D-1

The 36rh International Symposium on the Okhotsk Sea & Polar Oceans
at Mombetsu & Hokkaido Univ. held online

Session DActivities to Promote
Industry-Government-Academia (I-G-A)
Collaborative Researchon the Arctic Region
February 22, 2022

〇Masato TANAKA
Japan Arctic Research Network Center(J-ARC Net)
Hokkaido University

Rapid decrease of Arctic sea ice
Influence of global warming⚫ Decrease of sea ice⚫ Rise of sea level⚫ Changes of vegetation and ecosystem
by rise of sea temperature, and Sea
acidification etc.
⚫ Changes of economic activities andutilization for industries(a) Global surface temperaturechanges in ℃ relative to 1850–1900.

(b) September Arctic sea ice area in
106 km2 based on CMIP6 modelsimulations

IPCC AR6 WG1 ,Climate Change 2021 The Physical Science Basis

For future proposal⚫ What happens ?
⚫ Influence to region and humansociety？
⚫ Countermeasure and sustainableutilization ?
⚫ Geographic environment changes in
Hokkaido as the northernmost
prefecture ？ etc.

Activities of J-ARC Net for the Arctic Region from FY2016 to 2021
SupportingResearch Communities

HU-ARC

Promoting Industry-GovernmentAcademia (I-G-A) CollaborationIndustries

Governments

Research Communities
Stakeholders

NiPR-AERC

JAMSTEC-IACE

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

Activities of J-ARC Net for the Arctic Region founded in April, 2016
Supporting Research Communities Project(RC Project)(1) Challenging Exploratory Interdisciplinary JointResearch

Promotion Industry-Government-Academia(I-G-A) Collaboration Project(I-G-A Project)(1) I-G-A Collaboration Feasibility Study(2) Joint Promotion Research(2) I-G-A Collaboration Planning Meeting(3) Joint Research Meeting(3) Arctic region Open Seminar

Promoting researcher nurture programs
Providing Arctic science course and Field Courses in Arctic region 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

Arctic region Open Seminar in FY2016 ～ 2021
■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
I/G/A
Date/Venue

Subjects

Total 1093/398/246/449

1stJan.17,2017@SapporoFuture Arctic Region, Northern Sea Route (NSR)
and Hokkaido

44/19/24

2ndMar.17,2017@Tokyo

Utilization for North Sea and NSR, and its Perspective

27/ 5/ 29

3 rdJul.24,2017@Sapporo

Utilization for Arctic Region conductive to Creation ofIndustries

75/24/27

4 thDec.14,2017@Sapporo

Trend of the economic development and international
governance around the Arctic region

25/14/26

5 thJul.20,2018@Sapporo

Progress of the latest Arctic research and the possibilityof application to industry and society

21/19/32

Arctic region Open Seminar in FY2016 ～ 2021
Date/Venue

Subjects

I/G/A

6 thDec.12,2018@Tokyo

Possibilities and challenges of application to industry on
the latest Arctic observation and prediction technology

29/ 2/27

7 thJul.24,2019@Sapporo

Changing Arctic environment and its impact on Hokkaido

25/ 3/41

8 th
Dec.12,2019@Tokyo

Current status and prospects of Arctic oil & gas
development

19/ 8/26

Q & A session at the lecture"Russian Arctic Oil & Gas Development
Strategies and Trends"

Q & A session at the lecture"The Role and Impact of international anddomestic Environmental Laws of the Yamal
region on Oil and Gas Development”

9 th
Oct.22,2020
OnlineArctic Ocean as EastWest Corridor,Sustainable Use andFuture(1) International maritime logistics and the Northern Sea Route(2) Rapid progress of Russia's Arctic resources development(3) Container test transportation by the Northern Sea Route(4) Why China pays attention to the Arctic Circle(5) Announcement of "Data Center Forum" (10th Arctic OpenSeminar) held in February(6) Efforts for sustainable use of the Arctic Ocean and protection ofthe marine environment(7) Geopolitical diagram of the Arctic Ocean and its whereabouts(9) Japan's role in legal and policy responses to the sustainable useof the Arctic Ocean

10 thFeb.8,2021@Sapporo andOnline
HybridFinnish-Japanese
Data Center Seminar
Connectivity,Sustainability andRegional
Development

Opening session Ambassador Pekka Orpana (Embassy of Finland, Tokyo) etc.
Ⅰ. Session 1 Data Center and Digital(1) Arctic Connect as an unique opportunity to DC connectivity between Japan andEurope through Finland(2) Digital Technology and Policy(3) Data Center and Network - Twins for Digital Society –(4) Mission and Success of Digital Infrastructure Businesses(5) Hokkaido and Global Information Infrastructure
Ⅱ. Session 2 Sustainability(1) Data Centre Sustainability - The past - present and the future(2) Arctiq DC Project(3) Reuse of Datacenter excess heat as practical ecological and economical showcase(4) Beyond the Green: Ficolo The Air - The world's first dark green data center(5) Ishikari Data Center: Japan's First Green Hyper-scale DC(6) Data center utilizing snow cooling
Ⅲ. Session 3 Regional Development and National Policies(1)Data center industry in Japan – recent developments(2) Data Center Business development in Finland(3)20 years of system administration education - Data center studies in KUAS
(4)HPC datacenter ecosystem in Kajaani(5)Need to store your data inside the EU? Why not in Finland/Oulu(6)Hokkaido initiatives to attract and accumulate data centers(7)Business environment and industrial sites in Tomakomai(8) To zero emissions / strengthen the resilience of data centers
Closing Eiji Atsumi (Business Finland)

19/ 8/26

19/ 8/26

Arctic region Open Seminar

Finnish-Japanese Data Center Seminar

Presentation from Bibai, Hokkaido
Presantation from FICOLO, Finland

Panel Discussion by I-G-A

thCurrent status,(1) Marine plastic pollution problem in the Arctic
11Arctic region
OpenSeminar
in FY2016,2017,2018(2) Current
status and impactof permafrost andthawing2019
in the Arctic
impact andOct.19,
regioncountermeasures of2021(3) Arctic aerosols (BC, etc.) and their climatic effects
environmental
Onlinepollution in the Arctic
region12 th
Dec.8-9,2021
Online19/ 8/26

Session A： Sustainable tourism and environmental protection
Japan-Russian(1) Marine mammals and prospects for sustainable tourism
development of(2) Challenges of and prospects for ecotourism at Shiretoko National Park (UNESCO World
Heritage Site)sustainable cruise(3) Tourism in protected areas : The case of the Commander Islands Nature Reserve
Kronotsky Nature Reserve and sustainable cruise tourism
industry in the Pacific (4)(5) Education tourism in Wrangel Island Nature Reserve and cooperation with cruise tour
Arcticoperators(6) Management practices of international projects in Chukotka : Tips for foreign touroperators(7) Marine mammal research programs of the Russian Arctic IEE RAS(8) Marine tourism, its impact on the polar bear and the Okhotsk Sea population of theBowhead whale, and the regulatory framework(9) Japan-Russian transboundary environmental cooperation and international law
Session B：Cruise industry, local communities, interregional cooperation, and human resource
development(1) Cooperation between Hokkaido and the Russian Far East on tourism development(2) Cruise promotion and infrastructure development in Otaru(3) Trends of the cruise industry development in the Russian Far East and the Arctic(4) Cruise tourism in the Russian Far East and the Arctic(5) Development of ecotourism in Kamchatka : From the indigenous inhabitants’ perspective(6) Contemporary Tourism Developments and Ainu Community in Hokkaido(7) Current situation and prospects for cruise industry in Pacific Russia(8) Arctic cruises through the eyes of tourists : Pilot project results and prospective studies(9) Tourism Development in Sakhalin(10) Three Volcano Park as a model case of sustainable tourism and integrated regional
development : Prospects for cruise industry development in Kamchatka(11) The development of sustainable tourism and participation of indigenous communities inSakhalin(12) Far Eastern and Arctic cruises development: Russian-Japanese international cooperation
potential

Total 591

19/ 8/26

265/94/232

Arctic region Open Seminar Sustainable cruise industry in the Pacific Arctic

Survey from stakeholders on the 9 th and 11th Arctic region Open Seminar【Q1】Was the seminar usefulfor you ? (%)

【Q2】Which natural science fields
in the Arctic region can you expect
the possibility of social
implementation efforts ? (%)

【Q3】Which human and social
science fields in the Arctic region
can you expect the possibility ofsocial implementation efforts ? (%)

Survey from stakeholders on the 9 th and 11th Arctic region Open Seminar【Q4】Which Industrial fields in the Arctic region can 【Q5】What are you expected to this Open Seminarpromoting new entry to industrial activities in theyou expect the possibility of social implementation
Arctic region ?
efforts ?

(%)

(%)

Accepted Collaborative Research Projects in FY2016-29019
Collaborative Researchers

Participating Organization

Accepted Collaborative Research Projects in FY2016-29019
Participating Organization

Private sectors

Public Sectors

Universities

Accepted Collaborative Research Projects in FY2016-29019
Collaborative Research Projects

Interdisciplinary Research Projects※Interdisciplinary：HS/NS, HS/E, NS/E and HS/NS/E at Human & Social Science(HS)/Natural(NS) Science/Engineering(E)Accepted Collaborative Research Projects in FY2016-29019
FY2016-2021 Collaborative research fields

FY2016-2020 Number of peer-reviewed papers
70

Nature Observation

60

The number of paper

PlanIndustrial UseEcosystem
Society/Region

50403020100201620172018

2019

A:Number of peer-reviewed papers
B:including important contribution in A
C:including International co-author in A
D:including important contribution in C

2020

Promoting researcher nurture to solve issues in the Arctic region
Arctic Science Course
Nov.24～26, 2021 Online
39 participants
Industries:5
Governments:10
Researchers:24 (incl. Students:18)

1. Opening, Guidance and Self-introduction
2. Lectures(1) Geography & History(2) Ocean Ecosystem(3) Glaciers / ice sheets(4) Atmosphere(5) Terrestrial Ecosystem(6) Economics(7) North Sea Routes(8) Human beings andSociety(9) Governance(10) Data Management
Sea of Okhotsk
3. Social Gathering
4. Presentation & Discussion
5. Closing

Field Course
Feb.14-18, 2022 at Okhotsk
Winter School on “Arctic Nature, People's
Life and Industry Learned from Winter inOkhotsk”
Participants : 9 students
Program:(1)-50 ℃ experience @ Institute of Low
Temperature Science of HU、Indigenouspeople @HU Museum (2) Sea ice andecology of the Sea of Okhotsk (3) Drift Ice
Observation at Sea of Okhotsk (4)Okhotsk
drift ice Museum & Northern FolkloreMuseum (5) Sea ice observation on board“Aurora”(6) Shiretoko World Heritage Sites
and Wildlife Conservation Management (7)Remote sensing observations of terrestrialecosystems (8) Permafrost ecosystems
under changing climate (9) Life in thenorth: culture and history of Sakha
Republic, Russia (10) Discussion andPresentation

Survey from stakeholders on the Collaborative
Industry-Government-Academia
Arctic region OpenResearchSeminar
ProjectsNo.

FieldsTitles

Initiatives Activities to promote industry-government-academia
D-1ofResearchers〇Masato Tanaka, Natsuhiko Otsuka and Yasushi Fukamachi (Hokkaido Univ.)

collaborative research on the Arctic region supported by Japan

J-ARC Net Arctic Research Network Center (J-ARC Net)

Toward sustainable meteorological profiling using an
D-2〇Kazutoshi Sato (Kitami Inst. Tech.) and Jun Inoue (NIPR/SOKENDAI)

inexpensive Unmanned Aircraft Systems inpolar regions
Pack ice observations by UAV and Sentinel-2 Satellite

D-3〇Kanichiro Matsumura (Tokyo Univ. Agriculture) , Stanley Anak Suaband Ram Avtar (Hokkaido Univ.)

Study on characteristics of zooplankton community in coastal 〇Hiromi Kasai (Japan Fish. Res. Educ. Agcy.), Seiji Katakura (City ofD-4

water around Mombetsu during sea ice
PART-1

Mombetsu), Tomoyasu Yamazaki (Shellfish Museum Rankoshi), Katsunori Kimoto(JAMSTEC), Junya Hirai (Univ. Tokyo), Kohei Matsuno and Atsushi Yamaguchi

season(Hokkaido Univ.)

Consequences of wildfires in boreal forests underlain by ice-

〇Go Iwahana (Hokkaido Univ./Univ. Alaska, USA) , Kazuki Yanagiya,Observation rich permafrost near Batagay, NE Siberia
D-5

Masato Furuya (Hokkaido Univ.), Petr Danilov (Nort-Eastern Federal Univ.,Russia), Nikolai Fedorov (Yakutsk Permafrost Inst, Russia), Takahiro Abe (MieUniv.), Takumi Kawamura (Iwata Chizaki Inc.), Syunji Kanie (Hokkaido Univ.),
Yoshihiro Iijima (Mie Univ.), Takeo Tadono (JAXA), Alexey Desyatkin(YakutskPermafrost Inst., Russia/Inst. Biological Problems Cryolithozone, Russia) andAlexander Fedorov (Yakutsk Permafrost Inst., Russia)

Arctic Marine Plastic Pollution -Lectures and discussionmeetings on the marine plastic
D-6〇Naoki Nakazawa (Syst. Eng. Assoc., Inc.), Satoshi Akagawa(Cryosphere Eng. Lab.), Shinsuke Iwasaki (Civil Eng. Res. Inst. Cold Region),Atsumi Kataishi (Chuo Univ.), Shunji Kanie (Hokkaido Univ.), Shinji Kioka (Civil
Eng. Res. Inst. Cold Region), Yuji Kodama (Hokkaido Univ.), Tomoe Komoriya(Nihon Univ.), Takahiro Takeuchi (Hachinohe Inst. Tech.), Masato Tanaka(Hokkaido Univ.), Shinya Nishio (Nihon Univ.), Hotaek Park (JAMSTEC), Hironori

Survey from stakeholders on the Collaborative
Industry-Government-Academia
Arctic region OpenResearchSeminar
ProjectsNo.

Filds

TitlesNeeds for technical research on the Arctic region/Seeds
analysis and matching study meeting report

Researchers〇Akira Kurokawa (Eng. Adv. Assoc. Japan), Hajime Yamaguchi (NIPR),
Kazuma Nakamizo (Mitsubishi Shipbldg. Co., Ltd.), Satoru Fukuba (Japan Mar.
United Corp.), Toshihide Kuwagaki (INPEX Corp.), Takao Kashiwagi (Mitsui O.S.K.
Lines Ltd.), Hajime Yoshida (Zeni Lite Buoy Ltd.), Eisuke Akane (JAMSTEC), Yuji

D-7

Part-2

Kodama (Hokkaido Univ), Hironori Yabuki (NIPR), Masato Tanaka, Yasushi

Engineering

Fukamachi (Hokkaido Univ), Takashi Kikuchi (JAMSTEC), Tetsuya Nakamura(NiGK Corp.), Masahiro Mikami (Fieldpro, Inc.), Koichi Goto (KANSO Technos Co.,Ltd.), Genki Sagawa (Weathernews Inc.), Hidefumi Yatomi (Cubic-i Ltd.) and Yu
Houraku (PASCO Corp.)

D-8

D-9

Evaluation of ship resistance in ice regime using ice chart〇Shotaro Uto and Takenobu Toyota (Hokkaido Univ.)

Trans-Arctic submarine fiber-optic cables: Recent〇Juha Saunavaara (Hokkaido Univ.)

developments and future prospects
Research exchange between Japan and Finland on data

D-10

centers in the cold climate region
Prospects for sustainable development of the cruise industry

D-11〇Taro Mori and Juha Saunavaara (Hokkaido Univ.)

PART-3〇Marina Lomaeva, Juha Saunavaara and Masato Tanaka (Hokkaido Univ.)in the Pacific Arctic: Outcomes of the Japan-Russia online

Utilization workshop held on 8-9 December 2021
D-12

Breaking the ice as a tourist experience: Local initiatives
facing global challenges
Extracting issues for appropriate Arctic tourism development

D-13

concerning community resilience〇Juha Saunavaara (Hokkaido Univ.), Mari Partanen (JAMK Univ. AppliedSci., Finland /Univ. Oulu, Finland), Takafumi Fukuyama and Masato Tanaka(Hokkaido Univ.)〇Takafumi Fukuyama , Hirofumi Ueda, Noriaki Nishiyama, Hidetoshi
Kobayashi, Mayumi Okada, Masato Tanaka, Fujio Ohnishi, Juha Saunavaara, TaroMori, Tomoe Kato (Hokkaido Univ.), Shuhei Takahashi (Okhotsk Sea Ice Museum)and Shunwa Honda (Open Univ. Japan)

Thank you very much for your support and cooperation !

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Thank you very much foryour participation, supportand cooperation in J-ARC
1,598トンNet for six years.