APN Project Climate Variability and Human Activities in
Relation to Northeast Asian Land-Ocean Interactions and their
Implications for Coastal Zone Management supported by Seed Grant
included two major activities: the workshop held in the
Institute of Marine Biology FEB RAS, Vladivostok, and field
excursion to the mouth area of Razdolnaya River in the Russian
Far East (August 9-11, 2003). A total of 20 persons from China,
Korea and Russia, and a representative of APN attended the
meeting. Detailed discussion recognized main objectives of
improved project submitted to APN under the title Northeast
Asian riverocean interactions and their implications for coastal
zone management: identification of estuarine and coastal changes
in terms of hydrology, hydrochemistry, geochemistry,
geomorphology, ecosystem and material cycling patterns of the
northeastern Asia region, with special reference to the Amur,
Tumen and Razdolnaya Rivers; evaluation of the sensitivity of
regional changes in relation to anthropogenic processes and
climate change; providing of the recommendations to management
of sustainable coastal development of the region and to provide
assistance to policy/decision makers. The main outcome of the
meeting was improvement of the project and development of the
linkages between Chinese, Korean and Russian scientists and
initial data exchange. |
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