Mr. Shinnosuke Igarashi, a graduate student of our university (first-year master's course majoring in Marine Resources and Environmental Studies) who participated in the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Fisheries Engineering held from May 5 to 27, 5 at the Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University (Kagoshima City), received the Student Excellence Award.The award is given by the Japan Society of Fisheries EngineeringAwarded for outstanding general lectures given by students at academic lectures.

[Title of award-winning research]
　Trial of automatic classification method of microplastics by hue

[Details of award-winning research]
　In recent years, the presence of plastic waste in the ocean, especially microplastic waste (microplastics: MPs), has attracted attention as a new marine environmental problem.At present, research on MPs is being conducted in various forms, and attempts are being made to estimate the abundance of MPs in the ocean, to estimate the sources of their generation, to make future predictions, and to assess the impact on marine ecosystems.Among them, Mr. Igarashi focused on the color of MPs as one of the information necessary for estimating the source, and attempted to automate the classification using Python.

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