Happy New Year, and a new paper!

2011 looks to be a great year for MISE. We hope you all have a wonderful year, and enjoy your field work.

Also, one new paper accepted at Marine Biology today:
James Davis Reimer, Mamiko Hirose, Yuka Irei, Masami Obuchi, Frederic Sinniger. The sands of time: Rediscovery of the genus Neozoanthus (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia) and evolutionary aspects of sand encrustation in brachycnemic zoanthids. Marine Biology (accepted).

new paper!

We had a new paper on spawning in Palythoa accepted - congratulations to Mamiko for her hard work!

Mamiko Hirose, Masami Obuchi, Euichi Hirose, James Davis Reimer. Timing of spawning and early development of Palythoa tuberculosa (Anthozoa, Zoantharia, Sphenopidae) in Okinawa, Japan. Biological Bulletin (accepted).

12/9 lab meeting

1. Nasu Satoko(3th student) will become lab. member from next week. (for a month)
2. When you notice that Rising star billding room's smell is bad, please tell it Jaime or Obuchi-san.
3. Now, we don't have a parking lot for Rising star billding.
4. Next week Mondey, Jamie will go to OIST at Uruma city.
                  Tuesday, Jaime, Kris and Nate will go diving to Bise. If you want, tell Jaime.
                  Thursday, a man who is German will come to lab.

5. Printer at Rising star buillding
    1th floor May be buy it...
    2th floor the memory is full now...
   Printer at room 354
    This is full work season. If you notice that printer's condition is crazy or paper will be reduced, 
    please tell it.

new paper!

Another paper of ours was accepted today:

James Davis Reimer, Masami Obuchi, Yuka Irei, Takuma Fujii, Yoko Nozawa. Shallow water brachycnemic zoanthids (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia) from Taiwan: a preliminary survey. Zoological Studies (accepted).

11/3 lab. meeting

1. There is a Japan-Taiwan exchange scholarship available for Japanese students. Please go to http://www.koryu.or.jp/tokyo/ez3_contents.nsf/11/5DCEFF0A34290209492577B40013A0D4?OpenDocument if you are interested.
2. Kris goes to Moorea (French Polynesia) from Saturday.
3. Okuto has reported the Science experiment room air conditioner is broken. Does anyone else have any information? Please tell Jamie so we can get it fixed if needed.
4. Takuma will perhaps be on TV this Friday on NHK (19:30-19:55) - watch and see!
5. There may be construction in our lab in the new building as workers try to find why our room smells so bad.

10/27 lab. meeting

1. Typhoon coming.
2. Other lab. was robbed.
3. A habu appeared in the area of a deparetment of agriculture.
4. ATM (Kaihou and Ryuukyuu bank) in our Univ. will be closed 11/10-11/30.
5. Don't park your car beside Rising star building.
 

new paper!

Another paper of ours was recently accepted:

James Davis Reimer, Sohta A. Ishikawa, Mamiko Hirose. New records and molecular characterization of Acrozoanthus (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Zoanthidae) from Taiwan. Marine Biodiversity (accepted).