A researcher collecting specimens from the coral reef in Nikko Bay

An unmanned remote-operated vehicle, called Nereus, waits aboard the ship until its next dive. Engineers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts built Nereus to withstand the extreme pressures of deep-sea trenches. Learn more about Nereus. Photo by Béatrice Lecroq.

Some foraminifera form calcium shells that look like small stars. This is a common shallow water species that appears on some beaches on the islands of Okinawa in Japan. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Creative Commons.

The first and second authors, Dr. Toshiaki Mochizuki (left) and Dr. Shohei Suzuki (right) standing next to a PC displaying the fluorescent image, which was used to study the zebrafish lens epithelium. 

Hinako Takahashi, Parliamentary Vice-Minister of the Environment, learns about Professor Nori Satoh’s research at OIST.

(From Left to Right) Professors Christopher Wood, David Siegel and Louis Legender, took the opportunity to confer with each other about their respective research within the field of Marine Science.