Special seminar: Monitoring radiation exposure of free-living wildlife -why and how?-
Wildlife suffers various kinds of effects and stress from its environment. At the radioactive contamination area in Fukushima, the radiation is added to those other conditions. Surveys on the free-living wildlife, often, gain discriminate results from those in the laboratory experiments. Some functions of low level, long term, internal radiation effects have been introduced for the wildlife at Chernobyl contamination area. Although the radioactivity is lower at Fukushima than that at Chernobyl, we have started our surveys soon after the accident. We have also some good information of the radiation fallout and radioactive dynamics in the ecosystems. Members of three wildlife research groups and others will discuss, “Why and how do we research on the wildlife?”

DATE: 16th Nov, 2013
TIME: 14:00~18:30
VENUE: room 231-232, #7B Bldg.,Yayoi Campus, University of Tokyo
organizer： Effect of Radioactivity in Agriculture Forum Group (AGRI-COCOON, Graduate School of Agricultural & Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo)
collaborator： Voices for Lively Spring
language： Japanese and English (simultaneous translation in part)
others: admission free / advance application is not required

speaker:
Timothy A.Mousseau (U. of South Carolina) Ken Ishida (U. of Tokyo) Fumio Yamada (FFPRI) & Morihiko Tomozawa (Keio U.) Others, who visit the place

Symposium: Society for Resurrection of Fukushima, activity report meeting:
Reconstruction of Fukushima by empowerment of the villager ~ How should collaborate disaster sufferers, supporters and specialists?
More than two years and a half passed from the nuclear power plant disaster. “Two years and a half” are too much long time for the village people leading refuge life.
However, all thing have been pending, the prospect for reconstructing livelihoods is still nowhere in sight.
This symposium will be an opportunity to access to vivid information which mass medias hardly report, such as the current surroundings of the village, the relationships with governments (especially national governments or the prefecture) and the vision of reconstruction by the villager themselves.
We hope hope you will attend.

DATE: 8th Oct, 2013
TIME: 16:00~18:30
VENUE: room 231-232, #7B Bldg.,Yayoi Campus, University of Tokyo

Organizer: Society for Resurrection of Fukushima
Co-sponsor: AGRI-COCOON

Agenda:
【Session 1】
Speech by Tadashi OGAWA,
‘current basic information Iitate Village’
【Session 2】
Keynote speech by Yoshito KANNO (formerly member of a village assembly)
‘Resurrection of Iitate Village’
【Session 3】
Keynote speech by Muneo KANNO
‘Efforts on reconstruction project for Iitate Village’
【Session 4】
Speech by Masaru MIZOGUCHI (professor, International Agro Informatics Laboratory, the University of Tokyo)
‘roles of specialist and volunteer staff’
【Session 5】
Speech by Tomiko SAITO (member of circle Madei)
‘roles of volunteer staff’