{"id":186,"date":"2016-02-10T05:20:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T05:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wp-okeon\/htdocs\/?p=186"},"modified":"2016-04-27T04:19:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T04:19:57","slug":"okeon-project-featured-in-ryukyu-shinpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"OKEON project featured in Ryukyu Shinpo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/shinpo-1.jpg\" alt=\"shinpo\" width=\"600\" height=\"324\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/shinpo-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/shinpo-1-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nRyukyu Shinpo, an Okinawan local newspaper, reported on the OKEON project in its education section on January 29th. The article describes the project in depth, from the importance of biodiversity with an emphasis on insects and the project\u2019s role in furthering our knowledge, to the technological aspects of the project including the use of databases and weather stations, to the process of setting up the network including communicating with collaborators, planning the sites and setting up traps.<\/p>\n<p>OKEON project not only serves as a monitoring network of the terrestrial ecosystem in Okinawa, it also exemplifies one of OIST\u2019s goals of \u201cContributing to the promotion Okinawa (\u6c96\u7e04\u632f\u8208\u3078\u306e\u8ca2\u732e)\u201d as the project provides local knowledge back to the local people.\u00a0In particular, the article emphasized the role of Masashi Yoshimura\u00a0and Masako Osagawara, a staff scientist and a technician of the Economo lab, as they served as links between the project and the local people. For example,\u00a0they have involved local high school students in the project and taught them about insect biodiversity and collecting methods.<\/p>\n<p>Original article can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RyukyuShinpo20160129_OKEON.pdf\"rel=\"\">here<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryukyu Shinpo, an Okinawan local newspaper, reported on the OKEON project in its education section on January 29th. The article describes the project in depth, from the importance of biodiversity with an emphasis on insects and the project\u2019s role in furthering our knowledge, to the technological aspects of the project including the use of databases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1,3],"tags":[13,4,16,6,17,5],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration","category-news","category-okeon-update","tag-biodiversity","tag-collaboration","tag-environmental-education","tag-field-work","tag-media","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/okeon.unit.oist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}