Nagasaki

My first trip outside Tokyo since I am in Japan was to visit the Nagasaki region. 

The three days trip was divided in a day of field excursion, a day at the University of Nagasaki and the last day to visit the Nagasaki city.

The first day I took part of a field excursion held at the end of the international symposium on the sustainability and productivity of coastal resources. I had the chance to visit Isahaya dike gate, Unzen Jogoku, the Nita ridge observatory and the Mt. Unzen Disaster Memorial Hall.

The Nita observatory and the Mt Unzen Memorial Hall were very interesting to understand what is the life near an active volcano.

The second day I visited Prof. Yu Umezawa laboratory at the University of Nagasaki. The aim of the visit was to make some tests on his RaDeCC system. The RaDeCC system is used to measure short half-life radium isotopes (²²³Ra and ²²⁴Ra).

Finally, I visited Nagasaki city and in particular the Atomic bomb museum and his Memorial Hall.

新着論文紹介 This week's new papers (2011/2/1)

☆Chemical geology vol.281 2/2
P.E. Janney, F.M. Richter, R.A. Mendybaev, M. Wadhwa, R.B. Georg, E.B. Watson and R.R. Hines
Matrix effects in the analysis of Mg and Si isotope ratios in natural and synthetic glasses by laser ablation-multicollector ICPMS: A comparison of single- and double-focusing mass spectrometers

T.A. Ewing, D. Rubatto, S.M. Eggins and J. Hermann
In situ measurement of hafnium isotopes in rutile by LA-MC-ICPMS: Protocol and applications

Ajaz Karim, Kristal Dubois and Jan Veizer
Carbon and oxygen dynamics in the Laurentian Great Lakes: Implications for the CO2 flux from terrestrial aquatic systems to the atmosphere

☆Earth and Planetary Science Letters vol.302 2/1
Jakob Heyman, Arien P. Stroeven, Jonathan M. Harbor and Marc W. Caffee
Too young or too old: Evaluating cosmogenic exposure dating based on an analysis of compiled boulder exposure ages

F. Kober, V. Alfimov, S. Ivy-Ochs, P.W. Kubik and R. Wieler
The cosmogenic 21Ne production rate in quartz evaluated on a large set of existing 21Ne-10Be data

☆Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta vol.75 2/15
Claire Rollion-Bard, Dominique Blamart, Julien Trebosc, Grégory Tricot, Alexandre Mussi and Jean-Pierre Cuif
Boron isotopes as pH proxy: A new look at boron speciation in deep-sea corals using 11B MAS NMR and EELS

☆Quaternary Science Reviews vol. 30 February
S.L. Weber and E. Tuenter
The impact of varying ice sheets and greenhouse gases on the intensity and timing of boreal summer monsoons

☆Geophysical Research Letters
Wang, G., S.-P. Xie, T. Qu and R.X. Huang
Deep South China Sea Circulation

Paleoceanographyのは1/11に既に紹介されてました！すみません．