The project provided travel grants to researchers in Southeast Asian countries (Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia) which enabled their participation in the “US-Japan Workshop on Monsoon Asia Tropical Forest Carbon Dynamics and Sustainability” held in Khon Kaen, Thailand from January 8 to 11, 2009. Eleven (11) Southeast Asian researchers from outside the local area (4 from Indonesia and 7 from Thailand) were able to participate in the Workshop with travel support from the project. A total of at least fifty-seven (56) researchers and graduate students attended the workshop, including 45 participants from Thailand, Indonesia, the United States, Japan and Korea, and twelve (12) local observers (mostly graduate students) from Khon Kaen University.