status & institute (address):

Professor

Department of Earth System Science
Fuculty of Sustainable Design
University of Toyama

3190, Gohuku, Toyama 930-8555, JAPAN

research interests:

• tectonics (using remanent directions)
• formation processes of ancient supercontinents (using paleomagnetic poles)
• modification of magnetic information in rocks related to diagenesis, deformation and metamorphism (using rockmagnetic parameters and AMS)
• environmental magnetism (using rockmagnetic parameters)
• magnetotactic bacteria ["amazing behavior of MTB"]

field works:

• Japanese islands, mainly southwest Japan
• Korea
• Antarctica
  [35th Japanese Antarctica Research Expedition (JARE-35) : Winter party, Nov.1993 - Mar.1995]
  [42nd Japanese Antarctica Research Expedition (JARE-42): Summer party, Nov.2000 - Mar.2001]
  [46th Japanese Antarctica Research Expedition (JARE-46): Summer party, Nov.2004 - Mar.2005]
  



• Philippine
• China
• ODP (Leg 180, Woodlark Basin)
• India
• Afar Depression, Ethiopia 
  "A-CAMEL" : "Afar Collaborative Aero-on land Magnetic Exploration of Lithosphere"
  

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