Marine Ecosystems Research Department - jamstec japan agency ...

Japan Marine Science and Technology Center
Outline of Activities
23 Long-term ocean bottom electromagnetic FY2002-2003 Earthquake Research Deep Sea Research Department
observation around the Nankai subduction zone
Institute,
University of Tokyo
24 Exploration of ocean bottom microstructures in FY2002-2003 Ocean Research Deep Sea Research Department
the Nankai Trough
Institute,
University of Tokyo
Activities of Major Establishments
1. Yokosuka Headquarters
() Outline of Yokosuka Headquarters' Activities
In fiscal , to celebrate the th anniversary
of JAMSTEC, in September Yokosuka Headquarters
invited the directors of the world's major ocean
research institutions to take part in an international
symposium and a roundtable conference on ocean
research in the st century. The symposium and conference
were originally planned for the preceding
year, but because of the terrorist attacks in the U.S.,
they were postponed. The roundtable conference
adopted the Yokosuka Statement, which indicates the
direction of ocean research in the future. In October
JAMSTEC established the Center for Deep Earth
Exploration to operate and manage the deep-sea
drilling vessel CHIKYU, the primary drilling vessel in
the Japan-U.S.-led Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
(IODP).
() Land and Building
(a) Land
In April , the central Government invested
in kind, in JAMSTEC, a piece of nationally owned
land of ,.m in Yokosuka city, Kanagawa
Prefecture. An ,.m portion of the reclamation
work, which had been under way on the seaside of the
JAMSTEC site since fiscal , was completed in
fiscal . In fiscal , JAMSTEC purchased a
piece of land: .m , from the central Government,
and in May , the second-stage reclamation work
of ,.m was completed.
Because the level of the reclaimed land, and that of
the existing ground, differed, the level of the existing
site was raised, during a period from fiscal to fiscal
. During a period from fiscal to fiscal
, environmental conservation measures were
taken. In fiscal JAMSTEC purchased a
,.m plot of land, and in fiscal purchased
an adjacent plot of ,.m to bring the total land
area of Yokosuka Headquarters to ,.m .
(b) Building
As may be noted from Table , buildings have been
added since , one after another. In fiscal ,
there were research buildings of various purposes,
with a total floor area of ,.m . In fiscal
JAMSTEC purchased the Marine Ecosystems
Research Building (old Information and Power Source
Building) from Fuyo General Lease Co., Ltd.
Table 6 Research Facilities of Yokosuka Headquarters
Building Total floor Year for construction
area (m 2 )
Diving Simulator Building 1,586.64 Fiscal 1972
Maintenance Building (old Sea Area Research Building) 484.37 Fiscal 1972
Marine Training Building 584.88 Fiscal 1972
Modified in fiscal 1980
Modified in fiscal 1980
Modified in fiscal 1992
Marine Engineering Experiment Building 3,000.00 Fiscal 1972-73
Modified in fiscal 1994
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