Download 2010 University of Ryukyus (Ryudai)

2010 University of Ryukyus (Ryudai)-National Taiwan University (NTU) –
Tunghai University (THU)-Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
(BRCAS)
Biodiversity & Ecology Summer Course
Proposal
Course coordinator: Alex Yu (NTU)/ Liang-Kong Lin (THU)/ Allen Chen (BRCAS)
Agenda: As islands and archipelagos located along the Asian continent and connected
by one of the strongest ocean currents in the world, Kuroshio, Taiwan and
the Ryukyus both have great abundances of marine and terrestrial
biodiversity. Unfortunately, land usage, overfishing, pollution, habitat
destruction, and climate change have threatened the future sustainability of
biodiversity in both Taiwan and the Ryukyus. In order to promote and
educate future generations to appreciate, understand, and conserve the
importance of biodiversity in this region, the University of the Ryukyus
(Ryudai), Okinawa, Japan, National Taiwan University (NTU), and
Tunghai University (THU), in conjunction with the Biodiversity Research
Center, Academia Sinica (BRCAS), Taiwan, intend to launch a summer
course on Green Island (Lyudao) and in Leinhuachi (Lily Pond), Taiwan to
jointly promote biodiversity education and research for the west Pacific.
Hosts: Department of Life Science/Institute of Zoology/Institute of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology/Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan
University
Department of Life Science/ Center of Tropical Ecology and Biodiversity,
Tunghai University
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Department of Chemistry, Biology, and Marine Science, University of
Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan
Do you really need so many committee members? It is a small course, but so
many committee members!
Organizing committee: Prof. Alex Yu (NTU)
Prof. Makoto Tsuchiya (Ryudai)
Prof. Wen-Hsiung Li (BRCAS)
Prof. Liang-Kong Lin (THU)
Prof. Kazuhiko Sakai (Ryudai)
Prof. Masaru Nakamura (Ryudai)
Prof. Euichi Hirose (Ryudai)
Dr. Allen Chen (BRCAS/NTU)
Dr. Benny Chan (BRCAS/NTU)
Dr. Sen-Lin Tang (BRCAS/ NTU)
Dr. Yoko Nozawa (BRCAS/NTU)
Dr. James Reimer (Ryudai)
Dr. Mamoru Toda (Ryudai)
Dr. Katsunori Tachihara (Ryudai)
Dr. Tetsuo Denda (Ryudai)
Dr. Takashi Nakamura (Ryudai)
Dr. Tohru Naruse (Ryudai)
Secretary committee: Dr. Keshavmurthy Shashank (BRCAS)
Dr. Yeongshyan Yuen (BRCAS)
Mr. Chao-Yang Kuo (BRCAS)
Ms Chai-Hsia Gan (BRCAS)
Ms Sung-Yin Yang (BRCAS)
Mr. Garmin Hsu (BRCAS)
Lecturers: Dr. Allen Chen (BRCAS/NTU)
Dr. Benny Chan (BRCAS/NTU)
Dr. Sen-Lin Tang (BRCAS/ NTU)
Dr. Yoko Nozawa (BRCAS/NTU)
Dr. Keshavmurthy Shanhank (BRCAS)
Dr. Yu-Wen Chiu (KMU)
Dr. Jih-Tern Wang (TJUST)
Prof. Euichi Hirose (Ryudai)
Dr. James Reimer (Ryudai)
Dr. Takashi Nakamura (Ryudai)
Dr. Katsunori Tachihara (Ryudai)
Prof. Yeong-Cho Kam (THU)
Dr. Chung-Ping Lin (THU)
Numbers of students: 15 (5 Japanese/ 5 NTU, 5 THU)
Qualification: 3rd-and 4th-year undergraduates/1st -2nd MSc students from universities
in Taiwan and Ryudai
Time: September 4- September 13, 2010
The course looks like all outdoor activities, no broad view and general knowledge of
biodiversity. I think general concepts, issues, approaches and methodologies should
be covered. You have so many instructors, but what are they going to teach?.
The Japanese instructors will not participate much this year. They come to see how
the course is run and to get acquaintance with Taiwanese PIs who they are to meet for
the first time. The broad question is that how organisms adapt to a coastal tidal zone?
Would their distribution in the tidal zone reveal to us about their adaptation to the
environment? Would the distribution contribute to the invertebrate diversity in the
coastal zone as represented in the tropical Lyudao? Remind Dr. Li that next year
Rudai will do the reciprocal for Taiwanese students.
Targeted Questions: (1) What is the marine invertebrate diversity in the intertidal
zone of Lyudao?
(2) What are the distributional patterns of biodiversity?
(3) How much diversity has been lost in the intertidal zone
of Lyudao due to overharvesting and tourism impacts?
Methods: (1) lay out transects in intertidal zones of snorkeling areas (Chi-Kuo, ShihLung, DabeiSha), and in non-snorkeling areas (Yotzi-Hu,
Shei-Mei-Zen, and Gong-kwan) to survey the diversity of
marine invertebrates. Voucher specimens are to be
collected and brought back to the lab for taxonomic work
and other analyses.
(2) take photo quadrats and conduct image analyses.
Evaluation: At the end of the course, participating students will asked to write a short
report on the course and their results and also submit their
comments and suggestions. These will be used as
assignments and can be considered for grading in their
respective universities and as part of ecology lectures.
Publication: manuscripts to be submitted to Zoological Studies
Schedule:
Date/time
04/09
05/09
06/09
07/09
08/09
09/09
10/09
11/09
12/09
13/9
Sat
Sun
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thur
Fri
Sat
Sun
Mon
Breakfast
Breakfast
Breakfast
Ryudai group
catch 8:20-9:10
flights to Taitung
Introduction of
Lyudao marine
environment/
biodiversity/
(Keshavmurthy
Shashank)
Zoanthid ecology
& diversity
(James Reimer)
Fish Ecology
(Katsunori
Tachihara)
traveling
Marine
invertebrate
phylogeny/
systematics
(Euichi Hirose)
Intertidal
Ecology (Benny
Chan)
9:40-9:50
Coffee & tea
break
9:50-10:40
10:40-11:30
Breakfast
Breakfast
Breakfast
To Leinhuachi
about 2hrs.
Lecture for
Special talk by
Ryudai Professor
Lecture for
Special talk by
Ryudai Professor
Molluscan
diversity (YuWen Chiu)
To Leinhuachi
about 2hrs.
Lecture for
Spider Biology
by Professor Tso
I-Min
Data analysis
Coffee & tea
break
Coffee & tea
break
Coffee & tea
break
Coffee & tea
break
Coffee & tea
break
traveling
Corals and coral
reef ecology
(Yoko Nozawa)
Coral bleaching
& symbiosis (JihTerng Wang)
“Ignore” marine
invertebrates
(Euichi
Hirose/Benny
Chan)
Lecture for
Introduction
Leinhuachi
9:50-11:30 Field
Work for spider
ecology
Data analysis
11:30-12:20 Ferry
to Lyudao
Coral reef
ecophysiology
(Takashi
Nakamura)
Coral-associated
microbial
diversity (SenLin Tang)
Kuroshio
Triangle and
climate change
(Allen Chen)
Lecture for Plant
Ecology by Dr.
Lin Yi-Ching
9:50-12:00 Field
Work for spider
ecology
10:40-12:00
Student Report
Field work
preparation
Field work
preparation
Field work
preparation
Field work
preparation
Lunch break
Lunch break
Lunch break
Lunch break
Lunch break
Lunch break
7:00-8:00
8:00-8:50
NTU/THU
students traveling
to Taitung
8:50-9:40
11:30-11:50
11:50-13:30
Ferry to Lyudao
Leave for Taitung
traveling
10:30-11:20 Ferry
Lyudao-Taitung
traveling
Ryudai group/
Departure back to
Okinawa
13:30-17:30
Ryudai group
arrives at Taipei
17:30-19:30
NTU/THU
students stay in
Lyudao
19:30-20:30
Ryudai group
stay in Academia
Sinica Hotel
Arrive at Lyudao
by evening
13:30-14:30
Lecture for
Amphibian
Biology by
14:03-19:11 Train to Professor Kam
Taichung
Yeong-Choy;
14:30-14:50 tea
and cofeee break;
14:50-17:30
Field Work
13:30-14:50
Lecture for Insect
Ecology by Dr.
Lin Chung-Ping;
14:50-15:00 Tea
and Coffee
Break; !5:0017:30 Field Work
Sight- seeing
(Sun-Moon Lake)
17:30-19:00
Dinner and
clean-up
17:30-21:00
Clean-up and
Farwell Party or
leaving
Leinhuachi
Field work & lab
sorting
Field work& lab
sorting
Dinner, night
spot, and cleanup
Dinner, night
spot, and cleanup
Cleanup& wrap
up data
Opening remarks
Data analysis (I)
Data analysis
(III)
Farewell BBQ
19:00-21:30
Dinner Welcome
Night Survey and
Party
field work
19:00-21:30
Night Survey and
field work
20:30-21:30
Introduction to
the course
Data analysis (II)
Data analysis
(IV)
Farewell BBQ
(cont.)
Stay at Tunghai
21:30-Free social
University Guest
time, bed
House.
21:30-Free social
time, bed
21:30-
Free social time,
bed
Free social time,
bed
Free social time,
bed
Free social time,
bed
Field work & lab
sorting
Pick up at Taichung
train station (TR)
17:30-19:00
Dinner and
clean-up
Introduction of Lecturers
Allen Chen (PhD, James Cook University, Australia)
Title: Research Fellow
Affiliation: Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia
Oceanography, National Taiwan University
Sinica/
Institute
of
Research area: Coral reef ecology, coral bleaching biology, molecular ecology and
evolution, marine conservation
Research interests: I am an evolutionary biologist interested in corals and coral reef
evolution. I have been taking multiple approaches from basic taxonomy,
ecology, to molecular biology and mitogenomics to address questions
regarding to coral evolution and phylogeny. Lately, I started to work on
symbiotic algae (zooxanthellae) diversity and their relationship to coral
bleaching, particularly their implications for future rising temperature under
the impact of climate change. Introducing genomic approaches on
Taiwanese coral and symbiosis systems to address the questions regarding
to response of coral holobionts to the future climate change will be the focal
research in my lab for the next 5 years.
Euichi Hirose (PhD, University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Title: Professor
Affiliation: Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Marine Science, University of
Ryukyus, Okinawa
Research area: Marine invertebrate morphology and systematics, tunicate biology,
photosymbiosis in marine invertebrates
Research interests: I am basically a microscopist. I wish to know various ways of
life in marine invertebrate, in particular tunicates, and their evolutionary
history. Recent interests are morphological processes of trans-generational
transmission of algal symbionts and functional diversity of integumentary
tissues/cells.
James Reimer (PhD, Kagoshima University, Japan)
Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Rising Star Program, Transdisciplinary Research Organization on
Subtropical Island Science, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa; Marine
Biodiversity Research Program, Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency
for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka,
Kanagawa
Research area: Marine invertebrate diversity, symbioses, biology, and systematics
(in particular zoanthids, other cnidarians, Symbiodinium).
Research interests: Molecular phylogeny and evolutionary history of zoanthids and
other cnidarians. Recently I have been interested in re-examining
morphological diagnostic characteristics critically. In order to understand
the entire holobiont biology of zoanthids, I have also done some work on
Symbiodinium diversity within zoanthid hosts, and am aiming for a
comprehensive global phylogeny of hosts and symbionts in the future.
Benny Chan (PhD, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Title: Assistant Research Fellow
Affiliation: Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica/Institute of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University
Research
area: intertidal
phylogeography
ecology,
barnacle
diversity,
biogeography
and
Research interests: I am a intertidal ecologist with research interests in the effect of
oceanographic current, larval supply, settlement and post-settlement
mortality on the geographical and regional distribution of marine
organisms. My research uses the common rocky shore barnacle Tetraclita
spp. as a model to test hypothesis regards on the distribution pattern of
intertidal organisms. My recent studies focus on the effect of latitudinal
gradient on the distribution pattern of intertidal assemblages in the Asia
region. I have sampled Tetraclita spp. along the latitudinal gradient from
Japan, Taiwan, Okinawa, Xiamen and Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia,
Singapore and India. I will involve molecular and morphological analysis
on these geographical populations to see if there are any cryptic species
complex and how those species distribution relates to the geological history
and oceanographic pattern on the Indo-Pacific waters.
Sen-Lin Tang (PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia)
Title: Assistant Research Fellow
Affiliation: Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia
Oceanography, National Taiwan University
Sinica/
Institute
of
Research area: Microbial diversity, microbial ecology and metagenomics
Research interests: My colleagues and I are working on studies of coral-associated
bacterial community using culture-independent molecular approaches,
including the most updated technique, massively parallel pyrosequencing.
We have been surveying the coral-associated bacterial communities at Lu-
Dao, Keng-Ting and Ye-Liu in Taiwan recent years. Bacterial associates
known closely interact with corals in terms of nutrient level, disease and
health; however, these interactions mostly remain unclear. We are therefore
particularly focusing on the roles of coral-associated bacteria in the coral
holobiont under the impact of environmental change.
Yoko Nozawa (PhD, Kyushu University, Japan)
Title: Assistant Research Fellow
Affiliation: Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica
Research area: Reef coral ecology, marine invertebrate ecology
Research interests: My primary research interests are reproduction and recruitment
processes of reef coral species. I’ve been focused on these early life history
stages to understand the population and community dynamics of reef coral
species. My recent researches include the population dynamics of the blacksponge Terpios hoshinota that is moderately outbreaking now in the Gulf.
Keshavmurthy Shahank (PhD, Kochi University, Japan)
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
Affiliation: Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica
Research area: Physiology and molecular biology of algal-coral symbiosis
Research interests: I am interested in reviewing the coral-zooxanthellae mutualistic
symbiosis to understand the role-played together or separately in
adaptation, acclimatization or acclimation to the changing climate by
making use of physiological and molecular techiniques.
Jih-Terng Wang (PhD, University of York, UK)
Title: Assistant Professor
Research area: symbiotic interactions, coral bleaching biology
Research interests: The interest of my research is to explore the mechanism of
interactions between cnidarian host and its symbiotic algae, Symbiodinium.
My approaches include using C-14 tracer to study the host control of
photosynthate release from the symbiotic algae, using diving-PAM to
examine host effects on the photosynthetic capability of the algae, using
biochemical indices to evaluate the coral and sea anemone bleaching.
Yu-Wen Chiu (PhD, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology,
Kaohsiung Medical University.
Research area: Freshwater Mollusca, intertidal Mollusca, morphology, ecology,
phylogeography, phylogeny, and systematic.
Research Interests:
1. Freshwater ecology: restoration ecology of wetland
2. Marine biology and ecology: intertidal ecology and coral reef
3. The biology of invasive Mollusca: Pomacea canaliculata, Mytilopsis
sallei
Budget estimate: Marine course in Lyudao
Total Budget Estimate：NTD 206,061
Budget for 1 Ryudai student
Items
9/4 accomodation in Sinica
Flight (Taipei to Taitung)
Ferry to Lyudao (round-trip)
9/5~9/8 accommodations in Lyudao
9/6~9/8 meals in Lyudao
rental gears
boat diving*2 times
9/9 Train ticket (Taitung-Taichung)
9/13 Bus ticket (Taichung-Taoyuan airport)
insurance *10 days
one Ryudai student:
Total five Ryudai students
Price
700
2200
920
2800
1500
1000
3000
641
220
675
13,656
68,280
Budget for Lectures and teaching assistances
Lectures (BRCAS’s PI *4+ Dr. Wang and Dr. Chiu):
Items
Lectures fee (Dr. Wang and Dr. Chiu)
Dr. Wang and Dr. Chiu transportation fee
9/5 four PIs Taipei to Taitung flight
Ferry to Lyudao (round-trip)
Six lectures field trip Per diem
Insurance
Teaching assistances *5 + remainder：
Items
9/5 two assistances Taipei to Taitung flight
9/3~9/9 gasoline for Vehicle (round trip)
Ferry to Lyudao (round-trip)
9/9 two assistances Taitung- Taichung train tickets
9/9 two assistance Taichung- Nankang train tickets
Six assistances field trip Per diem
Boat diving
Insurance(lectures +teaching assistances)
Tour bus for transport
amount
2000 * 2 persons
4000*2 persons
2200*4 persons
920*6 persons
1350*6 *5 days
353*6 persons
Total
Sum
4000
8000
8800
5520
40500
2118
68,938
amount
2200 *2 persons
3000
920 *5 persons
641*2 persons
398 *2 persons
1200*5 persons*5days
1500*5persons*2times
353*5 persons
2000*4
Total
Sum
4400
3000
4600
1282
796
30000
15000
1765
8000
68,843
Funding come from:
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
National Taiwan University
TungHai University
Budget Divide：
Institute
Budget
Items
BRCAS
NTD 68,843
Teaching assistances and remainder expenses
National Taiwan University
NTD 68,280
Five Ryudai students expenses
Tunghai University
NTD 68,938
Budget for Lectures expenses