Biography

 

Positions Held

October 2016 – Present, Professor, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University
April 2005 – September 2016, Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University
December 2002 – March 2005, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University
April 2001 – November 2002, Assistant Professor, Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University
April 1996 – March 2001, Assistant Professor, Institute for Hydrospheric-Atmospheric Sciences, Nagoya University
April 1993 – March 1996, Research Fellow DC1, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
 

Educational Background

March 1996, Ph.D., Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, 1997
 

Membership

Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
European Goesciences Union (EGU; Complimentary Membership)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Phycological Society of America (PSA)
Japan Geoscience Union（JpGU）
The Oceanographic Society of Japan
The Geochemical Society of Japan
 

Pesent Service

SCOR Working Group 170: Physiology and Rates in Microbial Oceanography (PRIMO; October 2023 –)
SCOR Working Group 165 Mixtrophy in the Oceans – Novel Experimental designs and Tools for a new trophic paradigm (MixONET) Associate Member (2021–）
Frontiers in Marine Science (Section: Marine Biogeochemistry) Associate Editor (2021–)
BioGeoSCAPES Member（representing Japan）（2018–）
Elsevier Advisory Panel Member (2016–)
European Geosciences Union (EGU) "Biogeosciences” Associate Editor (2009–)
 

Cruise Participation

September 2023, R/V Shinsei Maru, Sea of Okhotsk
June 2023, R/V Hakuho Maru, Western North Pacific 
April–May 2022, R/V Shinsei Maru, Sea of Okhotsk
February 2022, P/V Soya, Sea of Okhotsk
April 2021, R/V Shinsei Maru, Sea of Okhotsk
December 2020, R/V Hakuho Maru, Sea of Okhotsk
February 2019, P/V Soya, Sea of Okhotsk
May 2018, R/V Shinsei Maru, Western Pacific, Principal Investigator
October – November 2017, R/V Hakuho Maru, Western North Pacific
December 2016, R/V Hakuho Maru, Subtropical Western North Pacific
November 2015, R/V Hakuho Maru, Subtropical Western North Pacific
March 2015, R/V Hakuho Maru, Subarctic Western Pacific, Deputy Principal Investigator.
June – July 2014, R/V Prof. Mulatanovskiy, Bering Sea and Western Subarctic Pacific
July 2013, TR/V Oshoro Maru, Bering and Chukchi Seas
November 2012, R/V Tansei Maru, Kuroshio Region, Western Subtropical Pacific, Principal Investigator
April 2012, R/V Tansei Maru, Kuroshio Region, Western North Pacific
December 2011, R/V Hakuho Maru, Subtropical Pacific
May 2011, R/V Tansei Maru, Oyashio region, Western Subarctic Pacific, Principal Investigator.
May 2010, R/V Hakuho Maru, Western Subtropical Pacific
April 2010, FR/V Wakataka Maru, Western Subarctic Pacific
September 2009, R/V Hakuho Maru, Subarctic Pacific and Bering Sea
July – August 2008, R/V Hakuho Maru, Western Subarctic Pacific 
September 2007, R/V Hakuho Maru, Western Subtropical Pacific 
June – July 2007, FR/V Wakataka Maru, Western Subarctic Pacific 
August – September 2006, R/V Prof. Khromov, Sea of Okhotsk
June 2006, R/V Hakuho Maru, Western Subtropical Pacific
September 2005, FR/V Hokko Maru, Western Subarctic Pacific
May 2005, FR/V Hokko Maru, Western Subarctic Pacific
July – August 2004, R/V Hakuho Maru, Western Subarctic Pacific
September 2003, FR/V Wakataka Maru, Western Subarctic Pacific
April – May 2003, FR/V Wakataka Maru, Western Subarctic Pacific
August – September 2002, R/V Tansei Maru, Sagami Bay 
June June 2002, R/V Tansei Maru, Sagami Bay
August – September 2001, R/V Tansei Maru, Sagami Bay
December 1999, R/V Tansei Maru, Western North Pacific
July – August 1999, R/V Hakuho Maru, Subarctic Pacific and Bering Sea
September 1998, R/V Hakuho Maru, Western North Pacific
May 1997, R/V Tansei Maru, Western North Pacific
September – October 1996, RRS James Clark Ross, Central Atlantic
December 1994 – March 1995, R/V Hakuho Maru, Southern Ocean
July – August 1992, R/V Hakurei Maru, Central Pacific
July – August 1992, R/V Hakurei Maru, Central Pacific
January – March 1992, R/V Kaiyo Maru, Equatorial Pacific