On October 18th, the ‘CEARAC Expert Meeting on Eutrophication Assessment in the NOWPAP Region’ was held in Qingdao，which was hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme, the Action Plan for Northwest Pacific Region, Special Monitoring and Coastal Environmental Assessment Regional Activity Centre (UNEP/NOWPAP/CEARAC), and undertaken by the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS). More than 20 experts and representatives, coming from China, Japan, South Korea and Russia, attended the meeting. Dr. Genki Terauchi, the NOWPAP CEARAC secretariat, attended and chaired the meeting and discussion.

Dr. Zhiming Yu, as the Chinese expert and representative of NOWPAP CEARAC presents the working report

During the meeting, the experts and representatives of NOWPAP CEARAC working groups from the four countries presented the professional working reports in terms of the assessment methods and diagnosis of coastal eutrophication in the NOWPAP region respectively; and put forward the existing problems of the assessment methods and diagnosis of coastal eutrophication. Then, as the meeting consultants, Professor Yasuwo Fukuyo from the University of Tokyo and Dr. Hao Luo from the National Marine and Environmental Monitoring Center (NMEMC) gave impressive reports regarding the selection of environmental parameters and indicators for eutrophication assessment in the NOWPAP region. On this basis, meeting experts further discussed the methods and results of assessment, and then unified and improved the current existing assessment system of coastal eutrophication; put forward constructive suggestions for the working and plans of development in the future. 

Dr. Genki Terauchi, coming from NOWPAP CEARAC secretariat, organizes exchanges and seminars