In addition to the competition activities, a special group activity, International Team Field Investigation (ITFI), is designed for all the IESO participating students on September 19th. All students will be regrouped into cross-country teams to conduct field investigation tasks at the 921 Earthquake Memorial Tower and at the Viticulture Research Center of National Chung Hsing University, in central Taiwan, where the terrains were deformed by the 921 Chichi Earthquake of September 21st, 1999. With specific equipment provided, the international young student teams will be expected to delineate the possible magnitudes of the past earthquakes and the land surface rupture length, as an assessment of earthquake hazards. It is also expected that by conducting the international group field survey, the IESO participating students will learn, from this opportunity, how to cooperate with team members from different cultural backgrounds while completing the assigned field work.
For further detailed information about the field tasks, please refer to the separate manual “Field Guidebook for the Chelungpu Fault—IESO International Team Field Investigation” provided by the IESO Organizing Committee.
The IESO committee is proud to host a special seminar for the International Team Field Investigation. This special seminar is dedicated to commemorate the love ones and precious lives taken away by the devastating 921 ChiChi earthquake 10 years ago, and the 88 Typhoon Morakot recently. We are honored to have Professor Seiya Uyeda as the keynote speaker of this event and talk to us about the mobile Earth.
Time : September 20,2009 (Sunday)
Place : 3F International Conference Room
in General Building
| Time |
Event |
Host |
| 13:00-13:30 |
Reception & Registration |
|
| 13:30-14:00 |
Keynote speech
Breakthrough in Earth Science
Dr. Seiya Uyeda
Professor Emeritus University of Tokyo |
Dr. Chun-Yen Chang
Science Education Center
National Taiwan Normal University |
| 14:00-15:15 |
Student presentation of field investigation I |
Dr. Seiya Uyeda |
| 15:15-15:45 |
Coffee / Tea Break |
Dr. Chun-Yen Chang
Science Education Center
National Taiwan Normal University |
| 15:45-17:00 |
Student presentation of field investigation II |
Dr. Seiya Uyeda |
Each international team would have a total of 15 minutes (10 min presentation, 5 min questioning) to present your study results of the field investigation.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Emeritus Seiya Uyeda, University of Tokyo
Mr. Seiya UYEDA is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo and a member of Japan Academy. He served the same university until retiring in 1990 as professor of geophysics. He then served Tokai University until 2008. During this period, he was a visiting scientist or professor at Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford, California (UCSD), Columbia (LDGO), Pierre et Marie Curie and Texas A&M Universities, and Massachusetts (MIT) and California (Caltech) Institute of Technology.
His research has covered a wide range in geoscience, including rock magnetism, marine and land terrestrial heat flow, plate tectonics, geodynamics of subduction zone/island arcs, and earthquake prediction by seismo-electromagnetic methods. He has actively served for international projects and organizations, such as International Ocean Drilling Project (IODP), International Unions of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) and Geological Sciences (IUGS). His book “The New View of the Earth” made an internationally significant contribution to the dissemination of plate tectonics. For his research achievements, he has been conferred an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Athens, and foreign membership of United States National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Russian Academy of Sciences.
Summary of Keynote Speech
Breakthrough in Earth Science
Seiya Uyeda
Professor Emeritus of University of Tokyo
The “mobile earth” concept revolution that took place in the last Century was a real breakthrough. I have personally witnessed it throughout my research life. Perhaps, “mobile earth” was a ready-made concept for many of you which you learned at school. I would like to talk about the histories: how the continental drift hypothesis came about, how it was rejected and how unexpectedly revived by paleomagnetism, how the reversal of the geomagnetic field was discovered and how an important role was played by the reversals in confirming the sea floor spreading hypothesis and the plate tectonics theory, and etc.
What impressed me in this history were the almost heavenly inspirations and the incredibly persistent hard working, like carriage horses, of pioneers. At the same time, it was remarkable that “Serendipity” happened at almost every epoch-making achievement. But one must notice that Serendipity comes to you when you have a good fundamental command on what you are doing: «In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. » (Pasteur).
The time of revolution was full of excitement, but it was brief and was almost over by the 1990’s. Is there any room for further excitements left for you? The answer is YES. I would like to stress that there are a lot to do in the earth science. One would be to make the scope wider in time and space than plate tectonics, namely to the entire history and processes of the earth and the planets, and another may be to shorten it, namely to the scales of day to day environmental issues and earthquake and other hazard prediction.
