International Workshop on Space and Lithosphere Environment Changes in Asia (IWSLEC2008)

Main conference hall on the 2nd floor of ISAS
JAXA Sagamihara Campus, Japan
March 1st, 2008

Background

Asian countries such as Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Philippines, Taiwan etc/ are among the most seismically and volcanic active countries in the world and they are frequently affected by severe earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Earthquakes, such as the 1995 Kobe Earthquake (M7.1), the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake, the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake (M9) resulted in great death and destruction. It is very important to mitigate these disasters in Asian countries.
Despite great efforts, the short-term earthquake prediction has not been achieved anywhere in the world. Electromagnetic anomalies related to earthquakes have been reported recently. In the last fifteen years, an intensive international research in the new science field of seismo-electromagnetics has been carried out in many countries such as Japan, Russia, Taiwan, China, Greece, France, Italy, India, Mexico, and USA. The aim of this workshop is to have a forum to highlight the electromagnetic phenomena associated with crustal activity taking place in the lithosphere, atmosphere and ionosphere/magnetosphere and their related phenomena. However, these electromagnetic sensors are usually more affected by space events than by lithosphere events. Lithospheric signal changes are small in comparison to signal changes caused by the space environment. Therefore, in order to monitor or forecast changes in the lithosphere environment with electromagnetic techniques, it is necessary to understand the space environment simultaneously. The aim of this workshop is to evaluate and discuss the state of the art and the recent progress in Seismo-Electromagnetics research in Asian countries in comparison with Space research.

Scope
  • Ground-based earthquake-related electromagnetic phenomena
  • Ground-based volcano-related electromagnetic phenomena
  • Satellite based earthquake/volcano-related phenomena
  • Signal Processing
  • Observation / Instrumentation / Data integration
  • Physical mechanism / Theory
  • Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
  • Space weather and Lithosphere weather
    • Venue

    The workshop will be held at the Main Conference Hall on the 2nd floor of ISAS, JAXA Sagamihara Campus, Japan. 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-8510, Japan.
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    Participant & Registration

    Participants of the seminar will be scientists and students interested in this field. Persons who are from industry are also welcome. All participants must register in advance to the Chairman of the workshop through e-mail or fax as mentioned below. This workshop is free of charge.

    Sponsors

    Financial support for this workshop comes from the Science Council of Asia. The facility for this workshop is provided by JAXA. This workshop is organized by: Space Environment Research Center Kyushu University, Chiba University, and Investigating R&D Committee on Electromagnetic Technology for forecasting and Monitoring Natural Hazards, Institute Electrical Engineering of Japan.

    Workshop Committee

    Prof. Kiyohumi Yumoto, Chairman
    Space Environment Research Center
    Kyushu University
    6-10-1, Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
    Ph./Fax. +81-92-642-4403
    E-mail: yumoto[at]serc.kyushu-u.ac.jp

    Dr. Katsumi Hattori, Co-Chairman
    Department of Earth Sciences
    Chiba University
    1-33, Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
    Ph. +81-43-290-2801
    Fax. +81-43-290-2859
    E-mail: hattori[at]earth.s.chiba-u.ac.jp
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