PhD. Moriaki Yasuhara (安原盛明)

Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Paleobiology
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution [NHB, MRC 121]
P.O. Box 37012
Washington DC 20013-7012
USA
E-mail address:moriakiyasuharaATgmail.com
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PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Abrupt surface climate and deep-water changes; Quaternary North Atlantic paleoceanography; Climatic and anthropogenic impact on marine ecosystem; Paleontology of Ostracoda.

COMING SOON:

Yasuhara, M., Cronin, T. M., in press. Climatic influences on deep-sea benthic
ostracode (Crustacea) species diversity for the last three million years. Ecology.

Yasuhara, M., in press. Holocene ostracod paleobiogeography of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan: impact of opening of the strait. Journal of Micropalaeontology.

Tsujimoto, A., Yasuhara, M., Yamazaki, H., Hirose, K., Yoshikawa, S., in press. Environmental Changes during the Last 150 Years in Osaka Bay, Japan: Historical Record of Eutrophication Based on Microfossil Assemblages. The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-Kenkyu). (in Japanese with English abstract)

(辻本彰・安原盛明・山崎秀夫・廣瀬孝太郎・吉川周作，印刷中．大阪湾における過去150年間の環境変化：微化石群集から読み解く富栄養化の歴史．第四紀研究．)

NEW PAPERS:

Yasuhara, M., Cronin, T. M., Martínez Arbizu, P., 2008. Abyssal ostracods from the
South and Equatorial Atlantic Ocean: Biological and paleoceanographic
implications. Deep-Sea Research I 55, 490–497.

Yasuhara, M., Kato, M., Ikeya, N., Seto, K., 2007 (2008). Modern benthic ostracodes from Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica: paleoceanographic, paleobiogeographic, and evolutionary significance. Micropaleontology 53, 469–496.

Yasuhara, M., Cronin, T. M., deMenocal, P., Okahashi, H., Linsley, B. K., 2008. Abrupt climate change and collapse of deep-sea ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105, 1556–1560.

Yasuhara, M., Yamazaki, H., Tsujimoto, A., Hirose, K., 2007. The effect of long-term spatiotemporal variations in urbanization-induced eutrophication on a benthic ecosystem, Osaka Bay, Japan. Limnology and Oceanography 52, 1633–1644.

Tsujimoto, A., Nomura, R., Yasuhara, M., Yamazaki, H., Yoshikawa., S., 2006. Impact of eutrophication on shallow marine benthic foraminifers over the last 150 years in Osaka Bay, Japan. Marine Micropaleontology 60, 258–268.

Yasuhara, M., Seto, K., 2006. Holocene relative sea-level change in Hiroshima Bay, Japan: a semi-quantitative reconstruction based on ostracodes. Paleontological Research 10, 99–116.

Tsujimoto, A., Nomura, R., Yasuhara, M., Yoshikawa., S., 2006. Benthic foraminiferal assemblages in Osaka Bay, southwestern Japan: faunal changes over the last 50 years. Paleontological Research 10, 141–161.