Press Releases

Press Releases

2014

2014/12/17

Reported Impact on Benthic Marine Environments Off Shimokita from the 2011 off the Pacific Coast Off Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
-Unexpected High Benthic Diversity in Ecosystems-

2014/12/16

Simulation Reproduced Repeating Earthquakes Triggered by 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake
~ Demonstrated Important Analytical Approach for Earthquake Prediction ~

2014/12/15

Revealed Impacts of Smaller-scale Eddies in Northwest Pacific on Ocean Circulation
~Results of New High-resolution Simulation on Earth Simulator~

2014/12/05

Revealed Isotopic Distribution of Cu in Ocean with High Accuracy
~Isotopic Distribution of Trace Elements May Give Clue to Ocean General Circulation~

2014/10/27

How does Orbital Variations Affect Ancient Antarctica?
~East Antarctic Ice Volume Change during Pliocene and Early Pleistocene~

2014/10/20

Revealed Impact of Snow Cover on Soil Thermal Regime in Pan-Arctic Permafrost Regions

2014/10/14

Shinkaia crosnieri Obtains Nutrition from Epibiotic Bacteria Found on Setae
~ Nutritional Relationship between Epibiotic Chemosynthetic Bacteria and Deep-sea Invertebrate Clearly Demonstrated ~

2014/09/11

Greenhouse Gas Emission Pattern May Need To Be Revised
~ Comprehensive Evaluation of Hydroxyl Radical (OH) Distribution ~

2014/09/05

Conclusion of Letter of Intent (LOI) in regard of Research Cooperation between Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) in India

2014/09/03

Successfully Determined Formation Age of Oldest Ore Deposit in Japanese Islands
~ Re-Os Isotope Dating Revealed Formation Age of Hitachi Deposit ~

2014/08/11

Satellite-based Observations May Be Underestimating
Tropospheric NO2 Vertical Column Density (TropoNO2VCD)
~ Light Scattering Effects of Co-existing PM2.5 Aerosols ~

2014/07/26

Chikyu Okinawa Drilling Expedition:
“Hydrothermal Sediments in Okinawa Trough(HOT)”
(Expedition Report)

2014/07/10

Role of Climate Variability in Heatstroke in Kanto Region Identified

2014/06/25

Drilling Expedition: Hydrothermal Sediments in Okinawa Trough

2014/06/13

Mediterranean Outflow and Its Global Significance
~ History of Mediterranean Outflow Water and Climate Changes ~

2014/06/05

(Third Report) DONET observation data partly being unavailable

2014/06/02

(Second Report) DONET Observation Data Currently Unavailable at 16 Stations- Partly Recovered

2014/05/30

(Flash Report) DONET Observation Data Currently Unavailable at 16 Stations

2014/05/27

Enhanced Role of Eddies in Arctic Marine Ecosystems
~ Sea Ice Reduction Creates Better Plankton Habitat ~

2014/05/16

When did Nitrogen Fixation for Supporting Major Life Process begin?
~ Discovery of Potential Existence of Nitrogen Fixing Microorganism in 3.5-Billion -Year-Old Hydrothermal Environments ~

2014/05/07

Month-long Predictability of Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Demonstrated on K Computer Using Highly Complex New-generation Global Model

2014/04/25

“California Niño/Niña” Phenomenon Discovered for the First Time

2014/04/18

JAMSTEC and Australian and New Zealand IODP Consortium (ANZIC) Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Scientific Ocean Research Drilling

2014/04/11

JAMSTEC Yokosuka Headquarters Open Day

2014/04/04

Real-time Ocean Bottom Tsunami Monitoring System Using Vector TsunaMeter Successfully Completes Trial Observation

2014/03/31

What drives plate motion?
~ New Discovery of Driving Forces of Plate Motion ~

2014/03/24

International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 350, 351 and 352
~ Comprehensive Understanding of Arc Evolution and Continental Crust Formation ~

2014/03/04

Two New Hydrothermal Fields Discovered in the Central Okinawa Trough ~Effectiveness of an investigation method for hydrothermal vents confirmed~

2014/02/18

Japan And European Countries Sign Memorandum of Understanding
On Scientific Ocean Research Drilling

2014/02/05

FY2013 Lecture Meeting “JAMSTEC 2014”
- The Future of the Earth to read from the Ocean -

2014/01/30

D/V Chikyu Completes IODP Expedition 348: “NanTroSEIZE Deep Riser - 3”

2014/01/23

Lateral transfer of ribosomal RNA genes between different species observed in eukaryotes for first time

2014/01/17

Plan changes by Deep Sea Scientific Drilling Vessel Chikyu for International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 348: NanTroSEIZE Stage 3

2014/01/08

A New Ocean Bottom Tsunameter
Based on the Ocean Dynamo Effect