*Kazuo Kawasaki¹, David T.A. Symons², Fernando Tornos³, Francisco Velasco⁴, Idoia Rosales⁵ (1.Graduate School of Science and Engineering for Research, University of Toyama, 2.Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Windsor, Canada, 3.Centro de Astrobiologia, CSIC-INTA, Spain, 4.Department de Mineralogía y Petrología, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain, 5.Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Spain)

*Daniel Pastor-Galán¹ (1.Center for North East Asian Studies, Tohoku University)

*Myriam Annie Claire Kars¹, Kazuto KODAMA¹, Katie Taladay² (1.Center for Advanced Marine Core Research, Kochi University, Japan, 2.University of Hawaii at Manoa, Geography, USA)

*Noriko Kawamura¹, Naoto Ishikawa², Tetsu Kogiso² (1.Japan Coast Guard Academy, 2.Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University)

*Hirokuni Oda¹, Yuhji Yamamoto², Yoshio Inouchi³ (1.Institute of Geology and Geoinformation, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 2.Kochi University, 3.Waseda University)

*Ataru Sakuraba¹ (1.Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo)

*Masayuki Hyodo¹, Balazs Bradak¹, Makoto Okada², Shigehiro Katoh³, Ikuko Kitaba⁴ (1.Research Center for Inland Seas, Kobe University, 2.Department of Earth Sciences, Ibaraki University, 3.Hyogo Museum of Nature and Human Activities, 4.Research Centre for Palaeoclimatology, Ritsumeikan University)

*Makoto Okada¹, Yusuke Suganuma², Yuki Haneda³ (1.Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, 2.National Institute of Polar Research, 3.Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University)

*Min Xu¹, Maurice Tivey^2,3, Wen Yan¹ (1.SCSIO, CAS, 2.WHOI, 3.NSF)

*Nobutatsu Mochizuki¹, Yasuo Miyabuchi², Hidetoshi Shibuya³ (1.Priority Organization for Innovation and Excellence, Kumamoto University, 2.Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University, 3.Department of Earth and Enviromental Science, Kumamoto University)

*Tadahiro Hatakeyama¹, Hidetoshi Shibuya² (1.Information Processing Center, Okayama University of Science, 2.Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University)

*Radchagrit Supakulopas¹, Adrian Muxworthy¹, Morten Riishuus², Conall Mac Niocaill³, Arne Døssing⁴ (1.Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, UK, 2.Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Iceland, 3.Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, UK, 4.National Space Institute, DTU Space, Denmark)

*Masahiko Sato¹, Nobutatsu Mochizuki², Minako Watanabe³, Hideo Tsunakawa⁴ (1.National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 2.Kumamoto University, 3.National Institute of Technology, Nagaoka College, 4.Tokyo Institute of Technology)

*Chun-Rong Chen¹, Chieh-Hung Chen², Jing-Yi Lin¹, Horng-Yuan Yen¹, Peng Han⁴, Che-Chien Chao³ (1.Department of Earth Sciences, National Central University, 2.Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, 3.Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, National Chung Cheng University, 4.The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo)