CASPAF : The Chinese American Scholars & Professionals Association of Florida
TAIWAN-FLORIDA
HIGHER EDUCATION 
CONFERENCE

August 31 - September 2

CASPAF 2011 :
THE 22ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE
September 2~3

2011 CROSS PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON
ENVIRONMENTAL AND
WATER RESOURCES

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CASPAF : The Chinese American Scholars & Professionals Association of Florida
PROGRAM
Sept. 3  Event - at  Durango unless otherwise noted  Speakers
7:00 AM-
3:00 PM
Registration at North Counter  
8:30 AM-
8:35 AM
Welcome Remarks Dr. Tien-Shuenn Wu 吳天順,
President CASPAF
8:35 AM-
8:55 AM
TFHEC Briefing Dr. Chia-I Chang 張家宜, President, FICHET, Taiwan
Dr. Haydn Chen 程海東, President, Tunghai University, Taiwan
8:55 AM-
9:00 AM
Opening Remarks :
Life is short, and the Art is long
Puxiao Cen 岑瀑嘯, MD, FACC
Cardiologist, Florida Heart Group
9:00 AM-
9:55 AM
Keynote Address:
Challenges in Addressing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
David D. Ho 何大一, MD, Ph.D
Founding Scientific Director, CEO of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center,  Irene Diamond Professor at The Rockefeller University
10:00 AM-
10:30 AM
Exotic Homegrown Diseases:
How the American Lifestyle Results in New and Emerging Infections
Vincent Hsu, MD
Infectious Disease Specialist and Epidemiologist
Assistant Director of Medical Residency Program of Florida Hospital
10:30 AM-
10:45 AM
Coffee Break / Snack
Student Poster Exhibition
Micro-spectroscopy as a probe for the intra-erythrocytic multiplication cycle of the malaria parasite plasmodium falciparum - Dr. Silki Arora, Physics, University of Central Florida
10:45 AM-
11:15 AM
An Overview of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary  Disease Daniel Layish, MD
Pulmonary and Critical Care Specialist
Associate Professor of UCF College of Medicine
Central Florida Pulmonary Group
11:20 AM-
11:50 AM
Update on Arthritis Jeffrey Elston, MD
Rheumatologist, Florida Hospital
12:05 PM-
1:05 PM
Lunch
 

Keynote Address:
America's Health Care Reform
Alfred A. Bove, MD, PhD
President of American College of Cardiology
Editor-In-Chief of ACCEL (ACC's audio journal)
Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine
1:20 PM-
1:50 PM
GI malignancies and the Environment Samuel Giday, MD
Gastroenterologist
Center of Digestive Health
1:55 PM-
2:25 PM
How Has Our Changing Environment Created The Diabetes Epidemic? Richard Pratley, MD
Endocrinologist
Medical Director of Florida Hospital Diabetes Institute
2:30 PM-
3:00 PM
Addressing Environmental Contaminants in Pediatric Practice Neal Silverstein, MD
Pediatrician
Florida Hospital
3:00 PM-
3:30 PM
Tsen-Wen Reservoir matter
本協會對八八水災後的曾文水庫防洪建言
 
Wen Chung 鍾文義,  Ph.D
President, Chung Associates, Inc., Sarasota, Florida
3:30 PM-
3:45 PM
Coffee Break / Snack
Student Poster Exhibition
The effect of flow rate and particle size on quantity of particles transfer - Mr. Hans Lau, Winter Park High School
● Counting submicron partcles using micropipette Coulter counter - Mr. Yuqing Lin, Physics, University of Central Florida
3:45 PM-
4:10 PM
Keynote Address:
Optimization of Hydrosystem Management and Operation – A 40-Year Retrospective
William W. G. Yeh 葉文工, Ph.D.
Richard G. Newman AECOM Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, UCLA
4:15 PM-
4:45 PM
Keynote Address:
Flood Prevention Strategy in Confronting the Global Climate Change-a Case Study of Taiwan
Shen-Hsien Chen 陳伸賢, Ph.D.
Secretary-General of New Taipei City Government in Taiwan
4:45 PM-
5:15 PM
Business Meeting/Recognition Dr. Tien-Shuenn Wu 吳天順, President CASPAF
Sept. 4  Event - at  Durango unless otherwise noted  Speakers
8:25 AM-
8:30 AM
Introduction
Proceedings of the Conference
Dr. Tien-Shuenn Wu 吳天順,
President CASPAF, CAWRA
8:30 AM-
8:55 AM
Keynote Address:
An Enzyme-Based Treatment Technology for Heavily Contaminated Dredged River Sediment
Nian She (佘年), Ph.D
Seattle Environmental Science and Technology.
9:00 AM-
9:25 AM
Channel Morphology Prediction with and without Temporary Channel Upstream of the Elephant Butte Reservoir Yong G. Lai (賴永根), Ph. D.
Sedimentation and River Hydraulics, Technical Service Center, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver
9:30 AM-
9:55 AM
Experimental and Analytical Study of Dowfrost Flow Characteristics under Oscillatory Motion Dali Sun (孫大力), Graduate Student
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell Univ.
10:00 AM-
10:25 AM
A Modulized Integrated Disaster Early Warning System for Hydro-Meteorological Hazards Ming-Hsi Hsu (許銘熙), Ph. D. National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, Taiwan
10:25 AM-
10:45 AM
Coffee Break / Snack  
10:45 AM-
11:10 PM
Identifying Multimodal, Non-Gaussian Parameter Distributions in Groundwater Reactive Transport Modeling Ming Ye (葉明), Ph. D. Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
11:15 AM-
11:40 AM
The Willingness to Pay by Industrial Sectors for Agricultural Water Transfer during Drought Periods in Taiwan Ya-Wen Chiueh (闕雅文),  Ph. D.
Department of Environmental and Cultural Resources, National Hsinchu University of Education. Taiwan
11:45 AM-
12:10 PM
River stage Tomography on estimation of the heterogeneity hydraulic characteristics distribution of an aquifer Hung-Jui Hung (洪瑞鴻), Graduate Student
Graduate School of Disaster Prevention and Environmental Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan
12:15 PM-
12:40 PM
Benefit Estimation of Zhuoshui Channel Shao-Yang Huang (黃紹揚), Vice Executive Secretary
Graduate School of Disaster Prevention and Environmental Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan
12:45 PM-
1:10 PM
Hydraulic Tomography of Sequential Pumping Test Transient and Reproducibility Analysis Yong-Lin Chen (陳泳霖), Graduate Student
Graduate School of Disaster Prevention and Environmental Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan
1:15 PM-
 
Lunch & Summary
Technical Tours
Dr. Tien-Shuenn Wu 吳天順,
President CASPAF, CAWRA
Sept. 5  Technical Tours A  
9:00 AM-
9:00 PM
Sustainable Development at Disney Details (1)
Sept. 6  Technical Tours B  
9:00 AM-
5:00 PM
Airboat Rides at Midway.
John F. Kennedy Space Center.
Details (2,3)
Sept. 7  Technical Tours B  
9:00 AM-
5:00 PM
South Florida Water Management District.
Lion Country Safari.
Details (4,5)
  Adjourn  
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