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Urumu Tsunogai

Urumu Tsunogai

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Earth Science

D-Index
51
Citations
8604
World Ranking
3273
National Ranking
72

Overview

Urumu Tsunogai is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and has a research focus spanning Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses a variety of subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The scientist's research addresses key topics such as Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

They have contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • "Dual stable isotope characterization of excess methane in oxic waters of a mesotrophic lake," 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • "Vertical Changes in the Flux of Atmospheric Nitrate From a Forest Canopy to the Surface Soil Based on Δ17O Values," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • "Development of a drone-borne volcanic plume sampler," 2021, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • "Behavior of magmatic components in fumarolic gases related to the 2018 phreatic eruption at Ebinokogen Ioyama volcano, Kirishima Volcanic Group, Kyushu, Japan," 2021, Earth Planets and Space
  • "Tracing the source of nitrate in a forested stream showing elevated concentrations during storm events," 2022, Biogeosciences

Their frequent collaborators include Fumiko Nakagawa, Masanori Ito, Takashi Sambuichi, Ryo Shingubara, and Weitian Ding.

Urumu Tsunogai has published extensively in journals such as the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Biogeosciences, GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL, Limnology and Oceanography, and Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. Among these, the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research and Biogeosciences are notable venues where they have multiple contributions.

Best Publications

  • Cell proliferation at 122°C and isotopically heavy CH4 production by a hyperthermophilic methanogen under high-pressure cultivation

    Ken Takai;Kentaro Nakamura;Tomohiro Toki;Urumu Tsunogai

  • Precursory Chemical Changes in Ground Water: Kobe Earthquake, Japan

    Urumu Tsunogai;Hiroshi Wakita

  • 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

  • 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

  • Microbial community in a sediment-hosted CO2 lake of the southern Okinawa Trough hydrothermal system

    Fumio Inagaki;Marcel M. M. Kuypers;Urumu Tsunogai;Jun-ichiro Ishibashi

  • Megacities and large urban agglomerations in the coastal zone: interactions between atmosphere, land, and marine ecosystems.

    Roland von Glasow;Tim D. Jickells;Alexander Baklanov;Gregory R. Carmichael

  • Discrete Scaling in Earthquake Precursory Phenomena: Evidence in the Kobe Earthquake, Japan

    Anders Johansen;Didier Sornette;Hiroshi Wakita;Urumu Tsunogai

  • Characterization of C1-metabolizing prokaryotic communities in methane seep habitats at the Kuroshima Knoll, southern Ryukyu Arc, by analyzing pmoA, mmoX, mxaF, mcrA, and 16S rRNA genes.

    Fumio Inagaki;Urumu Tsunogai;Masae Suzuki;Ayako Kosaka

  • Geological background of the Kairei and Edmond hydrothermal fields along the Central Indian Ridge: Implications of their vent fluids’ distinct chemistry

    Hidenori Kumagai;K. Nakamura;K. Nakamura;T. Toki;T. Morishita

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2014

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

  • Liquid CO2 venting on the seafloor: Yonaguni Knoll IV hydrothermal system, Okinawa Trough

    Uta Konno;Urumu Tsunogai;Fumiko Nakagawa;Miwako Nakaseama

  • Production mechanism and global budget of N2O inferred from its isotopomers in the western North Pacific

    Sakae Toyoda;Naohiro Yoshida;Tatsuya Miwa;Tatsuya Miwa;Yohei Matsui

  • Carbon isotopic distribution of methane in deep-sea hydrothermal plume, Myojin Knoll Caldera, Izu-Bonin arc: implications for microbial methane oxidation in the oceans and applications to heat flux estimation

    Urumu Tsunogai;Naohiro Yoshida;Junichiro Ishibashi;Toshitaka Gamo

  • Peculiar features of Suiyo Seamount hydrothermal fluids, Izu-Bonin Arc: Differences from subaerial volcanism

    U. Tsunogai;J. Ishibashi;H. Wakita;T. Gamo

  • Diverse Range of Mineralization Induced by Phase Separation of Hydrothermal Fluid: Case Study of the Yonaguni Knoll IV Hydrothermal Field in the Okinawa Trough Back-Arc Basin

    Ryohei Suzuki;Ryohei Suzuki;Jun Ichiro Ishibashi;Miwako Nakaseama;Uta Konno

  • Carbon isotopic compositions of C2‐C5 hydrocarbons and methyl chloride in urban, coastal, and maritime atmospheres over the western North Pacific

    Urumu Tsunogai;Naohiro Yoshida;Toshitaka Gamo

  • Technical Note: Determination of formaldehyde mixing ratios in air with PTR-MS: laboratory experiments and field measurements

    S. Inomata;H. Tanimoto;S. Kameyama;U. Tsunogai

  • Carbon isotopic characterization for the origin of excess methane in subsurface seawater

    Motoki Sasakawa;Motoki Sasakawa;Urumu Tsunogai;Sohiko Kameyama;Sohiko Kameyama;Sohiko Kameyama;Fumiko Nakagawa

  • Tracing the fate of atmospheric nitrate deposited onto a forest ecosystem in Eastern Asia using Δ 17 O

    U. Tsunogai;D. D. Komatsu;S. Daita;G. A. Kazemi;G. A. Kazemi

  • Archaeal diversity and distribution along thermal and geochemical gradients in hydrothermal sediments at the Yonaguni Knoll IV hydrothermal field in the Southern Okinawa trough.

    Takuro Nunoura;Hanako Oida;Miwako Nakaseama;Ayako Kosaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshitaka Gamo
Toshitaka Gamo University of Tokyo
Jun-ichiro Ishibashi
Jun-ichiro Ishibashi Kobe University
Juichiro Ashi
Juichiro Ashi University of Tokyo
Yuji Sano
Yuji Sano Kōchi University
Ken Takai
Ken Takai Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Hiroshi Tanimoto
Hiroshi Tanimoto National Institute for Environmental Studies
Naohiro Yoshida
Naohiro Yoshida Tokyo Institute of Technology
Mitsuo Uematsu
Mitsuo Uematsu University of Tokyo
Fumio Inagaki
Fumio Inagaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Hiroshi Wakita
Hiroshi Wakita University of Tokyo

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