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Recent Events Update in progress . . . 12 November - 14 November, 2002 US-China Executive Secretaries Meeting, Breakout Session on Water, Guilin, China. A full summary of the session, submitted by Dr. John Gray, U.S. Geological Survey, is available in Word format. 31 October - 2 November, 2002 International Dust Storm Program: By invitation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), sixty-two experts assembled in Beijing at a workshop to review an international program on dust storms proposed by the CAS. The CAS program drafting team1, led by Dr. Shi Guang-Yu, presented the draft program strategy as a work in progress and requiring input from the international science community. Following edits by workshop participants, the new document will be available for worldwide review and modification. Professor Guo Huadong, Deputy Secretary-General of CAS, anticipates that the revised program strategy will be distributed to workshop participants and others by the end of 2002 and that the next Workshop on Dust Storms (IWDUST) will be scheduled for late spring or early summer, 2003. Workshop notices and updates of the proposed plan will be posted on this website. Questions may be directed to wsprigg@u.arizona.edu. The Beijing Declaration on International Dust Storm Program is available in Word format. The most recent program draft and draft figures are also available in Word format. 1 CAS
Drafting Team: Shi Guang-Yu (chair), Zhang Xiao-Ye (IEE), Wang Liming
(IGSNRR), 20 September - 23 September, 2002 The Sino-US Centers were host to a visiting delegation from the Haihe River Water Conservancy Commission. The Commission and their U.S. host, Dr. Joseph Domagalski (USGS/Sacramento, California), visited the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed and the University of Arizona campus after visiting the San Francisco Bay area and important ecological sites. Briefings on campus were given on the NASA Southwest Regional Earth Science Applications Center (RESAC), the NOAA Climate Assessment Project (CLIMAS), the NSF Science and Technology Center on Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA). The Commission president, Mr. Wang Zhimin, and Dr. Domagalski briefed business, state government and university representatives from the Tucson-Phoenix area on their collaboration in research in the Haihe basin. Mr. Wang outlined key issues for their Commission, including construction of a major south-north water diversion project and the need to apply intelligent practices for a sustainable, healthy environment. Comparisons with the Central Arizona Project and the Central Valley Project of California were made. Goals of such projects should be to ensure sustainable water supplies, respect of the ecosystem, and a public ethos of water conservation. An invitation extended from the Sino-US Centers in both Yangling and Tucson to the Commission to join the Sino-US Centers was warmly accepted. Proposals for a joint academic program and research collaborations with SAHRA and other projects, all with links through Sino-US Centers' associates across the U.S., are under discussion. Announcements of opportunity will be made through this web site. Special thanks are extended to Drs. Joe Domagalski, Waite Osterkamp and John Gray (DOI/USGS), Jeffrey Stone (USDA/ARS), Soroosh Soroshian and Gary Woodard (UA/SAHRA), Roger Bales (UA/RESAC), Richard Hawkins (UA/Agriculture), Gary Ong and Lauren Lee (U.S. China Business Council), Ken Seasholes (Arizona Department of Water Resources), Carol Carpenter (UA/International Office), Jim Shuttleworth and Bob Clark (both UA/Hydrology), Xubin Zeng (UA/Atmospheric Sciences), Patrick Jones (UA/Office of Technology Assessment). Mr. Wang Zhimin, Head of Delegation and President, Haihe River Water Conservancy Commission, Ministry of Water Resources Mr. Lin Chao, Vice Director and Senior Engineer, Water Resources Protection Bureau, Haihe River Water Conservancy Commission Mr. Cao Shengjun, Vice Chief and Senior Engineer, Water Information Network Center, Haihe River Water Conservancy Commission Mr. Ma Qingjiang, General Manager and Senior Accountant, Tianjin North-China Water Resources & Hydroelectric Development Co., Haihe River Water Conservancy Commission Ms. Kang Jie, Engineer, Water Information Network Center, Haihe River Water Conservancy Commission Mr. Xu Haofeng, Section Chief and Engineer, Planning Division, Haihe River Water Conservancy Commission
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