TEAMWORK: Researcher Kuo Ban-Yuan said he is to lead a team to deploy an OBS array in the Pacific Ocean to create the western wing of an international project
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 29, 2020
By: Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
Taiwan to join seismic survey
TEAMWORK: Researcher Kuo Ban-Yuan said he is to lead a team to deploy an OBS array in the Pacific Ocean to create the western wing of an international project
By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
Taiwan plans to join the US, Japan and South Korea to survey the Pacific tectonic plate with locally built ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) next year, which would allow scientists to chart new research areas, Academia Sinica Institute of Earth Sciences research fellow Kuo Ban-Yuan (郭本垣) said.
The opportunity arose after he led a team of Taiwanese researchers to deploy an OBS array in the Northern Okinawa Trough onboard the research vessel Legend (勵進) from 2018 to last year in collaboration with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and the University of the Ryukyus, Kuo told the Taipei Times on March 16.
Inaugurated in May 2018, the 2,629 tonne Legend is managed by the National Applied Research Laboratories’ Taiwan Ocean Research Institute (TORI).
An ocean floor seismometer developed by Taiwanese researchers is deployed in the Okinawa Trough in 2018.
Photo courtesy of Academia Sinica research fellow Kuo Ban-Yuan
The opportunity arose after he led a team of Taiwanese researchers to deploy an OBS array in the Northern Okinawa Trough onboard the research vessel Legend (勵進) from 2018 to last year in collaboration with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and the University of the Ryukyus, Kuo told the Taipei Times on March 16.
Inaugurated in May 2018, the 2,629 tonne Legend is managed by the Nation6al Applied Research Laboratories’ Taiwan Ocean Research Institute (TORI).
It was the first time that Taiwanese and Japanese scientists had cooperated on research of this kind and scale within Japan’s exclusive economic zones, he said. [FULL STORY]
