The Faculty of Marine Science and Fisheries (FIKP), Hasanuddin University (UNHAS), held a Seaweed
Taxonomy Workshop on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, at the Senate Room FIKP UNHAS. In this workshop, a
doctoral student from Kyushu University, Japan, Regina Yeoh, M.Sc. shared the materials related to the
general introduction of seaweed, its distribution in tropical countries such as Indonesia, how to do
seaweed sampling, how to identify the samples, how to preserve the samples in the form of the
herbarium, prepare them for molecular identification and how to make a systematic account for the
samples collected.
The workshop was attended by 20 participants (undergraduate, graduate students,
and alums) with different study program backgrounds from FIKP and other faculties, such as the
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
The activity continued with discussion and practice of making a herbarium with simple equipment. “It is
hoped that the participants would have an interest in the taxonomy and diversity of seaweed,
especially in the South Sulawesi region, because we are in the hotspot of biodiversity in Indonesia,” said
Dr. Nadiarti, the Head of the Aquatic Resources Management Study Program who also attended this
workshop.
Prior to her presentation, Ms Yeoh representing her faculty, Graduate School of Science, Kyushu
University, met the Dean of FIKP UNHAS, Safruddin, Ph.D. to discuss a plan for research collaboration in
the field of seaweed which would be outlined in a Memorandum of Understanding shortly.