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Temperate East Asia

The START -Temperate East Asia Regional Center (TEA-RC) was established in 1995 and is located in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.  Guidance is provided by the START-Temperate East Asia Regional Committee (TEACOM), which is an important force in START’s regional activities in the Temperate East Asia region.

Recent and ongoing achievements include:

• Assistance in the development of the Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Studies (MAIRS) international project office;

• Coordination of the completion of a book volume titled, “Changes in the Coupled Human-Monsoon System of East Asia in the Context of Global Change.” • Two projects designated by the Government of China as key national scientific projects are ongoing;

• “Predictive Study of Aridification in Northern China in association with Life-Supporting Environmental Changes;”

• “South to North Water Transfer Project,” and

• Help with organizing the 2nd International Young Scientists’ Global Change Conference held in Beijing during 2006.

More information on the START TEA RC may be found at: http://www.tea.ac.cn

Congbin Fu
Director START Temperate East Asia Regional Center
Lab. Of Climate Research, Institute of Atmospheric Physics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
40# Hua Yan Li, Rijiahuozi
PO Box 2718
Qi Jia Huo Zi, De Sheng Men Wai Street, Chao Yang District
Beijing 100029, CHINA
Phone:  (+86 10) 6204 1317
Fax: (+86 10) 6204 5230
Email: fcb@ast590.tea.ac.cn

Tsogtbaatar Jamsram (Institute of Geoecology, MONGOLIA)

Song-Gun Kim (Department of Biology, Academy of Sciences, D.P.R.KOREA)

Dong-Kyou Lee (College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, SOUTH KOREA)

Ming H. Wong (Hong Kong Baptist University, CHINA)