Oct: Field work in southern Okinawa
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!
May: Japanese Geoscience Union Meeting 2019
Apr-May: Visit of Sophie Nuber, PhD student from Saint Andrews University, Scotland (field work in Shizuoka prefecture and sampling @ KCC)
Jan-Feb: Field work in the Seychelles Islands