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Takuya Itaki is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research spans a wide range of topics within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Geophysics, Oceanography, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's recent publications cover various aspects of geological and environmental phenomena, including the formal ratification of stratigraphic sections, polar front migrations, ocean circulation near Antarctic ice shelves, and microfossil analysis. Selected papers include:

  • "Formal ratification of the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Chibanian Stage and Middle Pleistocene Subseries of the Quaternary System: the Chiba Section, Japan," 2021, Episodes
  • "Antarctic Polar Front migrations in the Kerguelen Plateau region, Southern Ocean, over the past 360 kyrs," 2021, Global and Planetary Change
  • "On-shelf circulation of warm water toward the Totten Ice Shelf in East Antarctica," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Polycystine Radiolarians Vertical Distribution in the Subtropical Northwest Pacific during Spring 2015 (KS15-4)," 2020, Paleontological Research
  • "Automated collection of single species of microfossils using a deep learning-micromanipulator system," 2020, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Frequent co-authors of Takuya Itaki include:

  • Ken Ikehara
  • Yasufumi Satoguchi
  • Rui Bao
  • Michael Strasser
  • Piero Bellanova

Key publication venues associated with their work are:

  • BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • Marine Geology
  • Nature Communications

The main topics covered by their research include:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Best Publications

  • The Pliocene to recent history of the Kuroshio and Tsushima Currents: a multi-proxy approach

    Stephen J. Gallagher;Akihisa Kitamura;Yasufumi Iryu;Takuya Itaki

  • 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

  • Last Glacial–Holocene change in intermediate-water ventilation in the Northwestern Pacific

    Ken’ichi Ohkushi;Takuya Itaki;Naoki Nemoto

  • Depth-related radiolarian assemblage in the water-column and surface sediments of the Japan Sea

    Takuya Itaki

  • Comparison of radiolarian vertical distributions in the Okhotsk Sea near the Kuril Islands and in the northwestern North Pacific off Hokkaido Island

    Yusuke Okazaki;Kozo Takahashi;Takuya Itaki;Yasuhiro Kawasaki

  • Orbital- and millennial-scale changes of radiolarian assemblages during the last 220 kyrs in the Japan Sea

    Takuya Itaki;Nozomi Komatsu;Isao Motoyama

  • Depth distribution of radiolarians from the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, western Arctic

    Takuya Itaki;Masashi Ito;Hisashi Narita;Naokazu Ahagon

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

    Ken Ikehara;Takuya Itaki

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

    Takuya Itaki;Ken Ikehara

  • Millennial-scale paleoceanographic events and implication for the intermediate-water ventilation in the northern slope area of the Bering Sea during the last 71 kyrs

    S. Kim;B.K. Khim;M. Uchida;T. Itaki

  • 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

  • High-resolution and high-precision correlation of dark and light layers in the Quaternary hemipelagic sediments of the Japan Sea recovered during IODP Expedition 346

    Ryuji Tada;Tomohisa Irino;Ken Ikehara;Akinori Karasuda

  • Abrupt changes of intermediate water properties on the northeastern slope of the Bering Sea during the last glacial and deglacial period

    Stephan F. Rella;Ryuji Tada;Kana Nagashima;Minoru Ikehara

  • Formation of pockmarks and submarine canyons associated with dissociation of gas hydrates on the Joetsu Knoll, eastern margin of the Sea of Japan

    Takeshi Nakajima;Yoshitaka Kakuwa;Yukihito Yasudomi;Takuya Itaki

  • Formal ratification of the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Chibanian Stage and Middle Pleistocene Subseries of the Quaternary System: the Chiba Section, Japan†

    Yusuke Suganuma;Yusuke Suganuma;Makoto Okada;Martin J. Head;Koji Kameo

  • East Asian Monsoon History and Paleoceanography of the Japan Sea Over the Last 460,000 Years

    Stephen J. Gallagher;Takuya Sagawa;Andrew C. G. Henderson;Mariem Saavedra-Pellitero

  • Paleoceanographic history of the Japan Sea over the last 9.5 million years inferred from radiolarian assemblages (IODP Expedition 346 Sites U1425 and U1430)

    Kenji M. Matsuzaki;Takuya Itaki;Ryuji Tada;Shin-ichi Kamikuri

  • Late Pleistocene stratigraphy and palaeoceanographic implications in northern Bering Sea slope sediments: evidence from the radiolarian speciesCycladophora davisiana

    Takuya Itaki;Masao Uchida;Sunghan Kim;Hye-Son Shin

  • Vertical distribution of polycystine radiolarians in the northern East China Sea

    Kenji M. Matsuzaki;Takuya Itaki;Katsunori Kimoto

  • Paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic records through Marine Isotope Stage 19 at the Chiba composite section, central Japan: A key reference for the Early-Middle Pleistocene Subseries boundary

    Yusuke Suganuma;Yusuke Suganuma;Yuki Haneda;Koji Kameo;Yoshimi Kubota

  • New northwest Pacific radiolarian data as a tool to estimate past sea surface and intermediate water temperatures

    Kenji M. Matsuzaki;Kenji M. Matsuzaki;Takuya Itaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Ryuji Tada
Ryuji Tada University of Tokyo
Ken Ikehara
Ken Ikehara National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Masao Uchida
Masao Uchida National Institute for Environmental Studies
Minoru Ikehara
Minoru Ikehara Kōchi University
Richard W. Murray
Richard W. Murray Boston University
Stephen J. Gallagher
Stephen J. Gallagher University of Melbourne
Masanobu Yamamoto
Masanobu Yamamoto Hokkaido University
Samuel Toucanne
Samuel Toucanne French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Yusuke Yokoyama
Yusuke Yokoyama University of Tokyo
Ann Holbourn
Ann Holbourn Kiel University

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