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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