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    IMSWES Project October 2001 Field Surveys 

   Outline

      1. Nature of the trip / Justification of the trip

The field surveys will be performed for clarifying the present status of the environments in Manila bay, Laguna lake, Pasig river and surrounding watersheds and for obtaining various data to calibrate numerical models under development to simulate currents and related transport of turbid materials, thermal, DO, nutrients, heavy metals and other chemical substances and the behavior of the biological quantities like phyto- and zooplanktons. This field campaign will be done as one of the activities in the “Integrated Manila Bay-Laguna Lake and Surrounding Watersheds Environmental Study (IMSWES)” project with the researchers at the several institutes of University of the Philippines listed below, and will be supported by JSPS (Japan Society of Promotion of Science), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (No.13574005). The IMSWES project itself has been established through the initiative of the Water Resources / Coastal Resources / Marine Resource Group of the Exchange Program in Environmental Engineering, a 10-year joint project headed by the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) and the University of the Philippines under the Core University Program of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Philippine Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

    2. Number and names of people (from Japan) in the expedition

                Dr. Kazuo Nadaoka, professor

                Dr. Hiroshi Yagi, associate professor

                Dr. Taro Urase, associate professor

                Mr. Enrico Paringit, graduate student

                Mr. Hitoshi Tamura, graduate student

                Mr. Junji Kubota, undergraduate student

                Mr. Yosuke Suzuki, undergraduate student

                       (7 persons in total)  

    3. Counterpart (RP-side) agencies involved

University of the Philippines;

College of Engineering,

Marine Science Institute,

National Institute of Geological Sciences  

   4. Duration of the stay in the Philippines

From October 2 to 15, 2001 (14 days) for Prof. Nadaoka, Mr. Paringit, Mr. Tamura and Mr. Kubota

From October 5 to 10, 2001 (6 days) for Assoc. Prof. Urase and, Mr. Suzuki

From October 10 to 14, 2001 (5 days) for Assoc. Prof. Yagi

   5. Detailed list of equipments and their specifications and use:

The followings are listed for each item in the order of sensor type, product name, number of sensors, and functions.

1. Temperature logger / Tidbit / 20 / for water temperature measurements

2. Salinity and temperature logger (type-1) / MIDS-CT / 15 / for water temperature and salinity measurements

3. Salinity and temperature logger (type-2) / COMPACT-CT / 13 / for water temperature and salinity measurements

4. Electro-magnetic current meter / COMPACT-EM / 9 / for two-dimensional current measurements

5. Electro-magnetic current meter and hydraulic pressure sensor / COMPACT-X / 3 / for two-dimensional current and water surface elevation measurements

6. Hydraulic pressure sensor / COMPACT-WH / 3 / for water surface elevation measurements

7. Hydraulic pressure sensor / DIVER / 2 / for water surface elevation measurements

8. DO sensor / MDO-I / 4 / for DO (dissolved oxygen) measurements

9. Turbidity sensor / ATU5 / 1 / for turbidity measurements

10. Chlorophyll-a sensor / ACL11 / 1 / for chlorophyll-a measurements

11. Turbidity & chlorophyll-a sensor / ACL104 / 2 / for turbidity and chlorophyll-a measurements

12. STD (type-1) / ACL208 / 1( with a separate logger unit ) / for the measurements of vertical profiles of water temperature, salinity, turbidity, chlorophyll-a, and the depth

13. STD (type-2) / Ds4a / 1 / for the measurements of vertical profiles of water temperature, salinity, turbidity, DO, and the depth

14. ADCP / WORKHORSE / 1 ( with a set of mounting equipments )/ for the measurement of the vertical profiles of horizontal 2-D currents

15. Drifting buoys / GPS-Drifters / 3 / for the water movement tracking at the water surface

16. Anemometers / 9 (with 9 separate memory units )/ for wind speed and direction

      6.  Project leaders

       RP side:  Dr. Guillermo Q. Tabios III

                   Research Fellow and Associate Professor of Civil Engineering,                

                        College of Engineering, University of the Philippines

                        Phone: +63-2-927-7149      

                        Fax  : +63-2-927-7190     

                        Email: gtabios@up.edu.ph

       Japan side: Dr. Kazuo Nadaoka

Professor at Department of Environmental and Mechanical  

   Informatics,

Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering,

Tokyo Institute of Technology

2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan

Phone:  +81-3-5734-2589

Fax  :  +81-3-5734-2650

Email:  nadaoka@mei.titech.ac.jp

     7. Itinerary of the expedition

      Prof. Nadaoka, Mr. Paringit, Mr. Tamura and Mr. Kubota:

October 2: Arrival at Manila

        October 2 to 5: Preparation for the field survey at Laguna lake

        October 6 to 8: Field survey at Laguna lake

        October 9 & 10: Preparation for the field survey at Manila Bay

        October 11 & 13: Field survey at Manila Bay

        October 14: Cleaning and packing of the equipment

        October 15: Return to Japan

Assoc. Prof. Urase and, Mr. Suzuki:

October 5: Arrival at Manila

        October 6 to 9: Field survey at Laguna lake and Pasig river

        October 10: Return to Japan

         (They will bring an ADCP with a set of mounting equipment.)

Assoc. Prof. Yagi:

October 10: Arrival at Manila

        October 11 & 13: Field survey at Manila Bay

        October 14: Return to Japan