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Papers
- Kanta Muramatsu; Mari Kuroki; Yu-Lin K Chang; Kentaro Morita; Osamu Kishida
Thermal constraints on the distribution of Japanese eel ( Anguilla japonica ) at its northern limit: Links to land use and geology
PNAS Nexus, 01 Dec. 2025
4, 12
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin K. Chang; Mari Kuroki
Evaluation of the asymmetric distribution of Japanese eel recruitment to eastern and western Japan
Regional Studies in Marine Science, Oct. 2025
87, 104243, 104243
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Yu-Lin K. Chang; Kentaro Honda; Kentaro Morita
Beyond lethal temperatures: Factors behind the disappearance of chum salmon from their southern margins under climate change
PLOS One, 10 Sep. 2025
20, 9, e0330957, e0330957
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Yu-Lin K. Chang; Yasumasa Miyazawa; Xinyu Guo; Sergey Varlamov; Haiyan Yang; Yousuke Kaifu
Traversing the Kuroshio: Paleolithic migration across one of the world’s strongest ocean currents
Science Advances, 27 Jun. 2025
11, 26
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Yousuke Kaifu; Chih-Hsing Lin; Nobuyuki Ikeya; Masahisa Yamada; Akira Iwase; Yu-Lin K. Chang; Masahiro Uchida; Koji Hara; Kunihiro Amemiya; Yunkai Sung; Katsuaki Suzuki; Minoru Muramatsu; Michiko Tanaka; Sayaka Hanai; Toiora Hawira; Saki Uchida; Masaki Fujita; Yasumasa Miyazawa; Kumino Nakamura; Pi-Ling Wen; Akira Goto
Paleolithic seafaring in East Asia: An experimental test of the dugout canoe hypothesis
Science Advances, 27 Jun. 2025
11, 26
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin K. Chang; Kentaro Morita; Kanta Muramatsu; Osamu Kishida; Mari Kuroki
Northern shifts in the migration of Japanese glass eels to subarctic Hokkaido Island over the past three decades
Ocean Dynamics, 07 Jan. 2025
75, 1
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Julie Viana; Fabien Morat; Michael J. Miller; Yu-Lin Chang; Émilie Boissin; Pierre Sasal
Interannual early life history variation and larval dispersal of three tropical anguillid eel species recruiting in French Polynesia
Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 28 Nov. 2024
35, 1, 345, 370
[Reviewed] - Gen Li; Yu-Lin Chang; Yasumasa Miyazawa; Ulrike K. Müller
The calculated voyage: benchmarking optimal strategies and consumptions in the Japanese eel’s spawning migration
Scientific Reports, 31 Oct. 2024
14, 1
[Reviewed] - Yasumasa Miyazawa; Max Yaremchuk; Sergey M. Varlamov; Toru Miyama; Yu-Lin K. Chang; Hakase Hayashida
An ensemble-based data assimilation system for forecasting variability of the Northwestern Pacific ocean
OCEAN DYNAMICS, Jun. 2024
74, 6, 471, 493 - Miller M.J., Sasal P., Schabetsberger R., Kuroki M., Acou A., Chang Y.L.K., Higuchi T., Watanabe S., Aoyama J., Feunteun E.
The South Pacific: a unique geological and oceanographic region of freshwater island-oasis habitats for anguillid eel population interactions
CYBIUM, 31 Jan. 2024
48, 5, 33
[Reviewed] - 美山透, 宮澤泰正, バーラモフセルゲイ, チャンユーリン, 林田博士, 章若潮
蛇行する黒潮、南下しない親潮
水産海洋研究, 25 Aug. 2023
87, 3, 191, 193 - Yu-Lin K. Chang, Sergey M. Varlamov, Xinyu Guo, Toru Miyama & Yasumasa Miyazawa
July 2020 heavy rainfall in Japan: effect of real-time river discharge on ocean circulation based on a coupled river-ocean model
Ocean Dynamics, 26 Apr. 2023
73, 249, 265
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin K. Chang, Sergey M. Varlamov, Xinyu Guo, Toru Miyama & Yasumasa Miyazawa
July 2020 heavy rainfall in Japan: effect of real-time river discharge on ocean circulation based on a coupled river-ocean model
Ocean Dynamics, 26 Apr. 2023
73, 249, 265
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin K. Chang, Iona M. McIntosh, Toru Miyama & Yasumasa Miyazawa
Projection of August 2021 pumice dispersion from the Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba eruption in the western North Pacific
Scientific Reports, 09 Mar. 2023
13, 3945
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin K. Chang; Michael J. Miller
Possible influence of typhoons, volcanic ash, and ocean productivity on early larval survival and Japanese eel annual cohort recruitment
DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS, 29 Nov. 2022
192, 103940, 103940, 103940
[Reviewed] - Chang, Y.-L., E. Feunteun, and Y. Miyazawa
Reply to: No new evidence for an Atlantic eels spawning area outside the Sargasso Sea
Scientific Reports, 11 Jul. 2022
12
[Reviewed] - Schabetsberger, R., Y.-L. K. Chang and M.J. Miller
Spawning migration and larval dispersal of tropical Pacific eels (Anguilla spp.) in the centre of their distribution ranges
MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES, 05 Jul. 2021
670, 167, 184
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin Chang, Eric Feunteun, Yasumasa Miyazawa, Katsumi Tsukamoto
New clues on the Atlantic eels spawning behavior and area: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge hypothesis
Scientific Reports, 06 Oct. 2020
10
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin Chang, Eric Feunteun, Yasumasa Miyazawa, Katsumi Tsukamoto
New clues on the Atlantic eels spawning behavior and area: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge hypothesis
Scientific Reports, 06 Oct. 2020
10
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin K. Chang, Eric Feunteun, Yasumasa Miyazawa, Katsumi Tsukamoto
New clues on the Atlantic eels spawning behavior and area: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge hypothesis
Scientific Reports, 06 Oct. 2020
10, 15981
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin Chang, Giorgio DallOlmo, Robert Schabetsberger
Tracking the marine migration routes of South Pacific silver eels
MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES, 30 Jul. 2020
646, 1, 12
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin Chang, Giorgio Dall'Olmo, Robert Schabetsberger
Tracking the marine migration routes of South Pacific silver eels
MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES, 30 Jul. 2020
646, 1, 12
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin K. Chang., Y. Miyazawa, S. Behera
Role of climate variability in the potential predictability of tropical cyclone formation in tropical and subtropical western North Pacific Ocean
Scientific Reports, 27 Dec. 2019
9
[Reviewed] - Yu-lin Chang., Y. Miyazawa, Michael Miller, Katsumi Tsukamoto
Influence of ocean circulation and the Kuroshio large meander on the 2018 Japanese eel recruitment season
PLoS One, 27 Sep. 2019
14, 9
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin K. Chang, Michael J. Miller, Katsumi Tsukamoto, and Yasumasa Miyazawa
Effect of larval swimming in the western North Pacific Subtropical Gyre on the recruitment success of the Japanese eel
PLoS One, 20 Dec. 2018
13, 12
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin K. Chang, Yasumasa Miyazawa, Tsubasa Kodaira, Swadhin K. Behera
Philippines-Taiwan Oscillations and its connection to tropical cyclone frequency in the western North Pacific Ocean
Scientific Reports, 29 Nov. 2018
8
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin K. Chang, Yasumasa Miyazawa, Michael J. Miller, and Katsumi Tsukamoto
Potential impact of ocean circulation on the declining Japanese eel catches
Scientific Reports, 03 Apr. 2018
2018, 8
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin K. Chang, Yasumasa Miyazawa, Melanie Beguer-Pon, Yu-San Han, Kyoko Ohashi, Jinyu Sheng
Physical and biological roles of mesoscale eddies in Japanese eel larvae dispersal in the western North Pacific Ocean
Scientific Reports, 22 Mar. 2018
8, 1
[Reviewed] - Chang, Y.-L., Y. Miyazawa, L.-Y. Oey, T. Kodaira, and S. Huang
The formation processes of phytoplankton growth and decline in mesoscale eddies in the western North Pacific Ocean
Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 26 May 2017
122, 5, 4444, 4455
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin Chang; Yasumasa Miyazawa; Xinyu Guo
Effects of the STCC eddies on the Kuroshio based on the 20-year JCOPE2 reanalysis results
PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY, Jun. 2015
135, 64, 76
[Reviewed] - Yu-Lin Chang; Yasumasa Miyazawa; Xinyu Guo
Effect of Mesoscale Eddies on the Taiwan Strait Current
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY, Jun. 2015
45, 6, 1651, 1666
[Reviewed]
Misc.
- Ogata, T., Horii, T., Aiki, H., Chang, Y.-L. E., Iskandar, I., and Masumoto, Y.
Editorial: Multi-scale air-sea variability and its application in Indo-Pacific regions
Frontiers in Climate, 18 Jul. 2023
5
[Reviewed]
Presentations
- Yu-Lin Chang
Projection of pumice dispersion from the August 2021 submarine volcano eruption in the western North Pacific
International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean, 19 Jun. 2024 - Yu-Lin Chang
Recruitment of temperate Japanese eel larvae to the subarctic Hokkaido Island: has eel recruitment moved northward during the past 30 years?
Japan Geoscience Union, 24 May 2024 - Toru Miyama , Yasumasa Miyazawa , Hakase Hayashida , Yu-Lin K. Chang , Sergey Varlamov , Ruochao Zhang
Significant impact of ocean current variability on marine heatwaves: case studies in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean
PICES-2023, 20 Oct. 2023, [Invited] - 宮澤泰正, Sergey M. Varlamov, 美山透, 章若潮, Yu-Lin K. Chang, 林田博士, 木戸晶一郎, 郭新宇
日本沿海予測可能性実験における沿岸外洋相互作用研究
2023年度日本海洋学会秋季大会, 27 Sep. 2023 - 美山透 , 宮澤泰正 , バーラモフセルゲイ , チャンユーリン , 林田博士 , 章若潮
蛇行する黒潮、南下しない親潮
水産海洋シンポジウム「2010 年代以降の地球温暖化や極端現象が 海洋・水産資源に与えた影響」, 19 Mar. 2023, [Invited] - 美山透 , 宮澤泰正 , バーラモフセルゲイ , チャンユーリン , 林田博士 , 章若潮
沿岸変動予測システム
赤潮の予測とその社会実装に向けた研究集会, 16 Dec. 2022 - 宮澤泰正, Sergey M. Varlamov, 美山透, 章若潮, Yu-Lin Chang, 林田博士
北西太平洋4次元アンサンブル変分法予測システム
2022年度日本海洋学会秋季大会, 06 Sep. 2022 - Yu-Lin Chang
Application of Particle Tracking on Ocean Research
GAIA STEM Lecture TAIWAN, 20 Aug. 2022, [Invited] - Yu-Lin Chang
Possible Influence of Typhoons, Volcano, and Ocean Productivity on Early Larval Survival and Annual Cohort Recruitment of the Japanese eel
International Workshop on Modelling the Ocean, 01 Jul. 2022 - Yu-Lin Chang
July 2020 heavy rainfall in Japan: Effect of real-time river discharge on ocean circulation based on a coupled river-ocean model
International Workshop on Modelling the Ocean, 28 Jun. 2022 - Yu-Lin Chang
The application of ocean model simulation on Anguillid eel migration
UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development Ocean Decade Laboratories :A Productive Ocean, 01 Jun. 2022, [Invited] - Yu-Lin Chang
July 2020 heavy rainfall in Japan: Effect of real-time river discharge on ocean circulation based on a couple driver-ocean model
Japan Geoscience Union Meeting (JpGU), 27 May 2022 - 美山 透 , 宮澤 泰正 , チャン ユーリン , バーラモフ セルゲイ , 石澤 淳一郎 , 川北 史朗 , 小川 万尋 , 高倉 有希 , 中右 浩二
福徳岡ノ場海底火山からの軽石漂流シミュレーション
Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2022, 27 May 2022 - Yu-Lin Chang
New clues on the Atlantic eels spawning behavior and area: The Mid-Atlantic Ridge Hypothesis
Japan Geophysical Union (JpGU) annual meeting, 03 Jun. 2021 - 美山透, 宮澤泰正, 青木邦弘, Yu-Lin Chang, 日原勉, Sergey Varlamov
2年を越えて続く黒潮大蛇行: その影響と予測
第71回 気候影響・利用研究会, 30 Nov. 2019, [Invited] - Yu-Lin Chang
Philippines−Taiwan Oscillations and its connection to tropical cyclone frequency in the western North Pacific Ocean
Japan Oceanic Society Fall meeting, 18 Sep. 2019 - Yu-Lin Chang
Philippines−Taiwan Oscillations and its connection to tropical cyclone frequency in the western North Pacific Ocean
International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean, 18 Jun. 2019 - Yu-Lin Chang
The late arrival of 2017-18 Japanese eel recruitment and its links to ocean circulation
Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, 28 May 2019 - Yu-Lin Chang
Spawning area of Atlantic eels
Provide a invited seminar in National Central University of Taiwan, 07 May 2019, [Invited] - Yu-Lin Chang
Potential impact of ocean circulation on Japanese eel larvae migration
SIMSEA 2nd Regional Symposium, 20 Nov. 2018 - Yu-Lin Eda Chang, Yasumasa Miyazawa, Michael J. Miller and Katsumi Tsukamoto
Potential impact of ocean circulation on Japanese eel larvae migration
PICES 2018 Annual Meeting, 30 Oct. 2018, [Invited] - Yu-Lin Chang
Potential impact of ocean circulation on the declining Japanese eel catches
International Workshop on Modelling the Ocean (IWMO), 25 Jun. 2018 - Yu-Lin Chang
Potential impact of ocean circulation on the declining Japanese eel catches
15th Annual Meeting Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, 07 Jun. 2018, [Invited] - Yu-Lin Eda Chang、Yasumasa Miyazawa、Michael Miller、Katsumi Tsukamoto
Potential impact of ocean circulation on the declining Japanese eel catches
Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2018, 21 May 2018
Media Coverage
- 2年続けてゼロに 最多は2013年の1万8千匹超も近年は急激に減少 埼玉・行田の利根大堰を遡上するサケの数 専門家は「黒潮が北上、温暖化が原因だろう」
埼玉新聞, Jan. 2026, Paper - ニホンウナギ、北限の北海道で222匹確認 夏に高水温ほど多い傾向
朝日新聞, Dec. 2025, Paper - 北限のウナギ生息の鍵は夏の水温 襟裳岬以西で調査 北大の研究グループ
北海道新聞, Dec. 2025, Paper - Early humans likely navigated strong currents to reach Japan
朝日新聞, Jul. 2025, Paper - Taiwan to Japan: Paleolithic Canoe Journey – Cramps, Fatigue, and Hallucinations
Time, Jul. 2025, Paper - けいれん、疲労、幻覚:台湾から日本までの旧石器時代のカヌーで200kmをパドリングする|日本
Nipponese.news, Jul. 2025, Internet - 3万年以上前、ホモ・サピエンスは舟で日本列島にたどり着いたことを実証(日本研究)
excite, Jul. 2025, Internet - De Taiwán a Japón en una canoa prehistórica: científicos recrean viaje de los primeros humanos en llegar a suelo nipón
Meteored Chile, Jun. 2025, Internet - Scientists recreate a 30,000-year-old epic ocean journey by canoe
Earth, Jun. 2025, Internet - 3万年前の黒潮は今よりも速かったらしい それでも丸木舟は琉球の海を渡ることができた~ホモ・サピエンスはどうやって日本列島へ到達したのか~
Tii技術情報, Jun. 2025, Internet - 史前館臺日合作「跨越黑潮-復現3萬年前的航海」實驗航海計畫 研究成果榮登國際期刊《科學前緣》(Science Advances)
PCHOME NEWS, Jun. 2025, Internet - Von Taiwan nach JapanForschende testen Steinzeit-Kanu
Deutschlandfunk Nova, Jun. 2025, Paper - With a primitive canoe, scientists replicate prehistoric seafaring
The Straits Times, Jun. 2025, Paper - Ancient canoe replica tests Paleolithic migration theory
EuketAlert! AAAS, Jun. 2025, Internet - Investigadores japoneses navegan 225 kilómetros en unas condiciones lamentables solo para demostrar que tiene razón
La Razon.es, Jun. 2025, Internet - Ancient canoe replica recreates a 30,000-year-old voyage
Popular Science, Jun. 2025, Internet - 日本人の祖先、戦略的航海で渡来か 「黒潮乗り越え可能」 東大など
毎日新聞, Jun. 2025, Paper - Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Sea Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log
The New York Times, Jun. 2025, Paper
