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Progress Report of FY2007 Benthos Group

Progress Report of FY2007 Benthos Group. Yoshihisa Shirayama Kyoto University. Overview of past activities. Taxonomy training workshop (JSPS NaGISA joint) 2003: Phuket, Thailand; Polychaeta 2004: NyaTran, Vietnam; Amphipoda 2005: Lombok, Indonesia; Decapoda

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Progress Report of FY2007 Benthos Group

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  1. Progress Report of FY2007Benthos Group Yoshihisa Shirayama Kyoto University

  2. Overview of past activities • Taxonomy training workshop (JSPS NaGISA joint) • 2003: Phuket, Thailand; Polychaeta • 2004: NyaTran, Vietnam; Amphipoda • 2005: Lombok, Indonesia; Decapoda • 2006: Jakarta, Indonesia; Mollusca • NaGISA Sampling by member countries • Sampling by Japanese participants (mainly National Science Museum)

  3. Presentation of activities 2003: 1st Joint Seminar on Coastal Oceanography. Chiang Mai, Thailand 14-16 December, 2003 2005: 2nd Joint Seminar on Coastal Oceanography. Tokyo, Japan 23-26 October, 2005 2006: 1st NaGISA World Congress. Kobe, Japan October 2006 JSPS Special Session 2007: LIPI-JSPS Joint Seminar on Coastal Marine Science. Yogyakarta,Indonesia, 3-5 August, 2007

  4. 2007 activitiewsItem 1 Taxonomy Training Workshop • Held from 26th to 28th September 2007 at Iloilo, Philippine • Local host was Ass. Prof. Annabelle de Notre-Campos of Univ. Philippine, Vesayas • 26 participants, 4 from Japan, 1 from Indonesia, 3 from Thailand, 6 from Malaysia, 3 from Vietnam and 10 from Philippine. • Main target taxa were Harpacticoid Copepoda and Tanaidacea • Joint activity with NaGISA (funded by Sloan Foundation and Nippon Foundation)

  5. Participants

  6. Opening Remarks by Prof. Fortes

  7. Supervision by Dr. Kim Larsen

  8. Lecture by Ass. Prof. Shimanaga

  9. National Coordinator Meeting • All coordinators of benthos group from 5 countries met during the Iloilo workshop • Future plans were determined • FY2008 • Taxonomy workshop in Malaysia • NaGISA Conference in Westpac Region in Jakarta (October 27,28) • FY2009 • Taxonomy workshop (not decided the venue) • FY2010 • World NaGISA Conference

  10. Item 2 Field Sampling • 3 Japanese from National Science Museum visited Indonesia to carry out field sampling • This travel was done in the end of FY2007

  11. Item 3 Publishing • Proceedings of 1st World NaGISA Conference was published in May 2007 • Published as a volume of special publication series of Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Kyoto University • During the conference, JSPS special session was held • Four papers were accepted for publication in the proceedings after peer review.

  12. Additional related activities • NaGISA sampling training workshop • March 1-2 2008 at Pulau Bassar, Malaysia • 24 participants from Malaysia and Thailand (plus Japan)

  13. Other activities 2 • NaGISA taxonomy training workshop • March 21-23 2008 at Shirahama, Japan • Target taxon was Nematoda • 12 Participants (1 Philippine, 1 Malaysia, 1 Thailand, 5 Vietnam plus 4 other countries)

  14. Planning of 2008 • Taxonomy training workshop • In Malaysia; Tan Shau Hwan (Aileen) and Zulfigar Yusin will host • Target taxon: Bivalve; venue and date not fixed yet • Westpac NaGISA JSPS joint Conference • In Jakarta, Indonesia; October 27,28 • Susetiono of LIPI will host • Publishing Field Guide • Echinoderms from Malaysia (in press) • Gastropoda from Philippine (in press) • Hermit crab from Indonesia (in press)

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