J-DESC Core School
~Basic Course 2010~
Second circular
(Last update : March 2, 2010)

---> Japanese

1. Date

March 8 (Mon)– 11 (Thu), 2010

Day 0 (March 7) : Arrive at Kochi
Day 1 to 4 (March 8-11) : Core School at KCC
Day 5 (March 12) : Leave from Kochi

2. Place

Kochi Core Center (http://www.kochi-core.jp/en/index.html)

3. Cosponsors

J-DESC, Kochi Core Center, Biogeos/JAMSTEC, Geological Survey/AIST, CDEX/JAMSTE

4. Number of participants

14 (Japanese 7, Korean 7)

5. School fee

10,000 yen

The following items are included in the school fee.
- registration fee: 2,000 yen
- accommodation fee: 4,200 yen
- school dinner (March 8): 3,300 yen
-1 lunch box (March10 dinner) : 500 yen

6. Accommodation

[Campus accommodation Okou-kaikan (1400 yen/night)]

• We have already reserved four Japanese style rooms in Campus Accommodation for three nights from March 8 to 10 for all of participants.
• Participants share the Japanese-style room to stay.
• Okou-kaikan : http://www.kochi-u.ac.jp/JA/syukuhaku/okou_k_top.htm
• The use time of the bath in the Okou-kaikan is up to 10PM from 6PM.
• The use of the bath in the Okou-kaikan for the core school period is limited to the woman.　
• The man participants must use the shower in the single room on the second floor, where the lecturers are staying.

[Bright Park Hotel] : http://www.brightparkhotel.co.jp/

We already reserved single room in Bright Park Hotel for 2 nights (March 7 and 11) for Korean participants. Hotel bill is 5700 yen per one night. Breakfast fee is included. Please go directly from the Kochi Airport to the hotel and do the check-in a room. We will prepare the access map.

[Transportation from Kochi City center to Kochi Core Center]

From a bus station “Harimaya-Bashi”, take an airport limousine bus for “Kochi Ryoma Airport”, and get off at “Kochi Daigaku Nogakubu-mae”; it takes about 40 minutes.

7. Tentative program of Core School

7-1. Lectures

IODP update
Introduction to Visual Core Description (VCD)
Introduction to Smear Slides
Introduction to Non-destructive measurements

7-2. Practice items

X-ray CT scanner
Core description
Smear slides
Multi-Sensor Core Logger (MSCL)
Photospectrometer

7-3. Tentative time table

8. Necessaries

Please bring the following.

Magnifying glass (loupe)
Pen
Personal computer (if you have it)
Digital camera (if you have it)
Indoor shoes (Remove your shoes before entering the KCC)

9. Others

No smoking in the KCC

10. Lecturers and tutors

[Lecturers]
Koichi Iijima @Geobio/JAMSTEC
Ken Ikehara @GSJ/AIST
Minoru Ikehara @KCC, Kochi Univ.
Lallan P. Gupta @KCC, JAMSTEC
Osamu Tadai @Marine Works Japan
Toshio Hisamitsu @KCC, JAMSTEC
Masafumi Murayama @KCC, Kochi Univ.

[Tutors]
Hirofumi Asahi @ORI, Univ Tokyo
Atsuko Amano @GSJ/AIST
Asuka Yamaguchi @KCC, Kochi Univ.

11. Contact persons

Minoru Ikehara
ikehara@kochi-u.ac.jp

Hiroyuki Kikuta
kikuta@jamstec.go.jp