Oceanography Challenges to Future Earth: Human and Natural Impacts on our Seas

Evolution and progress accomplished during previous French-Japanese symposiums of Oceanography.- Challenge to resolve problems in the ocean and coastal waters in future Earth with stronger cooperation between the two Societies.- Slower decrease in radioactive concentrations in some fish species after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster.- Relationship between patterns of fish behavior and concentration of radioactive materials after the nuclear accident caused by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.- Estimate of Water Quality Change in Osaka Bay Caused by the Suspension of Marine Sediment with Mega Tsunami.- Litter in the Mediterranean Sea.- The European eel (Anguilla Anguilla) in France: An example of close cooperation among researchers and fishers to study and manage an endangered species.- Trophic cascade in seaweed beds in Sanriku Coast hit by the huge tsunami on 11 March 2011: Sea urchin fisheries as a Satoumi activity serving for increase in marine productivity and biodiversity.- The English Channel: becoming like the seas around Japan.- Recent research results and future project in the Antarctic Ocean by Umitaka-Maru research groupfor physical oceanography.- Response of near-inertial internal waves to various typhoon-tracks around the Tango Peninsula, Japan.- A high-resolution unstructured grid finite volume model for currents around narrow straits of Matsushima Bay.- Observation of near-bottom current on the continental shelf off sanriku.- Control of pressure-driven microdroplet formation and optimum encapsulation in microfluidic system.- Development of a de-oiling system for seabed sediments.- Development of an optical detection system of fuel oil on seabed sediments.- Retinomotor and stress responses of Marbled Sole Pleuronectes yokohamae under the LEDs.