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n ¡@After Typhoon NURI (2008/8/19~2008/8/21)¡Athe max significant wave height was observed by data buoys at sooth-west coast of Taiwan. The significant wave height and mean period were¡GWRA Chiku buoy (9.45m¡B12.1sec) ¡AWRA Eluanbi buoy (5.89m¡B10.0sec)¡FCWB Dapeng Bay buoy (5.36m¡B9.9sec) ¡ACWB Siao Liouciou buoy (7.40m¡B9.9sec).¡]August 2008¡^

n ¡@During Typhoon FUNG-WONG (2008/7/26~2008/7/29)¡Athe max significant wave height was 9.58m, which was observed by CWB¡¦s Hualien data buoy. The max wind gust was 48.4 m/sec (15F) and the minimum pressure was 960.9 hPa, which were observed by WRA¡¦s Shihti station. (July 2008)

n ¡@Dr. Friedwart Zinmer from GKSS Research Center, Germany visited COMC by collaboration from July 21^st to 26^th which depend on¡uWissenschaftleraustauschprogramm zwischen dem NSC und dem DAAD¡v. (July 2008)

n ¡@Dr. Heinz Guenther from GKSS Research Center, Germany visited COMC by collaboration from July 13^th to 18^th which depend on¡uWissenschaftleraustauschprogramm zwischen dem NSC und dem DAAD¡v. (July 2008)

n ¡@Director Prof. C.C. Kao is assigned by The NSC and DAAD to organize ¡u2008 NSC-DAAD Summer Institute Program¡v. 10 Chinese PhD students have been going to visit Germany since June. 20 German students will stay in Taiwan universities or institutes for two months since August 2008.

n ¡@Data buoy expert visited COMC on June 17. (June. 2008) photo

n ¡@Prof. Yu Yifa, Vice President of Ocean University of CHINA, Prof. Zhang Quanqi, Dean of Faculty of Marine Life Science, Prof. Leu Min, Deputy Dean of Faculty of Information Science and Engineering and Ms. Min LIU, Deputy Director of Office for Taiwan Affairs visited COMC on May 30. (May. 2008) photo

n ¡@Vice President Guiling NING, Ph.D. and Associate Prof. of Management School Song Dan, Deputy Director of Science & Technology Administrator Office Kang Xudong and Program Manager of Office for international cooperation & exchanges Wang Yuedan from DALIAN University Of Technology in China visited COMC. (May. 2008) photo

n ¡@Director Prof. C.C. Kao attended the meeting of Marine Resource Conservation Working Group for APEC region in April at Peru.(Apr. 2008)

n ¡@Rector Prof. Hermann Kokenge and Director Prof. of Mechanical Engineering WERNER HUFENBACH from the TU-DRESDEN University visit COMC on Nov. 21¡C(Nov 2007) photo

n ¡@During Typhoon KROSA(2007/10/14~2007/10/17) , the max significant wave was 23.67m, which was observed by WRA¡¦s Gueishandao data buoy. The max wind gust was 33.3 m/sec (12F) , which was observed by WRA¡¦s Gueishandao data buoy. (September 2007)

n ¡@During Typhoon WIPHA(2007/9/17~2007/9/19) , the max significant wave was 3.93m, which was observed by WRA¡¦s Su-ao data buoy. The max wind gust was 21.2 m/sec (9F) , which was observed by WRA¡¦s Yong-an station. (September 2007)

n ¡@During Typhoon SEPAT(2007/8/16~2007/8/19)¡Athe max wind gust was 44.2 m/sec (14F) , which was observed by WRA¡¦s Shihti station. The max significant wave was 9.37m, which was observed by CWB¡¦s Hualien data buoy. (August 2007)

n ¡@The International Course ¡§Coastal Protection¡¨ funded by DAAD, Germany will be held from Sep. 17 to Oct. 12, 2007 in National Cheng Kung University. See the detail.

n ¡@During Typhoon PABUK(2007/8/6~2007/8/8) And WUTIP(2007/8/8~2007/8/9) , the max wind gust was 28.2 m/sec, which was observed by WRA¡¦s Erluanbi data buoy. The max significant wave was 436cm, which was observed by MOTC¡¦s Gueishandao data buoy. (August 2007)

n ¡@Director Prof. C.C. Kao is assigned by The NSC and DAAD to organize ¡u2007 NSC-DAAD Summer Institute Program¡v. 10 Chinese PhD students have been going to visit Germany since July. 20 German students will stay in Taiwan universities or institutes for two months since August 2007

n ¡@A group composed of 7 professors from the School of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering of TU Dalian in China visited COMC on June 22. photo

n ¡@Dr. Peter Froehle from the Institute for Environmental Engineering of Rostock University, Germany visited COMC from June 20 to 27 in order to arrange the Summer School course which will be held in Sep./Oct. in National Cheng Kung University. Jun, 2007

n ¡@Prof. Pruszak and Prof. Ostrowski from the Department of Coastal Engineering & Dynamics of Institute of Hydroengineering (IBW) in Polish Academy Science (PAN) visit COMC from May 28 to June 5 to exchange scientific knowledge and experiences in order to look for further cooperation. The activity is supported by NSC and PAN. (May 2007) photo

n ¡@In order to develop the next generation data acquisition system, COMC started to use the PCB prototype machine from March. (Apr. 2007)

n ¡@Director Prof. C.C. Kao attended the meeting of Marine Resource Conservation Working Group for APEC region in April in Australia. (Apr. 2007)

n ¡@The project manager, Dr. D.J. Doong attended The 14th Waves in Shallow Environments (WISE meeting) in April in Australia. He presented the latest wave measurement results in the meeting. (Apr. 2007)

n ¡@The vice president of Gdansk University in Poland visit COMC on Apr. 13. (Apr. 2007) See the picture

n ¡@The Third Chinese-German Joint Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Engineering has been held from Nov. 8 to 16. More than 150 participants from Germany, Mainland China, Japan, Poland, Australia, Chile and local institutions attended the symposium. Please see the symposium homepage http://www.comc.ncku.edu.tw/joint/joint2006

n ¡@The Third Chinese-German Joint Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Engineering has been opened for registration. Please see the symposium homepage http://www.comc.ncku.edu.tw/joint/joint2006

n ¡@The 4800m deep water buoy deployed by COMC (assigned by CWB) was reported by ChinaTimes. See the news ( in Chinese) . (Jul, 2006)

n ¡@Welcome Prof. Laura David from Philippine University, Dr. Nani Hendiarti from Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) of Indonesia, Dr. Nguyen Phi Khu and Dr. Man from Institute of Applied Mechanics (IAM) of Vietnam and Dr. Aryo Hanggono from Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of Indonesia. They attended the APEC/MRC/OMISAR steering meeting at COMC. (Jun, 2006)

n ¡@The twelfth data buoy around Taiwan has been deployed at Chiku, Tainan Country at May. The Successful Rate of Observation (SRO) is 96% for the first month. (Jun, 2006)

n ¡@Welcome Dr. Chung-Chu Teng from US National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). He gives lectures about buoy measurements. (Jun, 2006)

n ¡@Welcome Prof. Werner Zielke from the Fluid Mechanics Institute, University of Hannover. He gives lectures about offshore wind-energy-converters. (Jun, 2006)

n ¡@PhD student, Mr. H.Y. Cheng won the scholarship of NSC-DAAD summer institute program. He will study at the Coastal Research Centre, Joint Institution of the University of Hannover and the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany for two months (Jun, 2006)

n ¡@PhD student, Ms. P.H. Chen won the scholarship of NSC-Japan Interchange Association summer program for doctoral candidates. She will study at the Research Center for Disaster Environment, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan for two months (Jun, 2006)

n ¡@The first deep water buoy of Taiwan was deployed at Gagua Ridge where is 250 km away from Taiwan eastern coast. The water depth of the buoy location is 4800m. (May,2006) see the location. see the data.

n ¡@COMC director, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kao won the Award of Exceptional Teacher of Application Research. (May, 2006)

n ¡@Copyrights on several programs are reserved, including Observation Data Quality Check Program, Directional Wave Analysis Program, Program for Coastal Water Level Warning System, Program for In-Situ Station Monitoring. (Apr, 2006)

n ¡@COMC won patent right on Validation Device for Anemometer, New Data Log of Data Buoy, Instruments of In-Situ Wave Setup Measurement, New Type GPS Drifting Buoy. (Feb, 2006)