Meeting Objective

The event is scheduled in advance of the GEO Ministerial Summit in Beijing, November 2010 and one of the important expected outcomes from the ICG meeting will be an input to the Summit elaborated from the Message that resulted form the 6th Meeting in Bali, March 2010 and that stated:

“The Summit is requested to recognize the direction and achievements by GEOSS/AWCI as one of the most effective regional approaches for climate change adaptations and to endorse its activities in each country and the Asia-Pacific region in improving the efficiency of operational water resources management.”

In addition, implementation status of the working group activities will be reviewed including (1) Flood, (2) Drought, (3) Water Quality, and (4) Climate Change groups. Focus will be placed on the three target topics identified for collaboration among Water Cycle, Climate, and Disasters socio-benefit areas: (i) Drought, (ii) Typhoon and Cyclone, and (iii) Snow, GLOF, and Glaciers. Also updated status of the Demonstration Projects and demonstration basin data submissions will be reported and reviewed.

What's New

●    Meeting report (pdf version)	April 2011
●    Meeting presentations (pdf version) uploaded.	8 October 2010
●    Full agenda released.	1 October 2010
●   On-line registration opened.	10 September 2010
●   Meeting website opened.	10 September 2010
●   Invitation letter released.	12 August 2010

Invitation Letter

Tokyo, 12 August 2010

Dear Colleague,

It is my great pleasure to invite you to the 7^th meeting of the GEOSS Asian Water Cycle Initiative (AWCI) International Coordination Group (ICG) that will be held in Tokyo, Japan on 5^th – 6^th October 2010.

The event is scheduled in advance of the GEO Ministerial Summit in Beijing, November 2010 and one of the important expected outcomes from the ICG meeting will be an input to the Summit elaborated from the Message that resulted form the 6th Meeting in Bali, March 2010 and that stated:

“The Summit is requested to recognize the direction and achievements by GEOSS/AWCI as one of the most effective regional approaches for climate change adaptations and to endorse its activities in each country and the Asia-Pacific region in improving the efficiency of operational water resources management.

In addition, implementation status of the working group activities will be reviewed including (1) Flood, (2) Drought, (3) Water Quality, and (4) Climate Change groups. Focus will be placed on the three target topics identified for collaboration among Water Cycle, Climate, and Disasters socio-benefit areas: (i) Drought, (ii) Typhoon and Cyclone, and (iii) Snow, GLOF, and Glaciers. Also updated status of the Demonstration Projects and demonstration basin data submissions will be reported and reviewed.

Further details on the meeting venue and other logistics information including on-line registration will be available at the meeting website that will be announced in due course.

Also, please take a notice that you are responsible for securing your own visa, if necessary. Please contact the nearest embassy/consulate of Japan in your country and inquiry about the requested documents. We will be happy to assist you in this process, if required.

Please advise us about your intention to participate in the Meeting by via email by the deadline of 23 August 2010.

If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We are looking forward to meeting with you in Japan in October.

Sincerely,

Prof. Dr. Toshio Koike

Earth Observation Data Integration and Fusion Research Initiative (EDITORIA)
University of Tokyo

Expected ICG Members

Title	Name	Job Title	Affiliation	Country
Mr.	Mohammad Ashfakul Islam	Engineer Adviser	Ministry of Defense	Bangladesh
Dr.	Bilqis Amin Hoque	Director of Research	Environment and Population Research Centre (EPRC)	Bangladesh
Dr.	Md. Mafizur Rahman	Professor	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)	Bangladesh
Mr.	So Im Monichoth	Deputy Director	Department of Hydrology and River Works	Cambodia
Prof.	Dawen Yang	Professor	Tsinghua University	China
Dr.	Surinder Kaur	Director	India Meteorological Department	India
Prof.	Joesron Loebis	Chairman Indonesia Hydrological Society	Research Institute for Water Resources	Indonesia
Prof.	Syahril Badri Kusuma	Professor and Deputy for research collaboration	Research Division of Water Resources Engineering of Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering of ITB	Indonesia
Dr.	Kazuhiko Fukami	Director	ICHARM	Japan
Prof.	Hiroaki Furumai	Professor	University of Tokyo	Japan
Prof.	Srikantha Herath	Professor	UNU	Japan
Mr.	Chu Ishida		JAXA	Japan
Prof.	Ichirow Kaihotsu	Professor	Hiroshima University	Japan
Prof.	Toshio Koike	Professor	University of Tokyo	Japan
Prof.	Deghyo Bae	Professor	Sejong University	Korea
Dr.	Mohd Zaki Mat Amin	Researcher	Research Centre for Water Quality and Environment National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia (NAHRIM)	Malaysia
Dr.	Gombo Davaa	Head of Hydrology section	Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology	Mongolia
Mr.	Tin Aung Tun	Assistant Director	Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) of Myanmar	Myanmar
Mr.	Kedar Kumar Shrestha	Senior Divisional Engineer	Department of Irrigation	Nepal
Mrs.	Edna Juanillo	Assistant Weather Services Chief	PAGASA/Weather Bureau	Philippines
Mr.	Thada Sukhapunnaphan	Director	Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives	Thailand
Dr.	Hansa Vathananukij	Director of RM-GIS Center	Kasetsart University	Thailand
Mrs.	Irina Dergacheva	Scientist	Hydrometeorological Research Institut	Uzbekistan
Dr.	Dang Ngoc Tinh	Chief of Hydrological Forecasting Division	Deputy Chief of Northern Hydrological forecasting Division National Center for Hydrometeorological Forecasting (NCHF)	Vietnam