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JAMSTEC 2002 Annual Report
Outline of Activities
InterRidge (An initiative for international cooperation
in ridge-crest studies)
InterMARGINS (The International Margins Program)
ICDP (International Continental Scientific Program)
ARGO (The Array for Real Time Geostrophic
Oceanography)
3. Intergovernmental cooperation
JAMSTEC participates in intergovernmental
research cooperation between Japan and such countries
or regions as the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada,
China, Germany, France, Russia, and EU.
The following intergovernmental committees were
held in fiscal .
May : Japan-France Ocean Development
Committee
October : Japan-Germany Ocean Science and
Technology Panel
January : Japan-Russia Science and Technology
Cooperation Committee
February : Japan-China Science and Technology
Committee
4. Cooperation with overseas organizations
JAMSTEC is carrying out research cooperation
under memoranda and agreements concluded with
related organizations in the U.S., France, Germany,
Canada, Indonesia, India, U.K. and South Korea.
() Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
The agreement for research cooperation was revised
in June . The two organizations are cooperating
over a wide range of research fields, including marine
geology and geophysics, polar research, biogeochemistry
and the carbon cycle, marine physics and reobservation
of the WOCE observation lines, geochemical
evolution of the solid earth, submersible engineering
and safety, and ocean bottom observation stations.
() Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
JAMSTEC and SIO renewed their agreement for
research cooperation in December , and are cooperating
in research into the global ocean circulation,
and the deformation of the oceanic plate in the Pacific
Ocean. In February study of thermal and material
flux at ocean bottom floor was added to the memorandum
as a new field of research cooperation.
() Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
(NOAA/PMEL)
In December the memorandum between JAM-
STEC and PMEL on observational research in the
Pacific Ocean was partially amended, and under it, the
two organizations are cooperating in the deployment of
joint international research mooring buoys in the
Tropical Pacific Ocean. When the memorandum was
renewed in December , a new provision on cooperation
regarding loss and damage to buoys was added.
() Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI)
In July JAMSTEC signed an agreement on
deep-sea scientific drilling with JOI, the ODP planning
and management organization. Under this agreement,
JAMSTEC and JOI concluded an agreement on
technical exchanges for the ODP database in . In
they signed an agreement on a science and technology
and operational information project connected
with the IWG support office.
() Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) of
Columbia University
JAMSTEC signed a memorandum on research
cooperation with LDEO in December , and since
then, the two organizations have exchanged research
data in such fields as physical oceanography, marine
science, and marine solid-earth science.
() Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
In June JAMSTEC and MBARI signed a
memorandum on research cooperation, under which
the two organizations are cooperating in research on
chemosynthetic seep and vent communities and mid
and deepwater communities, on the development of a
video image database, and on ROV piloting methods.
() Texas A&M University (TAMU)
JAMSTEC and TAMU concluded a memorandum
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