TATSUTO “Kent” AOKI’s CV

Department of Geography, Faculty of Letters, Kanazawa University

Kakuma-cho, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Ishikawa, JAPAN
kentaoki@staff.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
http://web.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/~geogr/staff/kent/

PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

Position: Associate Proffesor

Ph.D. in Science

Specializations:

Glacial Geomorphology
Dating (Weathering-rind thickness dating method, CRNs Exposure dating method)
GIS
Disaster Mitigation and Disaster Education

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

Ph.D. in Science, 2000, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
“Late Quaternary History of Glacial Landforms in the Central Mountains of Japan”

M.A. in Science, 1995, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
“Distribution, Chronology and Forming Prerequisites of the Glacial Landforms formed during
the later half of the Last Glacial Age in the Central Japan Alps and the Southern Japan Alps”

B.A. in Education, 1992, Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, Japan
“Chronology of the Glacial and Periglacial Landforms in the Ina-gawa River, Central Japanese Alps”

ACADEMIC AND RELATED EXPERIENCE

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo (July 2000 to March 2001)
Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University (JSPS Research Fellow; April 2001 to April 2002)

Over Sea Scientific Expeditions

Khumbu Himalayas, NEPAL (1995, post monsoon)
　　　Glacial geomorphology, Dating glacial deposits

Langtang Himalayas, NEPAL (1996, pre monsoon)
　　　Glacial geomorphology, Dating glacial deposits

Kamchatka Peninsula, RUSSIA (2000, Summer)
　　　Glacial geomorphology, Dating glacial deposits, as a co-leader of Japanese Group

Tai-Chung, ROC TAIWAN (2000, Autumn)
　　　Active Tectonics geomorphology, Dating the terrace deposits

Tibet, CHINA (2001, Spring)
　　　Glacial geomorphology, Dating glacial deposits

Taipei, ROC TAIWAN (2001, Spring)
　　　Active Tectonics geomorphology, Dating the terrace deposits

Canadian Rocky, CANADA (2001, Summer)
　　　Glaciology, Development of the Ice Penetrating Rader

Academic prize

Encouragement prize for young researcher, Association of Japanese Geographers (March 2001)
“Late Quaternary Equilibrium Line Altitude in the Kiso Mountain Range, Central Japan”

Association prize, Japan Association for Quaternary Research (August, 2001)
”Chronometry of Glacial Deposits by the 10Be Exposure Dating Method:
A Case Study in the Senjojiki and Nogaike Cirques, Northern Kiso Mountain Range, Central Japan”