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Hiroyuki Kitagawa

Hiroyuki Kitagawa

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3822
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Overview

Hiroyuki Kitagawa is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences with significant contributions in Environmental Science. Their research also spans several subfields including Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Archaeology.

The main topics of Kitagawa's work cover a diverse range of areas: geology and paleoclimatology research, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, geological formations and processes, isotope analysis in ecology, marine and environmental studies, marine animal studies overview, and Pacific and Southeast Asian studies.

Kitagawa's publication record includes research articles in prominent journals. Some recent papers include:

  • "The spatio-temporal structure of the Lateglacial to early Holocene transition reconstructed from the pollen record of Lake Suigetsu and its precise correlation with other key global archives: Implications for palaeoclimatology and archaeology" (2021, Global and Planetary Change)
  • "Revised chronology of the ICDP Dead Sea deep drill core relates drier-wetter-drier climate cycles to insolation over the past 220 kyr" (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • "Breakthrough in purification of fossil pollen for dating of sediments by a new large-particle on-chip sorter" (2021, Science Advances)
  • "Sedimentary evolution of a delta-margin mangrove in Can Gio, northeastern Mekong River delta, Vietnam" (2021, Marine Geology)
  • "A protocol for using attenuated total reflection Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy for pre-screening ancient bone collagen prior to radiocarbon dating" (2020, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry)

Frequently appearing publication venues where Kitagawa's work has been featured include Marine Geology, Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ), Global and Planetary Change, Science Advances, and Quaternary Science Reviews.

Collaborative efforts are an important aspect of Kitagawa's work. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Takushi Kishida
  • Pavel E. Tarasov
  • Achim Brauer
  • Long Van Nguyen
  • Thi Kim Oanh Ta

Best Publications

  • Atmospheric Radiocarbon Calibration to 45,000 yr B.P.: Late Glacial Fluctuations and Cosmogenic Isotope Production

    H. Kitagawa;van der Johannes Plicht

  • A complete terrestrial radiocarbon record for 11.2 to 52.8 kyr B.P

    Christopher Bronk Ramsey;Richard A. Staff;Charlotte L. Bryant;Fiona Brock

  • A 40,000-year varve chronology from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: Extension of the 14C calibration curve

    H Kitagawa;van der Johannes Plicht;W.G. Mook

  • The earliest record of major anthropogenic deforestation in the Ghab Valley, northwest Syria : a palynological study

    Yoshinori Yasuda;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Takeshi Nakagawa

  • Asynchronous climate changes in the North Atlantic and Japan during the last termination.

    Takeshi Nakagawa;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Yoshinori Yasuda;Pavel E. Tarasov

  • AMS 14C Dating of Varved Sediments from Lake Suigetsu, Central Japan and Atmospheric 14C Change During the Late Pleistocene

    Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Hitoshi Fukuzawa;Toshio Nakamura;Makoto Okamura

  • Atmospheric radiocarbon calibration beyond 11,900 cal BP from Lake Suigetsu laminated sediments

    Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Johannes van der Plicht

  • Sulfate reduction using methane in sediments beneath a bathyal cold seep giant clam community off Hatsushima Island, Sagami Bay, Japan

    Toshiyuki Masuzawa;Nobuhiko Handa;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Minoru Kusakabe

  • Lithology of the long sediment record recovered by the ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP)

    Ina Neugebauer;Achim Brauer;Markus J. Schwab;Nicolas D. Waldmann

  • Environmental archaeology at the Chengtoushan site, Hunan Province, China, and implications for environmental change and the rise and fall of the Yangtze River civilization

    Yoshinori Yasuda;Toshiyuki Fujiki;Hiroo Nasu;Megumi Kato

  • Climatic implications of δ13C variations in a Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) during the last two millenia

    Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Eiji Matsumoto

  • Northwest Pacific Marine Reservoir Correction Estimated from Annually Banded Coral from Ishigaki Island, Southern Japan

    Shinichiro Hideshima;Eiji Matsumoto;Osamu Abe;Hiroyuki Kitagawa

  • Pollen/event stratigraphy of the varved sediment of Lake Suigetsu, central Japan from 15,701 to 10,217 SG vyr BP (Suigetsu varve years before present): Description, interpretation, and correlation with other regions

    Takeshi Nakagawa;Takeshi Nakagawa;Takeshi Nakagawa;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Yoshinori Yasuda;Pavel E. Tarasov

  • Seasonally specific responses of the East Asian monsoon to deglacial climate changes

    Takeshi Nakagawa;Pavel E. Tarasov;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Yoshinori Yasuda

  • Lignin biomarker and isotopic records of paleovegetation and climate changes from Lake Erhai, southwest China, since 18.5kaBP

    Shafi M. Tareq;Shafi M. Tareq;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Keiichi Ohta

  • Pre-bomb marine reservoir ages in the western north Pacific: Preliminary result on Kyoto University collection

    Minoru Yoneda;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Johannes van der Plicht;Masao Uchida

  • Eolian quartz flux variations in Cheju Island, Korea, during the last 6500 yr and a possible Sun-monsoon linkage

    Jaesoo Lim;Eiji Matsumoto;Hiroyuki Kitagawa

  • Environmental magnetic record and paleosecular variation data for the last 40 kyrs from the Lake Biwa sediments, Central Japan

    Akira Hayashida;Mohammed Ali;Yoshiki Kuniko;Hiroyuki Kitagawa

  • The spatio-temporal structure of the Lateglacial to early Holocene transition reconstructed from the pollen record of Lake Suigetsu and its precise correlation with other key global archives: Implications for palaeoclimatology and archaeology

    Takeshi Nakagawa;Takeshi Nakagawa;Pavel Tarasov;Richard Staff;Richard Staff;Christopher Bronk Ramsey

  • Vegetation and climate history since the last interglacial in Kurota Lowland, western Japan

    Hikaru Takahara;Hiroyuki Kitagawa

  • Evidences for centennial dry periods at ~3300 and ~2800 cal. yr BP from micro-facies analyses of the Dead Sea sediments

    Ina Neugebauer;Achim Brauer;Markus J Schwab;Peter Dulski

  • Magnesium isotope analysis of different chlorophyll forms in marine phytoplankton using multi-collector ICP-MS

    Kongtae Ra;Hiroyuki Kitagawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshio Nakamura
Toshio Nakamura Nagoya University
Takeshi Nakagawa
Takeshi Nakagawa Ritsumeikan University
Pavel E. Tarasov
Pavel E. Tarasov Freie Universität Berlin
Achim Brauer
Achim Brauer University of Potsdam
Johannes van der Plicht
Johannes van der Plicht University of Groningen
Peter Dulski
Peter Dulski University of Potsdam
Richard A. Staff
Richard A. Staff Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Henry F. Lamb
Henry F. Lamb Aberystwyth University
Yasuyuki Shibata
Yasuyuki Shibata Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Yasushi Muraki
Yasushi Muraki Nagoya University

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