updated on Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Solid Earth (SE) Session Convenor
SE1 Evolution of Western Pacific Marginal Basins: New Observations and Syntheses... (confirmed speakers)
Sang-Mook Lee
Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
SE2 Seismicity and Earthquake Prediction... (confirmed speakers)
Zhang Guo-Min
The Center of Earthquake Analysis and Prediction, China Seismological Bureau (CSB)
SE4 Earthquake Modeling and Physics... (confirmed speakers)
Dr. Kuo-Fong Ma
Institute of Geophysics, National Central University,Taiwan, ROC
SE6 Weathering, Tectonics and Climate Coupling in the Himalaya... (confirmed speakers) Sunil K. Singh
Physical Research Laboratory
SE7 Geodynamics of the Indian Ocean - Past and Present... (confirmed speakers) Dr. Jerome Dyment
Institut de Physique du Globe
SE9 Probing the Continental Margins of Gondwanaland: The Deep Crust of Southern India and Sri-Lanka - A Key to Evolution of the Lower Continental Crust... (confirmed speakers)

Alfred Kroener
Universitaet Mainz, Germany

SE10 The Changing Face of Asia and Oceania: High-Resolution Ion Microprobe Geochronology as a Tool in Understanding Crustal Evolution... (confirmed speakers) Prof Simon Wilde
Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia
SE11 Geomagnetism: From Near-Earth Observation to Deep-Earth Dynamics... (confirmed speakers) Weijia Kuang
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
SE12 Integrated Studies of the Tethyian - Himalayan Orogenic Belt. Natural Laboratories from Europe to SE Asia... (confirmed speakers) Dr. Victor Mocanu
University of Bucharest
SE14 Accretionary Orogens: Their Composition, Structure and Evolution... (confirmed speakers) Peter Cawood
University of Technology Perth, Australia
SE15

Accessory Minerals: Occurrences, Compositions, Geochronology, Provenance and Petrogenesis... (confirmed speakers)

Paul W. O. Hoskin
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, IMPG, Germany
SE19 Volcano-Tectonics... (confirmed speakers) Valerio Acocella
Dipartimento Scienze Geologiche Universita Roma Tre, L.argo S.L. Murialdo, 1 - 00146 - Roma, Italy
SE21 Open Session on Paleo, Rock and Environmental Magnetism... (confirmed speakers) Satria Bijaksana
Institut Teknologi Bandung, Department of Physics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jalan G 10, Bandung 40132, Indonesia
SE23 The Origin and Growth History of the Asia Continent: Paleomag and Geological Constraints... (confirmed speakers) Zheng Xiang Li
The University of Western Australia, Tectonics Special Research Centre, The University of Western Australia, WA 6009, Australia
SE24 Continental collision, ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism and crustal recycling... (confirmed speakers) Yong-Fei Zheng
University of Science and Technology of China School of Earth and Space Sciences
SE25 Adakites abd Subduction: pros and cons... (confirmed speakers)
G.P. Yumul
Nigs-Up Diliman
SE26 Understanding oceanic lithospheres: Ideas, Trnds and future directions... (confirmed speakers)

Prof. Shoji Arai
Kanazawa University, Japan
Dr. Graciano P. Yumul, Jr.
National Institute of Geological Sciences

SE27 Stresses in the earth's crust... (confirmed speakers) Alexander Galybin
The University of Western Australia

Ocean and Atmospheres (OA) Session Convenor
OA1 Microwave Remote Sensing of Atmospheres in the Solar System... (confirmed speakers) Dr. Paul Hartogh
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie
OA2 South China Seas and Indonesian Throughflow... (confirmed speakers) Prof. Eng-Soon Chan
Tropical Marine Science Institute, Singapore
OA3 Asian Dust (Yellow Sand) : Observations and Modeling... (confirmed speakers) Soon-Ung Park
Seoul National University, Korea
OA4

Biogeochemical Cycling in Estuarine and Coastal Waters... (confirmed speakers)

Mark Baskaran
Wayne State Univ.
OA6 Remote Sensing of Ocean and Ice... (confirmed speakers)
Antony Liu
Atmosphere and Space Sciences ONRIFO Asia
OA10 Dynamical System approaches to problems in Meteorology, Physical Oceanography and Climate Dynamics... (confirmed speakers) Henk Dijkstra
Colorado State University
OA11 Satellite Observation of Water Cycle in the Atmosphere... (confirmed speakers) Tetsuo Nakazawa
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorlogical Agency
OA12

Land-Ocean Atmosphere Interactions... (confirmed speakers)

Peter C Chu
Naval Postgraduate School
OA16

Tropospheric Ozone over Asia... (confirmed speakers)

S. L. Jain
National Physical Laboratory, India
OA17 Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone... (confirmed speakers) Dr. Soo Chin LIEW
Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing, National University of Singapore

Space Physics and Planetary Science (SP) Session Convenor
SP1

Multiscale Phenomena in the Earth’s Magnetosphere... (confirmed speakers)

Anthony Lui
JHU/APL
SP2

Effects of Space Radiation on Solar System Ices... (confirmed speakers)

Marla H. Moore
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
SP3 The Exploration of Mercury... (confirmed speakers) Yoshifumi Saito
ISAS
SP4 Monitoring of Geophysical Electromagnetic and Space Environmental Change Coordinated Magnetic Stations... (confirmed speakers)
Kiyohumi Yumoto
Space Environment Research Center, Kyushu University
SP5 Space Plasma Modeling and Simulation... (confirmed speakers) Tatsuki Ogino
Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University
SP6 Chemical and Physical Processes in Formation and Evolution of the Comets... (confirmed speakers) Dr. Yu Yi
Chungnam National University
SP7 Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections... (confirmed speakers) K. Shibata
Kwasan Observatory, Kyoto University
SP9

Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling... (confirmed speakers)

Gang Lu
National Center for Atmospheric Research
SP10 Lunar Science and Exploration... (confirmed speakers) Bernard H. Foing
ESA & ILEWG
SP11

The Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt: a view of the Solar System beyond Neptune... (confirmed speakers)

Maria Teresa Capria
CNR-IASF, ITALY
SP12 Space Weather Nowcasts and Forecasts... (confirmed speakers) Simon Wing
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
SP13

The Terrestrial Effects of Cosmic Rays... (confirmed speakers)

Y. Muraki
Stelab, Nagoya University
SP14

Cosmogenic nuclides and the global climate... (confirmed speakers)

Y. Muraki
Stelab, Nagoya University
SP15 Science and Exploration of Mars and Venus... (confirmed speakers) Takeshi Imamura
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
SP16 Plasma and Magnetic Fields Near Nonmagnetized Celestial Bodies (Mars, Titan, Moon, Comets, Small Bodies)... (confirmed speakers) K. Sauer
Max- Planck Institute fur Aeronomie, Germany
SP17 Solar Corona, Solar Wind and Heliosphere... (confirmed speakers) Haruichi Washimi
Shonan Institute of Technology, Japan
SP18

Planetary Upper Atmospheres and Ionospheres and their coupling with Magnetospheres... (confirmed speakers)

Anil Bhardwaj
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
SP19

Nonlinear Processes in Solar-Terrestrial Physics... (confirmed speakers)

Abraham Chian
National Institute for Space Research, Brazil
SP20 Solar System Radiophysics... (confirmed speakers) Colin H. Barrow
Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy, Germany
SP21 The Radiation Belts... (confirmed speakers) Manuel Grande
Planets and Space Plasma Group, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
SP22

Outer Planets Systems... (confirmed speakers)

Athena Coustenis
LESIA (Bat 18) Observatoire de Meudon

Non-linear Geophysics (NL) Session Convenor
NL1

Nonlinear Waves and Turbulence in Geophysics and Space Physics... (confirmed speakers)

Abraham Chian
National Institute for Space Research, Brazil
NL3

Fractals and Chaotic Dynamics in Geosciences... (confirmed speakers)

Dr. V.P. Dimri
National, Geophysical Research Institute
NL4 Dynamical System approaches to problems in Meteorology, Physical Oceanography and Climate Dynamics... (confirmed speakers) Henk Dijkstra
Colorado State University

Hydrological Science (HS) Session Convenor
HS1 Hydrology... (confirmed speakers) Prof. Ming-Hsi Hsu
Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University
HS2

Sustainable Development: Water Resources in 21st Century... (confirmed speakers)

Dr. S. K. Gupta
Physical Research Laboratory, India
HS4 Groundwater in Urban Areas of Asia and Oceania... (confirmed speakers) Masaya Yasuhara
Geological Survey of Japan

Interdisciplinary Working Groups (IWG) Session Convenor
IWG4 Land-Ocean Interactions in Asia and Oceania... (confirmed speakers) Makoto Taniguchi
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
IWG3B

(APSG co-sponsor) Crustal Dynamics and Natural Hazards in Asia-Pacific Region... (confirmed speakers)

J. W. Ren
China Seismological Bureau, Beijing
J. Manning
AUSLIG, Canberra

IWG6 Entropy Production in BioGeophysical Systems... (confirmed speakers) Ralph Lorenz
Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona. LPL, USA
IWG7 Active Geosphere: A New Interdisciplinary Approach to Earth Science... (confirmed speakers) Yoden Shigeo
Department of Geophysics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, JAPAN

Natural Hazards (NH) Session Convenor
NH1 River-Sea Interaction: Dynamics and Environmental Impacts... (confirmed speakers) Dr. Wang Ying
The Key Lab of Coast and Island Development, Nanjing University
NH2 Earthquake, Tsunami and Volcano Monitoring in the Western Pacific... (confirmed speakers) Phil Cummins
Minerals & Geohazards Div., Geoscience Australia
NH4

Modelling and Simulation of Volcanic Surface Flows, Floods, Debris Flows and Other Fast-Moving Flow-Type Landslides for Hazard Mitigation... (confirmed speakers)

Giulio Iovine
CNR-IRPI
NH5 Assessment of Natural Hazard in Asia-Pacific Region... (confirmed speakers) Chin-Hsiung Loh
Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Joint Sessions with APHW (JS) Session Convenor
JS1

Monsoon System and Water Resources in Asia - Challenges by CEOP... (confirmed speakers)

Prof. Toshio KOIKE
The University of Tokyo

Biogeoscience (BG) Session Convenor
BG2

Dynamics of the Coupled Carbon Climate Human System... (confirmed speakers)

Robert Dickinson
Georgia Institute of Technology