海洋環境科技研究所(104學年度起合併至地科系)

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在全球環境急遽變遷及資源耗竭下,環境議題日受重視,「環境教育」自1970年代起即成為先進國家積極推動的專業;近年來聯合國教科文組織更倡議將2005~2014訂為「永續發展教育十年」,呼籲各國積極推動環境教育及「永續發展教育」之研究與發展。國立台灣師範大學環境教育研究所為國內第一個設立的「環境教育研究所」,於民國八十二年開始招收碩士班研究生,並於民國九十五學年度起增設博士班,積極培養環境教育專業人才、推動學校及社會之環境教育與學術研究。近年則積極參與區域與地方永續發展相關研究及推廣教育,推動綠色學校、永續校園、綠色大學、自然教育中心、環境學習中心等,並與國際著名大學或研究中心合作,朝向亞太「永續教育區域專業中心」(Regional Center for Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development)發展。

本所努力方向:
  1. 學術研究國際化,進行環境教育及永續發展創新研究,提昇學術實力;
  2. 深化環境教育相關理論與應用研究,培養專業人才;
  3. 進行環境教育教與方案之研發、應用與評估,提昇環境教育專業品質;
  4. 協助政府與民間進行環境教育系統規劃、政策研究與人力培訓發展,增進整體社會環境倫理與典範轉移;
  5. 協助政府與民間運用不同自然環境與文化資源,開創環境學習場域,提供全民多元環境學習機會,提昇國民環境素養。

依據本所98.5.22課程委員會、理學院98.5.30課程委員會及本校98.6.2.校級課程委員會三級課程委員會通過之「環境教育研究所課程架構與學生能力指標」, 本所之發展願景、教育目標及學生能力指標如下:

一、發展願景
  1. 發展成為世界第一流的環境教育研究與教學機構,引領國內環境教育之推展;
  2. 學術研究國際化,進行環境教育及永續發展創新研究,提昇學術研究實力;
  3. 環境關懷在地化,培育具有深刻環境關懷及環境教育專業能力之人才;
  4. 學理探討深刻化,奠立環境教育相關理論及哲學基礎,培育兼具科學基礎與環境倫理之優秀研究人才;
  5. 環境素養跨界化,提升科學及人文素養,培養理解自然與人文領域之整合能力,推動永續科學及永續教育之研究與社會實踐
二、教育發展目標
(一)博士班教育目標:
  1. 培育具有精深學術素養與環境哲思基礎的環境教育學術研究人才;
  2. 培育國家環境教育領域之領導與創新專業人才;
  3. 培育兼具科學及人文素養,發展永續科學與永續教育領域之研究人才;
  4. 培育大專院校與人才培訓機構之環境教育相關領域研究與教學師資;
  5. 培育國內外環境保育、環境學習、永續產業的研究教學及專業研發人才。
(二)碩士班教學目標:
  1. 培育具備環境倫理及環境素養之環境教育專業人才;
  2. 培育以永續發展科學為基礎的永續教育推動及管理人才;
  3. 培育各級學校具有學科整合能力之環境系統管理及環境教育規劃人才;
  4. 培養環境保護與自然保育行政部門的教育訓練規劃及整合推動之人才;
  5. 培養民間團體、自然教育中心、環境學習中心等領域之環境教育專業課程設計、活動企畫經營的專業人才;
  6. 培養協助企業社會責任、具有環境溝通與推廣能力之人才。

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    South China Sea Interannual Variability
    (2007-05-18) Chang, Chiung-Wen June; Wu, Chau-Ron; Hsu, Huang-Hsiung
    Situated at the pathway of East Asian monsoon system, the South China Sea (SCS) circulation is largely influenced by the seasonal reversal of the monsoonal winds, northeasterly in winter and southwesterly in summer. On a seasonal time scale, the surface oceanic circulation is cyclonic in winter and anti-cyclonic in summer. Beyond the seasonal time scale, the oceanic circulation of the SCS demonstrates an interannual variation related to El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) [e.g., Wu et al., 1998; Shaw et al., 1999]. A number of recent studies reveal that the ocean dynamics and horizontal advection in particular play a key part in the interannual variability in the SCS [Metzger and Hurlburt, 2001; Qu et al., 2004; Liu et al., 2004]. To understand the influence from the ocean dynamics on the interannual variability of sea surface temperature, sea surface height (SSH) variation, which is a proxy for the upper oceanic thermodynamics, in the South China Sea (SCS) are examined using results from an altimetric data assimilation model. After the SSH data have had the seasonal mean removed, principal component analysis illustrates two distinct anomaly patterns. The first mode shows an east-west sea-saw pattern which would affect the basin-wide gyre intensity in winter. The second mode consists of a meridional dipole feature with a nodal line around 12.degree.N and is related to the development of the eastward jet and upwelling off Vietnam in summer. Both EOF modes have significant interannual variations and are highly correlated to the ENSO events. This study demonstrates that SST variations in the SCS are largely accounted for by the upper oceanic dynamics. El Nino's influence would persist into the next summer through the existence of an anomalous atmospheric low-level anticyclone over the tropical North Pacific (Wang et al. 2000a). The persistent atmospheric anticyclone modulates wind fields in the summer SCS, thereby induces marked interannual variability in ocean circulation and SST (Xie et al., 2003). Effect combined of these two modes may explain the prolonged SCS warming from 1997 winter to 1998 summer. The second mode shows that before and after ENSO, summer SCS circulations are all enhanced but in opposite directions. Prior to the peak central-eastern Pacific warming, SCS circulation is anti-cyclonic in the south and cyclonic in the north. This structure 1) generates divergence off the Vietnam coast such increases the cold-water upwelling, 2) enhances an eastward offshore flow which carries the cold water into the central SCS. The Cold SST in SCS prior to El Nino is in agreement with findings in earlier literature (Yamagata and Masumoto, 1991). During our 10 years data analysis (1993-2002), year 1994 and 1997 are both ENSO developing years and IOD (Indian Ocean Dipole, Saji et al. 1999) event years; yet in 1994 there were colder SSTs in the SCS. Possible processes such as IOD and the internal variation of west northern Pacific Monsoon are accounted for the SCS summer variation will thereby be examined in the presentation.
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    Air-Sea Interaction between Typhoon Nari and Kuroshio
    (2007-05-18) Wu, Chau-Ron; Chang, Yu-Lin
    The air-sea interaction between Tropical Cyclone Nari and Kuroshio was studied using satellite observations and a three-dimensional primitive equation ocean model. With energy and heat supplement from the Kuroshio, Nari was circling around a restricted water and sustained over an extraordinarily long period. The features that Nari strengthened as it passed over the warm Kuroshio, weakening as it met a cold dome were well revealed by TMI/SST. At certain locations along typhoon track, surface cooling of up to 5 degree C was observed after Nari's departure. Model simulation indicated significant positive vorticities and cyclonic current vectors did not occur throughout the trail of Nari. Only regions north of Kuroshio provided a better condition for developing a cyclonic eddy. As a result, the cold SST patch was only visible to the north of the Kuroshio axis. The cyclonic circulation penetrated much deeper for a slowly-moving storm, regardless of the typhoon intensity. Near-inertial frequency oscillations after typhoon departure were simulated by the model in terms of the vertical displacement of isotherms. The SST cooling caused by upwelling and vertical mixing is effective in cooling the upper ocean several days after the storm had passed. At certain locations, surface chlorophyll-a concentration increased significantly after Nari's departure. The combined action of upwelling and mixing in turn brings cold deep-layer, nutrient-rich water to the sea surface, which ignificantly increases the surface chlorophyll-a concentration.
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    Surface Circulation in the East China Sea
    (2004-05-20) Hsin, Yi-Chia; Wu, Chau-Ron; Liang, Wen-Der
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    Fine-Resolution Modeling Studies in the Northern South China Sea
    (2004-05-20) Wu, Chau-Ron; Hsin, Yi-Chia; Jiang, Tzu-Ling
    Recently, there have been many new observations from expeditions and moored instruments in the northern South China Sea (NSCS), which produced several exciting new features not known before. These new findings call for a new generation of models to explore the processes responsible for these features, because most of the existing numerical models can not either resolve them or account for the physics behind them. A fine-resolution, hydrodynamic model of the NSCS area capable of resolving the temporal and spatial scales of corresponding oceanic processes and bringing together the unique oceanographic data sources available in this area is established in this study. The fine-resolution NSCS model is nesting to a North Pacific Ocean model. Description of the circulation is further improved by assimilating the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite altimeter data into the NSCS model. Data assimilation model not only reproduces the seasonal patterns in the earlier studies but also resolves mesoscale highs and lows in the region. The model results are reasonably consistent with the limited observations during previous expeditions. The spatial and temporal variations in the NSCS are discussed as well. Furthermore, satellite remote sensing data and time series data obtained from moored instruments (SEATS) will be also used for comparison with model output.
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    Intra-Seasonal Variation in the Velocity Field of the Northeastern South China Sea
    (2004-05-20) Wu, Chau-Ron; Tang, T. Y.; Lin, S. F.; Yang, Y. J.; Liang, W. D.
    Two subsurface Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) were deployed at the northeastern South China Sea to study circulation structure in the area as well as the path and process of Kuroshio intrusion. The 48-hour low-pass filtered data reveal significant intra-seasonal variations in the velocity field. The current pattern alternates between clockwise and counterclockwise even within a single month. Local wind forcing dominated by monsoon winds fails to address the phenomena and variations. The present study suggests that wind stress curl forcing is the dominant process controlling the circulation picture in the area. While a stronger wind stress curl appeared and developed off southern tip of Taiwan, it will provide negative vorticity to the intruded current and form an anticyclonic eddy. The stronger current is always going along with the stronger wind stress curl. On the other hand, while the curl in the area looses or decays, the intruded current becomes weakened and forms a cyclonic eddy. The agreement between wind stress curl and the velocity field suggests that changes in the wind stress curl contribute to the intra-seasonal variations in the northeastern South China Sea.