JSPS Core-to-core CREPSUM
Joint Seminar on
Collaborative Research and Education Project in Southeast
Asia for Sustainable Use of Marine Ecosystems

Program

8-9 March, 2023
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute,
The University of Tokyo,
Kashiwa, Japan

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Message from the Program Coordinator
The Collaborative Research and Education Project in Southeast Asia for Sustainable
use of Marine Ecosystems (CREPSUM) is a joint project between Japan and Southeast Asian
countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam) funded by the Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The goals of the project are to: 1) establish aninternational science and educational network for the Southeast Asian marine ecosystem,2) progress marine ecosystem studies on emergent issues for conservation and sustainable
use of marine ecosystem services in Southeast Asia, and 3) contribute to the UN Decadeof Ocean Sciences and UN SDG 14 “Life below water” by compiling the best scientificknowledge.
The project was developed based on human network established during past JSPS
international collaborative projects over 20-years. The CREPSUM started in April 2020,
unfortunately, coincided with the worldwide spread of COVID-19. Many planned fieldstudies were cancelled or postponed. Under the difficult situation, the member scientists
continued discussion and collaborated work, such as the publication of field guide, online workshops. On-line symposiums/meetings are other ways for outreach/educational
activities in which sharing knowledge/experience with young scientists or general public.
After the relax of travel regulation, we resumed field studies under the international
collaboration of CREPSUM.
It is great pleasure we meet again here in AORI, UTokyo’s Kashiwa campus. It would
be highly timely to synthesize our activities on scientific accomplishments and theircontribution for social issues for sustainable use of marine ecosystem services. This Joint
Seminar is also important to find out remaining issues to be solved and strategic planningof collaborative activities.
I would like to acknowledge to financial support of JSPS to CREPSUM in the past 3
years. Also, National Coordinators of member countries, Group Leaders, and all the CREPSUM
scientists for their continuous and enthusiastic contribution to CREPSUM under quitedifficult condition of COVID-19 pandemic. The Joint Seminar is also supported from the
UTokyo’s FSI research project on UN Ocean Decade, and Center for International
Collaboration, AORI.

Hiroaki Saito

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Date: 8-9 March, 2023
Venue: Auditorium (2F), Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University ofTokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8564, Japan
Organizing Committee
International Organizing Committee
Kornrawee Aiemsomboon :Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Zainal Arifin :National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia

Wilfredo Campos :University of the Philippines Visayas, Philippine

Mazlan Abd. Ghaffar :Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia

Van Quan Nguyen :Institute of Marine Environment and Resources, Vietnam

Hiroaki Saito :The University of Tokyo, Japan

Local Organizing Committee
Koji Inoue
Sayuri Ishikawa
Yukiko Hiraoka
Siyu Jiang
Akiko Kasuya
Noriko Maekawa
Mitsutaku Makino
Yutaka Michida
Hiroaki Saito

Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo3

Program
Day 1: March 8, 2023
9:15 : 10:00 Registration
Opening Ceremony
10:00 : 10:05 Welcome address: Tomohiko Kawamura (Director of AORI, UTokyo)
10:05 : 10:15 Opening address:

Yutaka Michida (Director of CIC, AORI)

10:15 : 10:17 Selection of Rapporteur
10:17 : 10:37 Introductory Keynote:

Hiroaki Saito (UTokyo)

Marine ecosystem studies in the southeast Asia: Collaborative scientificactivities for sustainable use of ecosystem services
10:37 : 10:45 Photo Session
10:45 : 11:05

CoffeeCountry Reports from National Coordinators

11:05 : 11:25 Indonesia: Zainal Arifin
11:25 : 11:45 Malaysia:

Mazlan Abd. Ghaffar

11:45 : 12:05 Thailand:

Kornrawee Aiemsomboon

12:05 : 12:25 Philippines: Wilfred Campos
12:25 : 12:45 Vietnam:
12:45 : 13:45

Van Quan Nguyen

Lunch
Reports from Research Groups

13:45 : 14:05 Numerical model development for research on eutrophication. Akihiko
Morimoto (Ehime Univ.)
14:05 : 14:25 Macrophyte subgroup activity report in collaboration with UNESCO
IOC/WESTPAC ocean remote sensing program. Kenichi Hayashizaki(Kitasato Univ.)
14:25 : 14:45 Coral biodiversity and restoration in Thailand. Suchana Apple
Chavanich (Chulalongkorn U.)
14:45 : 15:05 Jellyfish research in Malaysia and the Western Pacific. Aileen Tan (U.
Sains Malaysia)
15:05 : 15:30 A report on the activities of the fish group of the JSPS Core to CoreCREPSUM and plans for future collaboration. Masanori Nakae (NMNS)4

15:30 : 15:50

Coffee15:50 : 16:10 Global survey project of ”The Ocean We Want" for international sciencecollaboration. Mitsutaku Makino (UTokyo)
Progress in SEA marine ecosystem studies
16:10 : 16:30 Seawater fish may ingest more microplastic particles than freshwater
fish. Hilda Mardiana Pratwi (UTokyo)
16:30 : 16:50 Feather stars (Echinodermata) of South East Asia and their role in coralreef ecosystem. Gregorius Altius Pratama (NMNS)
16:50 : 17:10 Progress notes on exploration of potential zooplankton as valuable
fisheries resources with JSPS Core-to-core CREPSUM. Nadiah Wan
Rasdi (U. Malaysia Terengganu)
17:10 : 17:30 Taxonomy and phylogeography of four species of the harmful marine
raphidophyte Chattonella in Southeast Asia.

Wai Mun Lum (UTokyo)

TBD…reception
Day 2: March 9, 2022
Progress in SEA marine ecosystem studies (continued)
9:20 :

9:40 Blue carbon in Philippine mangroves: status, uncertainties andrecommendations for "better" management.

Severino G. Salmo (UPDiliman)
9:40 : 10:00 Sea grass research status in Malaysia.

Muta Harah Zakaria (U. Putra

Malaysia)
10:00 : 10:20 Progress and update of Malaysian marine fish biodiversity researchunder JSPS CREPSUM Program. Aziz Arshad (U. Putra Malaysia)
10:20 : 10:40 Progress notes of marine fishes exploration with JSPS Core-to-core
CREPSUM from east coast of peninsular Malaysia.

Seah Ying Giat (U.

Malaysia Terengganu)
10:40 : 11:00

Coffee11:00 : 11:20 Preliminary report of the workshop on jellyfish culture for display inThailand.

Hiroshi Miyake (Kitasato U.)

11:20 : 11:40 The Application of NGS and metabarcoding in marine ecosystem
research and recent progress in Malaysia. Po Teen Lim (U. Malaya)5

11:40 : 12:00 New insights into early stages of Lateolabrax maculatus (McClelland,1844) in a tropical estuary of northern Vietnam.

Nguyen Thanh Nam(Vietnam Nat. U.)
12:00 : 12:20 Pharmaceutical active compounds as emerging contaminants inIndonesia. Wulan Koagouw (RCO-BRIN)
12:20 : 13:20

Lunch

13:20 : 13:40 From science to societal benefit: An example from middlebank marine
sanctuary in Penang.

Abe Woo (U. Sains Malaysia)

13:40 : 14:00 Sustainability assessment of coastal ecosystems: DPSIR analysis forbeaches at the Northeast coast of Vietnam. Do Thi Thu Huong (Inst.
Marine Env. Res.)
14:00 : 14:20 The impact of consecutive natural disturbances on Apo Reef Natural
Park, Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro, Philippines.

Victor Ticzon (UP Los

Baños)
14:20 : 14:40 Stakeholders' perception of the impact of tourism on Pari Island's
ecosystem services. Agus Heri Purnomo (RCSC-BRIN)
On-going and future research activities
14:40 : 15:00 IOC/WESTPAC scientific activities for UN Ocean Decade. Ken Ando
(IOC/WESTPAC, JAMSTEC)
15:00 : 15:40 Strategic planning for future collaboration: Hiroaki Saito (UTokyo)
15:40 : 16:00

Coffee16:00 : 16:45 General discussion for future collaboration
16:45 : 17:00 Report from Rapporteur
17:00 : 17:05 Closing

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Wifi:
SSID: aori-wlan-guest
Password: To be noticed

Food in the campus

Ikoi, Coop, Cafeteria accept cash and PASMO/SUICA.

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Hama accepts only cash.

ParticipantsIndonesia
Dr.

Zainal ARIFIN

RCO-BRINDr.

Dwi HINDARTIRCO-BRINDr.

Wulan KOAGOUWRCO-BRINDr.

Intan S. NURHATIRCDS-BRIN

Dr.

Agus H. PURNOMORCSC-BRIN

Dr.

SuhendarI SACHOEMARRCECT-BRIN

Malaysia
Dr.

Aziz ARSHAD

Universiti Putra Malaysia

Dr.

Mazlan ABD. GHAFFAR

Universiti Malaysia TerengganuDr.

Ferdaus MOHAMAT YUSUFF

Universiti Putra Malaysia

Dr.

Po Teen LIM

Universiti Malaya

Dr

Abe Woo SAU PINN

Universiti Sains Malaysia

Dr.

Aileen Tan SHAW HWAI

Universiti Sains Malaysia

Dr

Nurleena Wong WAI SIN

Universiti Putra Malaysia

Dr.

Wan Nurul Nadiah WAN RASDI

Universiti Malaysia Terengganu

Dr.

Ying Giat SEAH

Universiti Malaysia Terengganu

Dr.

Muta Harah ZAKARIA

Universiti Putra Malaysia

Philippines
Dr.

Cristy S. ACABADOUP VisayasDr.

Wilfredo L. CAMPOSUP Visayas

Dr.

Annabelle GC del NORTE-CAMPOSUP Visayas

Dr.

Ephrime B. METILLO

Mindanao State University

Dr.

Cleto NANOLAUP Mindanao

Dr.

Severino G. SALMOUP Diliman

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Dr.

Victor TICZONUP Los Baños

ThailandDr. Kornrawee AIEMSOMBOON

Chulalongkorn University

Dr. Anukul BURANAPRATHEPRAT

Burapha University

Dr. Sujaree BUREEKUL

Chulalongkorn University

Dr. Suchana CHAVANICH

Chulalongkorn University

Dr. Thaithaworn LIRDWITAYAPRASIT

Chulalongkorn University

Dr. Anchana PRATHEP

Prince of Songkla University

Dr. Voranop VIYAKARN

Chulalongkorn University

VietnamDr. Thi Thu Huong DO

Inst. Mar. Environ. Resour.

Dr. Van The HO

Institute of Oceanography

Dr. Thanh Nam NGUYEN

Hanoi Univ. Sci.

Dr. Van Nguyen NGUYEN

Res. Inst. Mar. Fish.

Dr. Van Quan NGUYEN

Inst. Mar. Environ. Resour.

Dr. Thi Kim Thanh THAIRes. Inst. Mar. Fish.

Dr. Manh Hung VU

Inst. Mar. Environ. Resour.

Japan
Dr.

Ken ANDOJAMSTECMr.

Zongjing DENG

NMNS

Mr.

Dede FALAHUDIN

Ehime Univ. (BRIN, Indonesia)Dr.

Toshihiko FUJITA

NMNS

Dr.

Naomi HARADA

UTokyoDr.

Kenichi HAYASHIZAKI

Kitasato Univ.

Dr.

Susumu HYODO

UTokyoDr.

Koji INOUE

UTokyoDr.

Mitsunori IWATAKIUTokyo9Dr.

Siyu JIANG

UTokyoDr.

Tomohiko KAWAMURA

UTokyoDr.

Seishi KIMURA

Mie Univ.

Dr.

Mitsutaku MAKINO

UTokyoMs.

Wai Mun LUM

UTokyoDr.

Yutaka MICHIDA

UTokyoDr.

Yuki MINEGISHI

UTokyoDr.

Hiroshi MIYAKE

Kitasato Univ.

Dr.

Akihiko MORIMOTO

Ehime Univ.

Dr.

Masanori NAKAE

NMNS

Mr.

Gregorius Altius PRATAMA

NMNS

Ms.

Hilda Mardiana PRATIWIUTokyoDr.

Hiroaki SAITO

UTokyoDr.

Chuya SHINZATO

UTokyoDr.

Kazumi WAKITATokai Univ.

Dr.

Takuya YAHAGIUTokyo10

Travel Information
Flight ticket
For invitee whose airfare is supported from CREPSM, please keep your air ticket
stub and present at Seminar registration.
Also, keep the stub of return trip and send the photocopy or PDF to Ms. Ishikawa.
sayuri-ishikawa@aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Important tips for Quarantine and Immigration (as of Feb. 14)
Visit Japan Web:
It is STRONGLY recommended to use VISIT JAPAN WEB for your smooth immigration.
Please visit the site enough before your departure, and register user information,schedule, etc. https://vjw-lp.digital.go.jp/en/

Border Measures:
At Immigration, you are requested to have Valid COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate (3times), or COVID-19 Negative Test Results before departure. For details of the valid
vaccines and the format of the certificate, please visit the web site below:
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/covid-19/bordercontrol.html
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/covid-19/border_vaccine.html(now, Sinopharm and Scinovac-CoronaVac are valid)
Please understand CREPSUM does not support fee for your vaccination, PCR test,
issuance of the certificate.

Masks:In Japan, it is requested to wear a mask inside buildings, including AORI, Hotel, train,bus, supermarket, etc. Please bring your own masks. It’s easy to buy masks inconvenience store, KIOSK, supermarket, etc.

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Accommodation:
Hotel rooms are booked for invited guests from foreign countries. Breakfast is
included.
Mitsui Garden Hotel Kashiwanoha
148-2 Kashiwanoha Campus, 178-4 Wakashiba, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-0871 Tel: 047134-3131

https://www.gardenhotels.co.jp/kashiwanoha/eng/

The hotel is just outside of the West Exit, Kashiwanoha Campus Station. Map:
https://www.gardenhotels.co.jp/kashiwanoha/eng/access/Hotel Torifito Kashiwanoha
264-1 Wakashiba, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-0871

Tel: 04-7137-2644

The hotel is 450 m from the West Exit, Kashiwanoha Campus Station.
https://ca.hotels.com/ho1385633152/hotel-torifito-kashiwanoha-kashiwa-japan/

Shuttle bus

Kashiwanoha
Campus station

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Access between airports and hotels:
Minimum transportation fee by using train mentioned below will be paid with yourper diem. Please understand it is fixed fee based on the rule of UTokyo. We don’t
refund based on your receipt.
From Haneda Airport:
Using Limousine bus is most convenient (ca. 100 min). http://www.tobubus.com/en/haneda/haneda_kashiwa.html
Take a bus from No.6 bus stop at the airport and get off at Kashiwanoha Campus
bus stop. Map of No.6 bus stop is available in the web site above. “Kashiwanoha
Campus” bus stop is in front of the hotel.
You can buy a bus ticket from vending machine just out of the custom, 2F arrival
lobby. Go out the exit and go straight forward ca. 30 m, passing throughInformation counter, then on the right hand you see the vending machine(JPY1600).
Departure time from Haneda Int. Airport is between 10:50 to 22:15, ca. every 1 hour.
Time table is also available on the website above.
To Haneda airport from Kashiwanoha Campus for your return trip, please check theschedule on the web site.
By train (ca. 90 min):Take Monorail to “Hamamatsucho” station
Change to JR Yamanote line (light green) to “Akihabara” station.
Change to Tsukuba Express (TX) line to “Kashiwanoha-campus” station. Hotel is justoutside of the West Exit of the station.

From Narita Airport:
By train (ca. 80 min):Take “Keisei Narita Sky Access Line” (not Keisei Skyliner nor JR Narita Express) to“Higashi Matsudo” station (ca. 40 min)Change to JR Musashino line to “Minami Nagareyama” station (ca. 10 min). Change
to Tsukuba Express to “Kashiwanoha Campus” station (ca. 10 min). Hotel is justoutside of the West Exit of the station.
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Optional way to the hotel
Take airport bus from Narita airport T1 or T2 to “Tsukuba Center” (ca. 70 min). Then,change to Tsukuba Express line to “Kashiwanoha-Campus” station.
Departure time from T2: 9:35, 10:45, 13:05, 16:30, 18:00, 22:40. From T1, 5 min after thetime of T2. The bus schedule can be changed, so, sending you update info later. Total
fee is JPY2400+670=3070. We do not refund for the extra cost. Compared with use
only train, it’s easy and not so crowded in the train.
Taxi
From Narita Airport, a taxi will cost ca. JPY 25000 with highway use (60 min.).
From Haneda Airport, it will be around JPY 19000 using highway (70 min.).
Please note that CREPSUM does not cover taxi fee.

Airport Bus

Map of Kashiwanoha Campus station

Access between hotel and AORIFree shuttle bus service is available between just outside of the station and
UTokyo Kashiwa Campus. When you get on the bus, please notice to driver“visitor” to UTokyo for free ride. It takes ca 10 min. In the campus, there are two
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bus stops. Get off the terminal (last) bus stop.
Every 10 min service between 08:00-09:50. For more detail, see the website.
https://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/assets/files/gsfs/shuttlebus_e.pdf
Please remember, it is a small bus (see photo below, with symbol of UTokyo, light
blue and yellow colored) and many students also use it. You may occasionally need
to wait for next bus.
Public bus from bus stop #1 of the West Exit (see map above). Get off at “Todai
Nishi”. Fee is JPY170, in cash or prepaid IC card (Suica, Pasmo, see below).
How to get bus: Please see following web site https://www.ipmu.jp/visitors/getting-around
It is nice walking distance through Kashiwanoha Park between hotels and campus(ca. 25 min).
Taxi: ca. 10 min, ~JPY1200.

Shuttle bus of UTokyo and sign of the bus stop.
Prepaid IC card
For public transportation, a prepaid card (Suica or Pasmo) is useful. These prepaid
cards enable you to take transportation services without purchasing tickets atticket vending machines. Many shops, kiosks, convenience stores also accept
SUICA/PASMO.

http://www.ipmu.jp/visitors/getting-around15

Restaurants and food at night
There are restaurants and food court in the 3rd floor of the shopping mall (justoutside of the west exit of the Kashiwanoha campus station). At the East Exit of thestation, sushi, izakaya (Japanese style pub), seafood restaurants there. Along therailway, there are small restaurants and bars. Convenience stores are near thestation and hotels.

Weather
In March, mean daily max and min is 13oC and 4oC, with 8 days raining per month.
It is the season warm days up to 20oC and cold days down to zero alternate,
potentially snowing. Need warm coat in the morning. Please check latest weather
forecast https://www.bbc.com/weather/1859924

Reception
TBD

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