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 […]
2025/7/14 The sixth survey was conducted at the Oshoro Marine Station, Hokkaido University, with the help of many people such as Professor Norishige Yotsukura. It is said that kelp used to grow abundantly in the area, but in recent years it has decreased. We found many sea urchins, especially in deeper areas, causing coastal denudation. There […]
2025/6/30 The fifth survey of 2025 was conducted at Niigata University’s Marine Biological Station on Sado Island. With the assistance of Niigata University’s Associate Professor Akihito Omori and technical staff Toyokazu Shimotani, the survey was conducted in a seaweed bed dominated by Sargassum in Tassha Bay, near the Marine Biological Station. Despite the rainy season, most […]
2025/06/16 Despite the rainy season skies, the fourth survey of 2025 was conducted at Shodoshima, Kagawa prefecture in collaboration with Aji Marine Station, Kagawa University. It was carried out with the cooperation of Kagawa University’s Assistant Professor Masatoshi Nakakuni, technical staff Koji Kishimoto, and many others. Although the weather was gloomy, the sea conditions were good […]
2025/6/2 As part of the Blue Carbon Project targeting seaweed beds across Japan, the third survey of 2025 was conducted around Hagizaki, Usa, Tosa City, Kochi prefecture in collaboration with Usa Marine Biological Institute, Kochi University. With the cooperation of many people such as Mr. Kouki Tanaka, a technician at Kochi University, we were able to […]
As part of the Blue Carbon Project targeting seaweed beds across Japan, the second survey of 2025 was conducted at Nakadori Island (Arikawa Bay) in the Goto Islands of Nagasaki. It was conducted in collaboration with Professor Gregory N. Nishihara, Nagasaki University, and the Arikawa Town Fisheries Cooperative. With the cooperation of local residents, we […]
As part of the Blue Carbon Project targeting seaweed beds across Japan, the Shimoda site survey was performed in April. We conducted underwater surveys in the seaweed beds, collected water and mud samples from the research vessel, and evaluated from various perspectives the process by which seaweed sequesters carbon. On the final day, an event […]
A special exhibition “Investigating Marine Life! -Introduction of JAMBIO Coastal Organisms Joint Survey-” will be held at the Shirahama Aquarium, Kyoto University to display the results of the JAMBIO Coastal Organisms Joint Survey. Date: February 1st until May 14th → Click here for details → Click here for the exhibition
The All Nippon eDNA Monitoring Network (ANEMONE), in which JAMBIO participates, has launched an open eDNA database of the ANEMONE Database (ANEMONE DB). A map of the fish fauna of all of Japan, covering 861 locations and 885 detected fish species on 2020, is now available. https://db.anemone.bio/ In addition, the ANEMONE Consortium was established on […]
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Mike Thorndyke on January 25, 2022. We would like to express our deepest condolences for the loss of Professor Thorndyke. Professor Thorndyke was director of the Kristineberg Marine Research Station on the west coast of Sweden for many years and greatly contributed to […]