The Purpose of Coastal and Marine Research in Germany (Rolf Peter RANDL) Topic I, Coastal Protection Coastal Protection and its Management in Germany (Heie Focken ERCHINGER) The Scientific and Technical Development of Marine Technology in the Central Weather Bureau (Beng-Chun LEE) Climate Impact Research for the German Coast of the Baltic Sea (Werner ZIELKE) Integration of Coastal Protection in Germany into a Coastal Zone Management (Hans KUNZ) The Ocean Space Utilization and Monitoring Program in the Western Coast of Taiwan (Hwung-Hweng HWUNG Ruey-Chy KAO) Optiniised Design of Land Reclamation Fields for Sustainable Foreland Development (Nicole VON LIEBERMANN Andreas MATHEJA Horst SCHWARZE) High Water Protection in Coastal Towns of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Thomas ZARNCKE Barbel KOPPE) Topic II, Field Investigations The Effect of the Irregularity of Waves for the Design of Coastal Structures (Karl-Friedrich DAEMRICH) Hydrodynamic Impact on Cliff Coast Areas of the Baltic Sea on the Basis of Directional Wave Measurements (Peter FROHLE Thomas FITTSCHEN ) Measurement of Directional Waves by Wave Gauge array and Buoy (Chia Chuen KAO Hwa CHIEN Heng Haur CHOW Yean Bin LIN Chao Hui LIN) Accuracy Analysis of SURFER" Contouring of Bar-type Coastal Topography (Shiahn-Wern SYHUE Chung-Pan LEE) Recent Developments in Shallow Water Wave Prediction (Heinz GÜNTHER) Forecasting of Typhoon Waves for a Harbor at Eastern Coast of Taiwan (Laurence Zsu-Hsin CHUANG Chihfeng KUAN Dong Jiing DOONG) Topic Ill, Simulation Methods Aspects of Modelling Sediment Transport in lnstationary Flow (Ulrich ZANKE ) Cross-Shore Sediment Transport - Comparison of Basic Approaches and Limitations - (Hans-Henning DETTE ) DRBEM Analysis of Combined Wave (Ming-Chung LIN ) Refraction and Diffraction in the Presence of Nien-Chia Hu Currents (Sung-Shan HSIAO ) A Numerical Model for Non-linear Interaction of Water Waves with Submerged Obstacles (Robert R. HWANG Y.C. SUE ) Coupling of Numerical Wave and Current Models (Klaus-Peter HOLZ Peter MILBRADT) A Second-Order Solution of the Flap Wavemaker Problem (Jaw-Fang LEE Cheng-Chi Llu Yuan-Jyh LAN) Activities of Coastal Development in Taiwan (Yen-Sun Hsu )