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Toshitaka Gamo

Toshitaka Gamo

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Earth Science

D-Index
60
Citations
12238
World Ranking
1912
National Ranking
42

Overview

Toshitaka Gamo is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and contributes to research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans fields such as Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Oceanography, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

Their research addresses several main topics including Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis, and Radioactive Contamination and Transfer.

Toshitaka Gamo has published notable recent papers such as:

  • Magnesium isotopic composition of submarine vent fluids from arc and back-arc hydrothermal systems in the western Pacific (2020), Chemical Geology
  • A Systematic Assessment of Stable Sr Isotopic Compositions of Vent Fluids in Arc/Back-Arc Hydrothermal Systems: Effects of Host Rock Type, Phase Separation, and Overlying Sediment (2020), Frontiers in Earth Science
  • A record of 241Am, 236U, 238U, 239Pu, 240Pu, 134Cs and 137Cs in surface seawater and 241Am in aerosols shortly after the FDNPP incident occurred (2021), GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
  • In-situ analysis of sub-nanomolar level of Fe(II) in open-ocean waters (2024), Analytical Sciences
  • Corrigendum to "Neodymium concentration and isotopic composition distributions in the southwestern Indian Ocean and the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean" [Chemical Geology 511 (2019) 190-203] (2021), Chemical Geology

Frequent collaboration occurs with other researchers such as Toshihiro Yoshimura, Daisuke Araoka, Hodaka Kawahata, Hajime Obata, and Hirofumi Tazoe.

Their publications frequently appear in specialized venues including:

  • Chemical Geology
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Analytical Sciences
  • GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Best Publications

  • A global survey of perfluorinated acids in oceans.

    Nobuyoshi Yamashita;Kurunthachalam Kannan;Sachi Taniyasu;Yuichi Horii

  • Yttrium and rare earth elements in fluids from various deep-sea hydrothermal systems

    Eric Douville;Eric Douville;Philippe Bienvenu;Jean Luc Charlou;Jean Pierre Donval

  • Perfluorinated acids as novel chemical tracers of global circulation of ocean waters.

    Nobuyoshi Yamashita;Sachi Taniyasu;Gert Petrick;Si Wei

  • Venting of Carbon Dioxide-Rich Fluid and Hydrate Formation in Mid-Okinawa Trough Backarc Basin

    H. Sakai;T. Gamo;E. S. Kim;M. Tsutsumi

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Chemical Methods for Interstitial Water Analysis aboard JOIDES Resolution

    J. Gieskes;T. Gamo;H. Brumsack

  • Geochemical and microbiological evidence for a hydrogen-based, hyperthermophilic subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystem (HyperSLiME) beneath an active deep-sea hydrothermal field

    Ken Takai;Toshitaka Gamo;Urumu Tsunogai;Noriko Nakayama

  • GEOTRACES – An international study of the global marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes

    G.M. Henderson;R.F. Anderson;J. Adkins;P. Andersson

  • Acidic and sulfate-rich hydrothermal fluids from the Manus back-arc basin, Papua New Guinea

    Toshitaka Gamo;Kei Okamura;Jean-Luc Charlou;Tetsuro Urabe

  • Chemical characteristics of newly discovered black smoker fluids and associated hydrothermal plumes at the Rodriguez Triple Junction, Central Indian Ridge

    Toshitaka Gamo;Hitoshi Chiba;Toshiro Yamanaka;Takamoto Okudaira

  • Abyssal circulation in the Japan Sea

    Toshitaka Gamo;Yoshio Horibe

  • Spacial and temporal variations of water characteristics in the Japan Sea bottom layer

    Toshitaka Gamo;Yoshiyuki Nozaki;Hitoshi Sakai;Toshisuke Nakai

  • 134Cs and 137Cs in the North Pacific Ocean derived from the March 2011 TEPCO Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, Japan. Part two: estimation of 134Cs and 137Cs inventories in the North Pacific Ocean

    Michio Aoyama;Mizuo Kajino;Taichu Y. Tanaka;Tsuyoshi Thomas Sekiyama

  • Global warming may have slowed down the deep conveyor belt of a marginal sea of the northwestern Pacific: Japan Sea

    Toshitaka Gamo

  • Sediment deformation and hydrogeology of the Nankai Trough accretionary prism: Synthesis of shipboard results of ODP Leg 131

    A. Taira;I. Hill;J. Firth;U. Berner

  • First Hydrothermal Vent Communities from the Indian Ocean Discovered

    Jun Hashimoto;Suguru Ohta;Toshitaka Gamo;Hitoshi Chiba

  • Hydrothermal fluid geochemistry at the Iheya North field in the mid-Okinawa trough: Implication for origin of methane in subseafloor fluid circulation systems

    Shinsuke Kawagucci;Shinsuke Kawagucci;Hitoshi Chiba;Jun Ichiro Ishibashi;Toshiro Yamanaka

  • Colorimetric Detection of Mercury(II) Ion in Aqueous Solution Using Silver Nanoparticles

    M. Lutfi Firdaus;Ikka Fitriani;Santhy Wyantuti;Yeni W. Hartati

  • Unique chemistry of the hydrothermal solution in the mid-Okinawa Trough Backarc Basin

    H. Sakai;T. Gamo;E. ‐S Kim;K. Shitashima

  • Variability in the microbial communities and hydrothermal fluid chemistry at the newly discovered Mariner hydrothermal field, southern Lau Basin

    Ken Takai;Takuro Nunoura;Jun Ichiro Ishibashi;John Lupton

  • Helium and carbon geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids from the Mid-Okinawa Trough Back Arc Basin, southwest of Japan

    J. Ishibashi;Y. Sano;H. Wakita;T. Gamo

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2014

    Edward Mawji;Reiner Schlitzer;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Cyril Abadie

Frequent Co-Authors

Urumu Tsunogai
Urumu Tsunogai Nagoya University
Hajime Obata
Hajime Obata University of Tokyo
Jun-ichiro Ishibashi
Jun-ichiro Ishibashi Kobe University
Yuji Sano
Yuji Sano Kōchi University
Hiroshi Wakita
Hiroshi Wakita University of Tokyo
Hitoshi Sakai
Hitoshi Sakai University of Tokyo
Kantaro Fujioka
Kantaro Fujioka Kanagawa University
Naoto Takahata
Naoto Takahata University of Tokyo
Naohiro Yoshida
Naohiro Yoshida Tokyo Institute of Technology
Nobuyoshi Yamashita
Nobuyoshi Yamashita National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

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