Tara JAMBIO Blue Carbon Project Onagawa Survey

2025/7/28　The final survey of 2025 was conducted in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, with the cooperation of Professor Minoru Ikeda and Associate Professor Toyonobu Fujii of the Onagawa Field Center, Tohoku University. While some areas were covered with colonies of Sargassum, there were also areas covered with sea urchins and almost no seaweed to be seen. With an increasing number of researchers participating multiple times, and blessed with good weather, the survey was completed smoothly. Many people also participated in outreach activities, observing firsthand the biodiversity of seaweed beds and ecosystem functions such as photosynthesis.