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Takahiro Hosono

Takahiro Hosono

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Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
4101
World Ranking
6643
National Ranking
191

Overview

Takahiro Hosono is affiliated with Kumamoto University in Japan and is active in research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science.

The scientist's work spans key topics including:

  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Takahiro Hosono include:

  • "Multiscale groundwater level forecasting: Coupling new machine learning approaches with wavelet transforms" (2020), published in Advances in Water Resources
  • "Stable isotopes show that earthquakes enhance permeability and release water from mountains" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Changes in groundwater radon concentrations caused by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake" (2020), published in Journal of Hydrology
  • "Self-organizing map improves understanding on the hydrochemical processes in aquifer systems" (2022), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Identification of changes in subsurface temperature and groundwater flow after the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake using long-term well temperature-depth profiles" (2020), published in Journal of Hydrology

Frequent co-authors working alongside Takahiro Hosono include:

  • Ryuichi Shinjo
  • A. T. M. Sakiur Rahman
  • Jun Shimada
  • Jun Yasumoto
  • Ko Yasumoto

Research is regularly published in specialized venues such as:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • Chemical Geology
  • Scientific Reports

The scientist's contributions mainly focus on groundwater systems, hydrochemical processes, and the environmental impacts of seismic activity. Integration of machine learning techniques for hydrological forecasting is a notable component of their recent work.

Best Publications

  • Sources of nitrate and ammonium contamination in groundwater under developing Asian megacities

    Yu Umezawa;Takahiro Hosono;Shin ichi Onodera;Fernando Siringan

  • The use of δ15N and δ18O tracers with an understanding of groundwater flow dynamics for evaluating the origins and attenuation mechanisms of nitrate pollution

    Takahiro Hosono;Takahiro Tokunaga;Makoto Kagabu;Haruhiko Nakata

  • Multiscale groundwater level forecasting: Coupling new machine learning approaches with wavelet transforms

    A.T.M. Sakiur Rahman;Takahiro Hosono;John M. Quilty;Jayanta Das

  • Decline in heavy metal contamination in marine sediments in Jakarta Bay, Indonesia due to increasing environmental regulations

    Takahiro Hosono;Chih Chieh Su;Robert Delinom;Yu Umezawa

  • Multiple isotope (H, O, N, S and Sr) approach elucidates complex pollution causes in the shallow groundwaters of the Taipei urban area

    Takahiro Hosono;Chung Ho Wang;Yu Umezawa;Takanori Nakano

  • Impact of fertilizer on a small watershed of Lake Biwa: use of sulfur and strontium isotopes in environmental diagnosis.

    Takahiro Hosono;Takanori Nakano;Akitake Igeta;Ichiro Tayasu

  • Temporal characteristics of groundwater chemistry affected by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake using self-organizing maps

    Kei Nakagawa;Zhi Qiang Yu;Ronny Berndtsson;Takahiro Hosono

  • Evaluation of groundwater quality and its suitability for drinking, domestic, and agricultural uses in the Banana Plain (Mbanga, Njombe, Penja) of the Cameroon Volcanic Line

    Andrew Ako Ako;Jun Shimada;Takahiro Hosono;Kimpei Ichiyanagi

  • Effects of intensive urbanization on the intrusion of shallow groundwater into deep groundwater: examples from Bangkok and Jakarta.

    Shin ichi Onodera;Mitsuyo Saito;Misa Sawano;Takahiro Hosono

  • Spring water quality and usability in the Mount Cameroon area revealed by hydrogeochemistry

    Andrew Ako Ako;Jun Shimada;Takahiro Hosono;Makoto Kagabu

  • Effect of agriculture on water quality of Lake Biwa tributaries, Japan

    Takanori Nakano;Ichiro Tayasu;Yoshihiro Yamada;Takahiro Hosono

  • Controlling factors and driving mechanisms of nitrate contamination in groundwater system of Bandung Basin, Indonesia, deduced by combined use of stable isotope ratios, CFC age dating, and socioeconomic parameters.

    Ahmad Taufiq;Ahmad Taufiq;Agus J. Effendi;Irwan Iskandar;Takahiro Hosono

  • Combined use of δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S tracers to study anaerobic bacterial processes in groundwater flow systems

    Takahiro Hosono;Takahiro Tokunaga;Akane Tsushima;Jun Shimada

  • Salt weathering of sandstone at the Angkor monuments, Cambodia: identification of the origins of salts using sulfur and strontium isotopes

    Takahiro Hosono;Etsuo Uchida;Chiyuki Suda;Akiyo Ueno

  • Groundwater nitrate contamination in an area using urban wastewaters for agricultural irrigation under arid climate condition, southeast of Tehran, Iran

    Zohre Nejatijahromi;Zohre Nejatijahromi;Hamid Reza Nassery;Takahiro Hosono;Mohammad Nakhaei

  • Nitrate contamination of groundwater in two areas of the Cameroon Volcanic Line (Banana Plain and Mount Cameroon area)

    Andrew Ako Ako;Gloria Eneke Takem Eyong;Jun Shimada;Katsuaki Koike

  • Coseismic Groundwater Drawdown Along Crustal Ruptures During the 2016 Mw 7.0 Kumamoto Earthquake

    T. Hosono;C. Yamada;T. Shibata;Y. Tawara

  • Effects of environmental regulations on heavy metal pollution decline in core sediments from Manila Bay.

    Takahiro Hosono;Chih Chieh Su;Fernando Siringan;Atsuko Amano

  • Nitrogen, carbon, and sulfur isotopic change during heterotrophic (Pseudomonas aureofaciens) and autotrophic (Thiobacillus denitrificans) denitrification reactions.

    Takahiro Hosono;Kelly Alvarez;In Tian Lin;Jun Shimada

  • Stable isotopes show that earthquakes enhance permeability and release water from mountains.

    Takahiro Hosono;Chisato Yamada;Michael Manga;Chi-Yuen Wang

  • Erratum to “Sources of nitrate and ammonium contamination in groundwater under developing Asian megacities”

    Yu Umezawa;Takahiro Hosono;Shin ichi Onodera;Fernando Siringan

Frequent Co-Authors

Makoto Taniguchi
Makoto Taniguchi Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Ichiro Tayasu
Ichiro Tayasu Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Jens Hartmann
Jens Hartmann Universität Hamburg
Toshi Nagata
Toshi Nagata University of Tokyo
Michael E. Böttcher
Michael E. Böttcher Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Haruhiko Nakata
Haruhiko Nakata Kumamoto University
Ronny Berndtsson
Ronny Berndtsson Lund University
Pascale Louvat
Pascale Louvat Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Takuro Niidome
Takuro Niidome Kumamoto University
Michael Manga
Michael Manga University of California, Berkeley

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