Research Director

Hidekatsu Yamazaki

Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Professor
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Outline

Ecological processes driven by environmental forcings occur over multiple space and time scales. This project focuses on characterizing multi-scale biodiversity dynamics in the Kuroshio affected habitats using a novel approach that combines numerical models with field observations obtained with advanced sensing technologies. The observed data will then be used with numerical methods to produce a new planktonic ecosystem model. In conjunction with this model development, a scheme will be developed to predict the dynamics and biodiversity of both phytoplankton and zooplankton.