On behalf of OTO'08 Tutorial Committee, we would like to invite your attendance to the tutorial programs, The International Conference Center, Kobe, April 8, 2008. The following 4 special tutorials are organized with emphasis on timely topics. Tutorial attendees will be lectured by worldwide authorities and receive course notes. The fee for the attendance is 15,000 yen for a half-day course. If you wish to attend the tutorial programs, please register in the OTO'08 web site ( http://oto08.org/ >> Registration Page).

Time Table (Tuesday, April 8, 2008)

1. AUV Technology and Application Basics (Half Day)

Course Outline:
AUV Application Basics is a short course that provides an overview of current AUV technologies and operations. The objective is to establish a basic understanding of what currently available AUV systems can provide and best practices in use. The class is targeted at scientists interested in using AUVs for oceanographic applications. The attendee will gain basic understanding of AUV types, technologies, terminology, and navigation techniques, including discussion of the comparative strengths of AUVs and alternative methods of data collection. The attendee will also be provided an understanding of tradeoffs in AUV operations, including power estimation, endurance considerations, and mission structure to acquire the desired data sets. Key points are illustrated by applications and results from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's (MBARI) Dorado AUV and other AUV operations. Topics include: Basic AUV technology, AUV at-sea Operation, Payload Considerations, Mission Planning, Upper and Mid-Water AUV missions, Benthic and Mapping AUV missions, Data Collection and Reduction, AUV Integration into Sampling Networks, and a look at coming AUV advances. The interactive format, using the materials provided, allows the attendee discussion time for relevance and demonstration purposes regarding real or potential AUV plans.

Intended Participants:
This class is intended for scientists interested in applying AUVs to particular problems, persons interested in AUV applications and the impact of AUV technology, as well as graduates in oceanographic fields seeking a broad understanding regarding the application of AUV platforms.

William J. Kirkwood
Associate Director of Engineering
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Bill is currently the Associate Director of Engineering at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) located in Monterey Bay, California. Bill has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a MS in Computer Science which he has applied to controls and automation of electromechanical systems and robotics since 1978. Bill has been with MBARI for 16 years as a lead mechanical engineer and program manager developing the Tiburon remotely operated vehicle and Dorado class autonomous underwater vehicles. Bill focus currently is developing underwater instrumentation for science to look at hydrates and anthropogenic CO2 ocean acidification issues.

4. Methodologies for offshore wind resource assessment (Half Day)

Needs for offshore wind resource assessment have been rapidly growing all over the world with increase of interests in renewable energy and of knowledge that offshore winds can be a promising energy source. However, it is generally difficult to know wind climate over coastal waters, where offshore wind farms are usually constructed, because wind observation is mostly few and moreover the winds vary complicatedly in both time and space compared with those over open oceans.

In order to cope with these difficulties statistical methods using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and numerical simulation with mesoscale model such as MM5 have been proposed for offshore wind resource assessment. The first half of the tutorial will cover how offshore wind resources are evaluated by using MM5 and SAR in the case of Japanese coastal waters. The second half of the tutorial will provide not only assessment of offshore wind resources but also integrated tools for wind farm design and management considering the life cycle of the wind farm starting from site selection to decommissioning in the case of European coastal waters.

This tutorial will cover the following areas.
1. Resource assessment with MM5 (Ohsawa)
2. Resource assessment with SAR (Kozai)
3. EO-wind farm and WEMSAR projects and S-WASP (Hasager and Christiansen)
4. Wake analysis (Christiansen)

This tutorial is intended for not only end-users such as electric power companies but also wind energy market players, marine construction and consulting companies, and satellite information service providers.

Prof. Katsutoshi Kozai, Dr. Ohsawa, Dr. Hasager, Dr. Christiansen

Professor Kozai has experiences in the area of satellite oceanography and engages in SAR applications such as ship detection and wind retrieval. He was a Principal Investigator in the RADARSAT SAR project of Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the Pi-SAR project of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

Dr.Ohsawa has experiences of using mesoscale meteorological models especially MM5 for more than 7 years. He has applied MM5 exclusively for wind energy assessment, and these days he has started to use SAR data for wind retrieval in coastal waters and to make comparison of the accuracy with that of MM5.

Dr.Hasager has 15 years experiences in satellite remote sensing analysis and application, and has developed tools and evaluation procedures for offshore wind resource mapping from SAR. She has also worked as a coordinator for 12 projects, such as EU project WEMSAR (Wind Energy Mapping using Synthetic Aperture Radar) since 1999.

Dr.Christiansen has experiences in wind retrieval from satellite and aircraft SAR. She has worked with various applications of SAR wind fields in offshore wind energy, and the examples include studies of wind farm wake effects and wind resource assessment. In addition, she has a wealth of knowledge about air-sea interactions.

7. Introductory Course of Adaptive Management for Urban Wetland Restoration (Half Day)

This half day course will give you a practical clue for planning, designing and managing an urban wetland restoration. A new and unique idea of the urban wetland restoration will be presented with concise key concepts and selected worldwide case studies.

The main topics will cover;
1. Four (4) keywords on coastal ecosystem restoration (Target setting, Situation, R&D, and Systemize),
2. Three (3) layers on adaptive management (Goal setting, Objectives implementation, and Feedback process), and
3. Four (4) steps of wetland restoration (Dynamic equilibrium, Biodiversity, Resilience, and Function).

Followed by a mini-workshop on;
1. Introduction of a clay model as a communication tool for public participation,
2. Brainstorming on a concept model building, and
3. Designing your own adaptive management plan.

Targets of this course are local and national government officers who have making policy and decision on coastal environment restoration, researchers who have a chance to make a suggestion on the policy and the decision, active NGO, NPO members who are a practical player of the restoration, and students who are aiming to work in the field.

Dr. Keita Furukawa
Head of Marine Environment Division,
National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management
3-1-1, Nagase, Yokosuka 239-0826, Japan
Phone +81-46-844-5023
Fax +81-46-844-1145
E-mail: furukawa-k92y2@ysk.nilim.go.jp

Dr. Keita Furukawa is a head of marine environment division in National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management (NILIM) of Japanese government. His national and international experience on guiding coastal environment restoration widely covers tidal flat, sea grass meadow, mangrove forest, coral reef, and urban wetland. In 1994-1996, he had stayed at AIMS in Australia as a project reader of collaborative research for assessment of coastal environment. As a member of PIANC, he had joined a working group for making international guidelines for wetland restoration (2000-2003), and beneficial use of dredged material (2005-2007). As a JICA expert, he had supported starting an environment division of IMT in Mexico (2000-2001), and a mangrove ecosystem research project of PICRC in Palau (2004-2005). He is now a committee member for more than twenty ongoing coastal environment restoration works in Japan.

9. Kuroko-type Seafloor Hydrothermal Deposit Mining - The Geology, Technology, Environment, and Economy - (Half Day)

The Kuroko-type seafloor hydrothermal deposits, sometimes known as seafloor massive sulfides (SMS), are currently the hottest business targets in ocean mining field, because metal prices included in the deposits tend to be several times or more expensive than the ones a few years ago. Therefore, two private venture companies have been very active for the commercial developments these years. The many attractive deposits have been found in the Western Pacific areas including Japan's EEZ.

This tutorial covers all the aspects for a fundamental understanding of the Kuroko-type seafloor hydrothermal deposit mining. Mineralization and formation process of the deposits and the structure are introduced. The attractiveness as mineral resources is also highlighted. Engineering properties of the deposits and the expected mining technologies are summarized. A preliminary analysis of the mining economy is introduced. Some environmental problems to be solved prior to the commercial scale mining are discussed.

Actual field activities and business situation of a private venture company are introduced from the exploration manager.

Steven SCOTT,Tetsuo YAMAZAKI
Steven SCOTT, Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Tetsuo YAMAZAKI (corresponding instructor), Senior Researcher, Natl. Inst. of AIST, Tsukuba, Japan

Steven D. Scott:
Steven D. Scott is the Professor Emeritus of Univ. of Toronto, Canada. He has been studied present-day geological processes on the modern ocean floor and relating these to ancient features that are now on land. A primary, but not exclusive, focus is comparative studies of modern and ancient deposits of base and precious metal sulfides and other hydrothermal products.

He has worked in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans and on ore deposits of five continents. He has been involved in the projects for the northeast and western Pacific Ocean, Lake Tanganyika, Mexico and Canada (Bathurst, Noranda and Yukon). The scope of the projects ranges in scale from regional tectonics to high-resolution electron microscopy and commonly has an emphasis on geochemistry and mineralogy. Marine activities involve the use of ships and deep diving occupied and robotic submersibles.

Some Recent Publications
C. Kennedy, S. Scott and G. Ferris (2003) Ultrastructure and sub-seafloor presence of bacteriogenic iron oxides from Axial Volcano, Juan de Fuca Ridge, north-east Pacific Ocean: FEMS Microbiology Ecology, v. 43, p. 247-254.
R. Hekinian, J.L. Le Cheminee, J. Dubois, P. Stoffers, S. Scott, C. Guivel, D. Garbe-Schonberg, C. Devey, B. Bourdon, K. Lackschewitz, G. McMurtry and E. Le Drezen (2003) Volcanic morphology and composition show cyclic eruptions in the Pitcairn hotspot (south Pacific): Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 121, p. 219-245.
K. Yang and S.D. Scott (2002) Magmatic degassing of volatiles and ore metals into a hydrothermal system on the modern sea floor of the eastern Manus back-arc basin, western Pacific: Economic Geology, v. 97, p. 1079-1100.
S.D. Scott (2002) Minerals on land, minerals in the sea: Geotimes, American Geological Institute, December issue, p. 19-23 (invited).
R. Moss and S.D. Scott (2001) Geochemistry and mineralogy of gold-rich hydrothermal precipitates from eastern Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea: Canadian Mineralogist, v. 39, p. 957-978.
T. Boyd and S.D. Scott (2001) Microbial and hydrothermal aspects of ferric oxyhydroxides and ferrosic hydroxides: the example of Franklin Seamount, Western Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea: Geochemical Transactions, v. 7 (electronic journal).
S.D. Scott (2001) Deep ocean mining: Geoscience Canada, v. 28, p. 87-96.
R. Moss, S.D. Scott and R.A. Binns (2001) Gold content of Eastern Manus Basin volcanic rocks: implications for enrichment in associated hydrothermal precipitates: Economic Geology, v. 96, p. 91-107.
A. Ortega-Osorio and S.D. Scott (2001) Morphological and chemical characterization of neutrally buoyant plume-derived particles at the Eastern Manus Basin hydrothermal field: Canadian Mineralogist, v. 39, p. 17-31.

Tetsuo YAMAZAKI:
1. Education
Dr. of Eng., Post graduate course, Hokkaido University in 1981

2. Research topics in AIST
AIST: Natl. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
(up to 2001: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology)
1981-1985 Manganese nodule lifting technology
1986-1989 Nodule and sediment geotechnology
1990-1994 Distribution characteristics of cobalt-rich manganese crusts
1995-2000 Nodule collector test on a seamount
Environmental assessment technique for deep-sea mining
2001-Present Technical and economic evaluation of deep-sea mining
2002-Present Mass balance ecosystem modeling of methane seepage from seafloor
2003-Present Technical and economic evaluation of carbon sequestration into ocean

3. Representative publications related to the presentation
Yamazaki, T., and Kaijitani, Y. (1999). "Deep-sea Environment and Impact Experiment to It," Proc. 9th Int. Offshore and Polar Eng. Conf., Brest, Vol. 1, pp. 374-381.
Yamazaki, T., Kuboki, E., and Matsui, T. (2001). "DIETS: A New Benthic Impact Experiments on a Seamount," Proc. 4th ISOPE Ocean Mining Symp., Szczecin, pp. 69-76.
Yamazaki, T., Park, S.-H., Shimada, S., Iizasa, K., and Shiokawa, S. (2003). "A Case Study of Mining Seafloor Massive Sulfides in Japanese EEZ," Proc. 5th ISOPE Ocean Mining Symp., Tsukuba, pp. 63-70.
Ohkubo, S., and Yamazaki, T. (2003). "Summary of "Environmental Impact Research on Marine Ecosystem for Deep-sea Mining" Conducted by Metal Mining Agency of Japan," Proc. 5th ISOPE Ocean Mining Symp., Tsukuba, pp. 200-207.
Yamazaki, T, and Park, S.-H. (2005). "Economic Validation Analyses of Japan's Nodule, Crust, and Kuroko-type SMS Mining in 2004," Proc. 6th ISOPE Ocean Mining Symp., Changsha, pp. 65-70.
Yamazaki, T., Nakano Y., Monoe, D., Oomi, T., Nakata, K., and Fukushima, T. (2006). "A Model Analysis of Methane Plume Behavior in Ocean Water Column," Proc. 16th Int. Offshore and Polar Eng. Conf., pp. 521-526.
Takeuchi, R., Yamazaki, T., Monoe D., Oomi, T., Nakata, K., and Fukushima, T. (2007). "Preliminary Modeling of Chemosynthetic Ecosystem around Methane Seepage," Proc. 17th Int. Offshore and Polar Eng. Conf., Lisbon, pp. 128-134.
Yamazaki, T. (2007). "Economic Validation Analyses of Japan's Proposed Nodule, Crust, and Kuroko-type SMS Mining in 2006, Proc. Oceans 2007, Vancouver.

Justin BAULCH:
Justin has more than 10 years' experience in minerals exploration and production in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Most recently Justin was Vice President of Exploration for Nautilus Minerals. Previously, he was part of the Placer Dome global exploration team, involved in the project generation, acquisition and management of gold, PGM and base metals projects in the Asia-Pacific region. Justin managed Placer Dome's exploration on the Nautilus Minerals PNG tenements, having been involved with the project from due diligence onwards, including organising and leading two successful SMS exploration programs.