The Marine Resource Conservation Working Group(MRC WG) of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) betakes itself on the promotion of sustainable development of ocean resources. The goal of the project “Ocean Model and Information System for the APEC Region (OMISAR)” of APEC/MRC WG lays on the encouragement of the exchange of marine data between the members of APEC. The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) of Chinese, Taipei had strived and currently is in charge of the project. The present project “APEC-Regional Cooperation on Ocean Models” assists EPA dealing with the affairs within the OMISAR project. By active participating in the OMISAR, it is possible for us to establish the relationship with other member economics. Moreover, hence we can keep our leadership in APEC/MRC/OMISAR and hold the dominative position. The Ocean Environmental Protection is an issue, which are of priority importance to every economics. Diverse approaches could be implemented to achieve the goal, i.e. strengthen the advertising of the issue to the public, monitoring the ocean environmental factors and such like. By the open discussion and collaboration among the economics, a high accuracy operational warning system for ocean environment has been yielded. This year, a disciplinary workshop WOM-10 was arranged and held in Honai, Vietnam in October. This forum, which was set under the theme of Wave Modelling, provided the opportunities for the scientists to exchange their experience and data. On the other hand, another workshop (WOM-11) which ought to be held on Sep. 15~16 , 2003 in Thailand is recommended by the host Dr. Pramot Sojisuporn to postponed to next year, due to the of lack of papers submission by scholars.

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