Dr. TunLwin

Name : Dr. TunLwin

Position : CEO

Department : Myanmar Climate Change Watch, Myanmar Climate

Profile :

• Date of Birth : 17 January 1948
• Father’s name : U TheinMaung
• Affiliation : Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, Myanmar Ministry of Transport
• Position : Director-General & PR of Myanmar with WMO (Retired)
• Date of entry ; May 1965
• Service : > 44 years (Retired on 29 May 2009)
• Marital Status : Married
• Wife : Daw Mu Mu Than    
• Daughters : Dr. Myat Su TunLwin (Medical Officer, School  Health team, Yankin Township, Ministry of Health)
• Ma Swan Ye TunLwin ( 3rd Year Secondary, Raffle’s Girl School, Singapore)
• Son : Mg ZweMarnTunLwin         (Diploma in IT, Temasak Poly
• Technics, Singapore)
• Address : No.6/1, Thanthumar Street, 24th Quarter, Thuwunna, Yanngon, Myanmar
• Phone : Res : +(95-1)-560938/561947
• Mobile:   +(95-9)-50-99920
• +(95-9)-86-01180
• E-mail : tunlwin48@gmaill.com
• Study field : Meteorology/ Hydrology/ Natural Disasters/ Environmental Science/ Climate Change Studies
• Climate Adaptation, Mitigation and Vulnerabilty Assessment Model Development on Climate Scenario Formulation
• Current Activities
  Member, Publication Collaboration (Edited Book on Forms of Community Participation in DRM), ICHARM/PWRI Tsukuba Science City, Japan
  Chairman, RIMES(Regional Integrated Multi-hazard Early Warning System)
  Member, APN (Asia and Pacific Network), Research Group on Extreme Events
• Awards:
  Outstanding Student in Mathematics, Gold Medal Award, 1964
  Outstanding Student in Physics, Certificate, MASU, 1971
  Award for National Peace and Development (29-5-1990)
  Award for National Outstanding Government Service for (4-1-1995)
  National Award for Peace, Law and Order Restoration(4-1-1995)
  National Award for Outstanding Government Service (4-1-1996)
  National Award for Industrial Economy Science, Second Grade, (4-1-2003)
  First Literary Prize of “ThutaSyweson” for the category on Knowledgeable Science for 2008
  Winner of the ” SayaKha Memorial Award” for the best physics Ph.D. dissertation award for 2008.
  Winner of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science’s Best Science Doctoral Dissertations Research Report Award for 2008. 
• Seminars : Abroad > 85 times
              Domestic > 400 times
  Publications Books 4
              Research Papers 90
              Articles  >350
• Reports,
  Some selected Publications
  Maung, Ohn and TunLwin, 1967; “ The Stage Correlation Method of Flood Forecasting for Khamti and Monywa”
  Lwin, T, 1984; “ The twenty six years Cycle in the Flood Events in Pyay”   
  3. Lwin T 1986; “The numerical classification of climate of Myanmar” Paper         presented at the paper reading session in Yangon, February, 24 pp
  4. Lwin T, DawKhin Cho Cho Shein2  2006; “ Climate Change in Myanmar during the last five decades”.
  5. Lwin T 2006; “ The Impacts of El-Nino and La-Nina events
  on the Climate of Myanmar “.
  6. LwinT ,KyawLwin Oo2  2006: “ The Inter-annual variations in the Monsoon Climatology of Myanmar and its perspectives “
  7. Lwin1  T , Zin Aung, 2006;
  “ The Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December 2004 – Myanmar Experiences”
  8. Lwin1 T, NyeinNyein Moe2, 2006;     “ Storm Surge Prediction in Myanmar: Operational and Post Storm Field Survey Perspectives “.
  9. Lwin1 T, Lei Lei Aung2 and Than Naing3  2006; “ The Volcanic Ash Eruption in Barren Island ”, Departmental Paper
  10. Lwin1 T and Aung Than2 2006; “ The Substantial Increased Earthquake Activities in Myanmar and Its perspectives “.
  11. Lwin1 T, KyawLwin Oo2 and Than Naing 2006; “ The Indian Ocean Tsunami of; The Changes in the Climatology of the Bay Storms “, Departmental Paper
  12. Lwin T, Dr. Win Swe  and  Dr. San Hla Thaw3 2006; “ The Volcanic Ash Eruption in Barren Island “., PACON Paper Reading Seminar, Yangon.
  13. Lwin1 T, Aung Than2 , 2006;
  “ The Substantial Increased Earthquake Activities in Myanmar and Its perspectives :. PACON Paper Reading Seminar, Yangon.
  14. Lwin1 T, KyawLwin Oo2 and Than Naing  2006; “ The Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 and its impacts on the climate of Myanmar “.PACON Paper Reading Seminar, Yangon.
  15. Myanmar Climate Change Performance Assessment Report, 2009. ( Processing for publication)