*Junichiro KURODA¹, Francisco Jimenez-Espejo¹, Tatsuo NOZAKI¹, Toshihiro YOSHIMURA¹, Naohiko OHKOUCHI¹ (1.JAMSTEC)

*Itsuki SUTO¹, Akemi FUKUMURA², Susumu KONNO³, Hirofumi ASAHI⁴, A.C. Mix⁵, M. Davies-Walczak⁵, Exp. 341 Scientists IODP⁶ (1.Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya Univ., 2.Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido Univ., 3.Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu Univ., 4.Korea Polar Res. Inst., S. Korea, 5.Coll. Earth Ocean Atmos. Sci., Oregon State Univ., USA, 6.IODP Exp. 341 Scientists)

*Susumu KONNO¹, Sei-ichiro SUGA¹, Yusuke OKAZAKI¹, Hirofumi ASAHI², Akemi FUKUMURA³, Kenji M. MATSUZAKI⁴, Itsuki SUTO⁵ (1.Graduate School of Sciences, Kyushu University, 2.Korea Polar Research Institute, 3.Hokkaido university, 4.Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 5.Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University)

*Stephen OBROCHTA¹, A.T. Kotilainen², O. Hyttinen³, T. Andren⁴, D. Ryabchuk⁵, I. Snowball⁶, Y. Yokoyama⁷, 347, Science party EXP.⁸ (1.Akita University Faculty of International Resource Science, 2.Geological Survey of Finland (GTK), 3.University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography, 4.Sodertorn University, School of Natural Sciences, 5.A.P. Karpinsky Russian Research Geological Institute (VSEGEI), 6.Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences - Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, 7.University of Tokyo Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, 8.International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP))

*Tatsuhiko YAMAGUCHI¹, Hiroki MATSUI², Hiroshi NISHI² (1.Kochi University, 2.Tohoku University)

*Maria luisa TEJADA¹, Chun-feng LI², Jian LIN³, Denise KULHANEK⁴, Trevor WILLIAMS⁵, Rui BAO⁶, Anne BRIAIS⁷, Yifeng CHEN⁸, Peter CLIFT⁹, Frederick COLWELL¹⁰, Kelsie DADD¹¹, Weiwei DING¹², Ivan HERNANDEZ-ALMEIDA¹³, Xiao-long HUANG⁸, Sangmin HYUN¹⁴, Tao JIANG¹⁵, Anthony KOPPERS¹⁰, Qianyu LI², Chuanlian LIU², Qingsong LIU¹⁶, Zhifei LIU², Renata NAGAI¹⁷, Alyssa PELEO-ALAMPAY¹⁸, Xin SU¹⁹, Zhen SUN²⁰, Hai son TRINH²¹, Yi-ching YEH²², Chuanlun ZHANG², Fan ZHANG³, Guo-liang ZHANG²³, Xixi ZHAO² (1.Department of Solid Earth Geochemistry, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan, 2.State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, China, 3.Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, 4.IODP, Texas A&M University, USA, 5.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, USA, 6.Geologisches Institut, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland, 7.Centre National de la Reserche Scientifique, University of Toulouse, France, 8.Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 9.Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, USA, 10.College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, USA, 11.Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia, 12.Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, China, 13.Institute of Geography/Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Univ. of Bern, Switzerlandl, 14.Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Republic of Korea, 15.Faculty of Earth Resources, China University of Geosciences, China, 16.State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, China, 17.Department of Physical, Chemical and Geological Oceanography, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 18.National Institute of Geological Sciences, Univ. of the Philippines, Philippines, 19.School of Marine Geosciences, China University of Geosciences, China, 20.South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 21.Department of Science and Technology, Min. of Natural Resources and Environment, Vietnam, 22.Taiwan Ocean Research Institute, Taiwan, Republic of China, 23.Key Laboratory of Marine Geology and Environment, Institute of Oceanology, CAS, China)

Peter KELEMEN¹, *Tomoaki MORISHITA² (1.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 2.Kanazawa University)