Co-Convenors: Kyung-Il Chang (Korea), Toshitaka Gamo (Japan), Young-Shil Kang (Korea), Kyung-Ryul Kim (Korea), Vyacheslav Lobanov (Russia), Toru Suzuki (Japan) and Yury Zuenko (Russia)

Invited Speakers:
Sukgeun Jung (Jeju National University, Korea)
Tomoharu Senjyu (Kyushu University, Japan)

Under the auspices of the EAST-I program initiated and supervised by the CREAMS/PICES Advisory Panel, scientists from Japan, Korea and Russia have carried out many successful cruises in the East Asian marginal seas over the last 5 years. With the active discussion and promotion by CREAMS/PICES of a new EAST-II program focusing on the Yellow and East China Seas, it is timely to have a forum summarizing some important results obtained by the international cooperative efforts of EAST-I. This workshop welcomes studies on hydrography, circulation, biogeochemistry, and ecology and their variability in East Asian marginal seas in the PICES area and on effects of climate and long-term changes in the abiotic and biotic environments of this region.