•   October 25

New Publication

Assistant Profs. Ben Harvey, Lucia Porzio, Shigeki Wada and Professor Jason Hall-Spencer have published work that quantifies and confirms the role ocean acidification plays in inhibiting calcification, recruitment and abundance of coralline algae in lab experiments and at high CO2 locations in the field using meta-analyses and synthesis of past research. This research was published in Global Change Biology on the 25th October 2021.

→ Understanding coralline algal responses to ocean acidification: Meta-analysis and synthesis

→ TSUKUBA JOURNAL

•   September 27

New Publication

Assistant Prof. Ben Harvey has published an opinion piece on the future of marine heatwave research. This research was published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution on the 27th September 2021.

→ Predicting responses to marine heatwaves using functional traits

•   September 7

Symposium

During the Tsukuba Global Science Week (TGSW), the ICONA network will be having a kick-off symposium. Presenters from the ICONA Network, as well as representatives from the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO will be giving presentations.

For more details:

→ See the poster

→ Visit the ICONA website

→ Visit the TGSW website

•   July 21

New Publication

Assistant Profs. Ben Harvey, Sylvain Agostini, Shigeki Wada, Koetsu Kon and Professor Jason Hall-Spencer have found that ocean warming and acidification are shifting temperate coastal reefs to simple turf-dominated ecosystems. This research was published in Global Change Biology on the 16th July 2021.

→ Simplification, not “tropicalization”, of temperate marine ecosystems under ocean warming and acidification

→ TSUKUBA JOURNAL

→ EurekAlert! "Complexity yields simplicity: The shifting dynamics of temperate marine ecosystems"

•   July 21

New Publication

Assistant Professors Ben Harvey, Sylvain Agostini, Lucia Porzio and Professor Jason Hall-Spencer published their research in the journal "Global Change Biology" on the 16th July 2021.

→ Major loss of coralline algal diversity in response to ocean acidification

•   April 18

Media Coverage

A special article "Progressing Ocean Acidification", in which Assistant Professor Shigeki Wada and Assistant Professor Sylvan Agostini of our center cooperated in the interview, was published in the Asahi Junior and Senior High School Newspaper on April 18.

→ Asagaku Website

•   March 26

Student Award

Mr. Yasuto Hayashi (Wada Laboratory) and Mr. Aya Sakamoto (Sasakura Laboratory) of the Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, who conducted research at this center, made excellent research presentations and received high praise. He received the Dean's Award and the Dean's Award for his outstanding achievements.

→ Sasakura Laboratory homepage

→ Wada Laboratory homepage

•   March 20

Student Award

Mr. Yasuto Hayashi (Wada Laboratory), Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, who conducted research at this center, commended students at the "Marine Biology Symposium 2021" hosted by the Oceanographic Society of Japan Marine Biology Research Association online. Was awarded. This award was given for an oral presentation on the adhesion between particles involved in the decay process of marine snow.

→ Wada Laboratory homepage

•   March 1

New Publication

Professor Kazuo Inaba of our center, in collaboration with research groups such as Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Paul Scheller Institute in Switzerland, used the marine animal squirrel and the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas to motor protein of cilia. We have discovered a novel photoresponsive protein that binds to and regulates its movement. The results of this research were published in "Science Advances" on February 26, 2021.

→ Science Advances Article

→ University of Tsukuba Research Journal Press Release

→ Science Daily Introductory Article

•   February 9

Public Outreach

A special exhibition "Investigating Marine Life! -Introduction of JAMBIO Coastal Organisms Joint Survey-" will be held at the Kannonzaki Nature Museum to display the results of the JAMBIO Coastal Organisms Joint Survey.

Date: February 9th until August 31st.

→ Click here for details

→ Click here for the exhibition