Capacity Building and Training
CMarZ taxonomic workshops address the need for taxonomic expertise for the 15 phyla of animals occurring in the plankton. CMarZ prepares graduate students, providing training in species identifications, including molecular systematic approaches to understanding species diversity.
 Workshop/Training Course on Zooplankton Biodiversity in Southeast Asia: (Oct. 2008) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia. (Convener: S. Nishida, in preparation) [contact: Shuhei Nishida]
Let's study the Ocean: (Aug. 3-8, 2008) An outreach activity for high-school students using a research vessel, including on-board practices in Suruga Bay and lectures/sample examination/analysis in the land laboratory), Co-sponsered by The Japan Science Society, Tokai University, The Oceanographic Society of Japan, and CMarZ. Lecturers: R.J. Machida, N. Iwasaki, S. Sawamoto. [contact: Shuhei Nishida]
Automatic recognition of zooplankton using digitalized images and ZooImage software: (November 15-30) An international course on carried out at the Marine Biology Station-Dichato. Lectures and practical work provided by Dr. Phil Culverhouse from Plymouth University, UK. The course was sponsored by the Austral Summer Institute VIII, University of Concepcion and COPAS Center, and allowed graduate students and young researchers from Latin America countries to become trained with modern techniques and new developments for automatic identification of zooplankton. Chile. [CMarZ contact: Rubèn Escribano]
Ship board experience and marine career awareness.: (2007) This expedition only lends itself to one port activity with learners and educators, in terms of timing during the year and length of time in the port. Schools will be invited to board the vessel and interact with crew and available scientist in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. S. Africa [CMarZ contact: Hans Verheye]
African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme (ACEP) Training and Research Expedition: (2007) S. Africa [CMarZ contact: Hans Verheye]
Public education: (28 June, 2007) Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The zooplankton relevant resource and achievements were open to the public. [contact: Sun Song]
A popular science exhibition hall: (2007) including contents of zooplankton, was established in IOCAS, which is open to students of various levels regularly. [contact: Sun Song]
"Training Course on Methods of Zooplankton Ecology and Identification" held at the Marine Science Research Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia in Port Dickson, Malaysia during
November 20-25, 2006. The course aimed at providing graduate students and research scientists in Southeast Asian countries with comprehensive knowledge on the biology, ecology, and taxonomy of marine zooplankton and methods dealing with these subjects, with emphasis on the practical aspects of sample analysis and species identification. Organized by Fatimah Md. Yusoff (UPM), Shuhei Nishida (Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo: ORI), Makoto Terazaki (ORI), and Keiichi Matsuura (National Science Museum, Tokyo) and sponsored by UPM, Vice Chancellors’ Committee of National Universities of Malaysia (VCC), and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS: Multilateral Project-Coastal Marine Science). [CMarZ contact: Shuhei Nishida]
A
workshop on "Biogeographic Information System for Indian Ocean" under the auspices of IndOBIS was held at
National Institute of Oceanography, Regional Centre, Kochi - 682018 from September 25 - 26, 2006.
IndOBIS, The Indian Ocean Biogeographic Information System (IndOBIS) is one of the seven regional nodes established by the OBIS(Information component of CoML). IndOBIS is responsible for the collection, collation and dissemination of data and information about the biodiversity in the Indian Ocean region through its portal http://www.indobis.org. As a member of
the Steering Group for CMarZ,
Vijayalakshmi R. Nair was invited to make a presentation. On 25th September
she presented the objective, responsibilities and achievements of CMarZ to the participants of the workshop. [CMarZ contact: Vijayalakshmi Nair]
Presentation by Vijayalakshmi |
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IndOBIS workshop
participants |
6th Workshop of the Hydrozoan Society,
Plymouth, England (18-30 June 2007) [CMarZ contact: Francesc Pagès]
Training Course in Species
Identification of Zooplankton:
A course is planned for late 2006 - early 2007 to take place at the University of Namibia, Windhoek, southern Africa.
The goal is to address the
immediate and critical needs for zooplankton taxonomy experts in the region
of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa.
[CMarZ contact: Hans Verheye]
IMER-JSPS
Training Course on Zooplankton Ecology and Identification, Haiphong City, Vietnam
(~Nov. 2006) [CMarZ contact:
Shuhei Nishida]
Zooplankton Taxonomic Workshop, Plymouth, UK (20 - 23 June,
2006). The ICES Crustacean Zooplankton Taxonomic workshop will be hosted Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS) under the auspices of MARBEF. The aims of the workshop are to improve and calibrate the present taxonomic knowledge among scientists working on zooplankton in the North Atlantic and European shelf seas.
The four day program will include both theory and practical sessions on Crustacean zooplankton such as Decapoda and Copepoda, and will introduce delegates to new methods of identification such as
confocal microscopy and genetic analysis.
[CMarZ contact: Chris Reid]
DNA Barcoding Workshop for CoML, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
(15 - 17 May,
2006). The primary objective of the workshop was to coordinate
DNA barcoding efforts that are already ongoing as part of CoML
projects. The ultimate goal of a CoML barcoding initiative will be to establish a public
archive of DNA barcodes linked to voucher specimens (or voucher DNA)
for the species of marine life that are being identified or newly
described, counted, and analyzed as part of the global CoML effort. [CMarZ contact:
Annelies Pierrot-Bults]
Workshop
at Sea on Zooplankton and DNA sequencing (10 - 30 April, 2006).
Aboard the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown in the Sargasso Sea. Lectures,
demonstrations, and one-on-one training focused on morphological and
molecular taxonomic analysis. Seminars
were held on a variety
of topics including the taxonomy of tintinnids, ostracods, the copepod genus Clausocalanus, deep-sea shrimps, larvaceans, and pelagic fish, and
methods for DNA sequencing and using silhouette photography to count and
measure zooplankton catches. [CMarZ contact: Peter Wiebe]
Workshops
in Kochi, India: At the Regional Centre of National Institute of
Oceanography, Kochi. Facilities were provided by the NIO. An
orientation course in zooplankton group level identification (April 2006) and a training in copepod identification for Ph.D students (April
- May 2006) [CMarZ contact:
Vijaya Nair]
High
school student teaching cruise (Jan. 2006). The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
provided a high school student cruise on the traditional sailing ship "Roald Amundsen” to the Atlantic seamounts "Ampere" and "Seine"
with teaching of zooplankton taxa and sampling methods. [CMarZ contact: Sigi
Schiel]
Hopeful future! Activities of female ocean scientists: (Nov. 24-25, 2007) An open house of the R/V Hakuho-Maru demonstrating plankton sampling and microscopic observation with 60 students and teachers.Supported by "Special Coordination Funds for Encouragement Project for High School Girls to Ocean Science (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)". (organized by Ocean Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan) [CMarZ contact: Shuhei Nishida]
LIPI-JSPS Workshop on Zooplankton Biodiversity in Southeast Asia: (Nov. 1-3, 2007) Indonesian Institute of Sciences. Training Course on Zooplankton Ecology and Identification, Indonesia. Field sampling during the training course, covering different habitat types (coral reef, mangrove, sandy shore, estuary). [CMarZ contact: Shuhei Nishida]
JSPS-CMarZ Asia Workshop on Zooplankton Biodiversity: University Putra Malaysia. (Nov. 2007) The course included a census of jellyfishes and jellyfish fisheries in Viet Nam, coral reef food-web dynamics in the area and production of an identification manual of Asian zooplankton. Funding from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Research Center for Biology-LIPI, Cibinong, Indonesia. [CMarZ contact: Shuhei Nishida]
Let's study the Ocean: (July 31-Aug. 5, 2007) An outreach activity for high-school students using a research vessel, including on-board practices in Suruga Bay and lectures/sample examination/analysis in the land laboratory. Co-sponsored by The Japan Science Society, Tokai University, The Oceanographic Society of Japan, and CMarZ. Lecturers: R.J. Machida, N. Iwasaki, S. Sawamoto, T. Kikuchi Japan. [CMarZ contact: Shuhei Nishida]
Sorting zooplankton from Shirasu-assemblage: (July 21, 2007) Open House of the Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, arranged by Plankton Laboratory, a practice for civic education (mainly for school children). Awarded the Best Attraction Prize from the Director. Tokyo, Japan. [CMarZ contact: Shuhei Nishida]
Sorting Zooplankton from the Shirasu-Assemblage: (July 2007) A practicum and lesson in civic education for school children was carried out during July 2007 by the Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo. The subject of the exercise was zooplankton analysis from Shirasu (half-dried anchovy larvae). Japan. [CMarZ contact: Ryuji Machida]
Training Course on Methods of Zooplankton Ecology and Identification: Institute of Marine Environment and Resources, Haiphong, Vietnam
(November 14-21, 2005). As a part of a co-operative project of the Census of Marine Zooplankton
(CMarZ), the course aimed at providing graduate students and research scientists in Southeast Asian countries with comprehensive knowledge on the biology, ecology, and taxonomy of marine zooplankton and methods dealing with these subjects, with emphasis on the practical aspects of sample analysis and species identification. The
course was organized by Thi Thu Nguyen (IMER), Shuhei Nishida (University of Tokyo: UT), Makoto Terazaki (UT), and Keiichi Matsuura (National Science Museum, Tokyo) and sponsored by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS: Multilateral Project-Coastal Oceanography [MPCO]) and IMER. [CMarZ contact:
Shuhei Nishida]
Taxonomic Identification of Crustacea: Training workshop at the
Division of Crustacea,
Fisheries College, Panangad, Kochi, Kerala, India. This was funded by University Grants Commission
(UGC), Ministry of
Education, Government of India, New Delhi, India. [CMarZ contact: Vijayalakshmi
Nair]
Taxonomic Identification of Copepods: (June/July, 2005) An in-house training program
for pre-doctoral research fellows was conducted at Regional Centre of
National Institute of Oceanography, Kochi, Kerala, India. Expenses
were met by NIO, Goa, India. [CMarZ contact: Vijayalakshmi Nair]
SPICE
(Science for the Protection of Indonesian Coastal Marine Ecosystems): (Sept. 2005)
hands-on workshop for students aimed to train students in tropical marine ecology with international teaching standard. The subjects included concepts and theory, research methods, and field work.
[CMarZ contact: Sigi
Schiel]
At-Sea Training Course in Zooplankton
Identification, Monterey Bay, NE Pacific (Spring 2005) [CMarZ contact: Erik Thuessen & Steve Haddock]
Training Course on Methods of Zooplankton Ecology and Identification:
This workshop was held at the University of the Philippines, Los Baños,
during December 2004. The course aimed at providing graduate students
and research scientists in Southeast Asian countries with comprehensive
knowledge on the biology, ecology, and taxonomy of marine zooplankton and
methods dealing with these subjects, with emphasis on the practical aspects
of sample analysis and species identification. [CMarZ contact: Shuhei
Nishida] |
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