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The Third Asian Ostracod MeetingSecond Circular

Kanazawa, Japan, August 6-10, 2018

The Asian Ostracod Meetings were established with the aim of improving collaboration between ostracod researchers within Asia, and beyond.

The first meeting was held in Seoul, South Korea in 2014, with the second taking place in Kunming, China in 2016.

The third meeting will take place in Kanazawa (Shiinoki Cultural Complex), Japan during August 6 to 10, 2018.

All researchers are warmly welcome to participate in these meetings, including people not based in Asia, or working on ostracods in other areas. The meetings provide an excellent opportunity to meet colleagues, expand cooperation between Asia and elsewhere, and forge new friendships.

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Keynote Lecture

David J. Siveter (University of Leicester, UK)

Organizing Committee

Takahiro Kamiya (Kanazawa University, Japan) Akira Tsukagoshi (Shizuoka University, Japan) Toshiaki Irizuki (Shimane University, Japan) Robin J. Smith (Lake Biwa Museum, Japan) Gengo Tanaka (Kanazawa University, Japan)

Scientific Committee

Toshiaki Irizuki (Shimane University, Japan)Takahiro Kamiya (Kanazawa University, Japan)Robin J. Smith (Lake Biwa Museum, Japan)Gengo Tanaka (Kanazawa University, Japan)Akira Tsukagoshi (Shizuoka University, Japan)Moriaki Yasuhara (University of Hong Kong, China)Dayou Zhai (Yunnan University, China)Baochun Zhou (Shanghai Natural History Museum, China)

Meeting Schedule

Talks will be 20 minutes long, including time for questions. The Poster Session will be held on the afternoon of August 9, allowing time for presenters to discuss their work. The meeting will be held in English.

Short Course

On the evening of Wednesday August 8 a short course on ostracod specimen preparations (dissection techniques, drawing of appendages etc) will be held. This is free of charge to participants. Those who want to learn the basic and useful techniques of specimen preparations are very welcome to attend.

Date Morning Afternoon Evening

August 6 (Monday) Arrival Arrival, registration Welcome party

August 7 (Tuesday) Opening sessions, talks Talks, group photo

August 8 (Wednesday) Talks Talks Short course

August 9 (Thursday) Talks Poster session

August 10 (Friday) Excursion Excursion Business meeting

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Registration

The Registration Form and Abstracts should be sent to Takahiro Kamiya [email protected] before June 30, 2018. The Registration Form is also available from the website of the meeting: http://www.ostracoda.net/aom3/

The Third Asian Ostracod Meeting Kanazawa, August 6–10, 2018

REGISTRATION FORM

To be sent to [email protected] before June 30, 2018

Title:

First name:

Family name:

Affiliation:

Address:

E-mail:

Tel (including country code):

• I will attend the meeting as a (to choose, mark a square): Senior participant Student

• Type of communication: Oral Poster

• Author(s) and title(s) of the communication(s): Author(s): Title:

If you want to present two (or more) communication(s), please copy and paste the above Oral / Poster, Author(s) & Title headings.

• Religious and dietary requirements:

• Other information you want to inform the organizers:

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The costs of registration is 20,000 yen (approx. 185 US dollars) for standard registration and 10,000 yen (approx. 93 US dollars) for students before June 30, and 25,000 yen and 12,500 yen respectively after July 1. The registration fee covers administration costs, rent of the lecture hall, posters, abstract book, welcome party & excursion (including lunch).The registration fee does not contain any insurance.

Participants who require a support letter for visa applications are invited to contact Takahiro Kamiya [email protected]. For security purposes, letters of invitation can only be sent to individuals registered for the meeting. This letter does not imply any financial obligation on the part of the Meeting organizers.

Abstract

Please submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations before June 30, 2018, to Takahiro Kamiya via email ([email protected] ).

Format: Oral(s) and / or Poster(s) Title of the abstractAuthor(s) Family Name, Given Name, (mark presenting author with *) Text (maximum 300 words)

Awards

Two awards for the junior participants will be presented, including one for the best oral presentation and one for the best poster. Both will be elected by voting of the participants.

Payment

Senior participants Students From May 1 to June 30, 2018 20,000 JPY 10,000 JPY

(approx. 185 USD) (approx. 93 USD) After July 1, 2018 25,000 JPY 12,500 JPY (approx. 230 USD) (approx. 115 USD)

It is recommended to make the payment in plenty of time before the deadline (June 30, 2018) by PayPal or bank transfer.

If you make the payment before June 30, but it is not received by the organizing committee until July 1 or after, the late payment rates apply.

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PayPal

We recommend payment via PayPal. Please send an E-mail to [email protected] stating that you wish to pay by PayPal, and which type of participant you are: senior or student.

We will reply with details of the payment account. When you click the payment account, the following screen is displayed.

For senior participants For students

This account is Gengo Tanaka’s (in Japanese 源吾田中), who is the treasurer of the Third Asian Ostracodologists Meeting.

If you have any question please send an E-mail to Gengo Tanaka ([email protected])

Please send a screenshot of the payment to Takahiro Kamiya [email protected] so that we can check the payment.

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Bank

For overseas participants Holder of bank account: Japan Post Bank (in Japanese ゆうちょ銀行)

Account number: 13150-22842191 Reference: The Third Asian Ostracoda Meeting

(in Japanese 第３回アジア貝形虫会議)

https://www.jp-bank.japanpost.jp/en/djp/en_djp_index.html

For Japanese participants Please state the following information when you transfer the fee from another financial

institution or bank. 店名：三一八（読みサンイチハチ）　 店番：318 預金種目：普通預金　 口座番号：2284219

Please send a screen shot of the payment to Takahiro Kamiya [email protected] so that we can check the payment.

An alternative option is pay cash at the meeting with JPY. In this case, the registration fee is 25,000 JPY for senior participants and 12,500 JPY for students.

Venue

The Third Asian Ostracod Meeting will be held at the Shiinoki Cultural Complex, in the center of Kanazawa City. This central location is very convenient for participants, being close to hotels, shops and restaurants. Additionally, it is next to several popular tourist attractions, including Kanazawa Castle, Kenroku-en Gardens, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art.

Kanazawa City Tourism Association http://visitkanazawa.jp 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art https://www.kanazawa21.jp/en/

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AccessBy Air There are direct international flights to Komatsu Airport (the airport servicing Kanazawa) from Seoul, Shanghai, and Taipei. Domestic flights from Haneda (Tokyo), Narita, Sapporo, Sendai, Fukuoka and Naha also fly to Komatsu. A bus service directly links the airport with Kanazawa Station.

http://www.komatsuairport.jp/index_en.html

By Train Kanazawa is served by Shinkansen (bullet train) from Tokyo, and express train from Osaka and Kyoto.

Accommodation

Kanazawa is a popular tourist destination, and as a result there are many hotels catering for a wide range of budgets. Hotels can be booked online.

Excursion

The Excursion of the Third Asian Ostracod Meeting will take place on the August 10. The excursion will visit the Pleistocene Omma Formation in Kanazawa and the Noto Peninsula, north of Kanazawa.

Participants will leave Kanazawa by bus and travel to various sites to collect fossil, living intertidal and freshwater ostracods.

The excursion will also take in some of the cultural sites of this rural part of Japan.

Omma Formation is a Pleistocene marine fossiliferous strata which contains the record of glacial-interglacial eustatic sea-level cyclic changes.

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� �Omma Formation

Myojoji Temple (Noto) is the head temple of the Buddhist Nichiren Sect in the Hokuriku Region. Some of the temple buildings, which are designated as Important Cultural Properties, were constructed during the reign of first five generations of Kaga's ruling feudal family-Maedas. The 34 meters tall Goju-no-To (five storied pagoda) is the largest wooden pagoda in the Hokuriku region and it's a masterpiece of early Edo Period pagodas.

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Ganmon Sea-Cave is a cave mouth created by the erosion of Miocene volcanic rocks rising out of the sea. It's 6 m wide, 15 m tall and 60 m deep. The rugged scenery created by the steep cliffs and fierce waves around Ganmon are symbolic of the dynamic scenery of the Noto Peninsula. Near the cave intertidal wave-cut platforms are exposed and we can easily collect seaweed samples for ostracods.

�Ganmon intertidal wave-cut platform

We will also visit a freshwater ostracod sampling site and Sekinohana, a rocky shore composed of Miocene calcareous sands for additional marine intertidal ostracod sampling.

Summary of deadlines

Return of Registration Form: June 30, 2018 Abstract: June 30, 2018 Poster: June 30, 2018 Payment by Pay Pal or bank transfer: June 30, 2018 (from May 1)

http://www.ostracoda.net/aom3/

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