The town of Shirahama-cho can be reached by scheduled air service from Tokyo International Airport at Haneda, and scheduled express train and bus services from Osaka or Kyoto.
SMBL controls biological preserves at Hatake-jima in Tanabe Bay, that provides a wide range of protected terrestrial and marine environments available for short- and long-term research projects and educational use.
At SMBL, research is conducted throughout the year by a permanent staff of resident researchers, including myself, as well as graduate course students and post doctoral fellows with a variety of ongoing research programs. It is a principal function of SMBL to provide facilities for visiting investigators from national and international institutions, as SMBL has been visited by hundreds of distinguished scientists from all over the world. Visiting researchers are encouraged to use the facilities at any time of year. Accommodation (maximum 50 persons) is also available in the lab.
SMBL, part of Kyoto University, offers wide variety of open courseworks in marine biology for undergraduates and graduate students in spring and summer and is also hosting many field courses of marine biology by other universities and high schools (SSH Program) throughout a year.
I look forward to hearing from you about visiting my lab, Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, having a friendly chat on collaborative research or, if you are a student, to study in the graduate course (M.S. and Ph.D., Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University) for marine biology. Please contact <asakura.akira.6w (at) kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Thanks,
Akira Asakura
Director, Seto Marine Biological Laboratory