Kyushu University Academic Staff Educational and Research Activities Database
Researcher information
Akihiro Kano Last modified date:2012.10.11

Professor / Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, International Social Culture
Department of Environmental Changes
Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies


Graduate School
Undergraduate School
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Administration Post
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E-Mail
Homepage
http://www.scs.kyushu-u.ac.jp/earth/kano/index.html.
Phone
092-802-5655
Fax
092-802-5662
Academic Degree
Ph.D (Department of Geology and Geochemistry, 1990)
Field of Specialization
Geology, Sedimentology, Paleontology
Research
Research Interests
  • Linkage between Snowball Earth events and animal evolution
    keyword : Biological evolution, Environmental change, Organic matter
    1999.04.
  • Developmental history and oceanographic conditions of deep-sea coral reefs
    keyword : Deep-sea, Drilling, Coral reefs
    2005.04.
  • Geomicrobiology in hot-spring environments
    keyword : Hot-spring, Stromatolite, Banded Iron Formation
    2002.04.
  • Carbonate sedimentology
    keyword : Limestone, Fossils, Depositional environments
    1988.04.
  • Paleoclimatology of freshwater carbonates
    keyword : Paleoclimate, Limestone cave, Tufa, Stalagmite, Climate change
    1997.04.
Academic Activities
Books
1. Kano, A.,Tufa Freshwater. In: Reitner, J. and Thiel, V. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Geobiology,Springer,889-891,2011.02.
Papers
1. Kunimitsu, Y., Setsuda, Y., Furuyama, S., Wang, W. and Kano, A.,Ediacaran paleoceanography from lithological and geochemical studies in northwestern Hunan Province, China,Precambrian Research,Vol.191,pp.194-208,2011.11.
2. Kano, A., Kunimitsu, Y., Takashima, C., Shiraishi, F., Wang, W.,The evolution of animal multicellularity stimulated by dissolved organic carbon in early Ediacaran ocean: DOXAM hypothesis,Island Arc,Vol.20,pp.280-293,2011.06.
3. Okumura, T., Takashima, C., Shiraishi, F., Nishida, N., Yukimura, K., Naganuma, T., Koike, H., Arp, G. and Kano, A.,Microbial processes forming daily lamination in an aragonite travertine, Nagano-yu hot spring, southwest Japan,Geomicrobiology Journal,Vol.28,pp.135-148,2011.02.
4. Shen, C.-C., Kano, A., Hori, M., Lin, K., Chiu, T.-C. and Burr, G.B.,East Asian monsoon evolution and reconciliation of climate records from Japan and Greenland during the last deglaciation,Quaternary Science Reviews,Vol.29,pp.3327-3335,2010.11.
5. Sakai S., Kano, A., and Abe K.,Origin, glacial-interglacial responses, and controlling factors of a cold-water coral mound in NE Atlantic,Paleoceanography,doi:10.1029/2008PA001695,2009.04.
6. Hori, M., Kawai, T., Matsuoka, J., Kano, A.,Intra-annual perturbation of stable isotopes in tufas: effects of hydrological processes,Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,vol. 73, p. 1684-1695,2009.02.
7. Takashima, C., Kano, A., Naganuma, T. and Tazaki, K.,Laminated iron texture by iron-oxidizing bacteria in a calcite travertine,Geomicrobiology Journal,25巻,193-202ページ,2008.06.
8. Hori, M., Hoshino, K., Okumura, K. and Kano, A.,Seasonal patterns of carbon chemistry and isotopes in tufa depositing groundwaters of southwestern Japan,Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,2008.01.
9. Kano, A., Ferdelman, T.G., Williams, T., Henriet, J.-P., Ishikawa, T., Kawagoe, N., Takashima, C., Kakizaki, Y., Abe, K., Sakai, S., Browning, E.L., Li, X. and The IODP Expedition 307 Scientists,Age constraints on the origin and growth history of a deep-water coral mound in NE Atlantic drilled in IODP Expedition 307,Geology,35, 1051-1054,2007.11.
10. Kano, A., Hagiwara, R., Kawai, T., Hori, M. and Matsuoka, J.,Climatic condition and hydrological change recorded in a high-resolution stable-isotope profile of a recent laminated tufa on a subtropical island, southern Japan,Journal of Sedimantary Research,77, 56-67,2007.01.
11. Kano, A., Kawai, T., Matsuoka, J. and Ihara, T.,High-resolution records of rainfall events from clay bands in tufa,Geology,793-796,2004.09.
12. Kano, A., Matsuoka, J., Kojo, T. and Fujii, H.,Origin of annual laminations in tufa deposits, southwest Japan,Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,111, 242-262,2003.10.
13. Matsuoka, J., Kano, A., Oba, T., Watanabe, T., Sakai, S. and Seto, K.,Seasonal variation of stable isotopic compositions recorded in a laminated tufa, SW-Japan,Earth and Planetary Science Letters,191, 31-44,2001.10.
14. Sakai, S. and Kano, A.,Original oxygen isotopic composition of planktic foraminifers preserved in diagenetically altered Pleistocene shallow-marine carbonates,Marine Geology,172, 197-204,2001.05.
Membership in Academic Society
  • International Sedimentological Association
  • Society of Sedimentary Geology
  • Society of Fossil Cnidaria