ice Engineering and Permafrost
Engineering in Japan ～History and Future～*1 Cryosphere Engineering Lab. *2 Hokkaido Univ. *3 Hachinohe Inst. ofTech., *4 National Inst. Polar Research *5 Engineering Advance Associationof Japan, *6 System Engineering Association, *7 Kumashiro System FrontierCo.,Ltd.

2017

OilSpill

Research on Arctic Oil Spill Response Technology*1 System Engineering Association, *2 The Univ. of Tokyo, *3 Engineering
Advance Association of Japan, *4 JAMSTEC, *5 Kumashiro System Frontier
Co.,Ltd., *6 Weathernews Inc., *7 Hokkaido Univ.

Researchers●Taro OSABE*1,
Hiroyuki YASUNAGA*2,
Jun FUKUDA*3,
Natsuhiko OTSUKA*4,
Seiichi SAITO*4,
Minori TAKAHASHI*4,
Fujio ONISHI*4,
Toshihiko HARA*5●Natsuhiko OTSUKA*1,
Hajime YAMAGUCHI*2,
Kazutaka TATEYAMA*3,
Takao KASHIWAGI*4●Satoshi AKAGAWA*1,
Shunji KANIE*2,
Takahiro TAKEUCHI*3,
Toshio SONE*2,
Yuji KADAMA*4,
Akira KUROKAWA*5
Naoki NAKAZAWA*6,
Takashi TERASHIMA*7●Naoki NAKAZAWA*1,
Hajime YAMAGUCHI*2,
Akira KUROKAWA*3,
Jun ONO*4,
Takashi TERASHIMA*5,
Genki SAGAWA*6
Keiichiro OSHIMA*7,

Survey
Whatdofrom
we instakeholders
J-ARC Net on the Arctic region Open Seminar
Worldwide new information and cutting-edge research etc. on Arctic
J-ARC Net

ARC-HU／NiPR／JAMSTEC

Integration ofinformation andhuman NW

Social ,Humanities,
Practical science
Teams
Cross, Trans-disciplinary
Cooperation,
Joint Research

Natural Science
Teams・Global warming
・Reducing sea ice
・Melting permafrost
・Change to Fresh water・Change of ecology
・Erosion of shoreetc.

Social influenceand evaluation, FS・Climate Change・Possibility of NSR・Cost of Natural resource
Development
・Change of Fishery Res.
・Change of Tundra,
Forrestetc.

Collaboration
with Industries and Academia
Industries
・Shipping, Marine
・Energy, Mining
・Civil, Harbor・Trading ・・・
Universities
Jap, Rus, US,Fin,Nor・・・

Future precise prediction
Platform: Change,
Sustainability, Utilization, Application

NSR

Natural Res.

Fisherytourism

The others

Industrial Structural Revolutionof Society in 21th Century
Creation of New Industries

Promoting researcher nurture to solve issues in the Arctic region
LecturesNov.20～22, 2017@Sapporo & Tokyo
32 participants
Industries
Governments
Researchers

Opening & Guidance(1)Geography & History(2)Development & Ingenious people(3)Ocean(4)Ocean Ecosystem(5)Atmosphere(6)Glacier(7)Terrestrial Ecosystem(8)Resources Development(9)North Sea Routes(10)Governance(11)Human beings(12)Data Science
Presentation & Discussion
Closing
Social Gathering

Field course
Feb.23-Mar.3@Russia
Winter School on “Environmentat andInnovwtion of the North”
At Vladivostok and Yakutsk
Entry:from the beginning of Jan.to Jan.21,
Expenditure: All Supplied
Participants : Personnel in Industries,
Governments, Researches
Japan:5-10 persons,Russia:5-10 persons
Language : EnglishProgram(Tentative)(1)City Ture at Vladivostok(2)Natural Environment(3)Introductory Seminar and Natural History(4)Lecture and Toura)Economy and Educationb)Life and the Northc)History and Cultured)Participant ForumThank you very much for your attention !
Let’s join J-ARC Net Project !
・Open Seminar・Feasibility study & Planning Meeting・Researcher Nurture program

Please contact to;Prof. Masato Tanaka
mtanaka@arc.hokudai.ac.jp
http://www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp
Tel：+81-11-706-9624
Fax:+81-11-706-9623
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Oshoro-maruⅤ（Ice resistance）
To Arctic Ocean in 2018年

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