The Ninth Symposium on Polar Science (4 – 7 December 2018)

Oral sessionPoster session

[OB] Polar Biology

Scopes

This session covers the following research topics.
▪Polar Marine Ecosystems -from biogeochemistry to apex predators
▪Polar Terrestrial Ecosystem -diversity and biological response

Convener : Yukiko Tanabe (NIPR)
Note: [I] represents an invited talk.

Oral presentations (9:55 – 11:50, 12:50 – 16:30)

Date : Wed. 5 Dec.
Place : 2F Auditorium, National Institute of Polar Research

9:55 - 10:00 OPENING
Chair: Nobuo Kokubun (NIPR), Yuuki Watanabe (NIPR)
10:00 - 10:30 [I] Ecology of the Arctic Tern, a bird linking Arctic and Antarctic *Maarten Loonen (University of Groningen, Arctic Centre)
10:30 - 10:55 Sea ice loss and Arctic planktivorous seabird’s post-breeding migration *Alexis Will (NIPR), Jean-Baptiste Thiebot (NIPR), Akinori Takahashi (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Alexander Kitaysky (UAF)
10:55 - 11:25 [I] Weddell seals and shelf ice-associated cryobenthos *Horst Bornemann (Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung), Dominik Nachtsheim (Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung), Nils Owsianowski (Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung), Richard Steinmetz (Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung), Claudio Richter (Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung), Christoph Held (Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung)
11:25 - 11:50

Feeding behaviour of Weddell seals on Antarctic krill near Syowa Station, East Antarctica

*Nobuo Kokubun (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Yukiko Tanabe (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Akinori Takahashi (NIPR, SOKENDAI)

Lunch
Chair: Yukiko Tanabe (NIPR)
12:50 - 13:20 [I] How geese shape arctic ecosystems *Maarten Loonen (University of Groningen, Arctic Centre)
13:20 - 13:45 Passive warming experiment on nitrification properties of soils in the foreland of East Brøgger Glacier near Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard *Kentaro Hayashi (Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO), Yukiko Tanabe (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Keisuke Ono (NIAES/NARO), Maki Asano (University of Tsukuba), Shohei Hattori (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Masaki Uchida (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Masahito Hayatsu (NIAES/NARO)
13:45 - 14:10 Preliminaly report of lake sediment investigation in Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica by JARE58/59 *Kota Katsuki (Shimane University), Yusuke Suganuma (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Yukiko Tanabe (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Daisuke Shibata (University of Tsukuba), Moto Kawamata (SOKENDAI), Koji Seto (Shimane University), Toshiaki Irizuki (Shimane University), Hiroaki Shakutsui (Shimane University), Kaoru Kashima (Kyushu University), Minoru Ikehara (Kochi University), Sakae Kudoh (NIPR, SOKENDAI)
14:10 - 14:35 Characterization of dissolved organic matter in the Yukidori and Yatsude Valleys, Antarctica *Taichi Kojima (Kobe University), Morimaru Kida (Kobe University), Yukiko Tanabe (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Kentaro Hayashi (Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciencesn NARO), Sakae Kudoh (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Nobuhide Fujitake (Kobe University)
14:35 - 14:40 Coffee Break
Chair: Kunio Takahashi (NIPR)
14:40 - 15:05

Warming as driver of beach metabolism in Antarctic sedimentary shores. A case study in Deception Island, Antarctic Peninsula

*Mariano Lastra (Universidad de Vigo, Spain), Jesús López (Universidad de Vigo), Jesús S. Troncoso (Universidad de Vigo), Luis Sampedro (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain), Manuel A. García-Gallego (Universidad de Vigo)
15:05 - 15:30

Freezing and melting stress on the photophysiology of ice algae: Ex situ incubation of ice algae using an ice tank

*Kazuhiro Yoshida (Hokkaido University), Andreas Seger (South Australian Research and Development Institute), Andrew McMinn (University of Tasmania), Koji Suzuki (Hokkaido University)
15:30 - 15:55 Phytoplankton composition in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean during austral summer of 2013 and 2015: In-situ and Remote sensing approach *Rajani Kanta Mishra (National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, India), Ravidas Krishna Naik (NCAOR), Babula Jena (NCAOR), Vankara Venkataramana (NCAOR), Narayana Pillai Anilkumar (NCAOR), Amit Sarkar (NCAOR), Melena A. Soares (NCAOR)
15:55 - 16:20

Possibilities of GGOI in the Ecuadorian waters affecting by the Humboldt Current derived from the Antarctic Ocean

*Mikio Naganobu (JICA / Instituto Nacional de Pesca, Ecuador), Telmo De la Cuadra (Instituto Nacional de Pesca), Mario Hurtado Dominguez (Instituto Nacional de Pesca), Alvaro Romero (Instituto Nacional de Pesca), Masafumi Yagi (Tokai University), Kunio Kutsuwada (Tokai University)
16:20 - 16:30 Coffee Break

Poster presentations (Core time: 16:30 - 18:30)

Place : Entrance Hall (1st floor) at National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR)

OBp1 Near-surface foraging of Rhinoceros auklets as revealed by depth and video data loggers *Mindaugas Mitkus (NIPR), Kozue Shiomi (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Akinori Takahashi (NIPR, SOKENDAI)
OBp2

Post-release behavior, physiological stress, and survival rates of longline-caught Greenland sharks

*Yuuki Watanabe (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Amanda Barkley (University of Windsor), Nigel Hussey (University of Windsor)
OBp3 Diving activity of Rhinoceros auklets during molt and winter periods *Ui Shimabukuro (SOKENDAI), Akinori Takahashi (NIPR, SOKENDAI)
OBp4 Are foraging areas of Adélie penguins affected by neighboring colonies? *Kentaro Ito (SOKENDAI), Yuuki Y. Watanabe (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Nobuo Kokubun (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Akinori Takahashi (NIPR, SOKENDAI)
OBp5 Foraging behaviour and prey selection in Adélie and chinstrap penguins at Signy Island, South Orkneys *Jean Baptiste Thiebot (NIPR), Philip N. Trathan (British Antarctic Survey), Akinori Takahashi (NIPR, SOKENDAI)
OBp6 Foraging movements of Caspian terns Hydroprogne caspia breeding in a coastal area of Sweden *Kozue Shiomi (NIPR, Lund University, SOKENDAI), Tom Evans (Marine Scotland Science), Ulrik Lötberg (Swedish Ornithological Society), Willem Bouten (University of Amsterdam), Susanne Åkesson (Lund University)
OBp7 Tardigrade diversity around Syowa Station, Dronning Maud Land in East Antarctica

*Megumu Tsujimoto (NIPR), Atsushi C. Suzuki (Keio University), Ryosuke Nakai (AIST), Satoshi Imura (NIPR, SOKENDAI)

OBp8 A comparison on internal structures of a leaf in Dryas octopetala between populations growing in the Arctic and mid-latitude alpine II *Naoya Wada (University of Toyama), Moeka Murai (University of Toyama), Akane Shima (University of Toyama), Daisuke Tamaoki (University of Toyama), Ichirou Karahara (University of Toyama), Seikoh Sekikawa (Tamagawa University), Elisabeth J. Cooper (UiT- The Arctic University of Norway), Masaki Uchida (NIPR, SOKENDAI)
OBp9 An Antarctic terrestrial green alga, Prasiola crispa, has an unique red-shifted chlorophyll binding protein which permits large uphill energy transfer *Makiko Kosugi (Chuo University), Shin-ichiro Ozawa (Okayama University), Rika Okamoto (Chuo University), Yurie Kubo (Chuo University), Mitsuo Iwadate (Chuo University), Yasuhiro Kamei (National Institute for Basic Biology), Sakae Kudoh (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Yasuhiro Kashino (University of Hyogo), Yuichiro Takahashi (Okayama University), Shigeru Itoh (Nagoya University), Kojiro Hara (Akita Prefectural University), Hiroyuki Koike (Chuo University)
OBp10 Comparison of analytical methods for RGB data of photographs for vegitation survey of terrestiral ecosystems on Antarctica

*Akiko Mizuno (Nagoya University), Takeshi Inoue (NIPR), Yukiko Tanabe (NIPR, SOKENDAI)

OBp11

Photosynthetic activity of microbes in cryoconite on the Issunguata Sermia Glacier, south-eastern Greenland Ice Sheet

*Ayumi Kizawa (Chiba university, Tokyo Metoropolitan University), Naoko Nagatsuka (NIPR), Rigen Shimada (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Meteorological Research Institute), Makiko Kosugi (Chuo University), Megumi Kuroiwa (Chuo University), Naoto Tanaka (Chuo University), Takumi Suzuki (Chiba university), Shinichi Takaichi (Tokyo University of Agreculture), Jun Uetake (Colorado State University), Shigeki Ehira ( Tokyo Metoropolitan University), Nozomu Takeuchi (Chiba university)
OBp12

Analysis of gene expression of aquaporins inducing stress tolerant in the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica

*Mizuki Yoshida (Osaka City University)
OBp13

Study on habitat mapping of benthos ecosystem in Antarctic lake using underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)

*Shinpei Gotoh (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology), Yukiko Tanabe (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Daisuke Shibata (University of Tsukuba), Kota Katsuki (Shimane University), Rachel Rudd (The University of Adelaide), Sakae Kudoh (NIPR, SOKENDAI)
OBp14

Triple oxygen and nitrogen isotopic constrains on the fate of nitrate in East and West Brøgger Glacier near Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard

*Shohei Hattori (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Kentaro Hayashi ( Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO), Masaki Uchida (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Naohiro Yoshida (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
OBp15

Taxonomic and functional diversity of fungi associated with mosses and planktonic algae in continental Antarctica

*Takumi Yoshida (Doshisha University), Seri Matsuzuka (Kyoto University), Yukiko Tanabe (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Masaki Uchida (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Sakae Kudoh (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Takashi Osono (Doshisha University)
OBp16

Fungal diversity on a retreating glacier area on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic

*Masaharu Tsuji (NIPR), Yukiko Tanabe (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Warwick F. Vincent (Université Laval), Masaki Uchida (NIPR, SOKENDAI)

OBp17 Soil bacterial communities and environments in the Canadian subarctic tundra *Ryo Kaneko (NIPR), Ryo Kiatagawa (Yokohama National University), Keita Nishizawa (Yokohama National University), Shota Masumoto (Yokohama National University), Akira Mori (Yokohama National University), Jun Uetake (Colorado State University), Masaharu Tsuji (NIPR), Masaki Uchida (NIPR, SOKENDAI)
OBp18 Seasonal water dynamics in Ward Hunt Lake at the top of the Canadian high Arctic *Yukiko Tanabe (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Paschale N. Bégin (Université Laval), Denis Sarrazin (Université Laval), Alexander Culley (Université Laval), Masaki Uchida (NIPR, SOKENDAI) , Warwick F. Vincent (Université Laval)
OBp19 Seasonal change of photosynthesis of benthic communities in Antarctic lakes *Yukiko Tanabe (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Nobuo Kokubun (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Kentaro Hayashi (Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO), Nobuhide Fujitake (Kobe University), Morimaru Kida (Kobe University), Sakae Kudoh (NIPR, SOKENDAI)
OBp20 Seasonal change of CO2 concentration in soil laters throughout the year on Svalbard, high-Arctic Norway - model construction and first evaluation - *Masaki Uchida (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Seiichiro Yonemura (Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO), Ayaka W. Kishimoto-Mo (Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO), Gen Sakurai (Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO), Julia Boike (Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholz Center for Polar and Marine Research)
OBp21 Assessment of fungal diversity on plant litter in a subarctic tundra *Takashi Osono (Doshisha University), Kaho Tanaka (Doshisha University), Shunsuke Matsuoka (University of Hyogo), Ryo Kitagawa (Yokohama National University), Shota Masumoto (Yokohama National University), Keita Nishizawa (Yokohama National University), Motohiro Hasegawa (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute), Masaki Uchida (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Akira S. Mori (Yokohama National University)
OBp22 Cultured anaerobic bacteria in a tropical glacier and the glacier foreland in Uganda *Tadahiro Inoue (Tamagawa University), Jun Uetake (Colorado State University), Simon Anguma (Mbarara University of Science and Technology), Shiro Kohshima (Kyoto University), Yoshitaka Yoshimura (Tamagawa University)
OBp23 Distribution and ecology of Oomycetes in polar regions *Motoaki Tojo (Osaka Prefecture University)
OBp24

Analysis of bacterial microbiota associated with genus Umbilicaria lichen by Illumina MiSeq and Sanger sequencing methods

*Merry Faluaburu (Hiroshima University), Katsuhiko Kashihara (Hiroshima University), Ayaka Ohsato (Hiroshima University), Jun Uetake (NIPR), Satoshi Imura (NIPR), Martin Hahn (University of Innsbruck), Takeshi Naganuma (Hiroshima University)
OBp25

Vegetation survey of high Arctic lichens on Austre Brøggerbreen glacier foreland, Svalbard archipelago in 1994

*Takeshi Inoue (NIPR), Sakae Kudoh (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Masaki Uchida (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Masakane Inoue (Akita University), Ryo Kaneko (NIPR), Hiroshi Kanda (NIPR)
OBp26 Phylogenetic diversity of labyrinthulomycetes in Antarctic freshwater lakes *Ryosuke Nakai (AIST), Yuiki Takahashi (University of Tsukuba), Masaki Yoshida (University of Tsukuba), Megumu Tsujimoto (NIPR), Atsushi C. Suzuki (Keio University), Sakae Kudoh (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Satoshi Imura (NIPR, SOKENDAI)
OBp27 Bipolar distribution and dispersal pattern of snow algae *Takahiro Segawa (University of Yamanashi), Ryo Matsuzaki (National Institute for Environmental Studies), Nozomu Takeuchi (Chiba University), Ayumi Akiyoshi (NIPR), Francisco Navarro (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid), Hiroshi Mori (National Institute of Genetics)
OBp28 Comparison of biosurfactants produced by the Antarctic hydrocarbon-degrading Pseudomonas sp. ADL15 and Rhodococcus sp. ADL36 and their characterization *Nur Adeela Yasid (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Siti Aqlima Ahmad (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Nurul Hani Saruni (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Nur Syafiqah Abd Razak (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Mohd Yunus Abd Shukor (Universiti Putra Malaysia)
OBp29

Characterization of Molybdenum-reduction by an Acrylamide-degrading Antarctic Bacterium

*Mohd Fadhil Abd Rahman (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Nur Adeela Yasid (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Siti Aqlima Ahmad (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Nor Aripin Shamaan (Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia), Mohd Yunus Shukor (Universiti Putra Malaysia)
OBp30 Mathematical modelling of the growth of an Antarctic bacterium Rhodococcus sp. strain ADL36 on palm oil Maryam Abubakar (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Siti Aqlima Ahmad (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Nur Adeela Yasid (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Mohd Fadhil Abd Rahman (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Siti Aisyah Alias (Universiti Malaya), Mohd Ali Hassan (Universiti Putra Malaysia), *Mohd Yunus Abd Shukor (Universiti Putra Malaysia)
OBp31

Potential diesel and phenol biodegradation by the Antarctic bacterium Rhodococcus sp. strain AQ5-07

*Siti Aqlima Ahmad (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Nur Adeela Yasid (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Gillian Li Yin Lee (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Ahmad Fareez Ahmad Roslee (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Nur Nadhirah Zakaria (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Peter Convey (British Antarctic Survey), Mohd Yunus Shukor (Universiti Putra Malaysia)
OBp32 The long-term trends in mean total zooplankton abundance and average copepod community size of the Southern Ocean from the SO-CPR activities of the first 25 years *Kunio T. Takahashi (NIPR / SOKENDAI), John A. Kitchener (Australian Antarctic Division), Karen V. Robinson (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd.), Graham W. Hosie (Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science), SO-CPR Survey Team
OBp33 Research plan and prior examination for analyzing marine snow food web in the marginal sea ice zone of the Southern Ocean *Masayoshi Sano (NIPR), Ryosuke Makabe (NIPR, SOKENDAI), Masato Moteki (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology), Tsuneo Odate (NIPR, SOKENDAI)
OBp34 Capture of the giant Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni (Nototheniidae) in Lützow-Holm Bay (East Antarctica) with notes on the effects of exhibition in aquarium *Satoru Matsumura (Tokyo Sea Life Park), Naoko Ohya (Hadano City, Kanagawa Prefecture), Tetsuo Iwami (Tokyo Kasei Gakuin University), Sakae Kudoh (NIPR, SOKENDAI)
OBp35 Population structure of planktonic Foraminifera near the sea ice edge in January 2016 *Aki Nosaka (University of Marine Science and Technology), Kunio T. Takahashi (NIPR, SOKENDAI) Masato Moteki (University of Marine Science and Technology)
OBp36 Growth rate of larval myctophid fish Electrona antarctica in the Southern Ocean *Satoshi Nirazuka (Tokyo University of Marie Science and Technology), Masato Moteki (Tokyo University of Marie Science and Technology)
OBp37 Genetic differences in spatially and temporally isolated populations: winter and spring populations of pelagic Mollusk Clione (Gymnosomata), Southern Okhotsk Sea, Japan *Tomoyasu Yamazaki (Shellfish Museum of Rankoshi), Takashi Kuwahara (Okhotsk Sea Ice Museum of Hokkaido), Kunio T. Takahashi (NIPR, SOKENDAI)
OBp38 Increased temperature benefits growth and photosynthetic performance of the sea ice diatom Nitzschia cf. neglecta isolated from Lake Saroma, Hokkaido, Japan

*Dong Yan (Hokkaido University), Hisashi Endo (Hokkaido University), Koji Suzuki (Hokkaido University)

OBp39 Intertidal meiobenthos from Deception Island (Antarctica). A place of ice and fire Marcos Rubal (CIIMAR, University of Porto, Portugal), Puri Veiga (CIIMAR, University of Porto), Mariano Lastra (ECIMAT, University of Vigo, Spain), Jesús López (ECIMAT, University of Vigo), *Jesús Troncoso (ECIMAT, University of Vigo)
OBp40

Nutrient cycling and CO2 fluxes linked to algal wrack strandings in beaches of Deception Island, Antarctica

*Jesus López (University of Vigo), Mariano Lastra (University of Vigo), Jesús Souza Troncoso (University of Vigo), Luis Sampedro (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)), Manuel García-Gallego (University of Vigo)