********************************************************************************************IISEE Newsletter No.71

August 23, 2011********************************************************************************************+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Contents++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1. Procedure for the continuation of IISEE training courses
2. New staff members of IISEE
3. UNESCO/IPRED 4th Meeting in Chile
4. Revision of IISEE Web-sites on the Great East Japan Earthquake
5. Summary Report on the Great East Japan Earthquake will be issued soon+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++============================================================================[1] Procedure for the continuation of IISEE training courses
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Japan is now asking each responsible ministryof target country to submit a list of JICA training courses that each country would like to send
trainees in 2012 and the next years (deadline of submission is mid-September 2011). It will be verymuch appreciated if you or your organization could inform corresponding ministry of your country to
select "Seismology, Earthquake Engineering (and Recovery)" course and "Tsunami Disaster
Mitigation" course as selected courses of your country.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[2] New staff members of IISEENew staff members have joined IISEE in April 2011. Dr. Koichi Morita joined as the course leader inearthquake engineering as Dr. Koyama has moved to structural research group of BRI. Dr. TadashiIshihara also joined from April and Dr. Mukai has left to study abroad. Both new staffs involve inearthquake engineering. Since both have provided lectures at IISEE, they started to guide individualstudies (master degree paper of GHRIPS) for participants from developing countries.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[3] UNESCO/IPRED 4th Meeting in Chile
The 4th meeting of the “International Platform for Reducing Earthquake Disasters" (IPRED) ofUNESCO has been held during 26 and 28 of July, 2011 in Chile. The meeting in Chile is introducedin the following UNESCO's web-site:
http://portal.unesco.org/geography/en/ev.php-URL_ID=14506&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTI
ON=201.html
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/special-themes/disaster-preparedness-and-mitigatio
n/natural-hazards/earthquakes/ipred/------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[4] Revision of IISEE Web-sites on the Great East Japan EarthquakeIISEE revised the following web-site to include new data and so on;
http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/special2/20110311tohoku.htm
Please also visit the following web-site on the past News Letter that includes useful English
information on the Great East Japan Earthquake.
http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/nldb/?language=en------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[5] Summary Report on the Great East Japan Earthquake will be issued soon
A summary report on "The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake (The Great East JapanEarthquake)" that was issued in Japanese will be opened to the public in the very near future. An
additional News Letter will be sent when it is up.
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