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Shallow Very Low Frequency Earthquake Zones in Nankai Trough Corresponds to Low Velocity Zones in Toe of Accretionary Prism
- A step to identify structural factors for occurrence of such earthquakes -

International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 372 to Start
- Hikurangi subduction margin and slow slip events -

Dr. Imai received Coastal Engineering Journal (CEJ) Citation Award 2016

Mr. Masahiko Ida has entered La Cité de la Mer's “Wall of Fame”

Dr. Miyazaki received Group Achievement Award from NASA

International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 369 to Start
- Australia Cretaceous Climate and Tectonics -

JAMSTEC received 2017 IEEE OES Institution Award in OCEANS ’17 Anchorage

Subducted Seamounts Could Trigger Volcanic Activities

Impacts of Global Warming on Tropical Cyclone
- Radius of gale force wind likely to expand-

Deepest Fish Ever Recorded —
Documented at Depths of 8,178 m in Mariana Trench

International Ocean Discovery Program Expeditions 371 to Start:
“Tasman Frontier Subduction Initiation and Paleogene Climate”

Unusual Microbial Community Found in Extreme Environments in the Deep Subsurface
- Serpentinization-fed spring may be a clue to unlock mystery of early life on Earth -

Sparse Modeling Captures Abrupt Changes in Slip Distribution beneath the Bungo Channel
- Improvement in spatial resolution for geodetic data inversion around the seismogenic zone expected -

Water Vapor Content Increases Markedly with Increase in Air Temperature
- Indication of the possibility of more intense precipitation -

Wildfire Likely to Have Larger Impacts on Climate Change
- Underestimated burned areas in boreal Eurasia revealed by satellite image validation -

Dr. Kodaira honored as named lecturer of 2017 Beno Gutenberg Lecture at AGU

Dr. Kentaro Ando, Group Leader of Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Research Group of JAMSTEC, was elected a Vice-Chairperson of the Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (UNESCO/IOC)

Impact of Climate Variability on Malaria Incidence in South Africa
- Link of El Niño/La Niña and Indian Ocean Subtropical Dipole with Malaria Incidence -

China's Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions Have Been Overestimated
- Advancement in verification of fossil fuel CO2 and CH4 sources from China -

Quartz Melting Point Depresses on Fault Plane
- A big step in understanding large earthquake mechanism -

Deep-sea Hydrothermal Systems are “Natural Power Plants”
- New clues to the discovery of electric ecosystems and elucidation of the origin of life -

Opposite Climate Trends in East Asia and Europe during the Younger Dryas Stadial
- Evidence from Lake Suigetsu -

High Resolution Global Simulation Improves Typhoon Prediction
- Earth Simulator statistically quantifies advantage of high resolution simulation-

International Ocean Discovery Program Expeditions 367 and 368 to Start
- Testing hypotheses for lithosphere thinning during continental breakup: drilling at the South China Sea rifted margin -

Carbon Dioxide Induces Partial Melting in the Asthenosphere
- A big step to settle arguments on plate tectonics -

Foraminifera Pumps Proton for Shell Formation
- To buffer seawater against pH changes due to ocean acidification -

World's First Estimation of Long-term Variations in Global Atmospheric Pollutant Emissions based on Data Assimilation
- Rapid increases over India and large variations over China -

Kuroshio Enhances Bomb Cyclones
- A mechanism to induce explosive cyclones and jet stream -

Shallow Fault Slip during 2011 Tohoku-oki Earthquake Quantified
- Clue to understand characteristic of shallow slip near trench axis -