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Yasufumi Iryu

Yasufumi Iryu

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4153
World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Overview

Yasufumi Iryu is a researcher affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research extensively covers subfields such as Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Ecology.

The main topics of Yasufumi Iryu's work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Their recent publications demonstrate a focus on marine geology, carbonate sedimentology, and isotope geochemistry. Selected papers include:

  • Holocene sea-surface temperatures and related coastal upwelling regime recorded by vermetid assemblages, southeastern Brazil (Arraial do Cabo, RJ), 2020, Marine Geology
  • Boring bivalve traces in modern reef and deeper-water macroid and rhodolith beds, 2020, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • Contrasting intensity of aragonite dissolution and dolomite cementation in glacial versus interglacial intervals of a subtropical carbonate succession, 2022, Sedimentology
  • The δ13C-δ18O variations in marble in the Hida Belt, Japan, 2021, Island Arc
  • Spathian to Aegean (upper Lower Triassic to lower Middle Triassic) carbon isotope stratigraphy constrained by the conodont biostratigraphy of carbonates on top of a mid-oceanic seamount formed in the Panthalassic Ocean, 2021, Island Arc

Yasufumi Iryu frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common coauthors include:

  • Kazuhiko Fujita
  • Jody M. Webster
  • Thomas Felis
  • Alexander Thomas
  • Ryuji Asami

The scientist has published in multiple venues, with a notable number of papers appearing in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • Island Arc
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Best Publications

  • Rapid glaciation and a two-step sea level plunge into the Last Glacial Maximum

    Yusuke Yokoyama;Yusuke Yokoyama;Tezer M. Esat;William G. Thompson;Alexander L. Thomas

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

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

  • Distribution of marine organisms and its geological significance in the modern reef complex of the Ryukyu Islands

    Yasufumi Iryu;Toru Nakamori;Shinya Matsuda;Osamu Abe

  • Response of the Great Barrier Reef to sea-level and environmental changes over the past 30,000 years

    Jody M. Webster;Juan Carlos Braga;Marc Humblet;Donald C. Potts

  • Interannual and decadal variability of the western Pacific sea surface condition for the years 1787–2000: Reconstruction based on stable isotope record from a Guam coral

    Ryuji Asami;Tsutomu Yamada;Yasufumi Iryu;Terrence M. Quinn

  • Reef response to sea-level and environmental changes during the last deglaciation: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 310, Tahiti Sea Level

    Gilbert F. Camoin;Claire Seard;Pierre Deschamps;Jody M. Webster

  • Introductory perspective on the COREF Project

    Yasufumi Iryu;Hiroki Matsuda;Hideaki Machiyama;Werner E. Piller

  • Pleistocene reef development in the southwest Ryukyu Islands, Japan

    Natsume Sagawa;Toru Nakamori;Yasufumi Iryu

  • Origin of atoll dolomites distinguished by geochemistry and crystal chemistry: Kita-daito-jima, northern Philippine Sea

    Yuka Suzuki;Yasufumi Iryu;Shizue Inagaki;Tsutomu Yamada

  • Holocene sea-level change and tectonic uplift deduced from raised reef terraces, Kikai-jima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan

    Kaoru Sugihara;Toru Nakamori;Yasufumi Iryu;Keiichi Sasaki

  • Glacial Indonesian Throughflow weakening across the Mid-Pleistocene Climatic Transition

    Benjamin F. Petrick;Alfredo Martinez-Garcia;Gerald Auer;Lars Reuning;Lars Reuning

  • Present-day and fossil rhodolith pavements compared: Their potential for analysing shallow-water carbonate deposits

    Davide Bassi;James H. Nebelsick;Alessio Checconi;Johann Hohenegger

  • Sources of plutonium to the tropical Northwest Pacific Ocean (1943–1999) identified using a natural coral archive

    Patric Lindahl;Ryuji Asami;Yasufumi Iryu;Paul Worsfold

  • Responses of coral reefs to increased amplitude of sea-level changes at the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition

    Kazuyuki Yamamoto;Yasufumi Iryu;Tokiyuki Sato;Shun Chiyonobu

  • Philippine Sea Plate motion since the Eocene estimated from paleomagnetism of seafloor drill cores and gravity cores

    Toshitsugu Yamazaki;Masaki Takahashi;Yasufumi Iryu;Tokiyuki Sato

  • Water circulation and carbon flux on Shiraho coral reef of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan

    T. Nakamori;A. Suzuki;Y. Iryu

  • 230Th/234U and 14C dating of a lowstand coral reef beneath the insular shelf off Irabu Island, Ryukyus, southwestern Japan

    Keiichi Sasaki;Akio Omura;Tetsuo Miwa;Yoshihiro Tsuji

  • Carbon and oxygen isotopic composition of a Guam coral and their relationships to environmental variables in the western Pacific

    Ryuji Asami;Tsutomu Yamada;Yasufumi Iryu;Christopher P. Meyer

  • Evidence for tropical South Pacific climate change during the Younger Dryas and the Bølling–Allerød from geochemical records of fossil Tahiti corals

    Ryuji Asami;Ryuji Asami;Thomas Felis;Pierre Deschamps;Kimio Hanawa

  • IODP Expedition 310 Reconstructs Sea Level, Climatic, and Environmental Changes in the South Pacific during the Last Deglaciation

    G. F. Camoin;Y. Iryu;D. B. McInroy

  • Evidence for eutrophication in the northwestern Pacific and eastern Indian oceans during the Miocene to Pleistocene based on the nannofossil accumulation rate, Discoaster abundance, and coccolith size distribution of Reticulofenestra

    Ryo Imai;Meutia Farida;Tokiyuki Sato;Yasufumi Iryu

Frequent Co-Authors

Yusuke Yokoyama
Yusuke Yokoyama University of Tokyo
Jody M. Webster
Jody M. Webster University of Sydney
Gilbert Camoin
Gilbert Camoin Aix-Marseille University
Juan C. Braga
Juan C. Braga University of Granada
Alexander L. Thomas
Alexander L. Thomas University of Edinburgh
Pierre Deschamps
Pierre Deschamps Aix-Marseille University
Koshi Yamamoto
Koshi Yamamoto Nagoya University
Hildegard Westphal
Hildegard Westphal Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology
Ryuichi Shinjo
Ryuichi Shinjo University of the Ryukyus
Yoshihiro Asahara
Yoshihiro Asahara Nagoya University

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