Program (updated: 2012-11-12)

19 November, 2012 (Mon)

09:00 - 10:00    Registration <@Entrance>

10:00 - 10:15    Opening address & logistics <@Conference room 1>

10:15 - 12:30    Oral session 1 (Chair: Masao Iwai)
Pliocene warmth and following Milankovitch-scale climate changes in the Japanese Islands and Northwest Pacific (1)

10:15-10:50    Min-Te Chen (Keynote)

Paleoceanography of the NW Pacific and East China Sea: Future Challenges and Opportunities

10:50-11:10    Coffee break <@Lounge>

11:10-11:30    Masao Iwai, et al.

Ananai drilling project

11:30-11:50    Hokuto Iwatani, Toshiaki Irizuki, Masao Iwai, Yasuo Kondo, Minoru Ikehara

The Plio–Pleistocene boundary cooling event recorded on the Ananai Formation, Kochi, southwest Japan

11:50-12:10    Makoto Okada, et al.

Studies for stratigraphy and paleoceanography from Plio-Pleistocene marine sequence distributed in the southern most part of the Boso Peninsula, central Japan

12:10-12:30    Yu Saito, et al.

Sr-Nd-Pb isotope ratios of the Shikoku Basin hemipelagite suggest the sediment supply from Kuroshio during the Pliocene

12:30 - 13:30    Lunch <@co-op restaurant>

13:30 - 14:45    Oral session 2 (Chair: Masao Iwai)

Pliocene warmth and following Milankovitch-scale climate changes in the Japanese Islands and Northwest Pacific (2)

13:30 - 13:50    Katsura Ishida, et al.

Fossil ostracode assemblages and paleotemperature using Mg/Ca of ostracode shells during the late Pliocene in the Sea of Japan

13:50 - 14:10    Takuya Itaki, et al.

The coming deep sea drilling in the Japan Sea and East China Sea: IODP Exp. 346

14:10 - 14:30    Katsunori Kimoto, et al.

IODP East China Sea drilling project

14:30 - 14:50    Yuhji Yamamoto, et al.

Paleointensity from 3-6 Ma lava sequences in Iceland and its implications for statistical features of Plio-Pleistocene geomagnetic dipole moment

14:50 - 15:10    Coffee break <@Lounge>

15:10 - 16:00    Poster session <@Foyer>

Toshiaki Irizuki, Takashi Goto, Shinji Nasuno, Hiroki Hayashi and Hiroto Ohira

Fossil ostracode faunas from the middle Pliocene Mita Formation, central Japan, with relation to warm water inflow into the Sea of Japan

Takashi Gotoh et al.

Paleoceanographic change based on analyses of microfossil assemblages from the Pliocene Kuwae Formation, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan

Koji Kameo and Yurika Fukutomi
Floral changes of calcareous nannofossils linked to the Pliocene-early Pleistocene sea surface conditions around the equatorial oceans

Yuta Yamaoka, Yusuke Ohtsuka and Yasuo Kondo
Shell morphology, growth and habitat of Fulvia sp. (Bivalvia) from the Pliocene Ananai Formation, Kochi, Southwest Japan: Comparison with extant F. mutica

Manami Sugaya, Makoto Okada, Masaaki Okuda

Paleoclimate reconstruction using a fossil pollen record for the past 120,000 years from the C9001C core, off Shimokita Peninsula, northeastern Japan

Masafumi Murayama, Reischnbacher, D., Limmer, D., Philips, S., Susilawati, R, Park, Y-S and IODP Expedition 337 Science Party
Lithology of sediment from drilling Site C0020 off the Shimokita Peninsula in the northwestern Pacific, IODP Expedition 337

Yurika Ujiie and Hirofumi Asahi

Different oceanographic responses during last two deglaciation in the western subtropical Pacific

Takuya Sagawa, Khim BK., Uchida M., Ikehara K., Murayama M., Okamura K., Kuwae M., and Tada R.

Periodic inflow of warm surface water into the southern Japan Sea and its influence on productivity during marine isotope stage 3

S. Kim, K. Takahashi, Y. Kanematsu, H. Asahi, and B.K. Khim

Surface water productivity in the Bering Sea in response to the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

H. Asahi, S. Kender, M. Ikehara, T. Sakamoto, K. Takahashi, A.C. Ravelo, C. Alvarez-Zarikian, and B.K. Khim

Sea ice evolution and induced climate shifts in the Bering Sea over the past 2.4 Ma

Minoru Ikehara, Yoshifumi Nogi, Yusuke Suganuma, Robert Dunbar, Boo-Keun Khim, Tim Naish, Richard Levy, Xavier Crosta, Laura De Santis, Hideki Miura, Hisashi Oiwane, Kota Katsuki, Takuya Itaki, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Shungo Kawagata, Masao Iwai, and Hiroshi Sato

New IODP proposal for transect drilling in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean: Conrad Rise and Del Caño Rise

Mika Yamaguchi, Yoshitaka Hashimoto

Relationship between compressional-wave velocity and porosity of sediments along subduction plate interface

Mio Eida and Yoshitaka Hashimoto
Stress analysis on various deformation stages in on-land accretionary complexes: Shimanto Belt, Shikoku, Southwest Japan

Kei Okamura et al.

Development of a 128-channel multi-watersampling system for underwater platforms and its application to chemical and biological monitoring

Hisaaki Sato, A.Usui, K.Nishi, A.Sakaguchi, M.Inoue, I.Graham and Scientific party of cruises NT09-02 and KY11-02

Fine-scale Compositional Variations of Hydrogenetic Ferromanganese Crusts of the NW Pacific Ocean : An Attempt of Micro-stratigraphic Description in Mineralogy, Chemistry, and Microstructure

Kazuto Kodama, An Zhisheng, Chan Hong and Xiaoke Qiang
Quantification of magnetic nanoparticles with broadband magnetic susceptibility measurements: A case study of a loess-paleosol sequence in Luochuan, Chinese Loess Plateau

Kenji Tara, Hidekazu Tokuytama, Jyuichiro Ashi, and KY11-E04 Shipboard Scientific Party

Shallow subcrustal structure of hydrothermal sulfide mound by deep-tow subbottom profiling system, An example from Izena Hole in the Mid-Okinawa Trough

Mikihiko Kawai, Atsushi Toyoda, Yoshihiro Takaki, Shinro Nishi, Wataru Arai, Ikuo Uchiyama, Takehiko Itoh, Taishi Tsubouchi, Yuki Morono, Kan Aoike, Ken Takai, Asao Fujiyama, Fumio Inagaki, Hideto Takami

Vertical profiling of genetic trait in the subsurface sediments up to 100 m depth revealed diverse reductive dehalogenases as one of presumable key genes for survival in the deep subfurface sediments

16:00 - 17:15    Oral session 3 (Chair: Yasuo Kondo)

Biotic response to Pliocene warmth and following Milankovitch-scale climate changes in the Japanese Islands and Northwest Pacific

16:00 - 16:20    Kazutaka Amano

Plio-Pleistocene molluscan faunas from the Japan Sea borderland

16:20 - 16:40    Takami Nobuhara

Plio-Pleistocene molluscan faunas in the paleo-Kuroshio region  and their biotic response to climatic changes

16:40 - 17:00     Yasuo Kondo, Hisae Ito and Yuta Yamaoka

Evolution of Glycymeris vestita from G. fulgurata (Bivalvia): An example of speciation in temperate sea during times of climatic cooling in the Northwestern Pacific

19:00 - 21:00    Conference dinner <@Hamacho>

20 November, 2012 (Tue)

09:00 - 10:30    Oral session 4 (Chair: Minoru Ikehara)

Plio-Pleistocene Paleoceanography in the Southern Ocean: IODP activities and Antarctic drilling (1)

09:00 - 09:35    Carlota Escutia Dotti, H. Brinkhuis,  R. Dunbar, A. Klaus  & Expedition 318 Scientists (Keynote)

A Greenhouse to Icehouse record from the the eastern Wilkes Land margin - IODP Expedition 318

09:35 - 09:55    Masako Yamane, Yusuke Okazaki, Akira Ijiri, Yusuke Yokoyama and Toyosaburo Sakai

Plio-Pleistocene biogenic silica oxygen isotopes record from IODP Exp.318 U1361A core

09:55 - 10:30    Andrew P. Roberts, L. Chang, F. Florindo, J. C. Larrasoana, W. Williams, A. R. Muxworthy, and D. Heslop (Keynote)

Paleomagnetism and environmental magnetism of Southern Ocean sediments

10:30 - 11:00    Coffee break <@Foyer>

11:00 - 12:30    Oral session 5 (Chair: Minoru Ikehara)

Plio-Pleistocene Paleoceanography in the Southern Ocean: IODP activities and Antarctic drilling (2)

11:00 - 11:20    Jonathon Rousseau and Michael J. Ellwood

Testing the Silicic Acid Leakage Hypothesis in the Southern Ocean

11:20 - 11:40    Leaane Armand
Future directions in Australian Late-Quaternary Palaeoceanography and the search for past sea ice boundaries

11:40 - 12:00    Boo-Keun Khim, J. Kim, M. Ikehara, and R. Dunbar (Invited)
Holocene paleoclimate change in the Southern Ocean: high-resolution data from IODP Exp 318 and KH10-07

12:00 - 12:20    Yusuke Suganuma
PDRM lock-in and paleointensity-assisted chronology for marine sediments: Implication for a new Matuayma-Brunhes boundary age

12:20 - 12:40    Yoshifumi Nogi, Hiroshi Sato, Hideo Ishizuka, Taichi Sato and Tomoko Hanyu
Tectonics of the Conrad Rise in the Southern Indian Ocean

12:40 - 12:45    Closing remarks (Minoru Ikehara)

12:45 - 13:30    Lunch <@co-op restaurant>

13:30 - 18:00    Field trip (Muroto Geopark)

21 November, 2012 (Wed)

09:00 - 17:00    Field trip (Muroto Geopark, Sake brewery, etc.)