E-1
Workshop E
Activities to Promote
Industry-Government-Academia
Collaborative Researchon the Arctic Region
February 18-21, 2018
Japan Arctic Research Network Center(J-ARC Net)
Hokkaido University

The 33rd International Symposium on the Okhotsk Sea & Polar Oceans

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

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
For future proposal

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

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

HU-ARC

Promoting Industry-GovernmentAcademia Collaboration

Industries
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 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
Researcher’s Community
Support (RC)ProjectIndustry-Government-Academia
Collaboration (I-G-A)Support 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 Sea
Route(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(4)Tele-communication(5)Fishery(6)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

Survey from stakeholders on the 3 rd Arctic region Open Seminar【Q1】Was the seminar useful for you ?

41%あまり約に立たなかった Quite useful
役に立たなかった

57%

Enough useful

未回答【Q2】Which fields of natural sciencein the Arctic region are you interested in ?
2828

OCEAN・SEA ICE
CLIMATE CHANGE

22TELECOMMUNICATION

1210101087ARCHITEC. ・CIVIL ENG.
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION

NATURAL DISASTER
AVIATION・SPACE

5TERRESTRIAL・PERMAFROSTATMOSPHERE
BIOLOGICAL ECOLOGYCRYOSPERE
MEDICINE・DENT
HELTH・SANITATION
MATH・STATISTICS

332221GOVERNANCE

16ECONOMY

14INTERNATIONAL RELATION

13HUMAN・SOCIETY11POLITICS

10LAW・REGULATION【Q5】What are you expected tothis Open Seminar to promote
new entry to industrial activities
in the Arctic region ?

7

PEOPLE・LANGUAGE

No answer

SHIPPING【Q3】Which fields of human and social
in the Arctic region are you interested in ?

6

LITERATURE・HISTORY

3

ARCHAEOLOGY2

INDIGENOUS PEOLPE

1EDUCATION・PSYCOLOGY

1

PHLOSOPHY0【Q4】Which Industrial fields
in the Arctic region are you interested in ?
SHIPPING・NSR
OIL・GASMINERALFISHERY
TOURISM
AGRICULTURE・FOOD
TELECOMMUNICATIONHEAVY INDUSTRY・PLANT
DISTRIBUTIONSHIPBUILDINGFORESTY
ARCHTEC.・CIVIL ENG.
MONEY MARKETEDUCATION
MEDICINE・WELFAREAVIATION・SPACEREAL ESTATE
AMUSEMENTTHE OTHER

I-G-A COLLABOLATION

21BREADTH OF POSSIBILITY

21DEEPING INTEREST

16ECONOMICAL ASSESSMENT

153625161615118755432221000

POLITICAL PROPOSAL

12PROMOTING TO DIG OUT ISSUE

8INTERNATIONAL…
THE OTHER

80Collaborative Research Themes Adopted in FY2016 and FY2017
J-ARC Net
Activities

Research’s
Communities
Supporting(RC)Project

Categories

FY

Innovative Interdisciplinary
Collaborative research

2016

Collaborative PromotingResearch in Natural, Humanities,
Social and Practical Sciences
Meeting for Collaborative
Research in various Fields toPlan Research Project
Feasibility Study for
Problems-Solving Joint
Researches

2016

IndustryGovernmentAcademia
Collaboration
Planning Meeting for Setting
Supporting(I-G-A)Project Issues
Total

2017

2017
2016
2017
2016
2017
2016
2017

Term(Years)

Subsidy(Max)(1000Yen/Y)

Max 22500

1700

1500

Max 22500

1500

Adopted
Themes10916
873
123201623201728

Promoting Industry-Government-Academia Collaboration

Categories

FY20162017

FieldsNSR

Subjects
Future scenario for the Arctic 2050

E-2
*1 Hitachi Ltd., *2 Hokkaido Research Inst. for the 21st Century, *3 Esri Japan
Corp, *4 Hokkaido Univ., *5, Sapporo City Univ.

2016
2017
FeasibilityStudyPlanningE-3

2016
2017

Engineerring2017
2018

Permafrost

E-4Researchers●Taro OSABE*1,
Hiroyuki YASUNAGA*2
Jun FUKUDA*3,
Natsuhiko OTSUKA*4,
Seiichi SAITO*4,
Minori TAKAHASHI*4,
Fujio ONISHI*4,
Toshihiko HARA*5*1 Engineering Advancement Association of Japan, *2 The Univ. of Tokyo, *3
Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Ltd, *4Hokkaido Univ., *6 National Inst. of Polar
Research, *7 JAMSTEC●Akira KUROKAWA*1,Hajime YAMAGUCHI*2,
Hiroshi YOSHINAGA*3,
Keiichiro OSHIMA*4,
Hironori YABUKI*5,
Yuji KODAMA*6,
Takashi KIKUCHI*7

Study on Navigability of the Arctic Sea Route*1 Hokkaido Univ., *2 The Univ. of Tokyo, *3 Kitami
Inst. of Tech., *4 Mitsui O.S.K. Line Ltd.

●Natsuhiko OTSUKA*1,
Hajime YAMAGUCHI*2,
Kazutaka TATEYAMA*3,
Takao KASHIWAGI*4

Assessing and mediating damage on infrastructure
and changes in ground surface due to permafrost
thaw●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,

Arctic Technology & Research Forum toconsolidate opinions from industries

E-5*1 Hokkaido Univ.,*2 Iwata Chizaki 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 ofPromoting Industry-Government-Academia Collaboration
Categories

FY

Fields2016

Planning

Subjects
Scenario for Industry Development in The ArcticRegion*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*1 Kokkaido Univ., *2 The Univ. of Tokyo, *3Kitami Inst. of Tech., *4 Mitsui
O.S.K. Line Ltd.

E-6

2017

Study on Technical Issues for Possibility of NSR

Oil
Spill

E-7

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 Frontier
Co.,Ltd.

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 KODAMA*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,

Promoting Industry-Government-Academia Collaboration
Categories

FY

FieldsSubjects

Planning 2017
Meeting forsetting
issuesFishery

Study on the influence of environment changes
in the Arctic region on Japanese fishery response(The case of the salmon)

E-8*1 Chuo Univ., *2 Hokkaido Univ. *3 Kumashiro System Frontier Co.,Ltd.,*4 Hokkaido Aquaculture Promotion Corporation

Industry-Academic-Government Collaborative Researches

Cryosphere Engineering Lab.

System Engineering AssociationResearchers●Atsumi FURUYA*1,
Masahide Kaeriyama*2,
Takashi TERASHIMA*3
Mitsuhiro NAGATA*4

Thank you very much for your attention !
Let’s join J-ARC Net Project !
・Open Seminar・Feasibility study & Planning Meeting・Researcher Nurture programs

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

11

Oshoro-maruⅤ（Ice resistance）
To Arctic Ocean in 2018年

1,598トン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 YakutskEntry: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 : English
Program(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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.

Fishery

tourism

The others

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