Pollution of hazardous chemicals in the coastal marine environment and their ecological effect (Project-4)

from 2001, among Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Japan, for the following reasons. Appropriate timing: It was fortunate that we could start the POME project ten years ago. Generally, it is difficult to obtain the data of past environments although advances of technologies have enabled to reconstruct the past conditions recorded in sediment layers or hard tissues of some organisms. Thus, it is important to start to accumulate the data as soon as possible, compare the previous and present data, and take measures (Fig. 1). Appropriate member countries: Japan has advanced technologies for analyses of pollutions and also has experiences of severe marine pollution and recovery. This program was good opportunity to transfer the technologies and experiences to the five Southeast Asian countries that are rapidly developing at present. In fact, scientists with high motivation and potential have been participated from the five countries. Appropriate combination of projects: The CMS program contains four major projects, material transport, harmful algal Chapter 8