About

Affiliations

Senior Scientist
Harmful Algal Blooms Group, Environmental Conservation Division, Environment and Fisheries Applied Techniques Research Department, Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency (FRA)

Area of Expertise

Biological Oceanography

Main Research Findings

• Positive influence of nearshore path of the Kuroshio on the estuarine recruitment of Anguilla japonica glass eels
• Predation on Anguilla japonica glass eels
• Ontogenetic vertical migration as a mechanism for the oceanic larval migration of Japanese spiny lobster Panulirus japonicus
• Multiple larval dispersal patterns of abalone
• Distribution of Japanese sea bass Lateolabrax japonicus in a river during winter
• Physical characteristics of tsunami observed in Sagami Bay

Keywords

Aquatic Environment, Pelagic Larvae, Dispersal, Population Connectivity, Marine Protected Areas, Urban Ecology, Hydrodynamic and Biological Modeling, Coastal Ecosystems, Food Web, Eel, Spiny Lobster, Abalone, Kuroshio, Tone River

Professional Organizations

International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae (ISSHA)
American Fisheries Society Early Life History Section (ELHS)
National Shellfisheries Association (NSA)
International Dark-Sky Association (IDA)
The Japanese Society of Fisheries Oceanography
The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science
The Oceanographic Society of Japan
Japan Geoscience Union
East Asia Eel Society (EASEC)

Award

2017 Encouragement Award, the Japanese Society of Fisheries Oceanography

Editorial Service

Academic Editor: PLOS ONE
Review Editor: Frontiers in Marine Science

Manuscript reviewer: Marine Ecology Progress Series, Journal of Marine Systems, Marine Biology, Deep-Sea Research Part I, Fisheries Oceanography, Journal of Oceanography, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Marine Science, Marine Biotechnology, Biology Open, Aquatic Biology, Regional Studies in Marine Science, Animals, Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Fisheries Oceanography, Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries (Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi), Bulletin on Coastal Oceanography, Aquaculture Science, Bulletin of the Faculty of Fisheries–Nagasaki University–

Research Cruises

2019 KS-19-3^***
2016 KH-16-4^*
2013 KH-13-6^*
2009 KH-09-1^*，KT-09-23^**
2008 KH-08-1^*
2007 KT-07-12^**
2006 KH-06-2^*
2005 KH-05-1^*，KT-05-10^**
* R/V Hakuho Maru, ^** R/V Tansei Maru, ^*** R/V Shinsei Maru

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