Education

1996. B.Edu. Yokohama National University

1998. M.Edu. Yokohama National University

2002. Ph.D. Kyoto University

Memberships of Academic Societies

The Oceanographic Society of Japan

The Plankton Society of Japan

The Japanese Association of Benthology

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)

World Association of Copepodologists (WAC)

The International Association of Meiobenthologists (IAM)

Research Interest

Distributional ecology of marine planktonic copepods (DVM, OVM, diversity, etc.)

Life strategies of phytal-dwelling harpacticoids

Environmental assessment using marine meiofauna