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• Date 14-17 March 2016
• Venue Okayama University Tsushima Campus　（3-1-1 Tsushima-Naka, Kita-ku, Okayama, Japan）
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• →ISAM2016/SAMJ Program（oral / poster）　Ver. 5 [2016/2/17]　　

1. Time
   Each oral presentation will have a 12-minute talk followed by 3-minute discussion. The presenter will be notified by bells - once 2 minutes before the end of the talk, twice at the end of the talk, and three times at the end of the presentation.
2. General procedures
   The display is limited to a screen projected by a PC, and OHP is not acceptable. Each room is equipped with a projector, an on-site PC (laptop), and a laser pointer. The presenter (or co-presenter) is responsible for advancing slides.
3. Presentation file
   A presenter must bring a presentation file with a USB memory stick, and copy it to the on-site PC at latest 5 minutes prior to the first presentation in the morning or afternoon. Please make sure your file displays appropriately. On-site PCs are accessible from 8:30 AM until the first presentation or during lunchtime. Please allow yourself enough time for the preparation. You cannot access the on-site PC in between the sessions due to the limited amount of time. In addition, you can connect your own PC to a projector. Please confirm the connection before the session start. For an unexpected trouble, please prepare a backup file on a portable medium.
4. File compatibility and naming
   A presentation file must be compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 on Windows 7. The on-site PC has Adobe Reader 11, and we accept a pdf file if desired. We recommend the aspect ratio at 4:3. The file name should include the number assigned for each presentation, for example, "E-9_YourName.pptx". The presentation number is available on the program posted on the website.

1. Each presenter is provided with a 2100mm-high by 900mm-wide poster board, and thus the poster size of about A0 (or 1189mm-high by 841mm-wide) is recommended.
2. Push pines and tape will be available in Poster Hall (Room PE). To locate your assigned poster board, look for the sign marked with your poster number at the top of each poster board. Each poster board will be marked with an individual poster number. Please check the online or printed program for your poster number. English is the primary language used for posters.
3. You can set up posters from 2:00 P.M. on March 14. Posters must be removed by 1:00 P.M on March 17. Posters remaining after this time will be removed and recycled.
4. Posters must remain up the entire poster session (March 15, from 3:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M.). Odd-numbered poster presentations are scheduled from 3:30 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.; even-numbered poster presentations are scheduled from 4:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M.

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• "Drought, dust, and desertification as seen in a multi-hazard context"
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• Date : 15 March 2016 (13:15 - 15:15)
• Venue : Okayama University Tsushima Campus
• Target : Researchers in public and private sectors
• Language : English
• Organizers :
• 　Masato Shinoda (Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan)
• 　Reiji Kimura (Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University, Japan)
• 　Banzragch Nandintsetseg (IRIMHE, Mongolia, Nagoya University, Japan)

• Backgrounds and aims :
• This symposium first identifies climate hazard dynamics such as droughts, dzuds, dust storms, and desertification, and their interactions in Eurasian drylands. It then addresses a methodology for estimating the risk of hazards and developing an early warning system of meteorological disasters for their proactive and integrated management. The symposium includes achievements from a new project: “Integrating Dryland Disaster Science” (4D project), that has been implemented for FY 2013–2017 under the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Program supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
• Speakers and topics:
• Oral Session:
• 　1. Masato Shinoda (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
  　　“Multi-hazard approach in agricultural meteorology”
• 　2. David Thomas (Oxford Univ., UK)
  　　“World desertification and drought: present and future”
• 　3. Reiji Kimura (Tottori Univ., Japan)
  　　“Satellite-inferred dust hot spots in northeast Asia”
• 　4. Banzragch Nandintsetseg (IRIMHE, Mongolia; Nagoya Univ., Japan)
  　　“Coupling ecological and wind erosion models for sustainable land management”
• 　Discussion: Dryland multi-hazards and agriculture and public health
• 　5. Hiroshi Kadomura (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
  　　“Comments on agriculture”
• 　6. Shinji Otani (Tottori Univ., Japan)
  　　“Comments on public health”
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• click here to see an enlarged poster

• E1　Study of 'Sustainable' Development in the Water-Scarce Society - Case of a Village in the Western Desert (Egypt)
• Organizers have been conducting a joint research between the natural and social sciences in Rashda village in the Western Desert in Egypt since 8 years ago.
  This joint research aims at understanding the patterns and meanings of 'sustainable' development in a water-scare society in the arid climate region, and conducts the fixed-point observation and surveys in one of the agricultural fields in the village. This session reports some of the results obtained from the joint research with the collaboration of Egyptian co-researchers, and provides some insights on 'sustainable' development.
• Organizers　Nobuhiro Matsuoka (Chiba University), Hiroshi Kato (Hitotsubashi University), Erina Iwasaki (Sophia University), Reiji Kimura (ALRC, Tottori University)
• Contact　Erina Iwasaki (iwasakisophia.ac.jp)

• Payment
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• Participants from outside Japan　Fees for registration and the banquet basically depend on the participants' membership status as shown in the above tables. However, overseas non-member participants can receive a privilege of discounted rate for the members (or student/postdoc members) by completing the registration by 31 January 2016. Payment by credit cards (VISA or MasterCard) is acceptable only for the participants residing outside Japan with additional fees of 5% charged for each of the conference registration and the banquet. To process the payment by credit card, please send the application form by mail or FAX to the SAMJ/ISAM2016 secretariat by 1 March 2016. The address, FAX number and the fees with additional 5% charged are noted in the form. The payment will be processed soon after 1 March 2016, and no refund will be made for cancellations occurred later than that date. On-site payment is also possible at the registration desk of ISAM2016 on arrival but please be aware that cash in JPY is only acceptable.
• →　Application form for payment with credit cards　(PDF)
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• Participants from inside Japan　If you understand Japanese language, please refer to Japanese page. Otherwise, please contact us by E-mail (samj2016ml.affrc.go.jp). All participants, irrespective of nationality, residing in Japan have to finish the payment by the due date to receive the discount in the payment. The payment by the postal money transfer is accepted until February 28. Thereafter, please pay at the reception desk on the meeting days.
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