こんにちは！

Here’s Gabriel, a first-year doctoral student in NakamuLab.

During November 27–29th, NakamuLab attended the 2024 Joint Meeting of the CREST Carbon-Blue X and PRESTO Blue Biosphere projects & 2nd CREST Carbon-Blue X Meeting. The lab members who attended the conference were Kazuma Uesugi (D3 student), Prof. Takashi NAKAMURA, and myself. The meeting was held in Hiroshima.

CREST Carbon-Blue X is a major project focused on deepening the understanding of the ocean and CO2 relationship, as well as performing innovative research to ensure climate change resilience by maximizing the use of the ocean’s potential. Notably, NakamuLab composes the “Advanced prediction and risk detection of coastal ecosystem transition under a high CO2 world” team, led by Prof. Haruko KURIHARA from the University of the Ryukyus as the principal investigator. Our main role in the project is to assess, through integrated coastal ecosystem models, the potential transitions and/or responses of those ecosystems under climate change.

Besides watching insightful presentations from other teams, Uesugi-san and I had the opportunity to give a poster presentation about our current research findings. In my poster, I discussed my preliminary results regarding the coral dispersal patterns under future climate change scenarios. Uesugi-san discussed his experiment results on the short-term bleaching responses of reef-building corals under high-temperature and high-nutrient conditions using the Multi-Environmental Simulation Aquatic System (MESAS). I was happy to receive much feedback from other researchers and professors, and I’m especially grateful for the discussion with Prof. Saki HARII from the University of the Ryukyus about potential improvements for my work regarding the calibration of coral spawning dates.

Thank you,

See you next time!

Gabriel