Forty Years Of The Coordinating Committee For Geoscience - CCOP

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And yet there is more. CCOP is sometimes described as a ‘family’ with a wide network of friends and colleagues through Asia, Europe, North America, and indeed worldwide. CCOP meetings are at once businesslike and extremely cordial. Lasting contacts and friendships have been, and are continuing to be made. Traditions such as the annual meeting songs (no matter how tuneless) serve to create bonds of good humour. The CCOP song, built anew each annual meeting – offers irreverent commentaries and good-natured, personal insults enjoyed by all. CCOP is a geoscience organization that makes a difference – not least to those who have had the opportunity to share deep friendships, and develop new perspectives, built upon the richness of cultural diversity. Dr. David B. Prior Executive Vice President and Provost Texas A&M University v
FOREWORD Throughout its relatively short life of just forty years to date, the Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programmes in East and Southeast Asia has assiduously preserved records and related documents from all its Annual Sessions, Steering Committee Meetings, other important events and publications. The result is an orderly and extensive archive that we have been able to use in compiling this history of the organisation. Whilst for us the existence of such an archive has been a huge advantage it has also posed its own problems. To use all the information would have resulted in a history of not one, but several, lengthy volumes, and faced potential readers with a daunting task. Inevitably therefore we have had to be selective, choosing to include those topics, discussions, programmes, projects and events which we believe have most influenced the course of the organisation’s development. This is a highly subjective process and no doubt other authors would have made some significantly different choices. To those who feel that either they or the country they represent have not been given the prominence they deserve, we apologise. We have mentioned relatively few individuals by name but acknowledge that hundreds of dedicated supporters of CCOP have played important roles in nurturing and developing it into the thriving organisation that exists today. It is to all those unnamed supporters and CCOP participants that this volume is dedicated. We would like to give special thanks to all the Country Representatives and Honorary Advisers who have sent us their recorded memories of past events many of which we have been able to include in this volume. In particular we would like to mention the contributions of Mr Fateh Chand, Dr Deryck Laming, Dr Erno Oele, Mr Somsak Potisat, Dr Henk Schalke, and Mr E H Yin. Many of the current Permanent Representatives of the Member Countries contributed data for the final chapter on the “World of Difference” in which their respective geoscience organisations are nowadays required to operate. The Geological Survey of Japan is especially thanked for their support to one of the authors and for providing some valuable archival information. Some photographic material, not already in the CCOP archive, was specially provided by the Korean and Malaysian representatives. Your authors have a combined experience of working with CCOP in advisory roles for a total of fifty six years, and one of us (Y S) was privileged to be present at the birth of CCOP forty years ago. In spite of this depth of experience, however, it would have been impossible to produce this account of the first forty years of CCOP’s existence without the dedicated assistance of Mr Chen Shick Pei, the Director of the Technical Secretariat, and all his staff. Amongst them we would specially like to thank Ms Marivic Pulvera-Uzarraga who with great skill and unfailing courtesy met every deadline in completing the unenviable task of guiding the compilation and production of this book through its final stages. However the authors alone accept entire responsibility for any mistakes, inaccuracies or omissions from the final publication. Dr Anthony Reedman Dr Yoshihiko Shimazaki August 2006. vi
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New Horizons (1972-1985) A Decade f
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The proposal which most attracted t
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It was the impression of the geosci
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Hidden Depths There were other new
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Focus on the Quaternary A further n
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Box 13 Malaysia and CCOP: From Seas
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Figure 30. Leaflet publicising the
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The first meeting of the WGRA was h
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Box 15 CCOP: A View from the Inside
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From the outset, safety training co
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endeavour which was to be jointly s
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Box 16 CCOP Proves Its Worth I am p
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Figure 34. Report on “Tsunami Ris
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Science City at Tsukuba in Ibaraki
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Although the UNDP Project fellowshi
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5. PUBLICATIONS Spreading the Word
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Figure 38. The Home Page of the CCO
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In another example, China recently
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A World of Difference 82 2,500 CAMB
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A World of Difference 84 10,000 197
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AN EPILOGUE In this book, the autho
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APPENDIX 1: TERMS OF REFERENCE OF C
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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING TO CONF
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Each country, on becoming a member
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Resources 10. The financial resourc
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TERMS OF REFERENCE OF CCOP (2006) P
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Committee shall, unless otherwise p
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Withdrawal from CCOP 15. Any member
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1971 - CCOP / TB Vol. 4: Aeromagnet
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1980 - CCOP Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 4
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1987 - CCOP Newsletter Vol. 11 No.
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- CCOP / TP. 25: Studies in East As
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- Report on Implementation of the P
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1998 - CCOP 1997 Annual Report - CC
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- Report on ASCOPE-PTT-CCOP-PETRAD
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2002 - CCOP 2001 Annual Report - CC
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- CD-ROM of Proceedings of the Fift
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APPENDIX 3: ATTENDANCE LIST, FIRST
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My CCOP Experience During the mid-1
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