V ICE OF THE PACIFIC

VOLUME 22, NO. 2 SUMMER 2006

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HIGHLIGHTS OF PACON 2006

(left to right): Minister Maj. Gen. Thein Swe, Prof. Susumu Ishii, Deputy Minister Pe Than, Founding President Dr. Narendra Saxena The Twelfth Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology, PACON 2006: Marine Science in Asia, was held at the Traders Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar on 11-15 June 2006.

On Sunday, 11 June, 70 participants attended a tutorial by Dr. Friedhelm Schroeder on “Monitoring Methods and Strategies by Using Automated Systems”. Dr. Schroeder works at the GKSS Research Centre in Germany. Following that was early registration and the Welcome Reception.

Chapters Chairs AUSTRALIA (TBA) CALIFORNIA Dr. Young C. Kim CHINA Mr. Shuguang Wang EAST COAST (U.S.) (TBA) EUROPE Prof. H.D. Knauth HAWAII Ms. Elizabeth Corbin INDIA (TBA) INDONESIA Dr. Dietriech Bengen JAPAN Dr. Yoshifusa Yamada KOREA Dr. Hyung Tack Huh MYANMAR Prof. U Thein Tun PHILIPPINES VADM Eduardo Santos RUSSIA Dr. Sergei Shapovalov TAIWAN Prof. Ju-Chin Chen

On Monday, 12 June, at the Opening Ceremony:

H.E. Maj. Gen. Thein Swe, Minister for Transport, Myanmar, and Honorary Chair, extended a heartfelt and warm welcome to all distinguished participants of PACON 2006. In his opening message, His Excellency says that “Ocean Science and Technology categories in environmental monitoring, climate change, etc. are the fresh topics and Coastal Science and Technology categories such as coastal water fluctuation and coastal hazards, etc., are never finished paintings.” He feels Myanmar, “as a coastal nation has many vital tasks in marine activities to undertake.” Prof. Susumu Ishii, Dean of Nihon University’s College of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, and Honorary Chair, welcomed delegates to PACON 2006. In his opening message, Prof Ishii says “As you know, for mankind, the ocean plans a great role such as the place of control for the global environment, marine organism and fishery, transportation, etc. Myanmar with its long coastal line is rich in marine resources. This means Myanmar has great potential of effective and wise use of the sea.” He feels that we need to understand each other and establish partnerships for collaboration, to make wise use of the sea and saving the environment, our common missions.

H.E. U Pe Than, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Transport, Myanmar, and General Chair, wished PACON 2006 success and the participants to be prosperous and healthy. In his opening message Deputy Minister Than says “This gathering of marine scientists and engineers in PACON 2006 marks a closer mutual cooperation among the nations to exchange marine science and technological advances, to share expertise and experience, and to upgrade human resources.” As a coastal nation, Myanmar’s people and businesses are connected to marine activities, and that opportunties for increasing the nation’s wealth through more marine activities is needed. However, awareness of the potential threats generated from these activities must be monitored to avoid disturbing Myanmar’s marine and coastal ecology.

Dr. Narendra Saxena, Founding President of PACON International, welcomed the delegates to the first PACON conference to convene in an ASEAN country, informed us of the increase from three (3) to six (6) Cecilia Hsi Saxena Awards for best student poster competition, and that PACON had established a Student Travel Fund to partially support travel of junior faculty and graduate students to our conferences. He hoped that having a conference in Myanmar would make the PACON Myanmar more active and stronger Daw Ling Maung Pan, a 1992 graduate of Yangon University and a Myanmar Radio and Television newscaster, was the Master of Ceremony.

Attendees, Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Officers at Opening Ceremony

Participants visiting Exhibit Booths after the Opening Ceremony

Monday, 12 June, Dr. Tad Murty (University of Ottawa, Canada) presented the Keynote Address on “Tsunamis and Storm Surges in the Indian Ocean.” Tuesday, 13 June, Dr. Hans von Storch (GKSS Research Center, Germany) presented the Keynote Address on “Storms-Analysis, Statistics, and Changes”.

Wednesday, 14 June, Dr. Ying Wang (Nanjing University, China) presented the Keynote Address on “River-Sea Interaction and the North Jiangsu Plain Formation”.

On Monday, 12 June, the second annual Student Poster Session, with the assistance of Coordinator Dr. Jerome Comcowich and Co-Coordinator U Myo Thant, took place. The Student Poster Judging Committee consisted of Dr. Jerome Comcowich, Dr. Tad Murty, Dr. Nobuhiro Sawano, Prof. Charlie Than, Dr. Kenji Hotta, Dr. Ying Wang, and Mr. Norman Estabrook. Later in the evening, the PACON Awards Banquet commenced at the Traders Hotel Ballroom, preceeded by Myanmar beer tasting and socializing. An excursion to the famous and breathtaking Shwedagon Pagoda took place on Wednesday, 14 June. On Thursday, 15 June, the techical sessions started at 9:00 a.m. and later that morning a trip to the National Races Village was offered. After the Closing Ceremony, some participants visited the Gem Emporium.

The Sixteenth PACON International Board of Directors meeting, Tuesday, 13 June 2006.

(Back row): Dr. Lorenz Magaard, Dr. Kenji Hotta, Mr. Norman Estabrook, Dr. Narendra Saxena, Dr. Yoshifusa Yamada. (Front row): Rector Thein Tun, Prof. Hans-Diethard Knauth)

PACON 2006 had 19 technical sessions, 3 workshops, and a student poster session. More than 400 delegates participated from 11 countries including Australia, China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand, and USA. There were 109 presented papers. PACON International thanks the sponsors from the U.S., Japan, and Myanmar who made PACON 2006 possible: School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (USA), PACON Japan Chapter, Association for Japan-Myanmar Mutual Corporation (AJMMC) (Japan), Nihon University College of Science & Technology (Japan), Nihon University College of Industrial Industry (Japan), PACON Myanmar Chapter, Silver Wave Trading Ltd. (Myanmar), Ayon Oo Construction Co. Ltd. (Myanmar), Htoo Trading (Myanmar), Asia World Port Co. Ltd. (Myanmar), Golden Flower Co. Ltd. (Myanmar), Yuzana Co. Ltd. (Myanmar), Myanmar Industrial Port (Myanmar), Myanmar Book Store (Myanmar), Myanmar Fishery Products Processors & Exporters Association (Myanmar), and SUNTAC Technologies Co. Ltd. (Myanmar). PACON International also thanks the photographers: Ms. Paula Kuriyama (PACON International), and Mr. Kuang Zaw (Myanmar Maritime University), for their pictures in this issue.

PACON 2006 Awards Banquet

The PACON 2006 Awards Banquet was held on 12 June 2006 at the Traders Hotel. The banquet speech by Mr. Norman Estabrook centered on “Global Implications of Ocean Observations”. He reminds us that with oceans comprising roughly two thirds of the earth’s surface, the mutual interactions driven by the energies of both solar (wind, waves, temperature, water transport, etc.) and the internal heat of the earth within this medium, to a large extent determines what happens to our environment. It is ‘imperative for our quality of life and, perhaps, even our future survival, that we understand what is going on.’

Special guests and PACON participants enjoyed live music and dance by a young group of dancers and musicians from the Cultural University in Myanmar. Awards presented by Dr. Narendra Saxena and Dr. Kenji Hotta, went to the following: PACON Service Award: Dr. Friedhelm Schroeder, Prof. Susumu Ishii, Rector Thein Tun, Pro-Rector Charlie Than; Ocean Service Award: Mr. Kazuhito Kawahara, Ms. Yoko Hirai.

(left to right): Dr. Kenji Hotta, Mr. Pyae Sone Oo, Pro-Rector Charlie Than, Dr. Narendra Saxena, Dr. Friedhelm Schroeder, Mr. Thein Zaw Nyo, Rector Thein Tun, Mr. Zhi-cheng Huang, Ms. Kaori Yasuoka, Mr. Chien Ming Lo, Dr. Jerome Comcowich

Student Poster Coordinator Dr. Jerome Comcowich and Co-Coordinator U Myo Thant presented student winners with the Cecilia Hsi Saxena Award. Each student winner received a certificate award, one-year PACON International membership, cash prize, awards banquet dinner, and reimbursement of their PACON 2006 registration fee. They are:

First Place: Mr. Zhi-cheng Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, “The Velocity Field in Surf Zone from Mosaic PIV Measurements”; Second Place: Ms. Kaori Yasuoka, Kagawa University, Japan, “Research on the Current Control Function and Fish Aggregation of Artificial Reef”; Third Place: Mr. Pyae Sone Oo, Myanmar Maritime University, Myanmar, “Morphological Changes of Ayeyarwaddy Delta at Kyeinbinse Waterway”; Fourth Place: Mr. Chien-Ming Lo, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, “Study on Relations of Wharf Steel-Piles Corrosion and Environmental Factors”;

Fifth Place: Mr. Hirokazu Takamasa, Nihon University, Japan, “Study on Fractal Characteristics of District and Its Relationship to Environmental Cognition”; Sixth Place: Mr. Thein Zaw Nyo, Defence Services of Technology Academy, Myanmar, “The Role of PACON in Marine Science and Technology”.

PACON International thanks each student who participated in this year’s Cecilia Hsi Saxena Student Poster Award competition and sends heartfelt “congratulations” to our six student poster winners.

OCEAN DAY 2006

Ocean Day 2006 was held on 7 June 2006 at the NOAA Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary in the Hawaii Kai Corporate Plaza. This year’s theme centered around “Tsunamis and Storm Waves”. Ms. Elizabeth Corbin read the Governor’s Proclamation, followed by Mayor Mufi Hannemann who read the Mayor’s Proclamation.

Ocean Day Chair, Mr. George Curtis, a past tsunami researcher for JIMAR (Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for twelve years, started with an Introduction to the Hazard and Risks of Tsunamis and Storm Waves, followed by Mr. Scott Sullivan from Sea Engineering, Inc. on Hurricane Modeling for Hawai`i, Ms. Jeanne Johnston from the Hawai`i State Civil Defense on State Response to Tsunamis, Mr. Paul Haraguchi from Pacific Weather, Inc. spoke on Scenarios for Possible Hurricanes in Hawai’i, followed by Dr. Yong Wei from the Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, who spoke for Dr. Kwok Fai Cheung on Better Tsunami Modeling, Mr. John Cummings III from the Oahu Civil Defense on County Response to Major Wave

Threats, and Dr. Ian Robertson from the UH Civil Engineering Department on Storm Surge Damage from Katrina and Application to Tsunami Damage. An open discussion allowed the audience to ask questions. After the discussion, people mingled, ate light refreshments, and bid on the silent auction items. Special thanks go to Ms. Keeley Belva and the NOAA Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary in the Hawaii Kai Corporate Plaza for the use of their classroom and facilities, to Mr. Curtis for being the Ocean Day 2006 Chair, and to Mayor Mufi Hannemann who took time out of his busy schedule to meet us.

PACON NEW / RETURNING MEMBERS

PACON International profiles returning member Prof. Manell E. Zakharia (France). Born in Beirut (Lebanon), Prof. Zakharia received an EE Diploma in 1979, a Ph.D. in acoustics in 1982, and a Habilitation à Dirriger des Recherches degree in 2000. His research work and interests relate to wideband sonar systems: bottom imaging, sub-bottom imaging and characterization, fisheries acoustics, underwater navigation, synthetic aperture sonar, surface acoustic waves, scattering and target recognition, time-frequency analysis and low frequency shallow water propagation and reverberation. PACON International welcomes new and renewing members from PACON 2006: Australia: Cecilia Eriksson, Yuhuai Hu; China: Guanghe Fu, DanLing Tang, Guifen Wang, Dingtian Yang; Germany: Hans-Diethard Knauth, Friedhelm Schroeder, Hans von Storch; Japan: Sachie Akahane, Toshiya Akasaki, Tomohide Atsumi, Seiichi Hamada, Machi Haseda, Takashi Hoshino, Kazunori Hosotani, Yasushi Ito, Isamu Izawa, Shigeru Kato, Toshimsa Kawanishi, Myo Khin, Seiji Kiho, Hidekazu Kikuchi, Akio Kobayashi, Masato Kobayashi, Hideki Kohno, Osamu Matsuda, Tatsunobu Matsuda, Ryuta Matsui, Koji Misawa, Hitoshi Murakami, Shinji Nagasawa, Kiminori Nakazawa, Kazuhisa Naoi, Ryuichiro Nishi, Masao Ohno, Etsuko Okabayashi, Takumi Okabayashi, Kyoichi Okamoto, Koji Otsuka, Akinori Sako, Nobuhiro Sawano, Shigeru Tabeta, Makoto Tajima, Hiroaki Terashima, Isao Tsutsui, Satoshi Yamada, Kyoko Yamazaki, Kaori Yasuoka, Sumiko Yokobori; Malaysia: Yang Amri Affendi, Jillian Ooi, Mohd Razali Bin Mahmud; Myanmar: Thein Zaw Nyo, Pyae Sone Oo; Taiwan: Peng Hsi Hou, Wen-Yang Hsu, Zhi Cheng Huang, Ching-Her Hwang, Jea Tzzy Juang, Hsien-Hua Lee, Nai-Kuang Liang, Bao-Shi Shiau, Ho-Shing Yu; Thailand: Tachanat Bhatrasataponkul, Richard Cooper, Isao Tsutsui; USA: Makena Coffman, Jerome Comcowich, Norman Estabrook, Shih-Ang Hsu, Lorenz Magaard, James Marsh, Kent Peterson.

PACON INTERNATIONAL LIFE MEMBERS

Kazuaki Akai Agustin Ayala-Castanares Reb Bellinger John A.H. Benzie Arnd Bernaerts John Black Robert W. Brander John J. Carey Loke-Ming Chou Michael P. Crosby Patricia I. Dixon Sylvia A. Earle Matthew H. England Bill Friedl Ray Golding Osamu Hanada Jack Harmon Hakaru Hatakeyama E. Chipman Higgins* Gary W. Hill Hans E.W. Hoffmann David Hopley

Kenji Hotta Guoben Hou Ho-Shong Hou Hyung Tack Huh Hiroko Ichimura Hiroshi Ichimura Susumu Ishii Akira Iwamoto Fusae Iwamoto Colin M. Jones Hironobu Kan Cha-Kyum Kim Masao Kishino Hi-Sang Kwak Mary L. Leach Rongxing Li Hisaaki Maeda Matthew M. Matsunaga Shigehisa Nakamura Noriyuki Nasu Chiu Keung Ng Keiichi Noto

Takeki Okamoto Yuji Osaki Richard Podgorny Masaaki Sakuta Narendra Saxena Randall K. Schmitt Shiv K. Sharma Tatsuzo Shibata Hyun Jin Shim Kitty Simonds James J. Sullivan William W. Sutter Kiyohide Terai Ying Wang Tomiji Watabe John Wiltshire Paul M. Wolff Yoshifusa Yamada Hongmo Yan Koichiro Yoshida

Yasushi Yoshida

* deceased

PACON CHAPTER CHAIR CONTACTS

AUSTRALIA HAWAII MYANMAR (TBA) Ms. Elizabeth Corbin Prof. U Thein Tun Email: (TBA) Email: ecorbin@dbedt.hawaii.gov Email: theintun@mmu.gov.mm CALIFORNIA INDIA PHILIPPINES Dr. Young C. Kim (TBA) VADM Eduardo Santos Email: ykim@calstatela.edu Email: (TBA) Email: emars@consultant.com CHINA INDONESIA RUSSIA Mr. Shuguang Wang Dr. Dietriech Bengen Dr. Sergei Shapovalov Email: jycheng@263.net Email: dieter@indo.net.id Email: smshp@sio.rssi.ru EAST COAST (U.S.) JAPAN TAIWAN (TBA) Dr. Yoshifusa Yamada Prof. Ju-Chin Chen Email: (TBA) Email: yd@japatech.co.jp Email: jcchen@oc.ntu.edu.tw EUROPE KOREA Prof. H.D. Knauth Dr. Hyung Tack Huh Email: knauth@gkss.de Email: hthuh@sios.re.kr

PACON International (Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology, International) was created following two successful marine science and technology Congresses held in Honolulu: PACON 84 and PACON 86. Since then, PACON has held Congresses in Hawaii, Australia, Japan, Korea, and Myanmar. Regional Symposia have been held in Hawaii, Beijing, Hong Kong, Russia, California, and Taiwan.

PACON International Mission Statement: PACON International is an international non-profit professional marine science and technology society dedicated to the sharing of scientific and technical information among those interested in the future of the world’s oceans with a Pacific focus.

The PACON International Newsletter Voice of the Pacific [Copyright 2006] is published quarterly by: PACON International, 2525 Correa Road, HIG 407A, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA; Phone: 808-956-6163; Fax: 808-956-2580; Email: pacon@hawaii.edu, Website: www.hawaii.edu/pacon. Founding-President: Narendra Saxena, President: Ho-Shong Hou, President-Elect: Young C. Kim, Past-President: Kenji Hotta, Acting Executive Director: Paula Kuriyama, Editor: Elizabeth Glover. The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Hawaii or PACON International. Commercial products named are not endorsements.