News

March 19, 2025
Kass, Miranda, and all of our graduate students (6 total) presented at the 72nd Ecological Society of Japan conference in Sapporo. Otsukare!

March 14, 2025
Kass presented about uses of species distribution modeling for marine systems at a symposium on Seascape Ecology, organized as the 22nd International Symposium on Integrated Field Science by the Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University.

March 12, 2025
Kass presented about ecosystem service mapping with biodiversity models at the International Mini-Symposium on Global Change and Biodiversity, organized by the Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University.

January 29-30, 2025
Kass participated in the 16th Asia-Pacific Biodiversity Observation Network (APBON) Workshop at the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity in Los Baños, Philippines to work on strategies for developing regional essential biodiversity variables.

January 21, 2025
Kass attended a symposium at University of Tokyo featuring Dr. Nick Isaac and others about Nature Positive research themes and participated in a workshop on essential biodiversity variables.

January 10, 2025
Kass taught a graduate lecture at Kobe University entitled “Modeling species’ niches to predict and map risk of future biological invasions”.

November 15, 2024
Kenshin Matsumoto traveled to Boston and San Francisco as a fellow of the Sendai Global Startup Campus.

November 14, 2024
Biodiversity monitoring in Minamisanriku complete for 2024. We are in the middle of uploading all our data to Snapshot Japan. Many thanks to Sakyu Co for logistic support and permission to sample on their land.

November 11, 2024
Kass gave two graduate lectures at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea for the BrainKorea 21 FOUR Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea.

November 09, 2024
Undergraduates present their work at 69th Ecological Society of Japan Tohoku Meeting at Hirosaki University in Aomori.

November 01, 2024
Suzuki publishes paper in Limnology and Oceanography about factors determining community structure in plankton.

November 01, 2024
Kass publishes paper in Ecography about using R packages together for species distribution modeling.

October 17, 2024
Kass presents a Theoretical Science Visiting Program Talk for Researcher Appreciation Month 2024 at OIST.

October 25, 2024
Macroecology Lab played in the Graduate School of Life Sciences softball and had fun at an imonikai (satoimo soup party).

October 01, 2024
Hiromichi Suzuki (D1) was awarded a JSPS Fellowship (DC2).

August 20, 2024
Biodiversity monitoring setup in Minamisanriku. his data collection is in collaboration with Snapshot Japan.

May 28, 2024
Hiromichi Suzuki (D1) was awarded a JST Fellowship.

May 21, 2024
Megan Low (M1) received the ASEAN Scholarship, a prestigious award from the ASEAN Foundation.

April 10, 2024
We had a welcome hanami (enjoy cherry blossoms) party for the new students.