Calendar of Past Events 2004

by Robin — last modified 2007-12-05 02:17

January-April
- On April 1st Dr. Robin Rigby moved from being the volunteer outreach and education officer to an official post doc position with NaGISA.. The new position is based out of Seto Marine Biological Laboratory and evolves taking care of the relationships between the ever-growing multitude of partners and interested parties.
- On April 2nd Dr. Kato introduced NaGISA to the European Communities at a workshop of the European Union funded project MARBENA (dealing with large scale European Coastal Marine Biodiversity, headed by prof. Carlo Heip from Yerseke, Netherlands hosted by Dr. Jan Marcin Weslawski) in Gdansk, Poland. We are hoping that the presentation results in a European branch of NaGISA.
- April 6th was the first time NaGISA style transects were run in the Gulf of Mexico. The high school students of Niceville High organized by their teacher Richard Hernandez were able to get in the water with the help of an amazing number of people. It was a wonderful example of a remote project (i.e. in not run directly by us but by the students themselves) and we look forward to other schools being able to have the same experience (of course it all depends on getting great teachers involved!).
- April 8th will see the start of Western Pacific NaGISA (formally know and the Japan Center) 2004 sampling. They will start with the Seto area.
- Eastern Pacific NaGISA (formally known as the Alaska center) is about to start their second year of sampling! NaGIGA PI`s Dr. Brenda Konar and Dr. Katrin Iken of the University of Alaska (Fairbanks) will be in Sample Port Graham, Alaska with the local community on the 19-20 of April.
- NaGISA Thailand has gone through some changes in the last couple months that have resulted in the upcoming move of the Thai Sorting Center from the Phuket Marine Biological Station to Kasetsart University, Bangkok. With the move we have lost a number of good para-taxonomists and to the lovely island atmosphere, but look forward to the challenge of training more technicians in the new academic setting that will be run by Dr. Chittima Aryuthaka under the auspices of the Dean of the Faculty of Fisheries Dr. Yont Musig. see the report of the opening here.
- The NaGISA Protocol presentation is now available you can see it here or download (PDF 11.0 MB) .
- The first organizational meeting of Eastern Pacific NaGISA was hosted by Dr. Matt Edwards (NaGISA`s California and Baja investigator) in the University of San Diego on the 16-18 of April.
- NaGISA Vietnam sampled Luzon (Bolinao) and Visayas (Iloilo) on the 20-29 of April.
May-August
- The northern hemisphere summer sampling season was a busy one. Read about the Unique discovery made by NaGISA Scientists in Alaska or check out the photos from the field: Kodiak, Prince William Sound and Hatake Komaru. Other sample areas included: 1)Kechmeck Bay Alaska, May 1-13 with University of Alaska undergraduate students 2)Hakajima Japan May 17-21 with University of Kyoto undergraduate and graduate students 3)Kodiak Alaska May 2 to June 11 with graduate students and volunteers 4)Seto Japan June 1-6 with Tanabe High School 5)Prince William Sound Alaska June 22 to July 7 with guest researchers and volunteers 6)Boulder Patch Alaska July 14-20 with University of Alaska graduate students.
- The Niceville-Tanabe joint high school workshop on biodiversity was held July 26-29 at Shirahama, Japan
- NaGISA was formally introduced to researchers in the Caribbean and Latin American Region at the first CoML Meeting in the Caribbean hosted by Patricia Miloslavich of the University of Simon Bolivar, Venezuela.
September-December
- Close to 20 people from all over the Western Pacific region participated (and graduated from!) the JSPS NaGISA workshop on Marine Amphipod Taxonomy held in Nha Trang Vietnam (September 30 - October 3).
- National representatives from Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and the Phillipeans gathered for the NaGISA WestPac Members Meeting October 2, 2004 in NIO Nha Trang Vietnam.
- NaGISA`s 2nd Annual Steering Group Meeting was held on November 15th at the University of Kyoto in Japan. The international team members, Eastern and Western Pacific Regional Investigators were joined by the Caribbean, European and RI`s and national leaders from Baja- California and Thailand. South America was represented in absentia. The following day the NaGISA SSG met with FMAP Japan for a Joint Synergy Meeting.

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