JAPAN 

PHILIPPINES

IMSWES Workshop 2000

PROF KAZUO NADAOKA
nadaoka@mei.titech.ac.jp

DR. GUILLERMO TABIOS III
gtabios@engg.upd.edu.ph

 Background

      This project was conceived 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).

      Researchers belonging to the JSPS Group1 (Atmospheric Circulation of Water and Air and Environmental Problems) from both the Philippines and Japan with various specialties like oceanography, coastal environments, limnology, hydrology, urban environments, remote sensing held a meeting  in Manila, Philippines last November 22-26, 1999. It was agreed upon that a promising collaborative effort that is comprehensive, integrative, large scale and multi-disciplinary in nature is the study of Manila Bay-Laguna Lake and the its surrounding environmental system.

   Purpose

  　 For a complex and multipurpose water resource system such as the Manila Bay-Laguna Lake System, there exists many problems, issues and concerns encompassing a range of technical, environmental, economic, social and political considerations. The concern of the project will be mainly investigating the technical and environmental issues and concerns

   Plans and Activities

• Manila Bay and Laguna Lake October 2001 Field Survey

• The 1st IMSWES WORKSHOP, November 2000 (view Proceedings here)

• Resource book writing: 
       The group plans to write a comprehensive document or report on the State of Manila Bay-Tributary Lake System : Problems and Conditions which can serve as a source book and provide benchmark information for further studies of the group. 

  Current and Proposed Research Works

• Remote sensing of Laguna Lake waters

• Field Survey on Hydrodynamics and Water Quality in Manila bay and Laguna Lake

• Linked Manila Bay-Laguna Lake Model

• Laguna Lake Flow Model with Temporally and Spatially Varying Wind Fields From Atmospheric Model

This Project is co-organized by:

Dr Kazuo Nadaoka Department of Mechanical and Environmental Informatics Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering Tokyo Institute of Technology 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, JAPAN  Tel.no.+81-3-5734-2589  Fax no. +81-3-5734-2650 E-mail: nadaoka@mei.titech.ac.jp

Dr Guillermo Q. Tabios III  Department of Civil Engineering and National Hydraulic Research Center College of Engineering University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City 1101 PHILIPPINES   Tel. no. +63-2-927-7176 or +63-2-927-7149   Fax. no +63-2-927-7190 E-mail: gtabios@engg.upd.edu.ph