An IADC Best Paper Award for a Young Author was presented to Yoshiyuki Haseyama at the WODCON XIX, held at the Beijing International Convention Center in Beijing. WODCON is organised by the World Dredging Association, the umbrella group for the CEDA, WEDA and EADA, and is held once in 3 years on alternating continents.

Mr. Haseyama works for the engineering company Tomac Corporation, Chiba-ken, Japan. His award-winning paper entitled, “Establishing a stone-dumping process for constructing manmade undersea ridges” is based on research done to build undersea ridges west of Nagaski city to improve its over-fished coastal areas. With its national food self-sufficiency rate down to about 40%, Japan is becoming more and more dependent on imports of almost all kinds of foods.