2018年度第七回GBSセミナー(11/26実施)

講演者:砂村 倫成 助教
開催日時:11月26日(月) 17:30-
場所:理学部一号館710号室

タイトル:深海の微生物生態系
地球環境では、数百〜数千の微生物種が関与して生態系を構築し、有機物や生元素循環を担っている。表層の微生物多様性は物理化学要因の影響が地理的隔離の影響より大きいが、深海の微生物多様性は水深と地理的分布の影響をより強くうけるとされている。本セミナーでは深海の微生物生態系の細胞密度や多様性と環境要因の関係について、北太平洋やインド洋における調査航海の例を紹介する。

2018年度第六回GBSセミナー(11/13実施)

講演者:台湾大学 Chuan-Chou Shen (沈 川洲) 教授
開催日時:11月13日(火) 16:00-17:30
場所:理学部一号館105号室

Title: Orbital-scale East Asian-Australian summer monsoon dynamics and a centennial earth magnetic reversal event at 98 ka

Abstract: Previous studies of stalagmite-inferred East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) records over the past 100s kyr suggest that orbital-scale EASM intensity was predominately driven by precessional forcing of ~20 kyr. In the past years, we reconstructed a tropical precipitation record from the western Pacific since 282 ka, inferred from planktonic foraminiferal rare earth element contents of a marine sediment core collected off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea. This record shows that the Australian summer monsoon (ASM) intensity was influenced by combined precession and obliquity changes. The obliquity forcing could be primarily delivered by a cross-hemispherical thermal/pressure contrast, resulting from the asymmetric continental configuration between Asia and Australia in a coupled East Asian-Australian circulation system. In this talk, I will also briefly introduce one of our recent studies on the stalagmite-inferred multidecadally-resolved geomagnetic record during 107-91 ka and an abrupt centennial polarity reversal event at 98 ka.