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Yusuke Yokoyama

Yusuke Yokoyama

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Earth Science

D-Index
61
Citations
17105
World Ranking
1766
National Ranking
38

Overview

Yusuke Yokoyama is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and conducts research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Geophysics, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main research topics covered by Yokoyama include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques

Yokoyama has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • "Eurasian Ice Sheet collapse was a major source of Meltwater Pulse 1A 14,600 years ago" (2020) published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Timing and pathways of East Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat" (2020) published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Coral reef diversity losses in China's Greater Bay Area were driven by regional stressors" (2020) published in Science Advances
  • "On the geophysical processes impacting palaeo-sea-level observations" (2021) published in Geoscience Letters
  • "Major environmental drivers determining life and death of cold-water corals through time" (2022) published in PLoS Biology

The researcher frequently collaborates with colleagues including Yosuke Miyairi, Jody M. Webster, Thomas Felis, Juan C. Braga, and Marc Humblet. Their work often appears in various publication venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
  • Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • Quaternary Science Advances

Best Publications

  • Timing of the Last Glacial Maximum from observed sea-level minima

    Yusuke Yokoyama;Yusuke Yokoyama;Kurt Lambeck;Patrick De Deckker;Paul Johnston

  • Refining the eustatic sea-level curve since the Last Glacial Maximum using far- and intermediate-field sites

    Kevin Fleming;Paul Johnston;Dan Zwartz;Yusuke Yokoyama

  • Into and out of the Last Glacial Maximum: sea-level change during Oxygen Isotope Stages 3 and 2

    Kurt Lambeck;Yusuke Yokoyama;Yusuke Yokoyama;Tony Purcell

  • Correction: Timing of the Last Glacial Maximum from observed sea-level minima

    Yusuke Yokoyama;Kurt Lambeck;Patrick De Deckker;Paul Johnston

  • Ice-sheet collapse and sea-level rise at the Bølling warming 14,600 years ago

    Pierre Deschamps;Nicolas Durand;Edouard Bard;Bruno Hamelin

  • Formation and fate of sedimentary depocentres on Southeast Asia's Sunda Shelf over the past sea-level cycle and biogeographic implications

    Till J.J. Hanebuth;Harold K. Voris;Yusuke Yokoyama;Yusuke Yokoyama;Yoshiki Saito

  • Advances in the application of amino acid nitrogen isotopic analysis in ecological and biogeochemical studies

    Naohiko Ohkouchi;Yoshito Chikaraishi;Yoshito Chikaraishi;Hilary G. Close;Brian Fry

  • A complete terrestrial radiocarbon record for 11.2 to 52.8 kyr B.P

    Christopher Bronk Ramsey;Richard A. Staff;Charlotte L. Bryant;Fiona Brock

  • ESR dating of quartz from quaternary sediments: First attempt

    Y. Yokoyama;C. Falgueres;J.P. Quaegebeur

  • Erratum: Intensification of the meridional temperature gradient in the Great Barrier Reef following the Last Glacial Maximum (Nature Communications (2014) 5 (4102) DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5102)

    Thomas Felis;Helen V. McGregor;Braddock K. Linsley;Alexander W. Tudhope

  • 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

  • Sea-level at the Last Glacial Maximum: evidence from northwestern Australia to constrain ice volumes for oxygen isotope stage 2

    Yusuke Yokoyama;Patrick De Deckker;Kurt Lambeck;Paul Johnston

  • Coupled Climate and sea-level changes deduced from Huon Peninsula coral terraces of the last ice age

    Yusuke Yokoyama;Tezer M. Esat;Kurt Lambeck

  • Two-step rise of atmospheric oxygen linked to the growth of continents

    Cin Ty A Lee;Laurence Y. Yeung;N. Ryan McKenzie;N. Ryan McKenzie;Yusuke Yokoyama

  • Water-load definition in the glacio-hydro-isostatic sea-level equation

    Kurt Lambeck;Anthony Purcell;Paul Johnston;Masao Nakada

  • Continental arc–island arc fluctuations, growth of crustal carbonates, and long-term climate change

    Cin-Ty A. Lee;Bing Shen;Benjamin S. Slotnick;Kelley Liao

  • SG06, a fully continuous and varved sediment core from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: stratigraphy and potential for improving the radiocarbon calibration model and understanding of late Quaternary climate changes

    Takeshi Nakagawa;Katsuya Gotanda;Tsuyoshi Haraguchi;Toru Danhara

  • Shore-line reconstruction around Australia during the Last Glacial Maximum and Late Glacial Stage

    Yusuke Yokoyama;Anthony Purcell;Kurt Lambeck;Paul Johnston

  • Microbial and diagenetic steps leading to the mineralisation of Great Salt Lake microbialites.

    Aurélie Pace;Raphaël Bourillot;Anthony Bouton;Emmanuelle Vennin

  • Widespread collapse of the Ross Ice Shelf during the late Holocene

    Yusuke Yokoyama;Yusuke Yokoyama;John B. Anderson;Masako Yamane;Masako Yamane;Lauren M. Simkins

  • Penultimate Deglacial Sea-Level Timing from Uranium/Thorium Dating of Tahitian Corals

    Alex L. Thomas;Gideon M. Henderson;Pierre Deschamps;Yusuke Yokoyama;Yusuke Yokoyama

Frequent Co-Authors

Naohiko Ohkouchi
Naohiko Ohkouchi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Atsushi Suzuki
Atsushi Suzuki National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Jody M. Webster
Jody M. Webster University of Sydney
Hodaka Kawahata
Hodaka Kawahata University of Tokyo
Minoru Ikehara
Minoru Ikehara Kōchi University
Marc De Batist
Marc De Batist Ghent University
Alexander L. Thomas
Alexander L. Thomas University of Edinburgh
Yasufumi Iryu
Yasufumi Iryu Tohoku University
Gilbert Camoin
Gilbert Camoin Aix-Marseille University
Pierre Deschamps
Pierre Deschamps Aix-Marseille University

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