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Minoru Ikehara

Minoru Ikehara

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4266
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National Ranking
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Overview

Minoru Ikehara is a researcher affiliated with Kōchi University in Japan. Their work primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with substantial contributions to Environmental Science.

The scientist's research spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Geophysics, and Ocean Engineering. Their main topics of investigation cover areas such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

Minoru Ikehara has contributed to various publication venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Their recent papers include:

  • "Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as 101.5 million years" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Multi-decadal trends in Antarctic sea-ice extent driven by ENSO-SAM over the last 2,000 years" (2021, Nature Geoscience)
  • "Last Abundant Appearance Datum of Hemidiscus karstenii driven by climate change" (2020, Marine Micropaleontology)
  • "Antarctic Polar Front migrations in the Kerguelen Plateau region, Southern Ocean, over the past 360 kyrs" (2021, Global and Planetary Change)
  • "Innovative microfossil (radiolarian) analysis using a system for automated image collection and AI-based classification of species" (2020, Scientific Reports)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Akira Ijiri, Peter Blum, William E. N. Austin, James E T Channell, and David A Hodell. The repeated collaboration indicates a consistent research network involving these co-authors across multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Reconstruction of paleoproductivity in the Sea of Okhotsk over the last 30 kyr

    O. Seki;M. Ikehara;M. Ikehara;K. Kawamura;T. Nakatsuka

  • Ice-rafted debris (IRD)-based sea-ice expansion events during the past 100 kyrs in the Okhotsk Sea

    Tatsuhiko Sakamoto;M. Ikehara;K. Aoki;K. Iijima

  • Origin of magnetic mineral concentration variation in the Southern Ocean

    Toshitsugu Yamazaki;Minoru Ikehara

  • Rapid fluctuation of alkenone temperature in the southwestern Okhotsk Sea during the past 120 ky

    Naomi Harada;Naokazu Ahagon;Tatsuhiko Sakamoto;Masao Uchida

  • A 500,000 year record of Indian summer monsoon dynamics recorded by eastern equatorial Indian Ocean upper water-column structure

    Clara T. Bolton;Liao Chang;Steven C. Clemens;Kazuto Kodama

  • Late Quaternary paleoceanographic changes in the southwestern Okhotsk Sea: Evidence from geochemical, radiolarian, and diatom records

    Yusuke Okazaki;Kozo Takahashi;Kota Katsuki;Ayumu Ono

  • Weak monsoon event at 4.2 ka recorded in sediment from Lake Rara, Himalayas

    Atsunori Nakamura;Yusuke Yokoyama;Yusuke Yokoyama;Hideaki Maemoku;Hiroshi Yagi

  • Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as 101.5 million years

    Yuki Morono;Motoo Ito;Tatsuhiko Hoshino;Takeshi Terada

  • Coupled organic and inorganic carbon cycling in the deep subseafloor sediment of the northeastern Bering Sea Slope (IODP Exp. 323)

    Laura Mariana Wehrmann;Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Heather N Schrum;Emily A Walsh

  • Deep-biosphere methane production stimulated by geofluids in the Nankai accretionary complex

    Akira Ijiri;Fumio Inagaki;Yusuke Kubo;Rishi Ram Adhikari

  • Radiolarians under the seasonally sea-ice covered conditions in the Okhotsk Sea: flux and their implications for paleoceanography

    Yusuke Okazaki;Kozo Takahashi;Hiroshi Yoshitani;Takeshi Nakatsuka

  • Evidence of frictional melting from disk‐shaped black material, discovered within the Taiwan Chelungpu fault system

    Tetsuro Hirono;Minoru Ikehara;Kenshiro Otsuki;Toshiaki Mishima

  • Biogenic opal indicating less productive northwestern North Pacific during the glacial ages

    Hisashi Narita;Masayasu Sato;Shizuo Tsunogai;Masafumi Murayama

  • Solar forcing of centennial-scale East Asian winter monsoon variability in the mid- to late Holocene

    Takuya Sagawa;Michinobu Kuwae;Kentaro Tsuruoka;Yugo Nakamura

  • Precision of the current methods to measure the alkenone proxy U-37(K ') and absolute alkenone abundance in sediments: Results of an interlaboratory comparison study

    Antony Rosell-Melé;Edouard Bard;K.-C. Emeis;J. O. Grimalt

  • Middle Archean volcano-hydrothermal sequence: Bacterial microfossil-bearing 3.2 Ga Dixon Island Formation, coastal Pilbara terrane, Australia

    Shoichi Kiyokawa;Takashi Ito;Minoru Ikehara;Fumio Kitajima

  • Variation of alkenone sea surface temperature in the Sea of Okhotsk over the last 85 kyrs

    O Seki;K Kawamura;M Ikehara;T Nakatsuka

  • A chemical kinetic approach to estimate dynamic shear stress during the 1999 Taiwan Chi‐Chi earthquake

    Tetsuro Hirono;Tadashi Yokoyama;Yohei Hamada;Wataru Tanikawa

  • Variations of terrestrial input and marine productivity in the Southern Ocean (48°S) during the last two deglaciations

    Minoru Ikehara;Kimitaka Kawamura;Naohiko Ohkouchi;Masafumi Murayama

  • Alkenone sea surface temperature in the Southern Ocean for the last two deglaciations

    Minoru Ikehara;Kimitaka Kawamura;Naohiko Ohkouchi;Katsunori Kimoto

  • Multi-decadal trends in Antarctic sea-ice extent driven by ENSO–SAM over the last 2,000 years

    Xavier Crosta;Johan Etourneau;Johan Etourneau;Lisa C. Orme;Quentin Dalaiden

  • Correction to “Origin of magnetic mineral concentration variation in the Southern Ocean”

    Toshitsugu Yamazaki;Minoru Ikehara

Frequent Co-Authors

Yusuke Yokoyama
Yusuke Yokoyama University of Tokyo
Kozo Takahashi
Kozo Takahashi Hokusei Gakuen University
Kimitaka Kawamura
Kimitaka Kawamura Chubu University
Hiroshi Naraoka
Hiroshi Naraoka Kyushu University
Takeshi Nakatsuka
Takeshi Nakatsuka Nagoya University
Takuya Itaki
Takuya Itaki National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Yuji Sano
Yuji Sano Kōchi University
Masao Uchida
Masao Uchida National Institute for Environmental Studies
Yasuhiro Kato
Yasuhiro Kato University of Tokyo
Xavier Crosta
Xavier Crosta University of Bordeaux

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