SEED program: Tokyo Musashi Gakuen RED program visit to OIST.

During the five-day program, the students attended lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on experiments by OIST professors, researchers, PhD students as well as experts involved in agriculture and marine conservation from the local community.  

Speakers and assistants from OIST Marine Climate Change Unit, Marine Eco-Evo-Devo Unit,  Macroevolution Unit and Evolution, Cell Biology, and Symbiosis Unit engaged with the students and provided lectures and hands-on activities.  The hands-on activities include ocean acidification experiments, extracting DNA from fruits, observing juvenile clownfish and foraminifera, visiting honeybee hive box on local farmland, and many more. The participants also went on educational field trips to learn about measures to prevent red soil runoff and visited a local fishing harbor to learn about coral planting to help restore dying reefs.  At the end of the program, the students presented what they had learned during the 5 days.