National Institute of Polar Research
The 5th Symposium on Polar Science (2-5 December, 2014)

Ordinary session [OB]
Polar Biology

Oral session

Dec. 2 (Tue.) National Institute of Polar Research, 2F Auditorium

Polar Biology: Marine Ecosystem in the Southern Ocean
Chair: Takahiro Iida (NIPR)
10:00-10:20 International Collaboration in Antarctic research Tony Worby (ACE-CRC)
10:20-11:00 Assessing change in Southern Ocean ecosystems: implementation through the combined activities of the Southern Ocean Observing System and the ICED Southern Ocean Sentinel *Andrew Constable (AAD), Jessica Melbourne-Thomas (AAD)
11:00-11:25 Challenges and innovations in ecosystem modelling for the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean *Jessica Melbourne-Thomas (AAD, ACE-CRC), Andrew Constable (AAD, ACE-CRC), Stuart Corney (ACE-CRC), Michael Sumner (AAD), Elizabeth Fulton (CSIRO)
11:25-11:50 Using satellite reanalysis to simulate interannual variability in recruitment of Patagonian toothfish on the Kerguelen Plateau *Mori Mao (UTAS and ACE-CRC), Corney Stuart P (ACE-CRC), Melbourne-Thomas Jessica (ACE-CRC and AAD), Welsford Dirk C (AAD), Klocker Andreas (UTAS), Ziegler Philippe E (AAD)
11:50-12:15 Integrative Study of the Marine Ecosystem of the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean (A new perspective on the Southern Ocean ecosystem) *Masato Moteki (TUMSAT, NIPR), Tsuneo Odate (NIPR, SOKENDAI)
12:15-13:00 Lunch time
13:00-14:30 Poster Session
14:30-14:55 Differences in plankton diversity between the East Antarctic and Ross Sea regions. *Graham Hosie (SCAR Life Sciences), Karen Robinson (NIWA), Matt Pinkerton (NIWA), Julie Hall (NIWA), Kunio Takahashi (NIPR, SOKENDAI), John Kitchener (AAD)
14:55-15:20 Coherent considerations for DPOI-KDOI-CMOI connecting with AAO on environmental ecosystem in the Southern Ocean *Mikio Naganobu (NRIFSF), Masafumi Yagi (Tokai Univ.), Kunio Kutsuwada (Tokai Univ.)
15:20-15:40 Coffee break (20 min)
Seabirds in the marine ecosystems of the Bering sea and Arctic Ocean
Chair: Akinori Takahashi (NIPR)
15:40-16:20 Seabirds as the sentinels of changing trophic linkages in the Bering Sea Alexander Kitaysky (Univ. Alaska Fairbanks)
16:20-16:45 Interspecific comparison of overwintering behaviour between diving and surface feeding subarctic seabirds *Takashi Yamamoto (NIPR), Nobuo Kokubun (NIPR), Dale M. Kikuchi (SOKENDAI), Nobuhiko Sato (SOKENDAI), Akinori Takahashi (NIPR), Alexander Kataysky (Univ Alaska Fairbanks), Yutaka Watanuki (Hokkaido Univ)
16:45-17:10 Wintering hotpots of short-tailed shearwaters and their prey distribution in the Bering and Arctic Seas *Bungo Nishizawa (Hokkaido university), Kohei Matsuno (NIPR), Takashi Yamamoto (NIPR), Elizabeth Labunski (US Fish and Wildlife Servece), Kathy Kuletz (US Fish and Wildlife Servece), Atsushi Yamaguchi (Hokkaido university), Yutaka Watanuki (Hokkaido university)
17:10-17:35 Thick-billed murres feed on fish associated with jellyfish in the Bering Sea *Nobuhiko Sato (SOKENDAI), Nobuo Kokubun (SOKENDAI, NIPR), Takashi Yamamoto (NIPR, Hokkaido University), Yutaka Watanuki (Hokkaido University), Alexander S. Kitaysky (University of Alaska Fairbanks) & Akinori Takahashi (SOKENDAI, NIPR)
18:00-20:00
OB&IB session party (5th floor lounge)

Oral session

Dec. 3 (Wed.) National Institute of Polar Research, 2F Auditorium

Polar Biology: Terrestrial Biology
Chair: Satoshi Imura (NIPR)
09:30-09:35 Introduction Satoshi Imura (NIPR)
09:35-10:00 The birth of Antarctic Soil Microbiology in the Middle of the 19th century *Manfred Bölter and Hans-Peter Blume (Univ. Kiel)
10:00-10:25 Microorganisms in Antarctica *Takayuki Imanaka and Wakao Funda (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
10:25-10:50 Bacterial diversity and bio-potentials of culturable bacteria associated with different age sediments of Svalbard, Arctic *Purnima Singh (BITS), Shiv Mohan Singh (NCAOR), Alok Srivastava (NBAIM) and Utpal Roy (BITS)
10:50-11:15 Fatty acids of the extremely psychrophilic bacterium Colwellia psychrerythraea strain 34H *Mikako Hashimoto (Hokkaido Univ.), Yoshitake Orikasa (OUAVM), Kiyohito Yoshida (Hokkaido Univ.), Hidenori Hayashi (Ehime Univ.) and Hidetosi Okuyama (Hokkaido Univ.)
11:15-11:40 Antimicrobial Activities of Pseudomonas spp. and Pedobacter sp. from King George Island *Clemente Wong, Tam, Heng Keat (UMS), Marcelo Aravena. Gonzalez (Inst. Antarc. Chile), Gerardo Gonzalez-Rocha, Mariana Domínguez-Yévenes (Univ. Conception)
11:40-12:05 Biosphere of an Antarctic Lake as a Natural Laboratory of Biological Evolutions *Tomoya Baba (ROIS), Takashi Abe (Niigata Univ.), Atsushi Toyoda, Ryosuke Nakai (NIG), Takeshi Naganuma (Hiroshima Univ.), Asao Fujiyama (NIG, NII),
Satoshi Imura, Hiroshi Kanda, Hideaki Motoyama (NIPR) and Hironori Niki (NIG)
12:05-13:00 Lunch

Poster session

Dec. 2 (Tue.) National Institute of Polar Research, 2F Lounge

OBp01 The Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean Claude De Broyer, Philippe Koubbi, Huw Griffiths, Ben Raymond, Cdric d'Udekem d'Acoz, Anton Van de Putte, Bruno Danis, Bruno David, Susie Grant, Julian Gutt, Christoph Held, *Graham Hosie, Falk Huettmann, Alexandra Post, Yan Ropert-Coudert
OBp02 Dynamics of mesoscale eddies in the Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current (SACCF) *Takahiro Iida (NIPR), Tsuneo Odate (NIPR), Kohei Mizobata (TUMSAT), Keishi Shimada (TUMSAT), Makoto Sampei (Hiroshima Univ.), Ryosuke Makabe (Ishinomaki Sensyu Univ.), Hiroshi Sasaki (Ishinomaki Sensyu Univ.)
OBp03 Phytoplankton dynamics in marginal ice zone of the Southern Ocean *Sanae Morimoto (Soka Univ), Takahiro Iida (NIPR), Shozo Motokawa (Soka Univ), Tomoyo Katayama (Soka Univ), Satoru Taguchi (Soka Univ)
OBp04 Distribution patterns of micro- and meso-zooplankton communities *Hiromasa Kamata (TUMSAT), Hisae Sakurai (NIPR), Kunio T. Takahashi (NIPR), Masato Moteki (TUMSAT), Atsushi Tanimura (NIPR), Tsuneo Odate (NIPR)
OBp05 The vertical distribution and abundance of crustacean nauplii *Hajime Izumida (TUMSAT) Hisae Sakurai (NIPR) Kunio T. Takahashi (NIPR) Masato Moteki (TUMSAT), Atsushi Tanimura (NIPR)
OBp06 Distribution patterns of micro- and meso-zooplankton communities in the seasonal ice zone of Lutzow-Holm Bay in austral summer of 2009 *Kunio T. Takahashi (NIPR), Motoha Ojima (SOKENDAI), Atsushi Tanimura (NIPR), Mitsuo Fukuchi (NIPR)
OBp07 Spatial Variability of Foraminiferan Abundance in the Seasonal Ice Zone of the Southern Ocean *Motoha Ojima (SOKENDAI), Kunio T. Takahashi (SOKENDAI, NiPR), Takahiro Iida (SOKENDAI, NiPR), Atsushi Tanimura (SOKENDAI, NiPR), Naho Miyazaki (TUMSAT), Masato Moteki (NiPR, TUMSAT), Tsuneo Odate (SOKENDAI, NiPR)
OBp08 Distribution pattern of Dimophyes arctica (Siphonophora, Calycophorae) in oceanic zone of the Indian Ocean sector, Southern Ocean *Hazuki Watanabe (TUMSAT), Mototha Ojima (SOKENDAI), Kunio T. Takahashi (NIPR), Atsushi Tanimura (NIPR), Takahiro Iida (NIPR), Tsuneo Odate (NIPR), Masato Moteki (TUMSAT)
OBp09 Diel vertical distribution of larval and juvenile Electrona antarctica, an Antarctic myctophid fish, off Adelie Land in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean *Kentaro Fujii (TUMSAT), Kazuo Amakasu (TUMSAT), Atsushi Tanimura (NIPR, SOUKENDAI), Tsuneo Odate (NIPR, SOUKENDAI), Masato Moteki (TUMSAT, NIPR)
OBp10 Taxonomical study on Paraproto (Crustcea: Amphipoda: Phtisicidae) collected from South Shetland Islands, Antarctica *Ichiro Takeuchi (Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University)
OBp11 Marine picoplankton Prochlorococcus shows phototaxis *Takumi Adachi(Hokkaido Univ.), Tadashi Nagamine(Ltd. Rom), Kiyohito Yoshida(Hokkaido Univ.), Masanobu Kawachi(Natl. Inst. Environ. Studies), Hidetoshi Okuyama(Hokkaido Univ.)
OBp12 Species diversity and physiology of Microalgae in Antarctic Sea Ice *Naho Miyazaki (TUMSAT), Haruno Hirano (TUMSAT), Yuta Yamaoka (TUMSAT), Motoha Ojima (SOKENDAI), Takahiro Iida (NIPR,SOKENDAI), Kunio Takahashi (NIPR,SOKENDAI), Atsushi Tanimura (NIPR,SOKENDAI), Tsuneo Odate (NIPR,SOKENDAI), Masato Moteki (TUMSAT)
OBp13 Temporal change in chlorophyll a and marine environment in lagoon Notoro-ko during ice-covered season *Yasuto Nishino, Yoshizumi Nakagawa, Mitsuaki Kitamura (Tokyo University of Agriculture)
OBp14 Accumulation of mycosporine-like aminoacids in the cells of diatom species  in response to the light conditions of Saromako-lagoon in winter *Ryu Wakabayashi, Yoshihiro Suzuki (KU)
OBp15 Seasonal variation in the copepod community structure in coastal area of the northeastern Hokkaido, Japan *Mitsuaki Kitamura, Yoshizumi Nakagawa, Yasuto Nishino, Akihiro Shiomoto (Tokyo University of Agriculture)
OBp16 From individual prey capture to reproductive success: exploring the link between foraging behavior and reproduction in Adelie penguins *Akinori Takahashi, Yuuki Watanabe, Motohiro Ito (NIPR), Hiromichi Mitamura, Takuji Noda (Kyoto Univ.)
OBp17 Spatial and temporal analysis of commuting routes in Adelie penguin *Junichi Takagi (Kyoto univ.), Hiromichi Mitamura (Kyoto univ.), Takuji Noda (Kyoto univ.), Akinori Takahashi (NIPR)
OBp18 Prey encounter rates and foraging effort of female northern elephant seals during oceanic migrations *Kaori Yoshino (SOKENDAI), Taiki Adachi (SOKENDAI), Yasuhiko Naito (NIPR), Patrick Robinson (UCSC), Daniel Costa (UCSC), Akinori Takahashi (SOKENDAI・NIPR)
OBp19 Searching prey in 3D environment: hierarchical foraging behaviour of northern elephant seals *Taiki Adachi (SOKENDAI), Daniel P. Costa (UCSC), Patrick W. Robinson (UCSC), Yasuhiko Naito (NiPR), Akinori Takahashi (SOKENDAI, NiPR)
OBp20 Characteristics of foraging behavior of two congeneric diving seabirds (common and thick-billed murres) in the Bering Sea Nobuo Kokubun (NIPR), Takashi Yamamoto (NIPR) Nobuhiko Sato (SOKENDAI), Yutaka Watanuki (Hokkaido University), Alexander S. Kitaysky (UAF), *Akinori Takahashi (NIPR)
OBp21 Do present foraging success by adult themselves or by pairs affect foraging site selection of European Shag? *Motohiro Ito (NIPR), Kogure Yukihisa (AORI), Sato Katsufumi (AORI), Akinori Takahashi (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Francis Daunt (CEH)
OBp22 Instantaneous acceleration vector in wing-propelled alcid during flight and swimming *Dale M. Kikuchi (NIPR), Takuji Noda (Kyoto Univ.), Yutaka Watanuki (Hokkaido Univ.), Akinori Takahashi (NIPR) and Yuuki Y. Watanabe (NIPR)
OBp23 Ecological significance of endothermic fishes Yuuki Watanabe (NIPR)
OBp24 Spawning behavior of ocellated icefish Chionodraco rastrospinosus (Channichthyhidae) in the Aquarium *Mimori Ryosuke (TSLP) , Nakamura Hiroshi (TSLP) , Tada Satoshi (TSLP) , Iwami Tetsuo (TKGU)
OBp50 Realized thermal performance predicts range limits of fishes Nicholas L. Payne (NIPR, UNSW), James A. Smith (UNSW), Dylan E. van der Meulen (UNSW, NSWDPI), Yuuki Y. Watanabe (NIPR), Akinori Takahashi (NIPR), Teagan A. Marzullo (UNSW), Matthew D. Taylor (NSWDPI), Charles A. Gray (WFR), Gwenael Cadiou (UTS), Iain M. Suthers (UNSW)

Poster session

Dec. 3 (Wed.) National Institute of Polar Research, 2F Lounge

OBp25 Morphological and preliminary molecular characterizations of low temperature Pythium  *Ali Chenari Bouket (Osaka Prefecture University, University of Tabriz), Motoaki Tojo (Osaka Prefecture University), Mahdi Arzanlou (University of Tabriz), Asadollah Babai-Ahari(University of Tabriz)
OBp26 Population changes of moss-inhabiting Pythium at the north side cliff of Japanese Ny-Ålesund observatory, Spitsbergen Island, Norway from 2003 to 2014  Motoaki Tojo (Osaka Prefecture University) , Tamotsu Hoshino (AIST), Hironori Yagi (Osaka Prefecture University), Yuki Kawaguchi (Osaka Prefecture University), Kenichi Kida (Osaka Prefecture University, Present address: Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.), Katsuyuki Tokura (Osaka Prefecture University, Present address: Asahi Industries Co., Ltd.), María L. Herrero (Bioforsk, Norway), Masaki Uchida (NIPR), Satoshi Imura (NIPR)
OBp27 The effect on carbon balance of Salix polaris by tar spot fungi in Ny-Ålesund, Norway *Shota Masumoto (NIPR), Masaki Uchida (NIPR),Motoaki Tojo (Osaka Pref. Univ.), Satoshi Imura (NIPR)
OBp28 Role of environmental selections and dispersal in the composition of fungal communities in continental Antarctica  Takashi Osono (Kyoto Univ.), Dai Hirose (Nihon Univ.), Shunsuke Matsuoka (Kyoto Univ.), Yukiko Tanabe (NIPR), Masaki Uchida (NIPR), Sakae Kudoh (NIPR)
OBp29 Community analysis of protistan microplankton of Antarctic marine relic lake Nurume-Ike Shinichiro Kubo (Soka Univ), Aoi Chaya (Soka Univ), Akinori Kawamata (Ehime Prefectural Science Museum), Makiko Kosugi (NIPR), Satoshi Imura (NIPR), and Norio Kurosawa (Soka Univ)
OBp30 Nematode community structure and vertical distribution in Lake Nurume Hiromi Saito, Kazuki Ando, Hiroshi Hattori (Tokai Univ.), Kunio T. Takahashi, Satoshi Imura (NIPR)
OBp31 Seasonal changes in abundance of tintinnids in Lagoon Notoro-ko, Hokkaido, Japan Yoshizumi Nakagawa (TUA), Kenji Takahashi (TUA), Sho Nakano (TUA), Mitsuaki Kitamura (TUA), Yasuto Nishino (TUA), Akira Taniguchi (Sanyo Techno Marine)
OBp32 Bacterial diversity and community structure in Antarctic freshwater lake Yukidori-Ike revealed by 16S rRNA and AmoA genes Aoi Chaya (Soka Univ), Akinori Kawamata (Ehime Prefectural Science Museum), Satoshi Imura (NIPR), and Norio Kurosawa (Soka Univ)
OBp33 Are long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids distributed in Gram-positive bacteria? Mikako Hashimoto (HU), Hitoshi Nunome (HU), Hidetosi Okuyama (HU), Carla C. C. R. de Carvalho (IBBC), Hiroshi Hanagata (Higeta), Makoto Mizukami (Higeta), Akira Miyauchi (Higeta), Mamiko Sato (JWU), Satoshi Imura (NIPR), Kentaro Watanabe (NIPR), and Kiyohito Yoshida (HU)
OBp34 Phytochemical profiles and antioxidant potential of Arctic plants Shiv Mohan Singh, Purnima Singh & Lisette M. D’Souza. 1National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Vasco-da-Gama,Goa 403804, India, 2Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani-K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, Goa 403726, India    3National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa 403004, India                                
OBp35 Direct sampling and bioanalyses of bioaerosols on Hukuro Cove, Lutzow-Holm Bay, Antarctica *Fumihisa Kobayashi, Yohei Kumamoto, Teruya Maki, Makiko Kakikawa, Maromu Yamada, Atsushi Matsuki (Kanazawa Univ.), Maromu Yamada (JNIOSH), Takeshi Naganuma (Hiroshima Univ.), Yasunobu Iwasaka (Univ.Shiga Pref.)
OBp36 Study of the Bioaerosols on the Yukidori Valley, Langhovde, East Antarctic *Yohei Kumamoto (Kanazawa Univ.), Fumihisa Kobayashi (Kanazawa Univ.), Teruya Maki (Kanazawa Univ.), Marumu Yamada (JNIOSH), Atsushi Matsuki (Kanazawa Univ.), Takeshi Naganuma (Hiroshima Univ.), Yasunobu Iwasaka (Cniv. Shiga Pref.)
OBp37 Taxonomical study of Chaenotheca spp. (Lichenized Ascomycota) in Japan with reference to relationship between fungi and algae. *Yuko Kusama (SOKENDAI), Satoshi Imura (SOKENDAI, NIPR), Kojiro Hara (Akita pref. univ.), Masashi Komine (Akita pref. univ.), Leif Tibell (Uppsala Univ.),amd Yoshikazu Yamamoto (Akita pref. univ.)
OBp38 Lichen-associated bacteria and biogeography *Kashihara Katsuhiko (Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University), Satoshi Imura (NIPR, Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center), Jun Uetake  (NIPR, Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center), Ryosuke Nakai (Genetics Strains Research Center, National Institute of Genetics), Takeshi Naganuma (Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University)
OBp39 Effects of substrate differences on water availability for Arctic lichens during the snow-free summers in the High Arctic glacier foreland *T. Inoue (NIPR) , S. Kudoh (NIPR-SOKENDAI) , M. Uchida (NIPR-SOKENDAI) , Y. Tanabe (NIPR-Waseda Univ.) , M. Inoue (Akita Univ.) , H. Kanda(NIPR)
OBp40 Variations in carbon and nitrogen stable isotope of cryoconite on Greenland Icesheet Sho Nakadachi (Chiba University), Nozomu Takeuchi (NIPR), Naoko Nagatsuka (NIPR)
OBp41 The nitrogen cycle in cryoconites: naturally occurring nitrification-denitrification granules on a glacier *Takahiro Segawa (TRIC, NIPR), Satoshi Ishii (Hokkaido Univ), Hideaki Motoyama (NIPR), Yuichi Hongoh (TIT) and Nozomu Takeuchi (CHIba Univ)
OBp42 Carbon and nitrogen contents in vegetation and soil around Syowa station, Antarctica *Masaki Uchida (NIPR), Yukiko Tanabe (Waseda Univ), Takashi Osono (Kyoto Univ) and Sakae Kudoh (NPR)
OBp43 Photosynthetic responses to ambient CO2 of three dominant species in Ny-Ålesund Seikoh Sekikawa (Tamagawa Univ.), Hiroyuki Muraoka (Gifu Univ.) and Masaki Uchida (NIPR)
OBp44 Photosynthesis of diatom, green algae and cyanobacteria under the high light in the community developed in an Antarctic lake *Tomoko ISHIHARA (University of Hyogo), Sakae KUDOH (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Natsuko INOUE-KASHINO (University of Hyogo),  Yuko FUKUNAGA (University of Hyogo), Atsuo MIYAZAWA (University of Hyogo), Yasuhiro KASHINO (University of Hyogo)
OBp45 A preliminarly ecological research of the community of Marimo at the bottom of lake Akan in Hokkaido - A size dependent hierarchy of the community of Marimo *Mari Ogawa (Yauda Women's Univ.), Yoshihiro Suzuki (Kanagawa Univ.), Isamu Wakana (Lake Akan Eco-musium Center)
OBp46 Reproductive modes of Racomitrium lanuginosum along an altitudinal gradient *Fumino Maruo (SOUKENDAI), Masaki Uchida (NIPR, SOUKENDAI), Satoshi Imura (NIPR, SOUKENDAI)
OBp47 Paleolimnological changes in Lake Maruwanminami-ike of the Soya Kaigan in East Antarctica during the Holocene Genki I. Matsumoto, Eisuke Honda, Keisuke Ito (Otsuma Women's Univ), Koji Seto (Shimane Univ.), Yukinori Tani (Univ.Shizuoka), Ijin Kang, Kaoru Kashima (Kyushu Univ), Shuji Ohtani (Shimane Univ.), Takahiro Watanabe (Tohoku Univ.), Toshio Nakamura (Nagoya Univ.) and Satoshi Imura(NIPR)
OBp48 Reconstruction of paleoenvironmental changes at coastal freshwater lakes along the Soya Coast, Antarctica, using fossil diatom assemblages Ijin Kang (Kyushu Univ.), Kaoru Kashima (Kyushu Univ.), Koji Seto (Shimane Univ.) ,Yukinori Tani (Univ. Shizuoka), Genki I. Matsumoto (Otsuma Women’s Univ.)
OBp49 Mechanisms of nutrients enclosure inside microbial mat in Antarctic oligotrophic lakes by combination approach of observation data and theoretical study Akiko Mizuno (Nagoya Univ.), Yukiko Tanabe (Waseda Univ./NIPR)