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Grad in Environment & Information Sciences Receives a "Science Board Best Poster Award"


First-year Doctoral student Sayaka Matsumura of the Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences (academic advisor: Professor Tomohiko Kikuchi) was honored with a Science Board Best Poster Award at PICES (North Pacific Marine Science Organizartion) 2010 Annual Meeting that took place in Portland, Oregon (U.S.A.), October 22-31, 2010.
Her poster presentation, entitled "Spatio-Temporal Changes in Species Diversity and Assemblage Structure of Euphausiids in Oyashio to Oyashio-Kuroshio Transition Region in the Western North Pacific," analyzed two years' worth of data in detail and received recognition for a knowledge it brought that is crucial in accurately assessing the role euphausiids play in transporting living organisms in the oceanographic region.
Her poster presentation, entitled "Spatio-Temporal Changes in Species Diversity and Assemblage Structure of Euphausiids in Oyashio to Oyashio-Kuroshio Transition Region in the Western North Pacific," analyzed two years' worth of data in detail and received recognition for a knowledge it brought that is crucial in accurately assessing the role euphausiids play in transporting living organisms in the oceanographic region.