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• News
  • NaGISA schedule
    • Taxonomy Workshop of Scalidophora
    • CoML All Programs Meeting
    • NaGISA SSG Meeting
    • HNS 2nd Call for Proposals - Deadline
    • Taxonomy Workshop of Nematoda
    • NaGISA Sampling workshop in Ogasawara (WPac)
    • NaGISA Steering Group Committee Meeting
    • AO Region sampling: Gulf of St. Lawrence
    • AO Region sampling: Bay of Fundy
    • AO Region sampling: Gulf of Maine
    • AO Region sampling: Nova Scotia(3)
    • AO Region sampling: Nova Scotia(4)
    • AO Region sampling: Senegal(2)
    • AO Region sampling: Senegal(1)
    • AO Region sampling: Nova Scotia(2)
  • Calendar of Past Events 2002
  • Calendar of Past Events 2003
  • Calendar of Past Events 2004
  • Calendar of Past Events 2005
  • Calendar of Past Events 2006
  • Current News
    • Scalidophora Workshop
    • NaGISA in Japanese
    • Summer field work on board
    • Science without Boarders
    • Protocols adopted by Japanese NPO
    • Niceville High School Students
    • Sampling in Hokkaido
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    • Obituary: Dr. P. Robin Rigby
    • Tanaidacea and Harpacticoida Workshop
    • Nematoda Workshop
    • Protocol Workshop at Malaysia
    • Sampling Workshop in Chichi Island
    • NaGISA setting foot in West Africa
    • LIPI-NaGISA WPac Conference in Jakarta
    • NaGISA Sorting Workshop in Japan
    • Do you need to speciate to tell algal communities apart?
    • Polar Seas Region sampled its highest latitude yet, 77°S, in October 2008
    • NaGISA is part of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program
  • NaGISA schedule
  • Calendar of Past Events 2007
  • Calendar of Past Events 2008
  • news2009folder
    • sparlingia
    • Hermitcrubguide
  • polor_sea_photo
    • Diver
    • Pycnogonid
  • NaGISA WPac published a field guide of hermit crabs of Indonesia
  • NaGISA at Work.
  • JSPS-NaGISA Bivalvia Taxonomy Training Workshop, 8-10 March 2009, Penang,Malaysia
  • Tunicates Taxonomy Workshop at Margarita Island, Venezuela (20-25 April 2009)
  • JSPS-NaGISA Sponge Taxonomy Training Workshop, May 31 to June 2, 2009,　Chonburi, Thailand.
  • JSPS-NaGISA Sponge Taxonomy Training Workshop, May 31 to June 2, 2009,　Chonburi, Thailand.
  • NaGISA Protocol Workshop, 28-30 August 2009, Nha Trang, Vietnam
  • NaGISA Sampling Workshop, 23 July 2009, Haha Island, Japan
  • EPAC Hosts Artist during Elementary School Visits
  • NaGISA Sampling in Antarctica, the Video!
  • Antarctic sampling
  • Suarez Castillo Abstract
  • Suarez Castillo Abstract
  • Master’s Student Wins State Award for Best Science Thesis!
  • Gran Roque School students learn NaGISA protocol at a seagrass site in Venezuela
  • NaGISA Collaborator Makes Hilda Canter Lund Award Short List
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  • Math in Marine Science
  • DeepSeaDiversUseMath.jpg
  • Calendar of Past Events 2009
  • NaGISA Establishes First Sampling Sites in the Red Sea
  • NaGISA Establishes First Sampling Sites
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    • Egypt_practice.jpg
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  • NaGISA Database Meeting at Halifax, CANADA
  • NaGISA Database Conference at Halifax
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    • Conference.JPG
    • Dinner.JPG
  • NaGISA Western Pacific Conference
  • NW Florida NaGISA Team Wins Environmental Excellence Award
  • NHS logo
• Activities
  • caracas2006
    • Brenda and Patricia suting up.
    • Elizabeth listening carefully.
    • Juan outling the fin points.
    • Lessons in the water
    • Lessons in the lab.
  • jakarta2006
    • Group photo
    • Lecture on the taxonomy og Gastropoda and Polyplacophora
    • learning how to identify and disect
    • ...learning how to take photos
    • everybody gets a chance to practice
    • ...and everyones skills are assessed
    • a look down the microscope
    • Participants identify samples from their own (home country) collections
    • Finally...everyone gets a certificate of participation!
  • lombok2005
    • Dr.Susetiono welcoming the participants
    • Dr. kato explaining the sampling protocols in the feild
    • Participants working through the material
    • crab
    • Brochure of Marine decapods and Stomatopods Workshop
  • mombassa2006
    • Sampling area
    • Go into the sea
    • Sampling together with friends
    • Came back to the lab
  • natrang2004
    • Group Photo
    • Prof Dang Ngoc Thanh
    • Prof Manuel Ortiz-Touzet
    • Dr. Pham Dinh Trong
    • Sampling in NaTrang
    • Aswandy dissects Indonesian amphipods
    • Annabelle learns one on one
    • Apple recives her certificate of participation
    • Nguyen An Khang recieves the best student award
    • Dinner at Bao Dai Hotel
    • Brochure of Amphipod Workshop
  • phuket2002
    • Welcome! the front board of the first day class.
    • All on board... Sample collection.
    • Even a experts get tired after a hard day of sampling.
    • Back in the Lab. Sample get unpacked.
    • and an essential equipent is made...
    • meiobenthos
  • phuket2003
    • Prof. Eibye-Jacobson
    • Participants taking notes
    • Brochure of Marine Fish and Polychaete Workshop
  • pisa2006
    • Picture of participants
    • Putting data into the computer
    • Discussion Time
    • NaGISA site in Pisa
    • Map of the sampling area
  • seto2005
    • Echinoderm WS Group Photo
    • Photo Maichel gets two one assistance from Profs. Fujita and Saba
    • Prof. Imaoka on Namako
    • Ratree & Chesada take notes during the lecture
    • Elizabeth smiles across the lunch table
    • Imaoka starts the Namako dissection
    • Everyone gets involves
    • Maria & Heloise confer with the books
    • Robin takes a break from translating
    • ossicles in sea cucumber
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    • starHoc.jpg
    • The March 4 newspaper article
    • Brochure of Echinoderm Workshop
  • seto2007
    • Workshop Group Photo
    • All suited up: M. Sorensen, R. Kristensen and J. Thormar
    • Box - Coring: A. Suzuki and F. Pardos
    • Showing how it's done: Y. Shirayama and F. Pardos
    • Getting into the spirit of things: Q. X. Ngo and B. W. Ng
    • C. Jimenez, A. Mequila and T.H. Nguyen work together as T.K Phan, Y. Shirayama and R. Kristensen look on
    • N. H. Ahamad, A. Matsuo, A. Nishimoto J. Thormar listen to Y. Shirayama
    • In the laboratroy
    • Nothing like working with live specimens!
  • vancouver2006
    • Collecting samples
    • The NaGISA quadrat set
    • Almost finished sampling
    • back in the lab
    • identifying samples...
    • looking very carefully...
    • Working with the microscopes
    • Discussion time
    • Group photo
    • Brochure of Marine Algae Workshop
  • Meetings
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    • VT04GBbuoy.jpg
    • FMAPNAGISAsm.jpg
    • hermitcrab.jpg
    • katoboat.jpg
    • katoku.jpg
    • KUstaff.jpg
    • WESTPAC_group.jpg
    • Frankfurt Germany
    • sea anemone
    • shell
    • Institute for Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences
    • Swan Rv Perth
    • seaslug
  • NaGISA Workshops
  • NaGISA International Meetings
  • Gallery of Selected Group Photos from NaGISA related Meetings
    • NaGISA Artic Biodiversity Fairbanks Alaska April 2003
    • CoML.jp Formation Meeting Tokyo Japan March 2002
    • Eastern Pacific Regional Meeting San Diego April 2004
    • First Caribbean Workshop Venezuela June 2004
    • NaGISA SSG Meeting Kyoto Japan Nov 2004
    • JSPS Oceanography Program Coordinators Meeting Dec 2004
  • NaGISA World Congress 2006
    • NaGISA World Congress
    • participants from America
    • participant from Malaysia
    • The public lecture to start on October 15th, Jesse Ausubel of the Sloan Foundation, New York, USA giving the opening speech (transcript available).
    • The public lecture to start on October 15th, Tony Underwood (invited speaker) from the University of Sydney, Australia setting the tone for the symposium by reminding the audience why biodiversity is important
    • Participants from Korea
    • Participants from Thailand
    • The audience at the public lecture night on the 15th
    • The Participants during question time after the oral presentation of Dr. Nakaoka on the impacts of Tsunami on biodiversity of seagrass ecosystems along the Andaman Sea Coast of Thailand, during the presentations the following day
    • Participants listening to oral presentations of which there were 41 spread out in 10 sessions from October 15 to 18, 2006
    • Dr. Katrin Iken of University of Alaska, Fairbanks presents results from NaGISA work done in Arctic nearshore boulder communities
    • Dr. Hiroshi Kawai of Kobe University relates ten years monitoring of intertidal vegetations in the Sea of Japan during session 2 chaired by Dr. Matt Edwards (standing to the left) of San Diego State University
    • Participants gather around the poster presentations on the evening of October 16th
    • Kyoto University's Dr. Miyazaki (left) and Dr. Fukami (front) look over Go Suzuki`s (not quite visible but in the next photo) poster in Poster Session Section C: Identifying Diversity: Techniques and Investigations
    • Participants gather in the lounge of the Portopia Hotel before going into the Banquet on the evening of October 17th
    • Participants gather in the lounge of the Portopia Hotel before going into the Banquet on the evening of October 17th (2)
  • Instructions to Authors
  • A full transcript of Jesse Ausubel`s opening speech
  • jspsprogress.pdf
  • seto2008
    • Nematoda Workshop Poster
    • Taxonomy Workshop of Nematoda
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    • seto2008-02.jpg
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  • iloilo2007
    • Opening lecture by Prof. Shirayama
    • Lecture on Tanaidacea by Dr Kim Larsen
    • Participants of NaGISA Workshop in Iloilo City, Philippines
    • Lecture on Harpacticoida by Dr Shimanaga
    • Can you identify?
    • Let me see…
    • Is this "mandible"?
  • wpac2008
    • FirstCircular NaGISA WPac conference 2008.pdf
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  • Malaysia2008
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    • Malaysia2008_02.jpg
    • Malaysia2008_03.jpg
    • Malaysia2008_04.jpg
    • Malaysia2008_05.jpg
  • chichi2008
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    • chichi_02.jpg
    • chichi_03.jpg
    • chichi_04.jpg
    • chichi_05.jpg
    • chichi_06.jpg
  • jakarta2008_01.jpg
  • seaweed
    • PR07-RI-Mid1.jpg
    • PR07-RI_JR-016w.jpg
    • PR07-RI_JR-030w.jpg
  • 2009pdf
    • Langkawi_Malaysia2009s
    • Langkawi_Malaysia2009
  • NaGISA in Caracas
  • CoML at Long Beach
  • NaGISA member at Long Beach
  • JSPS-NaGISA Bivalvia Taxonomy Training Workshop
    • Penang01
    • Penang02
    • Penang03
    • Penang04
    • Penang05
    • Penang06
    • Penang07
    • Penang08
    • Penang09
    • Penang10
    • Penang11
    • Penang12
    • Penang13
    • Penang14
    • Penang15
    • Penang16
    • Penang17
    • Penang18
  • Tunicates Taxonomy Workshop
    • lancha
    • Aplidium accarense
    • Botrylloides nigrum
    • Botrylloides sp.
    • Distaplia stylifer
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    • tunicates
    • Various tunicates
    • Jeannette
  • Sponge Taxonomy Training
    • SpongeWS01
    • SpongeWS02
    • SpongeWS03
    • SpongeWS04
    • SpongeWS05
    • SpongeWS06
    • SpongeWS07
    • SpongeWS08
    • SpongeWS09
    • Dr. Sumaitt Putchakarn
    • Dr. Udomsak Darumas
    • Dr. Yuji Ise
    • SpongeWS13
    • SpongeWS14
    • SpongeWS15
    • SpongeWS16
• Education
  • tips
    • 2. Precautions for sampling
    • 3. Dangers in the nearshore
    • 4. What to do after sampling
    • tide
    • twoteams
    • progear
    • coral
    • eel
    • redtide
    • Sponge
    • lion
    • backinlab
  • interviews
    • Coastal Bites 2 - Katrin Iken
    • Coastal Bites 3 - Heloise Chenelot
    • Coastal Bites 4 - Rafael Risomena-Rodriquez
    • brenda
    • Katrin
    • Heloise
    • Rafael Risomena-Rodriquez
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • High school
    • Tanabe and Niceville High School Biodiversity Workshop July 2004
    • Kesennuma High School NaGISA Protocol Workshop July 2006
    • NaGISA High School Initiative
  • Plants and animals found in NaGISA sites
    • mussels
    • mussel shell
  • sampling
• Archives
  • Downloads
    • Illustrated NaGISA Sampling Protocols (January 2006)
    • NaGISA プロトコル（日本語）
    • NaGISA Procedure Manual (June 2003)
    • NaGISA 2004 Summary
    • Introduction to NaGISA (Feb 2005)
    • NaGISA Brochure (August 2004)
    • NaGISA ブローシャー（日本語）
    • IO Regional Brouchures
    • iboy.pdf
  • Slides of NaGISA Protocols
    • 1. An Introduction to NaGISA
    • 2. Contents
    • 3. Step 1 - Where to Sample
    • 4. The world's ocean shorelines
    • 5. With in each box at least Three AREAS are chosen
    • 6. With in each area at least Three Sites are selected...
    • 7. One Core Site and Two Satellite Sites
    • 8. Sites are chosen based whether they are:
    • 9. Step 2 - Gathering Equipment
    • 10. For Sampling, You will need:
    • 11. For Processing, You will need:
    • 12. For Analysis, You will need:
    • 13. Step 3 - Sampling
    • 14. General Recording
    • 15. Sampling in Macroalgae Areas
    • 16. Quadrate sets are done at the first six heights
    • 17. six mandatory and two optional heights
    • 18. five replicates of each sampling height
    • 19. Macroalgae Quadrate Set Instructions
    • 20. Lay down transect tape
    • 21. Photograph the quadrates
    • 22. 25cm x 25cm
    • 23. Scraping
    • 24. 50m x 50m
    • 25. 1m x 1m
    • 26. Sampling in SeaGrass Areas
    • 27. Quadrate sets are done inside the seagrass bed
    • 28. five replicates in the middle of the seagrass bed
    • 29. the replicates in the middle of each seagrass bed
    • 30. SeaGrass Quadrate Set Instructions
    • 31. Photograph the quadrates
    • 32. Core Sample
    • 33. photograph it before placing it in to a labeled bag
    • 34. Optional Plankton Pull
    • 35. Optional DNA Collection
    • 36. Step 4 - Processing Samples
    • 37. Flow Chart of Sample Processing: Macroalgae
    • 38. Flow Chart of Sample Processing: Seagrass bed
    • 39. Measurement and Preservation
    • 40. Step 5 - Identification
    • 41. ID Macrophytes
    • 42. Macrofauna
    • 43. ID Meiofauna
    • 44. ID Plankton
    • 45. Step 6 - From Samples to Data
    • 46. Data Sheets
    • 47. www.nagisacoml.org
    • 48. Step 7 - Uploading Data
    • 49. Uploading Process
    • 50. Upload or Send email
    • 51. Appendix I
    • 52. how to omit a part of sampling protocol (1)
    • 53. how to omit a part of sampling protocol (2)
    • 54. how to omit a part of sampling protocol (3)
    • 55. how to omit a part of sampling protocol (4)
    • 56. Do Not Omit or Reduce
    • 57. Special thanks
  • Publications
    • The NaGISA Project
    • Discovering the world's near shore, an introduction to the NaGISA project
    • Census of Marine Life Forest, Field and Ocean Relations
    • Census of Marine Life and its application to Biology
    • NaGISA project
  • Online Taxonomy
  • Newspapers
    • Kiiminpo - May 2005
    • BayBeacon - April 2005
    • BayBeacon - Nov. 2004
    • Bay Beacon - Nov. 2004 (2)
    • National Geographic - Dec. 2004
    • Sport Fishing - Jan. 2005
    • Anchorage Daily News - Sept. 26 2004
    • Fairbanks Daily News - Sept. 18, 2004
    • BayBeacon - 29 Aug. 2007
    • BayBeacon - 8 Aug. 2007
    • Rosemary Thymes - Fall 2007
    • Daily News - 24 July 2007
  • Sampling in Japan - Hatake Komaru
    • Heading out to the island
    • Marking the transect
    • Scraping the high intertidal zone
    • a few barncles in the high zone
  • Sampling in Japan - Seto Rinkai Minami Hama
    • Braving the wind as they start out
    • Tsushima and Tamaki collect gastropods
    • Suzuki and Masaki finish up the 25X quadrat
    • Kobayashi and Shiba in the low tide zone
    • Nakamae and Maeda scrape away at the ample hijiki
    • Robin and Shira with special guests....
    • ...the comedy team Ojin Ozuborn and the ABC TV crew
    • who made sampling and sorting all that much funnier!
  • Sampling in Thailand - Phuket 2002
    • Waiting on the dock for
    • the Dept. of Fisheries R/V
    • that took us comfortably
    • to many sites
    • of all kinds!
  • Sampling in Thailand - Phuket 2003
    • Waiting for the boat
    • smaller than the year before
    • but the deck
    • and the hatch cabin
    • were great!
  • Sampling in Alaska - Kodiak Island June 2004
    • Brenda and Cas after sampling
    • Chis checks the compressor
    • Michelle checks the coast (for bears)
    • Nick sorts on board of the R/V Mythos
    • ... as does Robin
    • NaGISA Kodiak 2004 - team shot
  • Sampling in Alaska - Prince William Sound July 2004
    • Northern sized Kelp
    • Katrin - hard at work
    • Gayle sorts on the R/V Tempest
    • NaGISA discovers treasure in Alaskan waters
    • Brenda after sampling the last site of the trip
    • R/V Tempest
  • the Beaufort Sea 2003
    • Alaria
    • Sponges
    • RV Proteus
    • Laminaria
    • Soft coral
    • Sponges
  • the Kachemak Bay 2003
    • Greenling
    • Diver setting quadrats
    • Diver samplings
    • Sunflower Star
    • Kelp
    • Jelly
    • Sculpin
  • Sampling in Alaska - Kodiak Island 2003
    • Sea anemome
    • Nereocystis on transect
    • RV Mythos
    • Gayle (UAF PhD Student) and Ross (Old Harbor resident volunteer)
    • Chris (UAF volunteer) and Anna (UAF Student)
    • Chris & Casey (UAF Master Students)
  • Sampling in Alaska - Prince William Sound 2003
    • Anna (UAF Student) pressing alga
    • Leather Star
    • Sea lion
    • Data Logger
    • Heloise (UAF Masters Student)
    • Casey (UAF Masters Student
  • Sampling in USA: Destin's East Pass, Niceville, Florida
    • Destins East Pass, jetty and beach site
    • Unloading equipment
    • Predive planing and instruction
    • Getting in the water
    • Heading out to the jetty
    • Diver and safety boat
    • Sampling the jetty
    • Teachers conference
    • Back on the beach after sampling
    • Sorting samples in the lab
    • Lab work contiues
    • Checking with feild guides
    • Confriming findings with faculty
    • Recording the findings
    • NaGISA NW Florida Coordinator R. Hernandez flanked by NaGISA sceintists Dr. Miloslavich and E. Huck from Simon Bolivar University
  • Phuket Marine Biological Center - First Thailand Research Center
    • Phuket Parataxonomists
    • CoML/ NaGISA room in PMBC
    • Storage Room
    • samples ready for identification
  • Florida High School Students Join International Biodiversity Effort
  • UAF scientists discover new marine habitat in Alaska Rhodolith beds likely to fuel protection debate
  • Photos of past NaGISA activities
  • HS Exchange in Zanzibar
    • Africa1313
    • Africa1334
    • Africa1336
    • Africa1349
    • Africa1499
  • LIPI-NaGISA Western Pacific Conference
    • Jakarta01
    • Jakarta02
    • Jakarta03
    • Jakarta04
    • Jakarta05
    • Jakarta06
    • Jakarta07
    • Jakarta08
    • Jakarta09
    • Jakarta10
    • Jakarta11
    • Jakarta12
    • Jakarta13
    • Jakarta14
    • Jakarta15
  • Sorting_workshop2008
    • Sorting_workshop01
    • Sorting_workshop02
    • Sorting_workshop03
    • Sorting_workshop04
    • Sorting_workshop05
  • 2009vietnam
    • Nha Trang Workshop 01
    • Nha Trang Workshop 02
    • Nha Trang Workshop 03
    • Nha Trang Workshop 04
    • Nha Trang Workshop 05
    • Nha Trang Workshop 06
    • Nha Trang Workshop 07
    • Nha Trang Workshop 08
    • Nha Trang Workshop 09
    • Nha Trang Workshop 10
    • Nha Trang Workshop 11
    • Nha Trang Workshop 12
    • Nha Trang Workshop 13
    • Nha Trang Workshop 14
    • Nha Trang Workshop 15
    • Nha Trang Workshop 16
    • Nha Trang Workshop 17
    • Nha Trang Workshop 18
    • Nha Trang Workshop 19
    • Nha Trang Workshop 20
    • Nha Trang Workshop 21
    • Nha Trang Workshop 22
    • Nha Trang Workshop 23
    • Nha Trang Workshop 24
    • Nha Trang Workshop 25
    • Nha Trang Workshop 26
    • Nha Trang Workshop 27
    • Nha Trang Workshop 28
    • Nha Trang Workshop 29
  • Haha Island WS 2009
    • Haha Island WS 01
    • Haha Island WS 02
    • Haha Island WS 03
    • Haha Island WS 04
    • Haha Island WS 05
    • Haha Island WS 06
    • Haha Island WS 07
  • EPAC Hosts Artist during Elementary School Visits
    • Kirsten students
    • drawing a beach
    • counting
    • limpet maze
  • Gran Roque School students learn NaGISA protocol at a seagrass site in Venezuela
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    • PA271328
    • PA271329
    • PA271337
    • PA271341
    • PA271349
    • PA271351
    • PA271360
• Protocols
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• NaGISA Western Pacific Conference
• NaGISA Reference List
• NaGISA Taxonomist List
• WPac_Sponge_Workshop.xls
• NaGISA WPac sponge Workshop
• NaGISA WPac sponge Workshop in Chonburi Thailand 2009 pdf
• FirstCircularTokyoConference.pdf
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• RegistrationformsNaGISAWPacConference2009.xls