CMarZ Symposium and SG Meeting, Qingdao, China, 11-13 May 2010

Qingdao meeting

Steering Group meeting, Qingdao, 11-13 May 2010.
row 1: Wan Aiyong, Wang Rencheng, Shi Yongqiang, Liu Mengtan, Martin Angel, Jin Xin, Gao Li, Peter Wiebe, Wang Yantao ,Chaolun Li
row 2: Yang Guang, Wang Liang, Wang Minxiao, Ephrime Metillo, Vijaya Nair, Larry Madin, Sun Song, Annelies Pierrot-Bults, Leo Blanco-Bercial, Shuhei Nishida, Dicky Allison, Ann Bucklin, Sigi Schiel, Ryuji Machida, Nancy Copley, Jun Nishikawa, Hiroomi Miyamoto

Presentations:

 

Ann Bucklin (Univ. Connecticut): Introduction

Theme A: Zooplankton biodiversity in Southeast Asia

Shuhei Nishida (ORI): "Zooplankton biodiversity in Southeast Asia: An overview"

Ephrime Metillo (Mindanao State University-Iligan, Philippines): "Community structure of copepods from different nearshore substrates off Tinggi and Sibu Islands, Malaysia".

Theme C: Zooplankton biodiversity of the open ocean

Peter Wiebe (WHOI) "Zooplankton sampling of the deep Sargasso Sea"

- short video of the computer screen during data acquisition for a MOCNESS-1meter tow to 5000 meters on the RHBrown-0603 cruise in the Sargasso Sea (April 2006).

- short video of the MOCNESS-10 meter net being launched over the side of the RHBrown-0603 cruise in the Sargasso Sea (April 2006).

Vijahalakshmi Nair ( ) "Contributions to CMarZ : From the Indian Ocean (2005-2010)"

 

Theme D: Data and Information Management for CMarZ

Nancy Copley (WHOI), "A guided tour through the CMarZ website"

 

Theme E: Genetic and Biochemical Studies of Zooplankton Diversity

SG meeting, Qingdao
Steering Group members: Vijaya Nair, Sun Song, Larry Madin, Shuhei Nishida, Annelies Pierrot-Bults, Ann Bucklin, Sigi Schiel, Peter Wiebe, Martin Angel.

 

Ann Bucklin (Univ. Connecticut) - "DNA barcoding of North Atlantic zooplankton"

Ryuji Machida, (Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo Present position; Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) "Zooplankton Community Genomics"

Xinming Pu (First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao, China) - "Using fatty acids as physiological and ecological indicator of zooplankton in the Yellow Sea: with implications in relationships of biochemical indices and biodiversity"

 

Challenges in zooplankton research: present and future

Short Presentations by Panel Members

  - Dhugal Lindsay (JAMSTEC)

  - Ryuji Machida (Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo Present position; Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) "Metagenomics, Metagenetics, Metatranscriptomics"

  - Leocadio Blanco-Bercial (Univ. Connecticut) "We Have the Sequences and id's so now - What's Next?"

  - Ephrime Metillo (Mindanao State Univ.) "Where do we go from here?"

  - Jun Nishikawa (AORI, Univ. Tokyo)

  - Fangping Cheng (PhD student, IOCAS) "The Expectations of zooplankton study"