Members:
Prof. Yoshiyuki Tatsumi (URL), Associate Prof. Katsuya KANEKO (URL), Assistant Prof. Yusuke SETO (URL), Assistant Prof. Koji KIYOSUGI (URL), 1 Doctor course students, # Master Course students, 3 Undergraduate students
Location: Graduate School of Science and Technology Bldg 3, Room602 (Tatsumi), Room519 (Kaneko), Room517 (Seto), Room622 (Kiyosugi)
Research Interests:
How the Earth, as a water planet, formed and evolved is one of fundamental questions in the earth and planetary sciences. Our approach to this question is from various viewpoints using wide range of methods and techniques including field investigations, microtextural observations, chemical analyses, reproduction experiments, etc. We are interested in formation processes of solid materials in the solar nebula, and the origin and evolutionary processes of the meteorite parent bodies (asteroids and comets).
Current Projects:
Evolution of the water terrestrial planets
Formation process of the continental crust
Geochemical evolution of the solid Earth
Magmatism of giant caldera
Development of large magnitude explosive eruption database
Improvements of advection-diffusion model for volcanic plumes
Microtextural observations of carbonaceous chondrites
Improvents of X-ray/electron diffraction tecniques