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| On September 15th, 2006, Workshop for the Voluntary Advisors who Promote Awareness
Raising for Climate Friendly Lifestyles in Chiba Prefecture 2006 by Chiba Center for Climate
Change Actions, Chiba Prefectural Environment Foundation was held at the Chiba Okura Hotel
in Chiba City. Dr. Seita Emori, Group Leader of the Global Warming Research Program, gave a
lecture at the workshop. Voluntary Advisors who promote awareness raising for climate
friendly lifestyles in Chiba prefecture are delegated by the Chiba Prefecture for PR activities on
the present status and prevention of global warming. |
Dr. Seita Emori, GL at the lecture |
There are 407 members carrying out
volunteer activities. Chiba Center for Climate Change Actions has been working on global
warming prevention activities in cooperation with Chiba Prefecture, local communities and
private organizations since 2000. The workshop is one of such activity and is held every year
for the Voluntary Advisors who Promote Awareness Raising for Climate Friendly Lifestyles in Chiba Prefecture. The lecturers are
specialists in the various areas.
There were two lectures including Dr.Emori. For the first, Mr. Kazuhiro Kishino, Assistant Manager of the Environment Policy
Division, Kanto Regional Environment Office, Ministry of the Environment gave a talk on the Issues of Global Warming . He
introduced the influences of global warming, the measures of global warming in Japan and local government activities, etc. which
should arouse the interest of people as immediate issues. A lecture by Dr. Emori followed. The title of the lecture was,
Prediction of Global Warming and its Reliability . He introduced some research results on global warming projections conducted
by FRCGC, CCSR and NIES.*He also talked about the details of global warming research, its reliability,
its uncertainty and its
improvements, from a researcher s point of view. It is the mission of scientists to bring research results and show them
correctly to the public. Then, it is for society to use these results to make decisions about the direction of the future. Dr. Emori
emphasized the importance of the works by the Voluntary Advisors who Promote Awareness Raising for Climate Friendly
Lifestyles.
There were 140 participants, and they listened earnestly while taking notes. We hope that his talk contributed to their
understanding of global warming research and future activities.
*CCSR:Center for Climate System Research,The University of Tokyo
NIES:National Institute for Environmental Studies |
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On April 8th, 2006, Dr. Sanae Chiba, Researcher of the Ecosystem Change Research Program
received the Japanese Society of Fisheries Oceanography Best Paper Prize. The awarded paper is
"Chiba S, Hirota Y, Hasegawa S, Saino T (2005) North-south contrasts in decadal scale variations in
lower trophic level ecosystems in the Japan Sea. Fisheries Oceanography. 14: 401-412."
Japanese Society of Fisheries Oceanography (JSFO) was established in 1962 aiming at the
better understanding of interaction between fisheries resources and hydrographic environments. |
Dr. Sanae Chiba,Researcher |
JSFO Best Paper Prize is given to the two most remarkable papers published on the scientific
journals "Fisheries Oceanography" and the "Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Fisheries
Oceanography" every fiscal year. Fisheries Oceanography keeps high impact factor in fishery
science and oceanography for recent years.
This study was conducted based on the historically collected hydrographic and biological data sets from 1960s to 1990s. The
Japan Sea is so-called a "miniature ocean" because it has some characteristics of a major ocean despite its small size and semiclosed
boundaries. Regional comparison of the mechanisms between northern, subarctic region and southern, Tsushima Current
region was made, and we found a change in plankton biomass in both regions responding to the North Pacific climate jump in the
mid 1970s. However, mechanisms of the variations differed between the north with light-limited condition and the south with
nutrients-limited condition. As springtime stratification was enhanced due to surface water warming after the mid-1970s, spring
phytoplankton production increased in the north by improvement of light availability due to the mixed layer stabilization. In the
south, on the other hand, stratification increase limited nutrients supply to the surface layer, resulting in decrease in phytoplankton
production. This study demonstrates that regional comparison of mechanisms of long-term scale variation is indispensable to
understand how global change could affect regional ecosystems.
For more JSFO information: http://www.jsfo.jp/top_e.html
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