2018-2019 Public Research plans

Numerical simulation of three dimensional pathways of the nutrient materials in the North Pacific Ocean and its analysis

Principal Investigator:Humio Mitsudera, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Professor, Physical Oceanography, principal investigator.

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Evaluating the source and chemical speciation of dissolved iron in the North Pacific Intermediate Water

Principal Investigator:Youhei Yamashita,Hokkaido University, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Associate professor, Biogeochemistry.

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Submesoscale frontal structure and mixing processes in the Kuroshio-Oyashio region

Principal Investigator:Sachihiko Itoh , AORI, UTokyo.

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Mechanisms of dominant vertical high wavenumber near inertial shear and strong turbulence in the Okinawa Trough and the Tokara Strait

Principal Investigator:Takeyoshi Nagai,Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Department of Ocean Sciences, Physical Oceanography.

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Evaluation of the effect of vertical mixing on phytoplankton variation in the Kuroshio area

Principal investigator:Joji Ishizaka,Division for Land-Ocean Ecosystem ResearchInstitute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE)Nagoya UniversityBiological Oceanography.

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Effects of sub-mesoscale eddy on the lower-trophic level marine ecosystem in the East China Sea

Principal Investigator:Naoki Yoshie,Senior assistant professor, Division of Coastal Oceanography,Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University,Biogeochemistry.

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Dynamics of natural organic Fe-binding ligands in the western North Pacific and its impact on Fe cycle

Principle investigator: Yoshiko Kondo ,Nagasaki University ,Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences , Associate Professor ,Chemical Oceanography.

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Effects of turbulent nutrients flux on plankton community structure and productivity in the Kuroshio

Principal Investigator:Toru Kobari (Ph.D.),Associate Professor,Aquatic Sciences, Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University.

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 Mechanism maintaining the primary productivity in the western subarctic North Pacific by tide-induced diapycnal mixing

Principal investigator:Kazuhiro Misumi,Environmental Science Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Scientist, Marine Biogeochemical Modeling.

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Applications of the ultra-high resolution stable isotopic analytical technique for clarifying the life history recorded in fish otolith

Principal Investigator:Toyoho Ishimura,National Institute of Technology, Ibaraki College,Associate Professor,Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Micropaleontology .

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Development of databank for environmental history of chub mackerel and Japanese sardine using otolith

Principal Investigator:Michio Yoneda,National Research Institute of Fisheries and Environment of Inland Sea, Hakatajima Station, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency.

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Influence of ocean mixing on copepod distribution and reproduction around the Kuroshio

Principal Investigator:Kiyotaka Hidaka,Senior Researcher, Monitoring Group, Research Center for Fisheries Oceanography and Marine Ecosystem, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Marine Biology

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Origin of North Pacific Bidecadal Oscillation and Influence of Tidal 18.6-year Modulation

Principal Investigator:Shoshiro MINOBE,Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University.

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 A study on the surface mixed layer based on the frontal Ekman theory

Principal investigator: Tomoki Tozuka,Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Physical Oceanography/Climate Dynamics.

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Dynamics of internal wave resonance forming tidal mixing hotspots

Principal Investigator:Yohei Onuki ,Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Physical Oceanography.

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Role of turbulent mixing in the interior ocean on carbon uptake and biogeochemical cycle in the Pacific Ocean

Principal Investigator:Michio Watanabe,Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC),Project Team for Advanced Climate Modeling,Project Scientist.

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