We are pleased to announce that Dr. Batdulam Battulga and Prof. Takeshi Obayashi presented research on environmental microplastics at two international academic events: the OIST × AIMEC Joint Workshop (2025) and the Ocean Sciences Meeting (2026). These works were supported by the AI So-Go-Chi Research Fund in FY2025.

Conference Presentations

• Batdulam Battulga, Toyonobu Fujii, Minoru Ikeda, and Takeshi Obayashi
  A preliminary investigation of the distribution and characteristics of microplastics in coastal and near-shore areas in Onagawa Bay, Japan.
  OIST × AIMEC Joint Workshop, Okinawa, Japan, November 2025.
• Batdulam Battulga, Takahiro Nakanishi, Mariko Atarashi-Andoh, and Jun Koarashi
  Co-occurrence of microplastics and radiocesium (¹³⁷Cs) in deep-sea sediments near Fukushima, Japan.
  Ocean Sciences Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, February 2026.

Congratulations to the authors!