Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

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[M-IS17] Paleoclimatology and paleoceanography

Mon. May 23, 2016 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL6)

Convener:*Tomohisa Irino(Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University), Minoru Ikehara(Center for Advanced Marine Core Research, Kochi University), Akira Oka(Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo), Yusuke Okazaki(Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyushu University), Ikuko Kitaba(Research Centre for Palaleoclimatology, Ritsumeikan University), Akihisa Kitamura(Institute of Geosciences, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University), Masaki Sano(Research Institute for Humanity and Nature), Ryuji Tada(Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The Univeristy of Tokyo), Takeshi Nakagawa(Ritsumeikan University), Akira Hayashida(Department of Environmental Systems Science, Doshisha University)

5:15 PM - 6:30 PM

[MIS17-P25] Sediment trap samples stored in Kyushu University

*Yusuke Okazaki1, Kozo Takahashi2 (1.Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyushu University, 2.Hokusei Gakuen University)

Keywords:sinking particles, archive sample

Organic carbon produced by phytoplankton sinks to the ocean interior as sinking particles. This process plays an important role in oceanic carbon cycle. In order to investigate contents and fluxes of the sinking particles, sediment traps, funnel shaped instrument with rotating sampling vials to trap sinking particles, are deployed in the deep-sea. At Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences of Kyushu University, many sediment trap samples collected by Professor Emeritus Kozo Takahashi are archived in a refrigerator (wet sample) and storage (dried filter samples). These samples were collected from around the world, mainly from the North Pacific and its marginal seas. These samples are valuable material to understand oceanic biogeochemical cycles.