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Yasuyuki Muramatsu

Yasuyuki Muramatsu

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Chemistry

D-Index
53
Citations
7487
World Ranking
13314
National Ranking
1017

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
53
Citations
7891
World Ranking
4336
National Ranking
69

Overview

Yasuyuki Muramatsu was affiliated with Gakushuin University in Japan. Their research spanned several interconnected fields within Earth and Environmental Sciences, focusing notably on geophysics and planetary studies. The primary areas of study included Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science.

Their work covered multiple subfields such as Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change. Muramatsu's research encompassed a variety of scientific topics including Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Earthquake and Tectonic Studies, as well as Radioactive Contamination and Transfer.

The scientist contributed to scholarly literature with papers published across several notable venues. These included the Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics, American Mineralogist, and Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms.

Among their recent papers were the following:

  • High-Resolution 10Be and 36Cl Data From the Antarctic Dome Fuji Ice Core (∼100 Years Around 5480 BCE): An Unusual Grand Solar Minimum Occurrence?, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics
  • Halogen heterogeneity in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle revealed by I/Br ratios in kimberlites and their mantle xenoliths from South Africa, Greenland, China, Siberia, Canada, and Brazil, 2021, American Mineralogist
  • An investigation of 129I from regional nuclear fuel reprocessing in the terrestrial sediments of Lake Ontario, 2020, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Muramatsu collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors during their career. Notable collaborators included:

  • K. Kanzawa
  • Fusa Miyake
  • Kazuho Horiuchi
  • Kimikazu Sasa
  • K. Takano

The range of their research signifies a multidisciplinary approach across earth sciences and environmental disciplines with a particular emphasis on analyzing physical and chemical processes related to geomagnetic phenomena, solar activity, geochemical heterogeneity, and environmental contamination through radionuclide tracing.

Best Publications

  • The distribution of iodine in the earth's crust

    Yasuyuki Muramatsu;K Hans Wedepohl

  • Measurement of 240Pu/239Pu isotopic ratios in soils from the Marshall Islands using ICP-MS.

    Y. Muramatsu;T. Hamilton;S. Uchida;K. Tagami

  • Bacteria mediate methylation of iodine in marine and terrestrial environments.

    Seigo Amachi;Yoichi Kamagata;Takahiro Kanagawa;Yasuyuki Muramatsu

  • Concentrations of 239Pu and 240Pu and Their Isotopic Ratios Determined by ICP-MS in Soils Collected from the Chernobyl 30-km Zone

    Y. Muramatsu;W. Rühm;S. Yoshida;K. Tagami

  • Studies with natural and anthropogenic iodine isotopes: iodine distribution and cycling in the global environment.

    Yasuyuki Muramatsu;Satoshi Yoshida;Udo Fehn;Seigo Amachi

  • Recycling of iodine in fore-arc areas: evidence from the iodine brines in Chiba, Japan

    Yasuyuki Muramatsu;Udo Fehn;Satoshi Yoshida

  • Determination of plutonium concentration and its isotopic ratio in environmental materials by ICP-MS after separation using and extraction chromatography

    Yasuyuki Muramatsu;Shigeo Uchida;Keiko Tagami;Satoshi Yoshida

  • 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

  • Concentrations of lanthanide elements, Th, and U in 77 Japanese surface soils

    Satoshi Yoshida;Yasuyuki Muramatsu;Keiko Tagami;Shigeo Uchida

  • Halogen concentrations in pore waters and sediments of the Nankai Trough, Japan: Implications for the origin of gas hydrates

    Y. Muramatsu;T. Doi;H. Tomaru;U. Fehn

  • Volatilization of methyl iodide from the soil-plant system

    Yasuyuki Muramatsu;Satoshi Yoshida

  • Accumulation of radiocesium in basidiomycetes collected from Japanese forests

    S. Yoshida;Y. Muramatsu

  • Studies on the sorption of I? (iodide) and IO3 ? (iodate) onto Andosols

    S. Yoshida;Y. Muramatsu;S. Uchida

  • Isolation of Iodide-Oxidizing Bacteria from Iodide-Rich Natural Gas Brines and Seawaters

    Seigo Amachi;Yasuyuki Muramatsu;Yukako Akiyama;Kazumi Miyazaki

  • Equilibrium of radiocesium with stable cesium within the biological cycle of contaminated forest ecosystems.

    S. Yoshida;Y. Muramatsu;A.M. Dvornik;T.A. Zhuchenko

  • AMS analysis of 129I in Japanese soil samples collected from background areas far from nuclear facilities

    Yasuyuki Muramatsu;Yukari Takada;Hiroyuki Matsuzaki;Satoshi Yoshida

  • Iodine-129 and iodine-127 in environmental samples collected from Tokaimura/Ibaraki, Japan

    Y. Muramatsu;Y. Ohmomo

  • Microbial participation in iodine volatilization from soils.

    Seigo Amachi;Mizuyo Kasahara;Satoshi Hanada;Yoichi Kamagata

  • Radiocesium concentrations in mushrooms collected in Japan

    S. Yoshida;Y. Muramatsu;M. Ogawa

  • The initial 129I/I ratio and the presence of ‘old’ iodine in continental margins

    U. Fehn;J.E. Moran;G.T. Snyder;Y. Muramatsu

  • Concentrations of alkali and alkaline earth elements in mushrooms and plants collected in a Japanese pine forest, and their relationship with 137Cs

    Satoshi Yoshida;Yasuyuki Muramatsu

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigeo Uchida
Shigeo Uchida National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
Udo Fehn
Udo Fehn University of Rochester
Yuichiro Ueno
Yuichiro Ueno Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yoichi Kamagata
Yoichi Kamagata National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Frithjof C. Küpper
Frithjof C. Küpper University of Aberdeen
Martin Reich
Martin Reich University of Chile
Ryo Matsumoto
Ryo Matsumoto Meiji University
Ken Takai
Ken Takai Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Yasuhito Igarashi
Yasuhito Igarashi Kyoto University
Yuji Sano
Yuji Sano Kōchi University

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