Proceedings of symposia hosted by Okinawa Churashima Foundation are available for download.

 

1.Proceedings of an International Symposium - Into the Unknown, Researching Mysterious Deep-sea Animals, 2007.
Editor: Senzo Uchida, 2010.

 

Page 1-4

• Cover pages (PDF)

Page 5-21

• Behavior and habitat selection of deep-sea fishes:a methodological perspective(PDF)
  Franz Uiblein, Fernando Bordes, Pascal Lorance, Jørgen G. Nielsen, David Shale,Marsh J. Youngbluth & Rupert Wienerroither

Page 22 – 42

• Observations of mesopelagic large squids in the wildusing recently developed underwater visual equipment(PDF)
  Tsunemi Kubodera

Page 43 – 52

• Diving and foraging behavior of toothed whales: Do toothed whales compete for prey in the deep sea?(PDF)
  Yasuhiko Naito & Yoko Mitani

Page 53 – 68

 

• Meso- and bathypelagic fish interactions with seamounts and mid-ocean ridges(PDF)
  Tracey T. Sutton, Filipe M. Porteiro, John K. Horne and Cairistiona I. H. Anderson

Page 69 – 83

• Biology of the Megamouth Shark,Megachasma pelagios (Lamniformes: Megachasmidae)(PDF)
  Kazuhiro Nakaya

Page 84 – 127

• Jewels of the deep sea - Precious Corals(PDF)
  Masanori Nonaka & Katherine Muzik

Page 128 – 136

• Debunking an urban legend of the deep sea:The queen of the abyss and her contribution to ceratioid anglerfish biology.(PDF)
  Toshiro Saruwatari

Page 137 – 143

• Using the SGPT chamber for field sampling and long-term captivity of deep demersal fishes from tropical waters(PDF)
  Keiichi Sato, Atsushi Kaneko & Minoru Toda

Page 144 – 153

• "Mysteries of the Deep" a temporary exhibit ofdeepwater animals of Monterey Canyon.(PDF)
  Charles Farwell

Page 154 – 179

• Reprinted abstracts of an International SymposiumInto the Unknown, Researching MysteriousDeep-Sea Animals, 2007, Okinawa, Japan.(PDF)

 

2.Proceeding of the International Symposium - Reproduction of Marine Life, Birth of New Life!
Investigating the Mysteries of Reproduction, February 21-22, 2009.
Editor: Keiichi Sato, 2013.

Page 1-4

• Cover pages (PDF)

Page 5-12

• How many species of living sharks, skates and rays are there, and how did they arise over the course of evolution? (PDF)
  Gavin Naylor and Neil Aschliman

Page 13-22

• Aspects of placentation systems in the scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini, and the manta ray, Manta birostris(PDF)
  Hiroaki Soma et al.

Page 23-40

• Captive reproduction of sea turtles: An important success story(PDF)
  David Wm. Owens and Gaëlle Blanvillain

Page 41-51

• Conservation of Amazonian manatees in Brazil with emphasis on reproductive aspects (PDF)
  Miriam Marmontel

Page 52-69

• A primer on shark reproduction for aquarists (PDF)
  Jose I. Castro

Page 70-76

• Artificial production of Japanese eel Anguilla japonica (in Japanese) (PDF)
  Hideki Tanaka