Related Projects

SEEDS | VMAP | STAGE | SOLAReS

Sub-Arctic ocean Enrichment and Ecosystem Dynamics Study

Goals of SEEDS

• 1. Evaluate the iron-enrichment as a way of CO₂ sequestration
• 2. Evaluate the effects of iron-enrichment to marine ecosystems

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Variability of Marine Aerosol Properties

• 1. Exploit natural and man-made released sulphur
• 2. Controlled atmospheric release of ca. 1 ton sulphur
• 3. Natural and controlled ocean release of nutrients

SCOOP: Self Cruising Ocean Observation Platform "Kan-chan"

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STudies on Antarctic ocean and Global Environment

5-year Antarctic research project by NIPR

• R/V Aurora Australis (ANARE, Octobar-December 2001),
• R/V Hakuho Maru (ORI Univ. of Tokyo, January 2002),
• R/V Tangaroa (February 2002), and
• R/V Shirase (NIPR, March 2002)

• R/V Aurora Australis (ANARE),
• R/V Umitaka Maru (Tokyo Univ. of Fisheries),
• R/V Shirase (NIPR), and
• a charter vessel (JARE-44)

Photo: members of JARE 43rd R/V Tangaroa Cruise

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Development of Autonomous Buoy for biogeochemical parameters

Utility of results and ripple effect

• Use as a base equipment of internatilnal joint process study
• Provide meteorological and oceanic data to industries
• Contribute to the construction of global environmental observation system
• Initiative for international standardization of automatic underway observation system
• Provide data to Earth Simulator

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