Montipora

NEWS・ニュース

2019

Oct: Field work in southern Okinawa

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"35" reads "sango" in Japanese, which means "coral"!
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Drilling!
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Drilling again!

Sept: Workshop on Last Interglacial reefs of the Seychelles Islands @ CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France

July: Sampling fossil corals for aDNA study @ Kochi Core Center (KCC) with Dr. Ana Prohaska from Cambridge University, UK

June: New interesting book about mesophotic coral ecosystems published!

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May: Japanese Geoscience Union Meeting 2019

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Apr-May: Visit of Sophie Nuber, PhD student from Saint Andrews University, Scotland (field work in Shizuoka prefecture and sampling @ KCC)

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Outcrop of Miocene reef limestone, Shizuoka prefecture
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Sophie @ Kochi Core Center
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Farewell party @ Motoyama

Jan-Feb: Field work in the Seychelles Islands

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Returning to Mahe after field work on Aldabra atoll
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Landscapes of the Seychelles Islands
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Wild life of the Seychelles Islands