[Lista-Algas] [Dinoflagellate-L] reminder: Dinoflagellate workshop announcement Nagasaki 21-23 May 2011

[Andres Boltovskoy]

 

Workshop announcement: Thinking big about things small: how to link Pacific to Atlantic dinoflagellates?

In recent years, much more is known about the recent and past distribution of dinoflagellates and their cysts in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. These new findings raise lots of fascinating questions regarding the morphology, taxonomy, phylogeny, evolution, biogeography and (paleo)ecology of dinoflagellates. With this workshop we aim to bring together researchers with backgrounds in geological, biological and/or molecular studies on dinoflagellates and their cysts to discuss standing issues.

Venue: Nagasaki University, Institute for East China Sea Research, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, 852-8521, Nagasaki, Japan
国立長崎大学

Dates: 21-23 May 2011 2 day workshop (21-22 May) + one day field trip (23 May) to Omura Bay and surroundings

Participation fee will be around 5000 YEN. 

We invite oral and poster presentations.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: end of March 2011.
Abstract format: title, author(s) with details of affinity and email-addresses, keywords (max. 10) and abstract text (max. 1 A4 page). 

Contact: Kenneth Mertens (Kenneth.Mertens at ugent.be)


We hope to welcome you in Nagasaki! 


Kazumi Matsuoka and Kenneth Mertens

P.S.: Please forward to other people interested.
P.P.S.: Some people have expressed concern with the current situation in Japan. Kazumi is not concerned:

"As Japanese, I think many foreign peoples overestimate the present  situation in Japan including the nuclear power plants of Fukushima.  I  do not worry about the present situation in Nagasaki after the disaster. Except for the area where tremendous damages attack now in  North Japan, other areas are not so serious condition. Airports of  Kansai, Chubu, Haneda and even Narita are now operating as usual, and Japan Railway is also normal in West Japan. Please inform this situation to your colleagues."

>From a scientific viewpoint, there is no problem around most of Japan except 20-30 km around Fukushima, which is 1200 km away from Nagasaki.
The WHO does not advise against travel to Japan:
http://www.who.int/hac/crises/jpn/faqs/en/index3.html
Even if there would be a nuclear disaster, it is extremely unlikely that any radiation would reach Nagasaki at any time because of the distance from Fukushima and the prevailing winds towards America. 


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