| CMarZ Activities |
Information on upcoming meetings and workshops, publications and presentations, and other project activities.
- Fourth International Zooplankton Production Symposium,
Hiroshima, Japan.
28 May - 1 June 2007. |
- Steering Group Meeting, Tokyo, Japan,
6-8 November 2006. |
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- Scientific Committee on Ocean
Research Plymouth, UK,
19-20 May 2006. |
- AGU Ocean
Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-24 Feb.
2006.  Various Census presentations were made at this meeting. More information is available at http://www.agu.org/meetings/os06/.
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- Symposium on National Biodiversity and Ecosystem Information Infrastructure : Challenges and Potentials, Pune, India, January 2006. "Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) - A Global Biodiversity Project"
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- 2nd CoML All Program Meeting, Frankfurt,
Germany, 4-5 November 2005
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- Dynamic Planet 2005, Cairns, Australia, 22-26 August 2005. The 2005 IAG/IAPSO/IABO Joint Assembly will offer a scientific program encompassing the most recent advances in geodesy, oceanography and marine biology. The dynamic nature of our planet naturally creates interactions of life within the oceans, the oceans themselves and the continents and many of the symposium sessions cover interdisciplinary themes. A total of 26 sessions are being planned, including one dedicated to the CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE. In addition, more focussed sessions will include one on PELAGIC BIOGEOGRAPHY. For more information see http://www.dynamicplanet2005.com/.
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- Planning Meeting for the Census of Marine Zooplankton, Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, USA, 17 - 22 March 2004 
The initial planning meeting of the Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) to work toward a taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world ocean. The project goal is to produce accurate and complete information on zooplankton species diversity, biomass, biogeographical distribution, genetic diversity, and community structure by 2010. Researchers from 11 countries joined to discuss this initiative. Full report. |
symposium by SCOR Working Group 115 on 
CMarZ taxonomic workshops address the need for taxonomic expertise
for the 15 phyla of animals occurring in the plankton.
CMarZ prepares graduate students, providing training in species
identifications, including molecular systematic approaches to understanding
species diversity.
"Training Course on Methods of Zooplankton Ecology and Identification" held at the
Marine Science Research Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia in
Port Dickson, Malaysia during
November 20-25, 2006. The course aimed at providing graduate students and research scientists in Southeast Asian countries with comprehensive knowledge on the biology, ecology, and taxonomy of marine zooplankton and methods dealing with these subjects, with emphasis on the practical aspects of sample analysis and species identification. Organized by Fatimah Md. Yusoff (UPM), Shuhei Nishida (Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo: ORI), Makoto Terazaki (ORI), and Keiichi Matsuura (National Science Museum, Tokyo) and sponsored by UPM, Vice Chancellors’ Committee of National Universities of Malaysia (VCC), and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS: Multilateral Project-Coastal Marine Science). [CMarZ contact: Shuhei Nishida]
A
workshop on "Biogeographic Information System for Indian Ocean" under the auspices of IndOBIS was held at
National Institute of Oceanography, Regional Centre, Kochi - 682018 from September 25 - 26, 2006.
IndOBIS, The Indian Ocean Biogeographic Information System (IndOBIS) is one of the seven regional nodes established by the OBIS(Information component of CoML). IndOBIS is responsible for the collection, collation and dissemination of data and information about the biodiversity in the Indian Ocean region through its portal
http://www.indobis.org. As a member of
the Steering Group for CMarZ,
Vijayalakshmi R. Nair was invited to make a presentation. On 25th September
she presented the objective, responsibilities and achievements of CMarZ to the participants of the workshop. [CMarZ contact: Vijayalakshmi Nair]
 Presentation by Vijayalakshmi |
 IndOBIS workshop participants |
6th Workshop of the Hydrozoan Society,
Plymouth, England (18-30 June 2007) [CMarZ contact: Francesc Pagès]
Training Course in Species
Identification of Zooplankton:
A course is planned for late 2006 - early 2007 to take place at the University of Namibia, Windhoek, southern Africa.
The goal is to address the
immediate and critical needs for zooplankton taxonomy experts in the region
of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa.
[CMarZ contact: Hans Verheye]
IMER-JSPS
Training Course on Zooplankton Ecology and Identification, Haiphong City, Vietnam
(~Nov. 2006) [CMarZ contact:
Shuhei Nishida]
Zooplankton Taxonomic Workshop, Plymouth, UK (20 - 23 June,
2006). The ICES Crustacean Zooplankton Taxonomic workshop will be hosted Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS) under the auspices of MARBEF. The aims of the workshop are to improve and calibrate the present taxonomic knowledge among scientists working on zooplankton in the North Atlantic and European shelf seas.
The four day program will include both theory and practical sessions on Crustacean zooplankton such as Decapoda and Copepoda, and will introduce delegates to new methods of identification such as
confocal microscopy and genetic analysis.
[CMarZ contact: Chris Reid]
DNA Barcoding Workshop for CoML, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
(15 - 17 May,
2006).
The primary objective of the workshop was to coordinate
DNA barcoding efforts that are already ongoing as part of CoML
projects. The ultimate goal of a CoML barcoding initiative will be to establish a public
archive of DNA barcodes linked to voucher specimens (or voucher DNA)
for the species of marine life that are being identified or newly
described, counted, and analyzed as part of the global CoML effort. [CMarZ contact:
Annelies Pierrot-Bults]
Workshop
at Sea on Zooplankton and DNA sequencing (10 - 30 April, 2006).
Aboard the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown in the Sargasso Sea. Lectures,
demonstrations, and one-on-one training focused on morphological and
molecular taxonomic analysis. Seminars
were held on a variety
of topics including the taxonomy of tintinnids, ostracods, the copepod genus
Clausocalanus, deep-sea shrimps, larvaceans, and pelagic fish, and
methods for DNA sequencing and using silhouette photography to count and
measure zooplankton catches. [CMarZ contact: Peter Wiebe]
Workshops
in Kochi, India: At the Regional Centre of National Institute of
Oceanography, Kochi. Facilities were provided by the NIO. An
orientation course in zooplankton group level identification (April 2006) and a training in copepod identification for Ph.D students (April
- May 2006) [CMarZ contact:
Vijaya Nair]
High
school student teaching cruise (Jan. 2006). The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
provided a high school student cruise on the traditional sailing ship "Roald Amundsen” to the Atlantic seamounts "Ampere" and "Seine"
with teaching of zooplankton taxa and sampling methods. [CMarZ contact: Sigi
Schiel]
Training Course on Methods of Zooplankton Ecology and Identification: Institute of Marine Environment and Resources, Haiphong, Vietnam
(November 14-21, 2005). As a part of a co-operative project of the Census of Marine Zooplankton
(CMarZ), the course aimed at providing graduate students and research scientists in Southeast Asian countries with comprehensive knowledge on the biology, ecology, and taxonomy of marine zooplankton and methods dealing with these subjects, with emphasis on the practical aspects of sample analysis and species identification. The
course was organized by Thi Thu Nguyen (IMER), Shuhei Nishida (University of Tokyo: UT), Makoto Terazaki (UT), and Keiichi Matsuura (National Science Museum, Tokyo) and sponsored by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS: Multilateral Project-Coastal Oceanography [MPCO]) and IMER. [CMarZ contact:
Shuhei Nishida]
Taxonomic Identification of Crustacea: Training workshop at the
Division of Crustacea,
Taxonomic Identification of Copepods:
(June/July, 2005) An in-house training program
for pre-doctoral research fellows was conducted at Regional Centre of
National Institute of Oceanography, Kochi, Kerala, India. Expenses
were met by NIO, Goa, India. [CMarZ contact: Vijayalakshmi Nair]
SPICE
(Science for the Protection of Indonesian Coastal Marine Ecosystems): (Sept. 2005)
hands-on workshop for students aimed to train students in tropical marine ecology with international teaching standard. The subjects included concepts and theory, research methods, and field work.
[CMarZ contact: Sigi
Schiel]At-Sea Training Course in Zooplankton
Identification, Monterey Bay, NE Pacific (Spring 2005) [CMarZ contact: Erik Thuessen & Steve Haddock]
Training Course on Methods of Zooplankton Ecology and Identification:
This workshop was held at the University of the Philippines, Los Baños,
during December 2004. The course aimed at providing graduate students
and research scientists in Southeast Asian countries with comprehensive
knowledge on the biology, ecology, and taxonomy of marine zooplankton and
methods dealing with these subjects, with emphasis on the practical aspects
of sample analysis and species identification. [CMarZ contact: Shuhei
Nishida]
