East-West
Center, Honolulu, HI
Disaster Management and Resiliency in the Asia Pacific: Journalism Fellowship
$99,691
Project Director: Elizabeth Dorn, Seminar Specialist
This fellowship project will bring together 12 journalists representing print,
broadcast and online journalism from Japan, the United States, and Asia for a
12-day study tour of the United States and Japan. During this 2-week program,
participants will be exploring a broad range of disaster management and
post-disaster issues including but not limited to political, economic, and
energy resiliency issues. Through a series of meetings, roundtable discussions,
and field visits, the group will meet government officials, corporate
executives, scientists, academics, journalists, environmentalists and other
stakeholders. The intent of the programming is to increase public awareness, develop
international perspectives from the points-of-view on the many countries
represented, develope insights into how countries can
cooperate, develop reliable professional and personal information networks, as
well as foster depth and balance in future media coverage.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Japan Disaster Digital Archive
$83,300
Project Director: Andrew Gordon, Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese
Studies
Through this project and in the wake of the events of March 2011 in Japan,
organizers intend to collect, preserve, and make broadly accessible the digital
forms of first-hand information and primary documentation created about the
disasters, efforts as recovery and the rebuilding of communities. In addition,
the mere process of collecting these digital materials should provide an
opportunity to devise innovative mechanism to use this record for reflection,
teaching, research, and policy. Materials in the archives will include amongst
others: websites for local and national government as well as NGOs and relief
organizations; individual blogs and personal testimonies including photos,
videos, and audio of on-the-scene accounts of the events and the immediate
aftermath; and maps with social and economic data. Currently the archive has
materials in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean.
University
of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Natural Energy for Comfort in Buildings
$62,480
Project Director: Dana Buntrock, Associate Professor,
Department of Architecture
In this Berkeley workshop, researchers, professionals, and policy makers will
explore current and emerging theories, cutting-edge software, and technologies
related to conservation of energy usage and innovation in the built
environment.
Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
Exploring the Impacts of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accidents on the Ocean
$90,000
Project Director: Ken Buesseler, Senior Scientist
The participants of this project will explore the impacts of the 2011 Fukushima
nuclear power plants accidents on the ocean and inform the public and policy
makers of scientific findings in this regard. The project includes a 2-day
scientific symposium along with two public symposia ?
one in Japan the other in the US. As a project outcome, a special issue of
Oceanus magazine dedicated to the themes of these symposia will be produced in
both English and Japanese.