Education

Currently Supervised Students and Postdocs

  • Luca Kubota (2022~): Previously a master student at the university of Tsukuba, Japan, Luca is now conducting a PhD course at the University of new Caledonia: “SeaChange: Résilience des coraux face aux stress anthropiques : influence de l’environnement sur la qualité du squelette corallien”

Past Supervised students and postdocs

  • ICONA postdoc: Davide Spatafora: “Effects of ocean warming and acidification on fish behavior”
  • Jonathan Ramtahal (2020, Master to PhD): “Tara Jambio: Microplastic pollution of Japanese coastal sediment and its effects on benthic organisms”.
  • Guinther Mitushasi (2019- 2024: License to PhD): “Taxonomical study of the corals sampled during the Tara Pacific Project”
  • Layla Iijima (2022-2024 , License to Master): “Effects of OA on corals under different light regime”
  • Joshua Heitzman (2018 - 2023: License to PhD): “Coral algae interactions and the “White Mat Syndrome” coral disease”
  • Teika Ryohei (2020- 2023: Master): “Effects of OA on the ecology and behavior of Goby fishes”
  • Hirata Akihiro (2021-2022, Master student): “Photophysiology of bleached corals”
  • Takenaka Hiroki (2021, 4th year undergraduate): “Japanese Parrotfish abundance and seasonality: implication for the phenomenom of Isoyake”.
  • Yano Yuki (2020-2021, Master student): “Effects of OA on limpets: Ecological and behavioral study”
  • Dr Kugako Sugimoto (2020-2021. postdoc): “Tara Jambio: Microplastic pollution in Japanese coastal waters”
  • Dr Sung Yin Yang (2019-2021, postdoc): “Effect of coral bleaching mitigation techniques on the coral microbiome”
  • Reimi Terayama (2020, 4th year undergraduate, ICU): “Photoinhibition and gross photosynthesis of bleached corals”
  • Klervi Lugue (2020, master internship): “Cold shock response of the corals Acropora solitaryensis and Porites heronensis under OA”
  • Giuseppe Belfiore (2019. master internship): “Sponges communities at the Shikine Island CO2 seep”
  • Risa Takimoto (2018, 4th year undergraduate, ICU): “Thermal performance of the warm temperate coral Porites heronensis under OA”
  • Wataru Yamazaki (2016-2018, Master): “Thermal performance of the warm temperate coral Porites heronensis”