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 The 9th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference |
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We invite you to join us in Okinawa, Japan for the 9th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (IPFC), which will be held from 24 to 28 June 2013 at the Okinawa Convention Center in Okinawa Prefecture. As in the previous IPFCs, the main themes of the Okinawa Conference include systematics, evolution, zoogeography and phylogeography, biodiversity, ecology, behavior, and conservation. The Organizing Committee is preparing an interesting program including many symposia on a range of topics such as systematics, evolution, phylogeny, ecology, behavior, and conservation. Colleagues who would like to organize symposia are kindly requested to contact the organizing committee of the IPFC9 at your earliest convenience.
I look forward to seeing you in Okinawa, Japan in June 2013.
Keiichi Matsuura
Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 9th IPFC |
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About the Conference Venue |
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The Okinawa Convention Center is located at Ginowan City (26° 16’ N, 127° 46’ E) on the southwest coast of Okinawa-jima Island, 10 km north of Naha City (the capital of Okinawa Prefecture). Okinawa is an ideal location for the 9th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference because of its diversity of marine environments including well-developed beautiful coral reefs under the influence of the Kuroshio Current. Okinawa-jima is the main island of the Ryukyu Islands stretching in a chain for 1,000 km from south of Kyushu (the southernmost main island of Japan) to east of the northern tip of Taiwan.
The population of Okinawa Prefecture is about 1.4 million, and its capital city Naha on the southern part of Okinawa-jima Island is densely populated with 800,000 people. Okinawa experiences a sub-tropical climate with temperatures over 20 degrees Celsius for most of the year, reaching to 32 degrees Celsius in the warmest months (from late July to mid-September). The rainy season of Okinawa usually starts in early May and ends in early-mid June. Okinawa suffers from typhoons in summer to autumn (usually from late July to October). The dates of the 9th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference were decided to avoid typhoons, rainy days, or hot weather. Ocean temperatures in Okinawa in late June are 27-28 degrees Celsius.
Okinawa is easily reached by international flights and Japanese domestic flights through Narita or Haneda (Tokyo), Kansai (Osaka), Centrair (Nagoya), and Fukuoka (Kyushu) in Japan. Naha airport of Okinawa is directly reached by international flights from Seoul (Korea), Taipei (Taiwan), Shanghai and Hong Kong (China). |
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IPFC9 Logo Decided (8 April 2011) |
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 The logo for the 9th IPFC has been decided from among the 171 submitted works.
The logo is based on a Double-lined Fusilier, Pterocaesio digramma (Bleeker, 1864), which is an important fishery species in Okinawa, Japan, the venue for IPFC 9. |
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Useful Links |
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Okinawa Convention Center
Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau
Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium
Shurijo Castle Park
University of the Ryukyus |
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Contact us |
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Organizing Committee of the 9th IPFC
Email: 9ipfc@bunken.co.jp |
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