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A symposium will be held for the kick–off meeting of WPI–AIMEC, the first implemented alliance–type WPI. On this occasion we will share our research mission with those of mutual interest and knowledge in marine sciences.
Date: Friday, March 8, 2024 10:00 – 17:40 (JST)
Venue: Sendai Kokusai Hotel, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan [Access]
Website: WPI–AIMEC kick–off symposium
Registration deadline: Monday, March 4, 2024, 12:00 (JST)
– Closed
Keynote presentation
Hervé Claustre (The Villefranche–sur–Mer Oceanography Laboratory)
Hiroya Sugisaki (Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency)
Time Schedule
- 10:00 – 11:00
- Opening
- 11:00 – 11:45
- Toshia Suga (Director, WPI–AIMEC)
- Who We Are Unlocking the future of our ocean: ocean–ecosystem change systematics
- Kentaro Ando (Administrative Director, WPI–AIMEC)
- WPI–AIMEC being the critical scientific body for our ocean and earth
- Keynote Lectures
- 13:15 – 14:00
- Hiroya Sugisaki (Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency)
- Recent topics of fisheries around Japanese sea area in relation to variability of ocean ecosystem
- Hervé Claustre (the Villefranche–sur–Mer Oceanography Laboratory) [ONLINE]
- BGC–Argo to address ecosystem changes and biological carbon pump at the global scale
- Scientific Activities
- a : Climate–ocean–ecosystem interactions and regime shift
- 14:00 – 15:30
- Niklas Scheneider (the University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
- Overview of climate–ocean–ecosystem interaction
- Sayaka Yasunaka (Tohoku University)
- Ocean environmental and biological changes – from coast to world ocean, from seasonal to 10,000–yr scale –
- Riko Oki (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA))
- Potential of satellite earth observation data for marine environment and ecosystem research
- b : Prediction of marine ecosystem changes
- Michio Kawamiya (Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC))
- Overview of prediction of marine ecosystem changes
- Sherwood Lan Smith (Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC))
- Challenges for modeling marine ecosystems
- Shinya Kouketsu (Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC))
- Synthesis of ocean observations for a more complete understanding of ocean circulation and marine ecosystems
- c: Ecosystem response and adaptation mechanisms
- Michio Kondoh (Tohoku University)
- Overview of ecosystem response, adaptation and evolution mechanisms
- Cheryl Lynn Ames (Tohoku University)
- Changing approaches to monitoring ocean biodiversity change
- Takeshi Obayashi (Tohoku University)
- Gene network analysis for predicting functions in a species
- 15:30 – 16:30
- Networking & Coffee Break
- Panel Discussion
- Facilitator: Fumio Inagaki (Vice Director, WPI–AIMEC)
- 16:30 – 17:30
- Panelists
- Jamie Kass (Tohoku University)
- Yuriko Nagano (Japan Agency for Marine–Earth Science and Technology (JAM STEC))
- Angelicque White (the University of Hawaii at Manoa)
- Toyonobu Fujii (Tohoku University)
- 17:30 – 17:40
- Closing
Poster
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Hosted by
- WPI–AIMEC ( Tohoku University and JAMSTEC)
Under the auspices of
Supported by
- Japan Geoscience Union
- The Oceanographic Society of Japan
- Tohoku Forum for Creativity
- United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030)
Contact
WPI–AIMEC
Email: aimec–contact*grp.tohoku.ac.jp (change * to @)