- UN Ocean Decade
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- UN 23: Accelerating the Capacity Development Transformations: Regional Network of Training and Research Centers
- UN 24: Explore the Strongest Ocean Current in the Western Pacific: CSK2
IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC)
Advancing knowledge and cooperation for a healthy ocean and prosperous society
- UN Ocean Decade
- UN 21: Marine Spatial Planning
- UN 22: Stem of Asia’s Riverine Plastic Emission
- UN 23: Accelerating the Capacity Development Transformations: Regional Network of Training and Research Centers
- UN 24: Explore the Strongest Ocean Current in the Western Pacific: CSK2
2nd Cooperative Study of the Kuroshio and its Adjacent Regions (CSK-2)
Research Updates and Publications
Programme Updates
- 13th Intergovernmental Session, Virtual, 27-29 April 2021, Establishment of New Programme: The Second Cooperative Study of the Kuroshio and Adjacent Regions (CSK-2)
- Report of regional data centre for the CSK; IOC. Working Committee on IODE; 9th session; New York; 1979
- 11th session, Noumea, 30 June-4 July 1977: summary report (French)
- 10th session, Tokyo, Japan, 13-17 March 1975: summary report
- Summary of views and recommendations and final proposals for mechanisms that will ensure continuation of cooperation in marine sciences in the regions covered by the Cooperative Study of the Kuroshio and Adjacent Regions (CSK), the Cooperative Investigations of the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (CICAR) and the Cooperative Investigations in the Mediterranean (CIM); IOC. Assembly; 9th session; Paris; 1975
- 9th session, Bangkok, Thailand, 30 May-1 June 1973: summary report
- 8th session, Manila, Philippines, 6-10 March 1972: summary report
- 7th session, Tokyo, Japan, 1-3 October 1970
- 6th session, Paris, France, 4-5 September 1969
- 5th session, Honolulu, USA, 3-4 May 1968
- 4th session, Bangkok, Thailand, 1967
- 3rd session, Tokyo, Japan, 18-20 August 1966: Operation Guide of the CSK Sorting Centre at the Regional Marine Biological Centre, University of Singapore
- 2nd session, Paris, France, 2-5 November 1965
- 1st session, Manila, Philippines, 8-11 February 1965
- Cooperative Study of the Kuroshio and Adjacent Regions including the South China Sea, Coordinated activities in oceanography in the ECAFE Region; ECAFE; 21st session; Wellington; 1965
Publications
- Ando, Kentaro & Lin, Xiaopei & Villanoy, Cesar & Danchenkov, Mikhail & Lee, Jae-Hak & He, Hui-Jun & Liu, Qian & Liu, Yang & Lobanov, Vyacheslav & Ma, Xiao-Lin & Mulyadi, Hanung Agus & Nagano, Akira & Ren, Jin-Ling & Syahailatua, Augy & Tian, Yongjun & Wu, Lunyu & Zhang, Jing & Zhang, Linlin & Zhao, Meixun & Zheng, Jingjing & Ma, Shuyang & Zhu, Wenxi. Half-Century of Scientific Advancements Since the Cooperative Study of the Kuroshio and Adjacent Regions (CSK) Programme – Need for a new Kuroshio Research. 10.1016/j.pocean.2021.102513
- Kuroshio Data Center/Japan Oceanographic Data Center, 1981. Guide to CSK Data
- CHUANG Shou – Hwa (ed.), 1977. CSK Zooplankton Data Report (Data Sheet of CSK Standard Zooplankton Sample), No. 8. Singapore University Press
- CHUANG Shou – Hwa (ed.), 1977. CSK Zooplankton Data Report (Data Sheet of CSK Standard Zooplankton Sample), No. 4. Singapore University Press
- CHUANG Shou – Hwa (ed.), 1974. CSK Zooplankton Data Report (Data Sheet of CSK Standard Zooplankton Sample), No. 4. Singapore University Press
- Tham Ah Kow (ed.), 1973. CSK Zooplankton Data Report (Data Sheet of CSK Standard Zooplankton Sample), No. 3. Singapore University Press.
Tham Ah Kow (ed.), 1973. CSK Zooplankton Data Report (Data Sheet of CSK Standard Zooplankton Sample), No. 2. Singapore University Press. - Barkley, Richard A. 1973. The Kuroshio Current. Science Journal 6(3):54-60. [Also in R. Gordon Pirie (ed.), Oceanography: Contemporary…, Oxford University Press, pp.108-118].
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