Oita, Japan — The Water Environment Partnership in Asia (WEPA: an initiative of the Japanese Ministry of the Environment) is now calling for papers for the 2nd International WEPA Forum to be held 3-4 December in Beppu, Oita, Japan.The Forum aims to promote water environment governance by promoting dialogue among various stakeholders in East and Southeast Asia.

Qingdao, PR China — The 2nd Global Conference on Large Marine Ecosystems, to be held on 11-13 September at Qingdao, PR China, will focus on assessment and management methodologies for ecosystem-based approaches to the recovery and sustainability of marine resources, and methodologies for analyzing changing states of LMEs, and LMEs at risk from climate change.

Nagasaki, Japan — NOWPAP Special Monitoring and Coastal Environmental Assessment Regional Activity Centre (CEARAC) organized the first NEAR-GOOS-NOWPAP Joint Training Course on Remote Sensing Data Analysis at Nagasaki University, Japan on 3-7 September, jointly with the International Oceanographic Commission Regional Secretariat for the Western Pacific (IOC/WESTPAC).Twenty-three trainees, composed of postgraduate students and professional researchers from eight different countries, learned the status of ocean remote sensing techniques and applications of remote sensing data for monitoring a