Gas Hydrate Laboratory
Organization for the Strategic Coordination of Research and Intellectual Properties
Ryo MATSUMOTO
Research Fellow of GHRL/OSRI
Emeritus Professor of the Univ of Tokyo
Councilor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Research fields:
Geology, Sedimentology, Geochemistry
Fundamental study on geologic factor to control the distribution and occurrence of marine gas hydrates and application to evaluate the environmental impact and resource potential of gas hydrates.
Gas Hydrate Laboratory
Organization for the Strategic Coordination of Research and Intellectual Properties
Takeshi OHI
Research fellow of Gas Hydrate Laboratory
Research fields:
Stratigraphy and micropaleontology
Study on stratigraphy and sedimenary environment of shallow subsurface sediments, based on foraminifer analysis
Gas Hydrate Laboratory
Organization for the Strategic Coordination of Research and Intellectual Properties
Akihiro HIRUTA
Research fellow of Gas Hydrate Laboratory
Research fields:
Geochemistry
Analyses of carbonate nodule and interstitial water in sediments
Professor School of Agriculture
Kosuke NOBORIO
Research fields:
Soil physics, Environmental physics Mass and energy transfer in the soil-crop-air system geared to the proper management for mitigating the environmental load.
Professor School of Science and Technology
Tomoko FUKAZAWA
Research fields:
Physical Chemistry Structure and physical properties of water related material.
Gas Hydrate Laboratory
Organization for the Strategic Coordination of Research and Intellectual Properties
Yoshitaka KAKUWA
Research fields:
Read the global change through the analyses of oceanic sediments and sedimentary rocks. Following two items are selected to study.
1: Evolution of both the environment of pelagic deep ocean bottom and benthic animals in these 500 million years.
2: Formation and dissociation events of gas hydrate and their influences on the environment of the Japan Sea.
Gas Hydrate Laboratory
Organization for the Strategic Coordination of Research and Intellectual Properties
Glen SNYDER
Research fields:
Geochemical research involving marine sediments and pore waters associated with gas hydrates (Sea of Japan, Peru Margin, Blake Ridge, Gulf of Mexico)
Halogen isotopes as tracers of source and age of geothermal fluids and deeply sourced brines (Atacama Desert, Chile; McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica; Central America; New Zealand).
Source and distribution of anthropogenic iodine-129.
Gas Hydrate Laboratory
Organization for the Strategic Coordination of Research and Intellectual Properties
Saeidi Ortakand Mahsa
Research fields:
Reconstructing biostratigraphy, paleaoceanography, and paleoenvironmental changes of marine sediments deposited at cold hydrocarbon seeps
Observing living (stained) benthic foraminifera species that can inhabit sulfidic, oxygen-depleted sediments and indicating their potential as proxy for methane fluxes in the geological records
Gas Hydrate Laboratory
Organization for the Strategic Coordination of Research and Intellectual Properties
Shiro Ohkawa
Research fields:
Characterization of gas chimney structures by high resolution 3D seismic method (HR3D).Investigation of BSRs(Bottom simulating reflectors) with respect to the distribution of gas hydrates.
Associate Professor
Department of Earth Sciences, Chiba University;
Hitoshi Tomaru
Research fields:
Geochemistry of the interstitial waters and hydrate waters
