Precam News

2010

28th October
A new article by Dr. Takazo Shibuya et al. was published on Precambrian Research!
Today's deep-sea hydrothermal fluid known as Black Smoker used to be highly alkaline White Smoker in the early Archean era!? Putting forward a new hypothesis from the geological records of 3.5 billion years ago. Go to ¨ Achievements
25th May
Prof. Christopher House from The Pennsylvania State University (Asst. Professor of Geosciences) visited Kamakura with us!

In front of the Great Buddha statue, Kamakura

Prof. House in Bamboo Garden, Hokokuji Temple, Kamakura

We tried a cup of green tea. Hokokuji Temple, Kamakura
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1st January
A Happy New Year to All from Precam Lab!

2009

16th September
A visiting Ph. D. student at PEL, Motoko Yoshizaki, was awarded "Good Poster Prize" by The Geochemical Society of Japan.

Motoko with her prizes
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16th September
Our Research Scientist, Kentaro Nakamura, was awarded "Prize for Encouragement" by The Geochemical Society of Japan.

Kentaro Nakamura giving the lecture
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10th September
Proving for the first time: formation of hydrogen that connects the geological activities with the birth and the evolution of the early lives on Earth.
Motoko Yoshizaki's article showing the mechanism of komatiites (archean rocks) forming hydrogen was published in Geochemical Journal. For this experiment, Precambrian Ecosystem Laboratory constructed the simulator system to represent deep sea hot water forming reactions within the laboratory at 500‹C, in 600 atmospheres.

Yoshizaki, M., Shibuya, T., Suzuki, K., Shimizu, K., Nakamura, K., Takai, K., Omori, S., & Maruyama, S.
H2 generation by experimental hydrothermal alteration of komatiitic glass at 300‹C and 500 bars: A preliminary result from on-going experiment Geochem. J. (Express Letter), (2009) 43:e17-e22. Go To TOP
1st September
We opened our Precambrian System Laboratory's website.
17th August
Guest Researcher Yuichiro Ueno's article was published on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Ueno, Y., Johnson, M.S., Danielache, S. O., Eskebjerg, C., Pandey, P., & Yoshida, N.
Geological sulfur isotopes indicate elevated OCS in the Archean atmosphere, solving faint young sun paradox. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, (2009) 106:14784-14789.

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