Forty Years Of The Coordinating Committee For Geoscience - CCOP

Figure 23. Launching ceremony of the very first CCOP project
in Pohang, Republic of Korea, 1966. 42
Figure 24. One of the most significant of CCOP’s early publications. 44
Figure 25. IDOE Planning Session in Tokyo. Prof. Katili fifth from left in the back row. 45
Figure 26. Plan showing the position of the SEATAR Transects. 46
Figure 27. Report on a SEATAR Crustal Transect VII. 49
Figure 28. Dr Oystein Berg (1987). 51
Figure 29. A field party studying Quaternary geology in Malaysia. 52
Figure 30. Leaflet publicising the COASTPLAN Project. 56
Figure 31. Ms Petcharat Sarawisutra of the CCOP Technical Secretariat presents
a garland of flowers to the King of Norway at the Offshore Northern Seas Conference
in 2002 in Stavanger, Norway. 59
Figure 32. The Asian Multilingual Thesaurus of Geosciences was published in 2006. 64
Figure 33. A fishing boat washed inshore by the 26 December 2004 tsunami.
Ban Nam Khem, Thailand. 67
Figure 34. Report on “Tsunami Risk Reduction Measure with a Focus on Land-use and
Rehabilitation”, a project funded by the Royal Norwegian Government in 2005/6. 68
Figure 35. Offshore Prospecting Training based at the Regional Training Center for
Offshore Geophysical Prospecting, Tokyo, Japan. (a) Training at sea during a course
in 1974 and (b) Training flight for airborne geophysical survey during the same course. 71
Figure 36. Dr John Ringis, Senior Marine Geophysicist on the
UNDP/CCOP Project instructing Chinese geologists at
China’s National Centre for Quaternary Geology in Qingdao, 1987. 73
Figure 37. The changing face of the CCOP Newsletter: a) The first Newsletter
published in 1973. b) A Newsletter from 1986. c) A Newsletter from 2005. 75
Figure 38. The Home Page of the CCOP Website. 78
Figure 39. The growth in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita
in USD of the individual CCOP Member Countries. 83
Figure 40. Comparison of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita
for individual CCOP Member Countries in 1970 and 2004. 84
Figure 41. The Tamhae II, the current research vessel of the Korea Institute
of Geoscience and Mineral Resources. 85
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