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Naoki KAMEZAKI
President & Director, Sea Turtle Association of Japan (E-mail:info@umigame.org)
INVITATION
It is our pleasure to announce the 17th Japan Sea Turtle Symposium. The
symposium will be held at the Kumano-City Community Hall (Kumano-City,
Mie prefecture, JAPAN) and the Kiho-Town Community Hall (Kiho-Town, adjacent
to Kumanio-City) from November 18th through 20th, 2006.This
annual symposium hosted by the Sea Turtle Association of Japan has been aimed
to provide those local researchers as well as ones from academic institutions
with opportunities to present their research and conservation activities of
sea turtles, and overview of the current state of sea turtles in Japan. It will be the first time for the symposium to be held in Mie
prefecture. The meeting site is famous for ‘’Kumano-Kodo’’, which is a part
of the UNESCO World Heritage "Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the
Kii Mountain Range" (http://www.kumadoco.net/kodo_eng/).
This years symposium will be
supervised by the Kumano-Shichiri-Mihama Symposium Executive Committee, and
have the backing of following governmental bodies: Ministry of Environment, Ministry
of Land Infrastructure and Transport, Fisheries agency of Japan, Mie
prefecture, Kumano city, Kiho town, Mihama town, Board of education of Mie
prefecture, Board of education of Kumano city, Board of education of Kiho
town and Board of education of Mihama town. The symposium will be supported
by the following companies as well: KANETETSU DELICA FOODS CO. LTD., TOYO TIRE
& RUBBER CO. LTD., STELLA CHEMIFA CO. LTD., KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO.
INC.
VENUE
November 18: Kumano-City
Community Hall (http://www.kumano-city.ed.jp/s-kaikan/)
19-20: Kiho-Town Community Hall (http://study.town.kiho.mie.jp/)
AGENDA
November 18th: Registration
Opening (5:30 PM)
Guest speaker talks (5:45 PM-8:00PM)
19th: Oral and Poster
presentations
Overview of the state of
nesting
Group Photo
Banquet
20th: Overview of
the state of stranding and tag-recapture
Oral and Poster presentations
(continue)
Closing (2:15 PM)
HOTEL
RESERVATION
Single or Twin
Room will be \7,500 per night per person. The price includes breakfast
buffet. The symposium secretariat will book the hotel for participants all
together. The secretariat will help overseas participants to arrange their
travel to/from the symposium site and reserve hotel.
TRANSPORTATION
KANSAI International Airport (KIX:http://www.kansai-airport.or.jp/ ) close to OSAKA or Chubu (Centrair) International Airport (NGO: http://www.centrair.jp/ ) close to NAGOYA is convenient for overseas participants. It takes about
5 hours and 7,000 yen to access the meeting site from KIX or NGO by trains.A chartered bus is available for participants from OSAKA. It will depart
from Shin-Osaka Station at 9:00 AM on 18th November and arrived at the meeting site at 1:30 PM. It costs 5,000 yen.
Highway bus is available for those who come from NAGOYA. More specific
instructions and approximate costs for local transportation and alternative
routes will be given on request. Please feel free to email the symposium
secretariat at info@umigame.org.
FEES
Overseas
participants can pay total amount of the fees at the registration counter.
Participation: 5000 yen (1000 yen
for students)
Banquet : 5000 yen (Nov. 19)
Boxed lunch with drink: 1000 yen
(Nov. 19 and/or 20)
Group photo: 1200 yen
Chartered Bus from Shin-Osaka to
meeting site: 5000 yen (Nov. 18)
REGESTRATION
All those who will attend the
Symposium must register by October 1st. The following information should be
send by email to info@umigame.org:First
name, Middle name, Last name, Gender, Affiliation, Postal address, Email
address, Phone, FAX, and request items (Chartered Bus service from Osaka, Box
lunches, Banquet, Group photo, Hotel room).
PAPER and POSTER
Any
paper or poster presentations are welcome. Abstract (200- 400 words) must be submitted
to info@umigmae.org
by October 1st. Title, author/s,
affiliation/s, and address are also required. Each speaker will be given 15
minutes, which includes a question-and-answer period. Bulletin boards will be
allocated for those who wish to display their posters.
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