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Myounghee Kang, an Echoview team member, will take up a new position in South Korea
Posted on Thursday, 16 February 2012 | Permalink
Dr. Myounghee Kang, an Echoview team member, will take up a new position in her native country, South Korea. Myounghee has worked with Echoview since 2003. She has expanded Echoview’s market share in Asia, from a strong initial footprint in Japan, to include most Asian countries, Australia and South America. Myounghee has cultivated relationships, achieved many sales and demonstrated that she is a powerful and popular ambassador for Echoview all over the world.
Myounghee Kang will become an Assistant Professor at Gyeongsang National University, Department of maritime police & production system, http://eng.gnu.ac.kr/main/.
Myounghee will continue to work with the Echoview team, her focus will be clients in Japan, China (Taiwan) and Korea. We hope Myounghee will do well in her new position.
"Umitaka-maru IV", a training ship of for Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology surveyed in Antartica
Posted on Thursday, 2 February 2012 | Permalink
The " Umitaka-maru Ⅱ" (formerly, a training Ship of Tokyo University of Fisheries) went the first Antarctic observation dates back to 1956. This year, Antarctic research ship as the first Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, "Soya" headed to Antarctica for the first time, "Umitaka-maru Ⅱ" was accompanied by the ship "Soya" for supporting it. Since then, "Umitaka-maru" is now IV, Antarctic observation counts the 15th time. The "Umitaka-maru IV " has been done six times Antarctic voyage since 2002. Antarctic cruise has been done by using a training course to be ship officers. This year of cruise started on 14 November 2011 in Tokyo, and tuna long line fishing was conducted in the Indian Ocean on the way of arriving in Fremantle, Western Australia on 22 December 2011. Twenty nine researchers joined here. The ship sailed for the Southern Ocean on 27 December 2011. The ship reached around 60 ° S on 1 January of 2012 and full-scale oceanic observations started to carry out. Main observations were finished on 28 January. The ship arrived in Hobart, Tasmania on 1 February. The Antarctic observation was completed. The researchers of 29 from 9 different organizations including National Institute of Polar attended this voyage. Researches were diverse, particularly global environmental change and the various aspects of ecology were focused based on chemistry, physics and biology. In recent years, significant decline of Arctic sea ice has known and major environmental changes also occurred in the Antarctic. It is important in monitoring environmental changes in Antarctica, which can be relating to global environmental changes. Now, thirty three students who are major in fisheries completed their training course. The training offered not only major ship operation and technical knowledge but also the technical basics of oceanography and observations. The observation of this voyage was done as a part of "Japanese Antarctic Research Project".
The following link (Oceanographic Observation Center) may give you more information about current observation run by Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology.
http://www.ooc.kaiyodai.ac.jp/ooc/en.html
