Australian-Chinese Ocean Science & Technology: Conference Proceedings: November 2005

Scientists and engineers from a number of institutions such as the Chinese National Bureau of Oceanography, the Second Institute of Oceanography, the National Ocean Technology Centre, Tongi University and the Institute of Acoustics travelled to Sydney and Canberra in the first of the Australia-China meetings on Ocean Science and Technology. The meeting was successful at making parties from each country aware of the latest research and development in each other country. \r\n\r\nThe papers presented at the conference include: \r\n\r\n** Underwater Acoustic Imaging: Effects of One-bit Digitisation (David G Blair, Ian S F Jones, Andrew Madry)\r\n\r\n** Seabed Equivalent Geoacoustic Parameters Inversion from the South China Sea Experiment (Wei Chen, Li Ma and Yaoming Chen)\r\n\r\n** Coastal Impact of Climate Change: Stochastic Simulation and Risk Management (Peter Cowell)\r\n\r\n** Ocean Power Conversion (Tim Finnigan)\r\n\r\n** The Application of Remote Sensing to Locate Shipwrecks (Jeremy Green)\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\r\n** Classifying Cumulative Grain Size Curves with Program Clara (Les J Hamilton)\r\n\r\n** Seabed Mapping and Characterization of Australia's EEZ: Recent Developments at Geoscience Australia (Peter T Harris, Andrew Heap, James Daniell, Mark Hemer, Alix Post, Alison Hancock, Alan Hinde, Laura Sbaff, Kriton Glenn, Emma Mathews, Lana Twyford)\r\n\r\n** Satellite and Airborne Sea Surface Salinity Mapping with Microwave Radiometers (M.L. Heron, D.M. Burrage, A. Prytz, J.Wesson and P.V. Ridd)\r\n\r\n** Modelling of Coastal Hydrodynamics (Dong-Sheng Jeng)\r\n\r\n** Surveying for the Census of Marine Life (Ian S F Jones and David G Blair)\r\n\r\n** The Underwater Nonlinear Beams and Their Applications in Acoustic Imaging and Bottom Profiling (Songwen Li)\t\t\t\t\r\nComparison on Different Methods for Estimating Doppler Shift (Jie Liang)\r\n\r\n** Influence of Variations of Water-sediment Process on the Coastal Line in the Yellow River Delta (Liu Shuguang and Zhang Yu)\r\n\r\n** Comparison of Geoacoustic Models for the Seafloor Properties (Li Ma)\r\n\r\n** Studies on the Sulu Sea (Phillip J Mulhearn)\t\t\t\t\r\n** Strange Tales From a Diurnal Estuary (Charitha Pattiaratchi and Joanne O¿Callaghan)\r\n\r\n** Research at the Centre for Marine Science and Technology (John Penrose)\r\n\r\n** Relationship Between Integrated Bottom Scattering Strength and Modal Back-scattering Matrix (J.R. Wu and E.C. Shang)\r\n\r\n** Coastal Erosion and Protection Measures in China (Yincan Ye, Zhenye Zhuang, Dujuan Liu and Xiaoling Chen)\r\n\r\n** Study on Beach Erosion at a Sandy Coast of Qinghuangdao (Zhang Yu and Liu Shuguang)