Publications

Recent Articles

• 03 October, 2016

  Fukushima-derived radiocesium in the western North Pacific in 2014

  Yuichiro Kumamoto, Michio Aoyama, Yasunori Hamajima, Hisao Nagai, Takeyasu Yamagata, Yoshimi Kawai, Eitarou Oka, Atsushi Yamaguchi. Keiri Imai, Akihiko Murata
  Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Volumes 310, pp 1-9 DOI:10.1007/s10967-016-5055-3

• 14 September, 2016

  Morphological abnormalities in Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora) at the territories contaminated as a result of the accident at Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant

  Vasyl Yoschenko, Kenji Nanba, Satoshi Yoshida, Yoshito Watanabe, Tsugiko Takase, Natsumi Sato, Koji Keitoku
  Journal of Environmental Radioactivity Volume 165, December 2016, Pages 60-67 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2016.09.006

• 30 June, 2016

  Effects of the nuclear disaster on marine products in Fukushima: An update after five years

  Toshihiro Wada, Tsuneo Fujita, Yoshiharu Nemoto, Shinya Shimamura, Takuji Mizuno, Tadahiro Sohtome, Kyoichi Kamiyama, Kaoru Narita, Masato Watanabe, Nobuyuki Hatta, Yasuo Ogata, Takami Morita, Satoshi Igarashi
  Journal of Environmental Radioactivity Volume 164, November 2016, Pages 312-324 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2016.06.028

• 18 January, 2016

  Fukushima Daiichi-Derived Radionuclides in the Ocean: Transport, Fate, and Impacts

  Ken Buesseler, Minhan Dai, Michio Aoyama, Claudia Benitez-Nelson, Sabine Charmasson, Kathryn Higley, Vladimir Maderich, Pere Masqué , Deborah Oughton, John N Smith
  Annual Review of Marine Science Vol. 9

• 15 June, 2016

  Comparative analysis of radioactive cesium wash-off from contaminated catchment areas after accidents at the Fukushima Dai-ichi and Chernobyl nuclear power plants

  A. V. Konoplev
  Geochemistry International June 2016, Volume 54, Issue 6, pp 522-528 DOI:10.1134/S0016702916040042

• 22 May, 2016

  Vertical Distribution of Radiocesium in Soils of the Area Affected by the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident

  A.V.Konoplev, V.N.Golosov, V.I.Yoschenko, K.Nanba, Y.Onda, T.Takase, Y.Wakiyama
  Eurasian Soil Science, 2016, Vol.49, No.5, pp.570-580 DOI:10.1134/S1064229316050082

• 18 April, 2016

  Where the wild things are: influence of radiation on the distribution of four mammalian species within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

  Webster Sarah, Byrne Michael, Lance Stacey, Love Cara, Hinton Thomas, Shamovich Dmitry, Beasley James
  Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment DOI:10.1002/fee.1227

• 29 February, 2016

  Evaluation of radioactive cesium impact from atmospheric deposition and direct release fluxes into the North Pacific from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

  Takaki Tsubono, Kazuhiro Misumi, Daisuke Tsumune, Frank O. Bryan, Katsumi Hirose, Michio Aoyama
  Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2016.02.019

• 11 March, 2016

  Carbon, cesium and iodine isotopes in Japanese cedar 1 leaves from Iwaki, Fukushima

  Sheng Xu, Gordon T. Cook, Alan J. Cresswell, Elaine Dunbar, Stewart P. H. T. Freeman, Xiaolin Hou, Helen Kinch, Philip Naysmith, David W. C. Sanderson, Luyuan Zhang
  Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry DOI 10.1007/s10967-016-4830-5

• 14 March, 2016

  Water mass characteristics and their temporal changes in a biological hotspot in the southern Chukchi Sea

  Shigeto Nishino, Takashi Kikuchi, Amane Fujiwara, Toru Hirawake, Michio Aoyama
  Biogeosciences, 13, 1-16, 2016 doi:10.5194/bg-13-1-2016

• 3 February, 2016

  Thirty years after the Chernobyl accident: What lessons have we learnt?

  N.A.Beresford, S.Fesenko, A.Konoplev, L.Skuterud, J.T.Smith, G.Voigt
  Journal of Environmental Radioactivity Volume 157, June 2016, Pages 77-89 doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2016.02.003

• 17 February, 2016

  Radiocesium distribution and fluxes in the typical Cryptomeria japonica forest at the late stage after the accident at Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant

  Vasyl Yoschenko, Tsugiko Takase, Alexei Konoplev, Kenji Nanba, Yuichi Onda, Sergiy Kivva, Mark Zheleznyak, Natsumi Sato, Koji Keitoku
  Journal of Environmental Radioactivity doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2016.02.017

• 17 December, 2015

  Development of a copper-substituted, Prussian blue-impregnated, nonwoven cartridge filter to rapidly measure radiocesium concentration in seawater

  Tetsuo Yasutaka, Susumu Miyazu, Yoshihiko Kondo, Hideki Tsuji, Koichi Arita, Seiji Hayashi, Akira Takahashi, Tohru Kawamoto, Michio Aoyama
  Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology DOI:10.1080/00223131.2015.1135302

• 20 November, 2015

  Spatial and temporal distributions of ¹³⁴Cs and ¹³⁷Cs derived from the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in the North Pacific Ocean by using optimal interpolation analysis

  Y.Inomata, M.Aoyama, T.Tsubono, D.Tsumune, K.Hirose
  Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts DOI:10.1039/C5EM00324E

• 25 November, 2015

  TRACING RADIOACTIVITY FROM FUKUSHIMA IN THE NORTHERN PACIFIC OCEAN

  M. Aoyama, M. Hult, Y. Hamajima, G. Lutter, G Marissens, H. Stroh, F. Tzika
  Applied Radiation and Isotopes doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.11.103

• 13 November, 2015

  ¹³⁴Cs and ¹³⁷Cs in the North Pacific Ocean derived from the March 2011 TEPCO Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, Japan: Part One - Surface pathway and vertical distributions

  Aoyama, M., Yasunori Hamajima, Mikael Hult, Mitsuo Uematsu, Eitarou Oka, Daisuke Tsumune, Yuichiro Kumamoto
  Journal of Oceanography, DOI:10.1007/s10872-015-0335-z

  
  

  ¹³⁴Cs and ¹³⁷Cs in the North Pacific Ocean derived from the March 2011 TEPCO Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, Japan: Part Two - Estimation of ¹³⁴Cs and ¹³⁷Cs inventories in the North Pacific Ocean

  Aoyama, M., Mizuo Kajino, Taichu Y. Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Thomas Sekiyama, Daisuke Tsumune, Takaki Tsubono, Yasunori Hamajima, Yayoi Inomata, Toshitaka Gamo
  Journal of Oceanography, DOI:10.1007/s10872-015-0332-2

• 17 September, 2015

  Radiological impact of the nuclear power plant accident on freshwater fish in Fukushima: An overview of monitoring results

  Toshihiro Wada, Atsushi Tomiya, Masahiro Enomoto, Toshiyuki Sato, Daigo Morishita, Shigehiko Izumi, Kouji Niizeki, Shunji Suzuki, Takami Morita, Gyo Kawata
  Journal of Environmental Radioactivity Volume 151, Part 1, January 2016, Pages 144-155 doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2015.09.017

• 10 October, 2015

  Distribution of radiocesium of accidental origin between the suspended alluvium and solution in rivers: Comparison of Fukushima and Chernobyl

  A. V. Konoplev
  Radiochemistry September 2015, Volume 57, Issue 5, pp 552-556 DOI:10.1134/S1066362215050185

• 5 October, 2015

  Long-term census data reveal abundant wildlife populations at Chernobyl

  T.G.Deryabina, S.V.Kuchmel, L.L.Nagorskaya, T.G.Hinton, J.C.Beasley, A.Lerebours, J.T.Smith
  Current Biology Volume 25, Issue 19, pR824-R826, 5 October 2015 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.08.017

• 15 June, 2015

  A new method for identifying the male spawning period of fish using sperm duct volume as an index

  Takaaki Kayaba, Toshihiro Wada, Osamu Murakami, Sayumi Sawaguchi, Ryo Kawabe
  Fisheries Research Volume 170, October 2015, Pages 199-204 doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2015.06.009

• 10 September, 2015

  Water mass characteristics and their temporal changes in a biological hotspot in the southern Chukchi Sea

  S.Nishino, T.Kikuchi, A.Fujiwara, T.Hirawake, M.Aoyama
  Biogeosciences Discuss., 12, 16359-16396, 2015 doi:10.5194/bgd-12-16359-2015

• 1 June, 2015

  Meridional distribution of Fukushima-derived radiocesium in surface seawater along a trans-Pacific line from the Arctic to Antarctic Oceans in summer 2012

  Yuichiro Kumamoto, Michio Aoyama, Yasunori Hamajima, Shigeto Nishino, Akihiko Murata, Takashi Kikuchi
  Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry doi:10.1007/s10967-015-4439-0

• 20 July, 2015

  Morphological defects in native Japanese fir trees around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

  Yoshito Watanabe, San’ei Ichikawa, Masahide Kubota, Junko Hoshino, Yoshihisa Kubota, Kouichi Maruyama, Shoichi Fuma, Isao Kawaguchi, Vasyl I.Yoschenko, Satoshi Yoshida
  Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 13232 (2015) doi:10.1038/srep13232

• 17 August, 2015

  A Surplus Production Model Considering Movements between Two Areas using Spatiotemporal Differences in CPUE: Application to Sea Ravens Hemitripterus villosus off Fukushima as a Practical Marine Protected Area after the Nuclear Accident

  Yasutoki Shibata, Manabu Yamada, Toshihiro Wada, Masaki Itou, Harumi Yamada, Tadahiro Sohtome, Takashi Iwasaki, Tooru Sakuma, Takuji Mizuno
  Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science Volume 7, Issue 1, 2015 pages 325-337 DOI:10.1080/19425120.2015.1050536

• July, 2015

  Morphological and physiological characteristics of an oceanic-migrating Japanese eel Anguilla japonica off Fukushima, Japan

  Noriaki Matsuya, Seishi Hagihara, Toshihiro Wada, Shigeho Ijiri, Shinji Adachi
  International Coastal Research Center, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo
  Coastal marine science. Vol. 38, No. 1, 2015, pp. 8-11 URI:http://hdl.handle.net/2261/57164

• 2 July, 2015

  Behavior of accidentally released radiocesium in soil-water environment: Looking at Fukushima from a Chernobyl perspective

  A.Konoplev, V.Golosov, G.Laptev, K.Nanba, Y.Onda, T.Takase, Y.Wakiyama, K.Yoshimura
  Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 2 July 2015 doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2015.06.019

• 20 May, 2015

  Measurement of anthropogenic radionuclides in post-Fukushima Pacific sea water samples

  G.Lutter, F.Tzika, M.Hult, M.Aoyama, Y.Hamajima, G.Marissens, H.Stroh
  NUKLEONIKA 2015;60(3):545-550 doi:10.1515/nuka-2015-0112

• 16 February, 2015

  Nutrient supply and biological response to wind-induced mixing, inertial motion, internal waves, and currents in the northern Chukchi Sea

  Shigeto Nishino, Yusuke Kawaguchi, Jun Inoue, Toru Hirawake, Amane Fujiwara, Ryosuke Futsuki, Jonaotraro Onodera, and Michio Aoyama
  Journal of Geophysical Research 26 MAR 2015 DOI:10.1002/2014JC010407

• 27 November, 2014

  Impact of Fukushima-derived radiocesium in the western North Pacific Ocean about ten months after the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident

  Yuichiro Kumamoto, Michio Aoyama, Yasunori Hamajima, Akihiko Murata, & Takeshi Kawanoa
  Journal of Environmental Radioactivity Volume 140, February 2015, Pages 114-122 doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2014.11.010

• 27 October, 2014

  Laterally spreading iron, humic-like dissolved organic matter and nutrients in cold, dense subsurface water of the Arctic Ocean

  Nanako Hioki, Kenshi Kuma, Yuichirou Morita, Ryouhei Sasayama, Atsushi Ooki, Yoshiko Kondo, Hajime Obata, Jun Nishioka, Youhei Yamashita, Shigeto Nishino, Takashi Kikuchi & Michio Aoyama
  Scientific Reports 4, Article number:6775 DOI:10.1038/srep06775

• 6 May, 2014

  Distribution of radionuclides in surface seawater obtained by an aerial radiological survey

  Yayoi Inomata, Michio Aoyama, Katsumi Hirose, Yukihisa Sanada, Tatsuo Torii, Takaki Tsubono, Daisuke Tsumune & Masatoshi Yamada
  Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology Volume 51, Issue 9, 2014, pages 1059-1063 DOI:10.1080/00223131.2014.914451

• 27 June, 2014

  Factors controlling the spatiotemporal variation of ¹³⁷Cs in seabed sediment off the Fukushima coast: Implications from numerical simulations

  Kazuhiro Misumi, Daisuke Tsumune, Takaki Tsubono, Yutaka Tateda, Michio Aoyama, Takuya Kobayashi, Katsumi Hirose
  Journal of Environmental Radioactivity Volume 136, October 2014, Pages 218-228 DOI:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2014.06.004

• 6 May, 2014

  Distribution of radionuclides in the surface seawater developed by aerial radiological survey

  Yayoi Inomata, Michio Aoyama, Katsumi Hirose, Yukihisa Sanada, Tatsuo Torii, Takaki Tsubono, Daisuke Tsumune, Masatoshi Yamada
  Journal of NUCLEAR SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY, doi:10.1080/00223131.2014.914451

• 4 March, 2014

  Southward spreading of the Fukushima-derived radiocesium across the Kuroshio Extension in the North Pacific

  Yuichiro Kumamoto, Michio Aoyama, Yasunori Hamajima, Tatsuo Aono, Shinya Kouketsu, Akihiko Murata & Takeshi Kawano
  Scientific Reports 4, doi:10.1038/srep04276

Recent Books

• 14 June 2016

  IOCCP-JAMSTEC 2015 Inter-laboratory Calibration Exercise of a Certified Reference Material for Nutrients in Seawater

  

  Michio Aoyama, Mara Abad, Carol Anstey, Muhamed Ashraf P, Adil Bakir, Susan Becker, Steven Bell, Elisa Berdalet, Marguerite Blum, Rebecca Briggs, Florian Caradec, Thierry Cariou, Matt Church, Laurent Coppola, Mike Crump, Susan Curless, Minhan Dai, Anne Daniel, Clare Davis, Elisabete de Santis Braga, Miriam E. Solis, Lindsey Ekern, David Faber, Tamara Fraser, Kjell Gundersen, Sólvá Jacobsen, Marc Knockaert, Taketoshi Komada, Martina Kralj, Rita Kramer, Nurit Kress, Silvie Lainela, Jesús Ledesma, Xinxin Li, Jae-Hyun Lim, Martina Lohmann, Christian Lønborg, Kai-Uwe Ludwichowski, Claire Mahaffey, Frank Malien, Francesca Margiotta, Trevor McCormack, Iban Murillo, Hema Naik, Günther Nausch, Sólveig Rósa Ólafsdóttir, Jan van Ooijen, Rodolfo Paranhos, Chris Payne, Olivier Pierre-Duplessix, Gary Prove, Emilie Rabiller, Patrick Raimbault, Laura Reed, Christine Rees, TaeKeun Rho, Raymond Roman, E. Malcolm S. Woodward, Jun Sun, Beata Szymczycha, Sukeyoshi Takatani, Alison Taylor, Peter Thamer, Sinhué Torres-Valdés, Katherine Trahanovsky, Howard Waldron, Pamela Walsham, Lifang Wang, Tao Wang, Linda White, Takeshi Yoshimura, Jia-Zhong Zhang
  Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology ISBN 978-4-901833-23-3
  
  History of corrections of the report (PDF)
  

• 2016

  Environmental Remediation Technologies for Metal-Contaminated Soils

  Hiroshi Hasegawa, Ismail Md. Mofizur Rahman, Mohammad Azizur Rahman
  Springer Japan ISBN:978-4-431-55758-6(Print) 978-4-431-55759-3(Online) DOI:10.1007/978-4-431-55759-3

• 5 November, 2015

  福島原発事故の海洋汚染と研究者の社会的責任

  青山道夫
  日本国家公務員労働組合連合会『KOKKO 第3号』2015年11月号 Page 31-41 ISBN 978-4906708475

• 観測量と国際単位系SI　青山道夫，G101JP:001-007
  標準機器・標準物質による精度管理　林和彦・内田裕・青山道夫，G102JP:001-009

  「海洋観測ガイドライン」第1巻　日本海洋学会, ISBN 978-4-908553-00-4

  ガス分画連続流れ方式の分析装置を用いた高精度で相互比較可能な海水中の溶存栄養塩類 (N, P, Si) 分析方法　青山道夫，G302JP:001-017

  「海洋観測ガイドライン」第2巻　日本海洋学会, ISBN 978-4-908553-02-8

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• 29 September, 2015

  東京電力第一原子力発電所事故に由来する汚染水問題を三度考える

  青山道夫
  岩波書店『科学』2015年10月号 Page 981-984 雑誌コード 02317-10

• 28 June, 2015

  大気浮遊塵試料からみつけた”セシウム・ボール”について

  青山道夫
  岩波書店『科学』2015年6月号 Page 584-585 雑誌コード 02317-06

Recent Proceeding & etc

Recent Reports

• 2016

  Nutrients Community Whitepaper for the CLIVAR Open Science conference, 2016

  Aoyama Michio, Woodward E., Malcolm S., Bakker Karel, Becker Susan, Björkman Karin, Daniel Anne, Mahaffey Claire, Murata Akihiko, Naik Hema , Tanhua Toste, Rho Taekeun, Roman Raymond, Sloyan Bernadette

  CLIVAR Open Science Conference on 16-23, September, 2016 in Qingdao, China

• 19 February 2016

  福島大学環境放射能研究所の放射生態学研究
  Radioecological Researches in the Institute of Environmental Radioactivity at Fukushima University

  難波謙二
  平成27年度 野生動植物への放射線影響に関する調査研究報告会 要旨集 3 Page 8-10

  アカマツにおける形態学的変化～2014年から2015年の観察結果より～
  Morphological changes in Japanese red pine. Results of observations performed in 2014-2015

  Vasyl Ioshchenko
  平成27年度 野生動植物への放射線影響に関する調査研究報告会 要旨集 8 Page 19-21

• 19 February 2015

  福島大学環境放射能研究所の紹介
  Scope and Present State of Institute of Environmental Radioactivity(IER) at Fukushima University

  難波謙二
  平成26年度 野生動植物への放射線影響に関する意見交換会 要旨集 4 Page 15-16

  福島における植物への放射線影響調査
  Research on effect of radiation on plants in Fukushima

  Vasyl Ioshchenko
  平成26年度 野生動植物への放射線影響に関する意見交換会 要旨集 5 Page 17-19

• 12 March, 2014

  チェルノブイリ原発事故と植物への影響
  Chernobyl Accident and Its Impact on Plants

  Vasyl Ioshchenko
  平成25年度 野生動植物への放射線影響に関する意見交換会 要旨集 Pages 6-7