When cultivating mozuku, germling ‘seeds’ are grown in flasks, and transferred to nets in tanks after budding. The nets are then moved to the ocean where the mozuku grows into mature, edible seaweed. The yield of mozuku changes yearly, due to cultivation

Professor Shintake plans to station 300 huge propellers 100 meters underneath the ocean’s surface in the Kuroshio current. The propellers should generate one million kilowatts of energy in total – equivalent to the power of one nuclear reactor. 

A skilled artist, Shintake’s often works the old-fashioned way, with pen and paper, in the initial stages of a project’s design. This is one of his first drawings of the his eletron microscope design. 

Professor Mahesh Bandi of the Collective Interactions Unit receives major grant to study the evolution of the foot.

On the same day as the Coast Guard buoy deployment, Koichi Toda connects one of 18 OIST buoys with temperature sensors to a dock in Ishigaki Island.