OB &OG
| Dr Sci | Cheuk-Yin, Kelvin, Chan |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Hong Kong Univ Sci. Technol. |
| 2019.4-2020.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Distribution of dissolved trace metals during GEOTRACES Japan KH-17-3 cruise in th subarctic North Pacific |
| 2021.4-2025.3 | Dr program student |
| Dr thesis | Biogeochemical study of nine trace metals in the subarctic North Pacific |
| Mr Sci | Ryochi Kakimoto |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kyoto Univ |
| 2023.4-2025.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Study of an analytical method for dissolved palladium, platinum, and gold and its application to seawater |
| Mr Sci | Keisuke Yunoki |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kochi Univ |
| 2023.4-2025.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Study of stable isotope ratios of dissolved and particulate Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb in the western North Pacific |

| Dr Sci | Ryuta Ueki |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Hiroshima Univ |
| 2018.4-2020.3 | Master’s Program of Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima Univ |
| 2020.10-2021.3 | Research Student, ICR |
| 2021.4-2024.3 | Dr program student |
| Dr thesis | Marine geochemistry of zirconium, niobium, hafnium, and tantalum in the subarctic North Pacific and Indian Oceans |

| Technical Staff | Misato Iwase |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Miyazaki Univ |
| 2012.4-2014.3 | Master’s Program of Graduate School of Agriculture, Miyazaki Univ |
| 2018.6-2024.3 | Technical Staff, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto Univ |

| Mr Sci | Kota Isobe |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Osaka Kyoiku Univ |
| 2021.4-2023.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of analytical method for palladium, platinum, and gold in environmental water |

| Mr Sci | Hideo Kanamura |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Osaka Prefecture Univ College of Technol |
| 2021.4-2023.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development and application of isotope ratio analysis of Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb in seawater |

| Mr Sci | Tomomichi Tatsuyama |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Ryukyu Univ |
| 2020.4-2022.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Distribution of isotopes of Mo and W in the modern ocean |

| Mr Sci | Ayumi Nagae |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Osaka Kyoiku Univ |
| 2019.4-2021.9 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Distribution of stable isotope ratios of Ni, Cu, and Zn in the subarctic North Pacific |

| Dr Sci | Makoto Tsujisaka |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Osaka Kyoiku Univ |
| 2015.4-2017.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of analytical method for stable isotopes of molybdenum and tungsten in sediments and its application to sediments collected from the Sea of Japan |
| 2017.4-2020.3 | Dr program student |
| Dr thesis | Stable isotoe analysis of molybdenum and tungsten in sediments and its application to paleoceanographic study of the Japan Sea |

| Mr Sci | Mao Tsuchiya |
|---|---|
| Graduated | International Christian Univ. |
| 2018.4-2020.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of stable isotope analysis of Ni, Cu, and Zn and its application to natural waters in Japan |

| Mr Sci | Yuta Fujiwara |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Osaka Kyoiku Univ |
| 2018.4-2020.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of stable isotoe analysis of tungsten in seawater and its application to a vertical profile in the western North Pacific |

| Dr Sci | Shigeo Umetani |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kyoto Univ |
| Speciality | Separation chemistry, analytical chemistry |
| 1983.4-1995.2 | Assistant Prof, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto Univ |
| 1995.3-2019.3 | Associate Prof, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto Univ |

| Mr Sci | Yuriko Tanaka |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Osaka Kyoiku Univ |
| 2017.4-2019.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of precise analytical method for Zr, Hf, Nb, and Ta in seawater and its application to seawater collected from the North Pacific Ocean |
| Dr Eng | Tomoharu Minami |
|---|---|
| Speciality | Analytical chemistry |
| Graduated | Kanazawa Univ |
| 2002.3-2018.3 | Technician, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto Univ |
| Present position | Technician, Kanazawa Univ |

| Mr Sci | Shutaro Okita |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Shinshu Univ |
| 2016.4-2018.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Highly selective solid-phase extraction for group 13 elements and zinc by β-diketon ligands adsorbed on XAD7 resin |

| Mr Sci | Yuhei Otsuka |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Osaka Kyoiku Univ |
| 2016.4-2018.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Changes in dissolved trace metals in the northern basin of Lake Biwa |

| Mr Sci | Wataru Uehara |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kyushu Univ |
| 2015.4-2017.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of isotopic ratio analysis of Ni, Cu, and Zn in seawater using an automated concentration system |

| Mr Sci | Masanobu Sasaki |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Shizuoka Univ |
| 2014.4-2016.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of an analytical method for Au in seawater on the basis of chelating adsorbent and high resolution ICP mass spectrometry |

| Mr Sci | Rena Murata |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Doshisha Univ |
| 2014.4-2016.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of stable isotope ratio analysis for tungsten in seawater |

| Mari Tsuji | |
| 2014.6.1-2016.2.29 | Secretary |
| Chisato Masuda | |
| 2010.8.1- | Secretary |
| 2014.5.31 | |

| Mr Sci | Shimpei Kawahara |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kyoto Gakuen Univ |
| 2012.4-2014.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Solvent extraction and solid-phase extraction for alkaline metal ions using highly acidic β-diketons and hydrophobic neutral ligands |

| Mr Sci | Wataru Konagaya |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kyoto Univ |
| 2012.4-2014.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Distribution of bioactive trace metals in the subarctic North Pacific Ocean |
| B Sci | Shota Nishimoto |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kyoto Univ |
| 2013.4-2013.9 | Mr program student |

| Mr Sci | Jun Yamamoto |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kyoto Univ |
| 2010.4-2012.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Preconcentration by solid extraction-evaporation and determination by HR-ICP-MS of Pd, Pt, and Au in seawater |
| 2012.4-2013.6 | Dr program student |
| Dr Sci | Kazuhiro Norisuye |
|---|---|
| Speciality | Maine chemistry, analytical chemistry |
| Graduated | Kyoto Univ |
| 1997.4-1999.3 | Mr program student |
| 1999.4-2001.3 | Dr program student |
| Dr thesis | Development of analytical methods for long half-life artificial radioactive nuclides in seawater and origin analysis of Pu isotopes |
| 2001.4-2006.3 | Res Associate, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto Univ |
| 2006.4-2013.3 | Assistant Prof, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto Univ |
| Present position | Assoc Prof, Faculty of Science, Niigata Univ |

| Mr Sci | Shouhei Ichiwaki |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kyoto Univ |
| 2011.4-2013.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Optimization of isotopic analysis of molybdenum and tungsten in sediments |

| Mr Sci | Hiroaki Fujisaka |
|---|---|
| Graduated | The Univ of Tokushima |
| 2011.4-2013.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Ocean circulation of high field strength elements (Zr, Hf, Nb and Ta) and effects of aeolian dust |
| Dr Sci | Abigail Parcasio Cid |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Univ of the Philippines, Philippines |
| 2008.10-2012.3 | Dr program student |
| Dr thesis | Stoichiometry among bioactive trace metals in the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean |
| Present position | Faculty of the Polytechnic Univ. of the Philippines |
| Mr Sci | Vu Thi Dieu Huong |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Hue Univ, Vietnam |
| 2010.4-2012.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Distribution and behavior of dissolved bioactive trace metals in the Indian Ocean |

| Mr Sci | Yukari Sasaki |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Tohoku Univ |
| 2010.4-2012.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Molecular design of β-diketone extraction-reagents for mutual separation of group 13 metal ions |
| Mr Sci | Yusuke Nakashima |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kyoto Univ |
| 2009.4-2011.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Deoxygenation and dynamics of trace elements in Lake Biwa |
| Mr Sci | Yui Morishima |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Shizuoka Univ |
| 2009.4-2011.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development and application of paleoceanographic proxy using Mo isotopes in sediments |
| Mr Sci | Kazuya Watanabe |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Himeji Institute of Technology |
| 2009.4-2011.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Study of hybrid materials for separation chemistry |
| Dr Sci | Mochamad Lutfi Firdaus |
|---|---|
| Speciality | Environmental geochemistry |
| Graduated | Bengkulu Univ, Indonesia |
| 2004.4.1-9.30 | Research student |
| 2004.10.1-2007. 9.25 | Dr program student |
| Dr thesis | Determination of Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, Mo and W and its distribution in the ocean |
| 2007.10.1-2010.9.30 | Assist Prof, Laboratory of Trace Elemental Tomography, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto Univ |
| Present position | Assoc Prof, Department of Chemistry, Bengkulu Univ |
| Nahoko Okuda | |
| 2009.4.1-2010.7.31 | Secretary |
| Dr Sci | Yuusuke Nakagawa |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kyoto Univ |
| 2005.4-2007.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of chelating resin column-extraction for precise isotopic analysis of molybdenum and tungsten in seawater |
| 2007.4-2010.3 | Dr program student |
| Dr thesis | Marine geochemistry of Mo and W isotopes |

| Mr Sci | Kengo Sato |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kobe Univ |
| 2008.4-2010.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Determination of Pd, Pt and Au in seawater on the basis of chelating solid-extraction and high resolution ICP-MS |
| Mr Sci | Masahito Tanigawa |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kyoto Institute of Technology |
| 2008.4-2010.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Synthesis of new acyl-pyrazolones with bulky substituents and highly selective solvent extraction of metal ions |
| Mr Sci | Taro Okabe |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Doshisha Univ |
| 2007.4-2009.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of organic and inorganic hybrid-adsorbents for metal ions on the basis of ion imprinting |

| Mr Sci | Shinsuke Nishida |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Okayama Univ |
| 2007.4-2009.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | An analytical method for molybdenum and tungsten in sediments and its application to reconstruction of redox history in the Sea of Japan |

| Mr Sci | Eri Higo |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Nara Women's Univ |
| 2007.4-2009.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Sectional distribution of bioactive trace metals in the Southern Ocean |
| Taeko Hirai | |
| 2005.4-2009.3 | Secretary |
| Dr Sci | Kensuke Kurahashi |
|---|---|
| Speciality | Analytical separation chemistry |
| Graduated | Kyoto Univ |
| 2001.4-2003.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Solvent extraction of divalent transition metal ions using chelating ligands with crown ether substituents |
| 2003.4-2008.3 | Dr program student |
| Dr thesis | Study on extraction systems using specific complexation of cyclic ligands for metal ions |
| Present position | Lecturer, Osaka Prefecture Univ College of Technology |
| Dr Sci | Seiji Nakatsuka |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kyoto Univ of Education |
| 2003.4-2005.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Dynamics of trace metals during the mesoscale iron enrichment experiment SEEDS2001 and SEEDS II in the subarctic North Pacific Ocean |
| 2005.4-2008.3 | Dr program student |
| Dr thesis | Study on speciation of trace metals in seawater and their interaction with marine ecosystems |
| Mr Sci | Keiko Inada |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kwansei Gakuin Univ |
| 2006.4-2008.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of an analytical method for precious metal elements in seawater using a novel chelating resin |
| Mr Sci | Tomohiro Kono |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Osaka Univ |
| 2006.4-2008.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Bioactive trace metals and their interaction with extracellular hydrolase activity in the western subtropical North Pacific |
| Mr Sci | Akiyoshi Shimizu |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Shinshu Univ |
| 2006.4-2008.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of an analytical separation method for ferrous ion in natural water |
| Dr Sci | Yoshihiro Sasaki |
|---|---|
| Graduated | |
| 1968.4-1970.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Mossbauer spectra of Fe(II)(a-dioxime) 2X2 type complex |
| 1970.4-1973.3 | Dr program student |
| Dr thesis | Study on synthesis and characterization of complexes with 2-(2-pyridyl)imidazole and 2-(2-pyridyl)benzimidazole |
| 1973.4-2007.3 | Assistant Prof, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto Univ |

| Mr Sci | Syouhei Urushihara |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Osaka Prefecture Univ |
| 2005.4-2007.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Optimization of column extraction for multielemental analysis of seawater and its application to seawater collected from the Bering Sea |

| Mr Sci | Daisuke Terui |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kyoto Univ |
| 2005.4-2007.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of an analytical method for Mo/W ratio in sediments as a novel paleoceanography proxy and its application to a sediment core collected from the Sea of Japan |
| Dr Sci | Kei Okamura |
|---|---|
| Speciality | Analytical chemistry, geochemistry |
| Graduated | Kyoto Univ |
| 2000.7-2006.3 | Assistant Prof, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto Univ |
| Present position | Prof, Research and Education Faculty, Multidisciplinary Science Cluster, Interdisciplinary Science Unit, Kochi Univ |
| Mr Sci | Masatoshi Kinugasa |
|---|---|
| Graduated | |
| 2000.4-2002.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Dynamics of trace metals during the mesoscale iron enrichment experiment SEEDS2001 in the subarctic North Pacific Ocean |
| 2002.4-2006.3 | Dr program student |
| Mr Sci | Taishi Sato |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Keio Univ |
| 2004.4-2006.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of an analytical method for precious metal elements in seawater and their distribution in the western North Pacific Ocean |
| Mr Sci | Yuusuke Taguchi |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kochi Univ |
| 2004.4-2006.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of adsorbents for metal ions on the basis of ion imprinting |
| Mr Sci | Takahiro Matsunari |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kyoto Univ |
| 2004.4-2006.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Distribution of bioactive trace metals around the Antarctic Front at 150°E |
| Masako Kokubo | |
| 2002.4-2005.3 | Secretary |
| Mr Sci | Kentaro Yanai |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Yamaguchi Univ |
| 2003.4-2005.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | In situ flow analysis of alkalinity and total carbonate in seawater |
| Mr Sci | Xiaodong Lai |
|---|---|
| Graduated | |
| 2003.4-2005.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Distribution of bioactive trace metals in the Australia sector of the Southern Ocean |
| Dr Sci | Tsuyoshi Kitano |
|---|---|
| Graduated | Kanazawa Univ |
| 2001.4-2004.3 | Dr program student |
| Dr thesis | Selective separation of transition metal ions using tripodal tridentate polypyrazolylborates |
| Mr Sci | Masako Ezoe |
|---|---|
| Graduated | |
| 2002.4-2004.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of analytical method for dissolved and acid dissolvable bioactive trace metals in seawater and its application to the study on distribution in the North Pacific Ocean |
| Mr Sci | Hirofumi Matsumoto |
|---|---|
| Graduated | |
| 2001.4-2003.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Study on synergistic extraction of metal ions using multidentate neutral ligands with a phosphine oxide group |
| Mr Sci | Michi Mikata |
|---|---|
| Graduated | |
| 2001.4-2003.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of analytical method for dissolved Zr, Nb, Hf, Ta, and W in seawater and its application to the study on distribution in the western North Pacific Ocean |
| Dr Sci | Masaaki Suzuki |
|---|---|
| Graduated | |
| 2002.4-2002.9 | Mr program student |
| Yuka Nishikawa | |
| 1999. -2002.3 | Secretary |
| Dr Sci | Saeko Mito |
|---|---|
| Speciality | Geochemistry |
| Graduated | |
| 1995.4-1997.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Study on the dynamics of dissolved inorganic species in Lake Biwa |
| 1997.4-2002.3 | Dr program student |
| Dr thesis | Cycling of trace elements in Lake Biwa |
| Present position | Senior Researcher, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth |
| Dr Sci | Kanako Naito |
|---|---|
| Speciality | Hydrospheric chemistry, algology, analytical chemistry |
| Graduated | |
| 1997.4-1999.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Search for siderophore produced by phytoplankton |
| 1999.4-2002.3 | Dr program student |
| Dr thesis | Study on iron uptake mechanism of eukaryotic phytoplankton under iron-depleted conditions |
| Present position | Associate Prof, Prefectural Univ of Hiroshim |
| Mr Sci | Koichi Kishida |
|---|---|
| Graduated | |
| 2000.4-2002.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Behaviour of trace metals in hydrothermal fluids collected from Izu-Ogasawara arc and Okinawa Trough |
| Mr Sci | Shinich Yoshimoto |
|---|---|
| Graduated | |
| 2000.4-2002.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Development of a Cu(II) selective electrode using polypyrazolylmethane |
| Mr | Hiroshi Hatanaka |
|---|---|
| Graduated | The Univ of Shiga Prefecture |
| 2000.4-2002.3 | Mr program student, The Univ of Shiga Prefecture |
| Mr thesis | Development of an in situ analyzer for long-term submarine observation and its application to the observation of Mn around a hydrothermal system at the Suiyo Seamount, Izu-Ogasawara Arc |
| Mr Sci | Makoto Ito |
|---|---|
| Graduated | |
| 1999.4-2001.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Study on novel solvent-extraction systems of metal ions |
| Mr Sci | Misato Shinoura |
|---|---|
| Graduated | |
| 1999.4-2001.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Effects of dissolved iron species on the growth of marine phytoplankton |
| Mr Sci | Shinichiro Shimojyo |
|---|---|
| Graduated | |
| 1999.4-2001.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Synthesis of novel b-diketone derivatives with macro-cyclic substituents as intramolecular synergist and its application to extraction of metal ions |
| Dr Sci | Mitsuko Suzuki |
|---|---|
| Graduated | |
| -2000.12.2 | Technician, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto Univ |
| Dr Sci | Hiroshi Hasegawa |
|---|---|
| Speciality | Environmental chemistry, geochemistry, hydrospheric chemistry, trace analysis chemistry |
| Graduated | Kyoto Univ |
| 1991.4-1993.3 | Mr program student |
| Mr thesis | Study on the speciation and cycling of arsenic in the hydrosphere |
| 1993.4-1996.3 | Dr program student |
| Dr thesis | Seasonal changes in arsenic speciation in hydrosphere |
| 1996.4-2000.9 | Assistant Prof, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto Univ |
| Present position | Prof, Faculty of Chemistry, Institute of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa Univ |









