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Ken Ikehara is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research spans multiple aspects of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable contributions to the fields of Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Earth-Surface Processes, and Geology.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological Formations and Processes
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis

Ken Ikehara has frequently published in several scientific venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Marine Geology
  • Nature Communications

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by Ken Ikehara include:

  • "Event-dominated transport, provenance, and burial of organic carbon in the Japan Trench," 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Repeated occurrence of surface-sediment remobilization along the landward slope of the Japan Trench by great earthquakes," 2020, Earth Planets and Space
  • "Isotopic and sedimentary signature of megathrust ruptures along the Japan subduction margin," 2020, Marine Geology
  • "Multivariate Statistical and Multiproxy Constraints on Earthquake-Triggered Sediment Remobilization Processes in the Central Japan Trench," 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "Characteristics and distribution of the event deposits induced by the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake and tsunami offshore of Sanriku and Sendai, Japan," 2020, Sedimentary Geology

The scientist has also contributed to academic books published by:

  • Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. Expedition reports (including "Japan Trench Paleoseismology," 2023)
  • Preliminary report (including "Expedition 386 Preliminary Report: Japan Trench Paleoseismology," 2023)

Ken Ikehara collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Michael Strasser
  • Toshiya Kanamatsu
  • Takuya Itaki
  • Kan-Hsi Hsiung
  • Arata Kioka

Best Publications

  • Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences

    Yasuhiro Yamada;Kiichiro Kawamura;Ken Ikehara;Yujiro Ogawa

  • Transgressive and highstand systems tracts and post-glacial transgression, the East China Sea

    Yoshiki Saito;Hajime Katayama;Ken Ikehara;Yoshihisa Kato

  • Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences

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  • Abrupt ventilation changes in the Japan Sea over the last 30 ky: Evidence from deep-dwelling radiolarians

    Takuya Itaki;Ken Ikehara;Isao Motoyama;Shiro Hasegawa

  • Documenting large earthquakes similar to the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake from sediments deposited in the Japan Trench over the past 1500 years

    Ken Ikehara;Toshiya Kanamatsu;Yoshitaka Nagahashi;Michael Strasser

  • Rock-magnetic changes with reduction diagenesis in Japan Sea sediments and preservation of geomagnetic secular variation in inclination during the last 30,000 years

    Toshitsugu Yamazaki;Abdelaziz L. Abdeldayem;Ken Ikehara

  • Orbital-scale stratigraphy and high-resolution analysis of biogenic components and deep-water oxygenation conditions in the Japan Sea during the last 640 kyr

    Yoshiki Kido;Ikue Minami;Ryuji Tada;Kazuho Fujine

  • Sediment fabrics, oxygenation history, and circulation modes of Japan Sea during the Late Quaternary

    Satoko Watanabe;Ryuji Tada;Ken Ikehara;Kazuho Fujine

  • Late Quaternary Seasonal Sea-Ice History of the Northeastern Japan Sea

    K. E. N. Ikehara

  • A slump in the trench:Tracking the impact of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

    M. Strasser;M. Kölling;C. dos Santos Ferreira;H.G. Fink

  • Changes in biological production in the mixed water region (MWR) of the northwestern North Pacific during the last 27 kyr

    Kayo Minoshima;Hodaka Kawahata;Hodaka Kawahata;Ken Ikehara

  • Possible submarine tsunami deposits on the outer shelf of Sendai Bay, Japan resulting from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami off the Pacific coast of Tohoku

    Ken Ikehara;Tomohisa Irino;Kazuko Usami;Robert Jenkins

  • Marine sediments and late Quaternary stratigraphy in the southeastern part of the Japan Sea. Concerning the timing of dark layer deposition.

    Takeshi Nakajima;Kiyoshi Kikkawa;Ken Ikehara;Hajime Katayama

  • A 6600 year earthquake history in the region of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone earthquake

    Jason R. Patton;Chris Goldfinger;Ann E. Morey;Ken Ikehara

  • Megathrust earthquake drives drastic organic carbon supply to the hadal trench

    A. Kioka;T. Schwestermann;J. Moernaut;K. Ikehara

  • Millennial-scale fluctuations in seasonal sea-ice and deep-water formation in the Japan Sea during the late Quaternary

    Ken Ikehara;Takuya Itaki

  • Paleomagnetic record from Academician Ridge, Lake Baikal: a reversal excursion at the base of marine oxygen isotope stage 6

    H Oda;K Nakamura;K Ikehara;T Nakano

  • Late Quaternary changes in intermediate water oxygenation and oxygen minimum zone, northern Japan: A benthic foraminiferal perspective

    Akihiko Shibahara;Ken'ichi Ohkushi;James P. Kennett;Ken Ikehara

  • Middle to late Holocene changes of the Okhotsk Sea Intermediate Water and their relation to atmospheric circulation

    Takuya Itaki;Ken Ikehara

  • Event Stratigraphy in a Hadal Oceanic Trench: The Japan Trench as Sedimentary Archive Recording Recurrent Giant Subduction Zone Earthquakes and Their Role in Organic Carbon Export to the Deep Sea

    Arata Kioka;Arata Kioka;Tobias Schwestermann;Jasper Moernaut;Ken Ikehara

  • Integrated tephrostratigraphy and stable isotope stratigraphy in the Japan Sea and East China Sea using IODP Sites U1426, U1427, and U1429, Expedition 346 Asian Monsoon

    Takuya Sagawa;Yoshitaka Nagahashi;Yasufumi Satoguchi;Ann Holbourn

  • Distribution and origin of subaqueous dunes on the shelf of Japan

    Ken Ikehara;Yasumasa Kinoshita

  • Intermediate water ventilation change in the subarctic northwest Pacific during the last deglaciation

    Takuya Sagawa;Ken Ikehara

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Strasser
Michael Strasser University of Innsbruck
Juichiro Ashi
Juichiro Ashi University of Tokyo
Ryuji Tada
Ryuji Tada University of Tokyo
Takuya Itaki
Takuya Itaki National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Shuichi Kodaira
Shuichi Kodaira Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Masanobu Yamamoto
Masanobu Yamamoto Hokkaido University
Richard W. Murray
Richard W. Murray Boston University
Masao Uchida
Masao Uchida National Institute for Environmental Studies

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