Associate Professor
Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan
Education
2001 Ph.D., Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
“Formation of the Okhotsk Sea intermediate water clarified with chemical tracers”
1998 M.Sc., Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
“Formation and modification of water masses in the Sea of Okhotsk studied with oxygen
isotope ratio of seawater”
1996 B.Sc., Marine Chemistry, Hokkaido University, Japan
“Distribution of oxygen isotope ratio of seawater in and around the Sea of Okhotsk
Employment
2011.11-present, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan; Associate Professor
2005.7-2011.10, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Canada
2009.7-present; Research Scientist
2006.7- 2009.7; Postdoctoral fellow (Canadian Government Laboratory Visiting Fellow)
2005.7- 2006.6; Postdoctoral fellow (True North Scientific; Chemical Oceanographer)
2002.4-2005.6; International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
2004.4- 2005.6; Postdoctoral fellow (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
2002.4- 2004.3; Postdoctoral fellow(Frontier Observational Research System for Global Change, JAMSTEC)
Awards and Fellowships
* SCOR 50th anniversary symposium, Best Poster Presentation, 2008 October.
"Surface freshening of the Canada Basin of the Arctic Ocean in the 2000s"
* The Okada Prize of the Oceanographic Society of Japan, 2008 March.
"Chemical Oceanographic studies of water mass modification and nutrient transport in the Arctic and subarctic regions"
* Canadian Government Laboratories Visiting Fellowship, 2006. July-.2009 June
"Physical and chemical oceanography in the western Arctic"
* The Geochemical Society of Japan Award for young Researchers, 2005 September.
"Chemical tracer studies of water mass modification in the Arctic and subarctic regions”
* Commemorative Award of Taroh Matsuno for Master's Thesis, 1998 March,
Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan.
"Formation and modification of water mass in the Sea of Okhotsk studied with oxygen
isotope ratio of seawater”
Research interests
* Use of chemical tracers to investigate physical processes in the ocean
* Freshwater distribution and its variability in the Arctic Ocean
* Relation between dense shelf water formation and freshwater distribution
* Conservative and non-conservative behaviors of chemical elements in the ocean
Field observation experience
1995 Japan Sea, R/V Hokusei-Maru
1996 Sea of Okhotsk & NW Pacific, R/V Hokko-Maru
1998 of Okhotsk & NW Pacific, R/V Hokko-Maru
1998 Sea of Okhotsk, R/V Kromov
1999 Greenland Sea, R/V Ivan Petrov
1999 Sea of Okhotsk, R/V Kromov
2000 Sea of Okhotsk, R/V Kromov
2005 Canada Basin (Arctic Ocean), I/B Louis S. St-Laurent
2006 Canada Basin (Arctic Ocean), I/B Louis S. St-Laurent
2008 Canada Basin (Arctic Ocean), (as a co-chief scientist)
2008 Chukchi Sea & Canada Basin (Arctic Ocean), R/V Mirai
2009 Chukchi Sea & Canada Basin (Arctic Ocean), R/V Mirai
2009 Bay of Bengal (Indian Ocean), R/V Hakuho-Maru