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Hajime Obata

Hajime Obata

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Earth Science

D-Index
42
Citations
5588
World Ranking
5347
National Ranking
139

Overview

Hajime Obata is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research emphasizes Oceanography, which forms a significant part of their scholarly work, alongside studies in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Atmospheric Science.

Their primary research themes include marine and coastal ecosystems, marine biology and ecology research, mercury impact and mitigation studies, methane hydrates and related phenomena, geochemistry and elemental analysis, heavy metals in the environment, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Obata's research outputs are published in various scientific venues, with frequent publications in Marine Chemistry, Journal of Oceanography, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, and Scientific Reports. These journals reflect the environmental and marine science context of their work.

Recent publications highlight aspects of biogeochemical cycles, ocean nutrient transport, and trace metal dynamics in the North Pacific. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Subpolar marginal seas fuel the North Pacific through the intermediate water at the termination of the global ocean circulation," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Shelf humic substances as carriers for basin-scale iron transport in the North Pacific," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "A review: iron and nutrient supply in the subarctic Pacific and its impact on phytoplankton production," 2021, Journal of Oceanography
  • "Widespread distribution of allochthonous fluorescent dissolved organic matter in the intermediate water of the North Pacific," 2020, Progress In Oceanography
  • "Slowly Sinking Particles Underlie Dissolved Iron Transport Across the Pacific Ocean," 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Collaboration is notable in Obata's work, with frequent coauthors including Jun Nishioka, Kuo Hong Wong, Hiroshi Ogawa, Asami S. Mashio, and Shigenobu Takeda.

Best Publications

  • Automated determination of iron in seawater by chelating resin concentration and chemiluminescence detection

    Hajime. Obata;Hajime. Karatani;Eiichiro. Nakayama

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Developing standards for dissolved iron in seawater

    Kenneth S. Johnson;Edward Boyle;Kenneth Bruland;Kenneth Coale

  • Sampling and Sample-handling Protocols for GEOTRACES Cruises

    G. Cutter;P. Andersson;Lou Codispoti;P. Croot

  • Evidence of an extensive spread of hydrothermal dissolved iron in the Indian Ocean

    Jun Nishioka;Hajime Obata;Daisuke Tsumune

  • Hydrothermal fluid geochemistry at the Iheya North field in the mid-Okinawa trough: Implication for origin of methane in subseafloor fluid circulation systems

    Shinsuke Kawagucci;Shinsuke Kawagucci;Hitoshi Chiba;Jun Ichiro Ishibashi;Toshiro Yamanaka

  • Colorimetric Detection of Mercury(II) Ion in Aqueous Solution Using Silver Nanoparticles

    M. Lutfi Firdaus;Ikka Fitriani;Santhy Wyantuti;Yeni W. Hartati

  • Determination of trace elements in seawater by fluorinated metal alkoxide glass-immobilized 8-hydroxyquinoline concentration and high-resolution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry detection

    Yoshiki Sohrin;Shun-ichi Iwamoto;Shoji Akiyama;Takeshi Fujita

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2014

    Edward Mawji;Reiner Schlitzer;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Cyril Abadie

  • Anthropogenic Lead Emissions in the Ocean: The Evolving Global Experiment

    Jong-Mi Lee;Yolanda Echegoyen;Gonzalo Carrasco;Ning Zhao

  • Evidence for the grazing hypothesis: Grazing reduces phytoplankton responses of the HNLC ecosystem to iron enrichment in the western subarctic pacific (SEEDS II)

    Atsushi Tsuda;Shigenobu Takeda;Hiroaki Saito;Jun Nishioka

  • Subpolar marginal seas fuel the North Pacific through the intermediate water at the termination of the global ocean circulation.

    Jun Nishioka;Hajime Obata;Hiroshi Ogawa;Kazuya Ono

  • Geochemical origin of hydrothermal fluid methane in sediment-associated fields and its relevance to the geographical distribution of whole hydrothermal circulation

    Shinsuke Kawagucci;Shinsuke Kawagucci;Yuichiro Ueno;Yuichiro Ueno;Ken Takai;Tomohiro Toki

  • Response of equatorial Pacific phytoplankton to subnanomolar Fe enrichment

    Shigenobu Takeda;Hajime Obata

  • Hydrothermal impacts on trace element and isotope ocean biogeochemistry

    Christopher R. German;Karen L. Casciotti;Jean-Claude Dutay;Lars-Eric Heimburger

  • Eastߞwest gradients in the photosynthetic potential of phytoplankton and iron concentration in the subarctic Pacific Ocean during early summer

    Koji Suzuki;Hongbin Liu;Toshiro Saino;Hajime Obata

  • The distribution of Fe in the Australian sector of the Southern Ocean

    Y. Sohrin;S. Iwamoto;M. Matsui;H. Obata

  • High-resolution measurement of multiple volatile organic compounds dissolved in seawater using equilibrator inlet-proton transfer reaction-mass spectrometry (EI-PTR-MS)

    Sohiko Kameyama;Hiroshi Tanimoto;Satoshi Inomata;Urumu Tsunogai

  • Hydrothermal plumes at the Rodriguez triple junction, Indian ridge

    Toshitaka Gamo;Eiichiro Nakayama;Kiminori Shitashima;Kenji Isshiki

  • Tritium in Japanese precipitation following the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant accident.

    Takuya Matsumoto;Teruyuki Maruoka;Gen Shimoda;Hajime Obata

  • Development of a deep-sea in situ Mn analyzer and its application for hydrothermal plume observation

    Kei Okamura;Hideshi Kimoto;Kazuyoshi Saeki;Junichiro Ishibashi

  • Dissolved iron distribution in the western and central subarctic Pacific: HNLC water formation and biogeochemical processes

    Jun Nishioka;Hajime Obata

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshitaka Gamo
Toshitaka Gamo University of Tokyo
Jun Nishioka
Jun Nishioka Hokkaido University
Shigenobu Takeda
Shigenobu Takeda Nagasaki University
Yuji Sano
Yuji Sano Kōchi University
Urumu Tsunogai
Urumu Tsunogai Nagoya University
Youhei Yamashita
Youhei Yamashita Hokkaido University
Yoshiyuki Nozaki
Yoshiyuki Nozaki University of Tokyo
Naoto Takahata
Naoto Takahata University of Tokyo
Mitsuo Uematsu
Mitsuo Uematsu University of Tokyo
Yoshiki Sohrin
Yoshiki Sohrin Kyoto University

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