Haotian Liu¹, *Nobutatsu Mochizuki², Chie Kato³, Tesfaye Kidane⁴, Ameha Muluneh⁵, Masakazu Fujii⁶, Ryokei Yoshimura⁷, Shin-ichi Kagashima⁸, Yo-ichiro Otofuji⁹, Naoto Ishikawa¹⁰ (1.Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, 2.Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, 3.Kyushu Univeristy, 4.University of KwaZulu-Natal, 5.Addis Ababa University, 6.NIPR, 7.Kyoto University, 8.Yamagata University, 9.Japan Geochronology Network, 10.The University of Toyama)

*Hiroshi Sato¹, Shiki Machida², Ryoko Senda³, Osamu Ishizuka⁴, Christine Meyzen⁵, Michael Bizimis⁶, Taichi Sato⁴, Masakazu Fujii^7,8, Yoshifumi Nogi^7,8 (1.School of Business Administration, Senshu University, 2. Ocean Resources Research Center for Next Generation, Chiba Institute of Technology, 3. Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, 4.Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 5.University of Padova, 6.University of South Carolina, 7.National Institute of Polar Research, 8.SOKENDAI)

*Kyoko Okino¹, Yasuhiko Ohara^2,6,7, Kenichiro Tani³, Osamu Ishizuka⁴, Masakazu Fujii⁵ (1.Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 2.Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department of Japan, 3.National Museum of Nature and Science, 4.National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 5.National Institute of Polar Science, 6.JAMSTEC, 7.Nagoya University)

*Shuhei Tanaka¹, Atsushi Okamoto¹, Kazuki Yoshida¹, Yasuhiro Niwa^2,4, Masao Kimura^2,4, Masaoki Uno¹, Masakazu Fujii^3,5 (1.Tohoku University, 2.High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, 3.National Institute of Polar Research, 4.Institute of Materials Structure Science, 5.The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)

*Vigan Mensah¹, Yoshihiro Nakayama¹, Masakazu Fujii², Kay I. Ohshima¹ (1.Institute of Low Temperature Science, 2.National Institute of Polar Research)

*Shuntaro Hyogo¹, Yoshihiro Nakayama², Masakazu Fujii³, Takeshi Tamura³, Ayako Abe-Ouchi⁴, Shigeru Aoki² (1.Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, 2.Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan., 3.National Institute of Polar Research and SOKENDAI, 4.Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo)

*Daisuke Hirano¹, Takeshi Tamura¹, Kazuya Kusahara², Masakazu Fujii¹, Kaihe Yamazaki³, Yoshihiro Nakayama³, Kazuya Ono³, Takuya Itaki⁴, Yuichi Aoyama¹, Daisuke Simizu¹, Kohei Mizobata⁵, Kay I. Ohshima³, Yoshifumi Nogi¹, Stephen R. Rintoul^6,7,8, Esmee van Wijk^6,8, Jamin S. Greenbaum⁹, Donald D. Blankenship¹⁰, Shigeru Aoki³ (1.National Institute of Polar Research, 2.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 3.Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, 4.National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 5.Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 6.CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, 7.Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research, 8.Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, 9.Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 10.Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas)

*Hiroshi Yoshida¹, Hirokazu Yamagata², Toshihiro Maki², Masakazu Fujii³, Yoshifumi Nogi³ (1.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 2.The University of Tokyo, 3.National Institute of Polar Research )