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National meetings

Participation of scientists of the Institute of Cetacean Research in
National Meetings in 2019
Annual meeting of the Ecological Society ofJapan (ESJ)The Ecological Society of Japan was founded in 1953 topromote research in all aspects of ecology. The main
events organized by the society are the annual meetings held in spring in one of the main cities of Japan. The
ESJ currently has an enrollment of over 3,900 members
including students and non-professionals. The ESJ works
not only on science matters but it also puts eﬀort intodissemination of information among the general public.
The 2019 meeting of the ESJ was held at the Kobe
Convention Center, Hyogo from 15 to 19 March. Konishi,
a scientist from the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR)
participated in the meeting making an oral presentation of the study ʻRelationship between the Antarctic
minke whale and sea ice at Southern Ocean by satellite
monitored trackingʼ at the session on Behavior (Isoda andBando from the ICR were co-authors in this study).

ent their research activities, exchange information, andcreate partnerships in vital areas of research.
The 2019 spring meeting of the JSFS was held at theTokyo University of Marine Science and Technology,
Tokyo from 26 to 29 March. Three scientists from theICR (Bando, Tamura and Konishi) were co-authors in thestudy ʻEstimation of feeding habits of the pregnant Antarctic minke whales from stable isotope ratios in baleen
plates,ʼ which was presented as a poster.

Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo.

Annual Meeting of the Mammal Society of Japan(MSJ)

Kobe Convention Center, Hyogo.

Annual meeting of the Japanese Society ofFisheries Science (JSFS)
The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science (JSFS) was established in 1932. It is a non-proﬁt registered society dedicated to the promotion of all aspects of ﬁsheries science.
The society fulﬁlls its global commitment by promoting
science, striving to achieve sustainable development
while recognizing the crucial need of preserving the natural aquatic resources. It also strives to forge relationships
with the industry comprising both capture and cultureﬁsheries, the ﬁshing environment, and the concerned
trade. The main events organized by the society are thebiannual meetings held in spring and autumn in one of
the main cities of Japan. In this forum the members pres-

The Mammal Society of Japan (MSJ) was established in
1987 by uniting two academic organizations, the Mammalogical Society of Japan and the Research Group ofMammalogists, which were founded in 1949 and 1955,respectively. The MSJ currently has an enrollment of over
1,100 members including students and non-professionals.
The annual meeting of the society consists of academicsessions (symposia, oral presentations, and poster papers), workshops, and a business meeting.
The 2019 autumn meeting of MSJ was held at Chuo
University, Tokyo, from 15 to 18 September. Several scientists from the ICR were co-authors in studies presentedto the meeting: ʻGrowth dependent changes of external morphology of fetus of the Antarctic minke whaleʼ
(Bando, Fujise and Kato) (poster presentation); ʻGut microbiome of baleen whale in the Antarctic and western
North Paciﬁcʼ (Tamura) (oral presentation at the session
Conservation and Management); ʻEstimation of population dynamics for the Antarctic blue whale using Bayesianstate-space modelsʼ (Matsuoka) (oral presentation at the63Technical Reports of the Institute of Cetacean Research (2019)

Chuo University, Tokyo.

session Conservation and Management); and ʻRelationship between density distribution of humpback whalesand environmental factors in the North Paciﬁc Ocean
using IWC-POWER dataʼ (Matsuoka) (oral presentation at
the session Conservation and Management).

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