About Association of Pan-Pacific Anthropocene (APPA)
Anthropocene is a developing anthropogenic epoch. Human intelligence and activities have become an unprecedented new geological force in the 4.5 billion-year history of the Earth, changing our atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and even geosphere. The current most important issues, such as global warming, sea level rise, ocean acidification, waste disposal and plastic crisis, have profoundly affected the global climate and ecosystem. The Pan-Pacific realm, with richness of civilizations, has been experiencing severe environmental pollution and ecological crisis, associated with swift regional economic development over the past decades. The APPA, a nonprofit and a non-governmental organization, divulges and emphasizes the anthropogenic impact on the Pan-Pacific region in particular and on the Earth in general. APPA proposes future possible trends and related countermeasures for the international community through multidisciplinary academic studies, such as climate observation and simulation, proxy and historic records, anthropogenic geohazards, topography and geomorphology, biodiversity, environmental pollution, and archaeology and civilization.
Our Missions
President of APPA Preparation Committee:
Dr. Chuan-Chou Shen of the National Taiwan University
Tracks and Chairs:
Track 1. Climate Variability and Change in the Anthropocene
Dr. Huang-Hsiung Hsu, Academia Sinica
Dr. John Chiang, University of California, Berkeley
Track 2. Anthropocene Historical Record
Dr. Pao-Kuan Wang, Academia Sinica
Dr. Kam-Biu Liu, Louisiana State University
Track 3. Environmental impacts
Dr. Juan Liu, Guangzhou University
Dr. Paul KS Lam, City University of Hong Kong
Track 4. Terrestrial Proxy Records of Anthropocene
Dr. Liangcheng Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an
Dr. Ashish Sinha, California State University
Track 5. Marine Proxy Records
Dr. Kristine DeLong, Louisiana State University
Dr. Yusuke Yokoyama, The University of Tokyo
Track 6. Anthropogenic Geohazards
Dr. Tso-Ren Wu, National Central University
Dr. Adam Switzer, Nanyang Technological University
Dr. Jiun-Chuan Lin, National Taiwan University
Track 7. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health in the Pan Pacific Realm
Dr. Hsieh Chih-Hao, National Taiwan University
Dr. I-Ching Chen, National Cheng Kung University
Track 8. Archaeology and Civilization in the Asia-Pacific Realm
Dr. Ivy Hui-Yuan Yeh, Nanyang Technological University
Dr. Felicia Beardsley, University of La Verne
Advisory Board
Dr. James Kossin
Honorary Research Fellow of NOAA, Adjunct Faculty Member in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Lead Author on the U.S. Global Change Research Program Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) USA.
Dr. Zhisheng An
Academician Professor; Fellows of Chinese Academy of Sciences, USA Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, and the World Academy of Sciences. Member of Working Group committee of Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, International Commission on Stratigraphy.
Dr. Peter Bellwood
Emeritus Professor, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University.
Dr. Gretta Pecl
Director, Centre for Marine Socioecology, ARC Future Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.
Dr. Liu Shaw-Chen
Academician Professor; Fellow of Academia Sinica.
Dr. Yi Liu
Director, Earth Environment Institute, CAS.
Dr. Takeshi Nakatsuka
Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University Japan.
Conference on Pan-Pacific Anthropocene (ConPPA)
1St ConPPA: Taipei, May 14-17, 2019
2nd ConPPA: Xi’an, May 2021
3rd ConPPA: Tokyo, May 2023