2015 - Tsukuba, Japan
The International SWAT-Asia Conference IV (SWAT-Asia IV) took place October 19-23, 2015 in Tsukuba, Japan and explored and exchanged current information on the adoption and adaptation of SWAT for Asian crop production systems and water resource issues.
More specifically, it focused on the modification and applications of SWAT in rice paddy watersheds for rational management of soil and water resources. The conference provided a forum to discuss the future research direction for monitoring, modeling (non-SWAT as well) and database development studies to solve the agricultural and environmental problems in Asia and the world. The conference was held as one of the MARCO Satellite International Workshops.
Organizing Committee
- Sadao Eguchi, NIAES, Japan
- Seiko Yoshikawa, NIAES, Japan
- Kazunori Kohyama, NIAES, Japan
- Toshiaki Ohkura, NIAES, Japan
- Sunao Itahashi, NIAES, Japan
- Shin-Ichiro Mishima, NIAES, Japan
- Yasuhiro Nakajima, NIAES, Japan
- Ken Nakamura, NIAES, Japan
- Kei Asada, NIAES, Japan
- Saeko Yada, NIAES, Japan
- Nanae Hirano, NIAES, Japan
- Kaoru Abe, NIAES, Japan
- Takeshi Horio, NIAES, Japan
- Kazuyuki Yagi, NIAES, Japan
- Yoshiko Iizumi, JIRCAS, Japan
- Kenta Ikazaki, JIRCAS, Japan
- Kenji Matsumori, NARO, Japan
- Motoko Shimura, NARO, Japan
- Yuta Shimizu, NARO, Japan
- Hirozumi Watanabe, TUAT, Japan
- Tasuku Kato, TUAT, Japan
- Julien Boulange, TUAT, Japan
- Hiroaki Somura, Shimane University, Japan
- Tatsumi Kitamura, Environmental Measures Division, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
- Kazutoshi Sugaya, Ibaraki Kasumigaura Environmental Science Center, Japan
Scientific Committee
- Jeff Arnold, USDA-ARS, USA
- Julien Boulange, TUAT, Japan
- Sadao Eguchi, NIAES, Japan
- Philip Gassman, Iowa State University, USA
- Ryusuke Hatano, Hokkaido University, Japan
- Yoshiko Iizumi, JIRCAS, Japan
- Kenta Ikazaki, JIRCAS, Japan
- Jaehak Jeong, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, USA
- Tasuku Kato, TUAT, Japan
- Kazunori Kohyama, NIAES, Japan
- Muhamad Radzali Mispan, Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute, Malaysia
- Balaji Narasimhan, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India
- Kim Loi Nguyen, Nong Lam University, Vietnam
- Wei Ouyang, Beijing Normal University, China
- Atsushi Sakaguchi, Yamaguchi University, Japan
- Hui Shao, University of Guelph, Canada
- Hiroaki Somura, Shimane University, Japan
- Raghavan Srinivasan, Texas A&M University, USA
- Hirozumi Watanabe, TUAT, Japan
- Xianhong Xie, Beijing Normal University, China
- Seiko Yoshikawa, NIAES, Japan
Sponsors
The conference was sponsored by NIAES, JIRCAS, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
In addition, the conference was organized by:
- Monsoon Asia Agro-Environmental Research Consortium (MARCO)
- National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES)
- Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS)
and supported by:
- Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF-AFFRC)
- National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)
- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT)
- Ibaraki Prefecture
- United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS)
- World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWAC)
- Texas A&M University (TAMU)
- Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
- The Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering
- Japan Society on Water Environment
- Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources
- Japanese Society of Soil Physics