Original papers

• A simple method for the estimation of biovolume of diatoms Coscinodiscus curvatulus, C. nitidus, C. radiatus, C. wailesii and C. granii
  - Satoshi Fukuyama, Kei Kato, Koichi Ara and Juro Hiromi
• Relationship between the number of cysts that germinate and the occurrence of red tides in the inner part of the Ariake Sea
  - Toshiya Katano, Kenji Yoshino, Yuji Ito and Yuichi Hayami
• 2 kinds of larval morphology which belong to the Lingulles (Brachiopoda: Lingulata) from the easten part of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan
  - Sadaaki Yoshimatsu
• Estimation of biomass of the rhizostome jellyfish Rhopilema esculentum Kishinouye in Ariake Sea in summer and fall of 2012
  - Naoki Fujii, Yusuke Kondo, Shoma Okada, Susumu Ohtsuka, Makoto Urata, Aya Adati, Mikio Kato, Shuhei Yamaguchi, Kazumitsu Nakaguchi, Shiho Muranaka, Kenji Yoshino and Hiroaki Tsutsumi

Plankton Symposium

• “Plankton Research using Imaging Technologies” Preface and program
  - Atsushi Yamaguchi, Dhugal Lindsay and Kazuhiko Koike
• On an application of FlowCAM® to monitor wide-range occurrence of phytoplankton: especially focusing on red-tide surveys
  - Kazuhiko Koike, Maung Saw Htoo Thaw and Sigeru Kitahara
• Application of FlowCAM® for monitoring red tides in the western part of the Seto Inland Sea
  - Kazuyoshi Miyamura and Joji Ishizaka
• Monitoring of Jesogammarus annandalei using an underwater robot in Lake Biwa, Japan
  - Kanako Ishikawa and Michio Kumagai
• Application of in line-holography for underwater particle imaging system (LISST-HOLO)
  - Hideki Fukuda
• Rapid identification and quantification of preserved zooplankton samples using a bench-top VPR (B-VPR)
  - Tadafumi Ichikawa, Kiyotaka Hidaka, Kazuaki Tadokoro and Hiroya Sugisaki
• Feeding of oncaeid copepods on marine snow aggregates: in situ observations using the Video Plankton Recorder Yuichiro Nishibe, Kazutaka Takahashi, Tadafumi Ichikawa, Kiyotaka Hidaka, Hiroaki Kurogi, Kyohei Segawa and Hiroaki Saito
• Technological development of a method for observation of zooplankton population density: to achieve fine-scale measurements both spatially and temporally
  - Tatsuro Akiba and Yuji Tanaka
• Vertical profiles of marine particulates: a step towards global scale comparisons using an Autonomous Visual Plankton Recorder
  - Dhugal J. Lindsay, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Mary M. Grossmann, Jun Nishikawa, Ana Sabates, Veronica Fuentes, Mike Hall, Keisuke Sunahara and Hiroyuki Yamamoto
• Use of Dual frequency IDentification SONar (DIDSON) in determination of the spatial distribution and biomass of the moon jellyfish Aurelia aurita s.l.
  - Ryosuke Makabe, Takuya Kurihara and Shin-ichi Uye
• Zooplankton imaging and measurement using a digital single-lens reflex camera with macro lens
  - Hiroshi Shimada and Osamu Oku
• Estimation of calanoid copepod prosome length from pixel-based measurements derived from the ZooScan and ZooProcess systems
  - Mary M. Grossmann and Dhugal J. Lindsay

Technical Information

• Introduction to plankton researches using the Okazaki Large Spectrograph
  - Tamaki Uchikawa, Tomoyuki Shikata and Yasuhiro Kamei

Research Information

Abstracts of Original Papers on Plankton & Benthos Research

Society Report

Errata