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4/Dec/2008
My research was featured at HarvardScience.
Title: Thinking globally and mapping locally
http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/thinking-globally-and-mapping-locally
19/Nov/2008
Give presentation at "ABCD-GIS Working Groups".
Title: Case Studies of the Utilization of GIS for WatershedEnvironmental Management in Asia
Venue: Harvard University
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic35229.files/Akiyuki_Kawasaki_11_19_08.pdf
23-24/Oct/2008
Give presentation at The 17th GISA Annual Meeting.
Title: Considering the impact of climate and land cover change on a local
hydrological flow: The case study of Srepok River Basin in Viet Nam and
Cambodia
Venue: Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (Komaba Campus),
the Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
22/Oct/2008
Awarded as a "Best Paper Award" at "7th International Symposium on NewTechnologiesfor Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia"
21-22/Oct/2008
Give presentation at "7th International Symposium on New Technologies
for Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia".
Title: 1. Considering the impact of climate and land cover change on alocal hydrological flow: The case study of Srepok River Basin in VietNam and Cambodia; 2. Integrated Information System for LandslideDisaster Management
Venue: Beijing, China (Tsinghua Univ.)
2-8/Aug/2008
Gave presentation at "the 28th Annual ESRI International User Conference
(ESRI UC) ".
Title: Considering the impact of climate and land cover change on a local
hydrological flow - The TRIAL case study of Sre Pok River Basin in Viet Nam and Cambodia-
Venue: California, USA
1/Aug/2008
Attended at a ESRI pre-conference seminar " GIS Hydro 2008-Modeling
and Managing Water Resources"
Venue: California, USA
2/May/2008
Attended at a final exam of Master's degree Engineering in Water Engineering
and Management, School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of
Technology (AIT), as a External Expert.
Venue: AIT, Thailand
18-21/Apr/2008
Joined at “The 2nd Joint Research Meeting on Mekong Delta Project, Vietnam”
of United Nations University (UNU).
Venue: UNU/INWEH, International Network on Water in Hamilton, Canada
17/Apr/2008
Presented a poster at the Harvard Poster Session and Reception of the AAG
meeting in Boston.
Title: Developing a universal water resource assessment model for sustainable
water security: The case of Kanagawa Basin, Japan and the Mekong River Basin(PDF,
3.5MB)
Venue: Pusey Library, Harvard University
10/Apr/2008
Gave a lecture at SEAS ES6 "Environmental Science and Technology"
Title: Tools for Monitoring the Environmental Processes of Earth: Satellites(PDF, 2.8MB)
Venue: SEAS, Harvard University
21/Mar/2008
Presented a poster at the "Georeferencing Workshop: Challenges of and solutions
for assigning geographic location to digital information - a cross-disciplinary
problem"
Title: Developing a universal water resource assessment model for sustainable
water security: The case of Kanagawa Basin, Japan and the Mekong River Basin(PDF, 3.5MB)
Venue: GGIS building, Harvard University
16/Mar/2008
Published second printing of Japanese version of "Ecosystems And Human Well-Being:
Synthesis (The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Series)" by Tokyo, Japan:
Ohmsha, Ltd.
01/Mar/2008
Published second printing of "Zukai ArcGIS Part 2 (Practical ArcGIS -step
up for GIS utilization-)" (in Japanese) by Tokyo, Japan: Kokon Shoin Inc..
3/Feb/2008
Moved to Boston, USA to conduct my research at School
of Engineeringand Applied Sciences and Center
for Geographic Analysis, Harvard
Univerisity.