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	Yasufumi Satoguchi

Research Group
Cultural History and Geoscience Research Group
Degree
Ph. D. (Science)
Photograph Explanation
Geological surveying of Oita Prefecture.

Homepage /E-MAIL: satoguti@lbm.go.jp

	Career

I graduated from Osaka City University's Science Department in Geology and then completed a doctorate at the same university. I started working for the Lake Biwa Museum in April, 1997.

Specialty

1. Pliocene-Pleistocene five million year history of volcanic eruptions based on volcanic ash.
2. Japan's Pliocene-Pleistocene tephrostratigraphy and establishment of age.
3. Palaeoenvironmental changes of the Lake Biwa region.

Key Words of Research

Tephra, volcanic ash stratigraphy, Pliocene-Pleistocene, explosive volcanic eruption activity, palaeoenvironments.

Professional Society Membership

The Geological Society of Japan (Representative and life-long education member), the Japan Association for Quaternary Research, the Volcanological Society of Japan, the Sedimentological Society of Japan, the Association for the Geological Collaboration in Japan.