仠March 18, 2016 
		International Workshop on Marine Manganese Minerals (see PDF)
 
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               仠March 15, 2016KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: Mitsubishi Materials Techno
 
 
             仠March 10-16, 2016 
		J-DESC Core School (Basic Core and Isotope Analysis) was held.
 
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              仠March 10, 2016KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: Yokohama National University
 
 
              仠March 7, 2016KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: Students of Saga Junior High School, Kuroshio-cho, Kochi
 
 
              仠March 4, 2016KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: 5th grade students from Aki dai-ichi elementary School, Aki-shi, Kochi
 
 
              仠Feb. 29-Mar.1, 2016Report Meeting 
		Joint Usage / Research Annual Report Meeting of 2015 Fiscal Year was held.
 
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              仠March 1st, 2016KCC seminar 
		Lecturer: Prof.Lisa Tauxe (Distinguished Professor of Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University California, San Diego) 
Title: Geology of the Wilkes Land Sub-basin and Stability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet: Insights from rock magnetism at IODP Site U136
 
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              仠February 24, 2016KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: Students of Onomi Junior High School, Nakatosa-cho, Kochi
 
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              仠February 20, 2016KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: Science teachers of the high school in Kochi Prefecture
 
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              仠February 19, 2016KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: Assistant manager of the National University Corporation Support Division, Higher Education Bureau, MEXT
 
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              仠February 16, 2016KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: 5th grade students from Oomiya elementary school
 
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              仠December 25, 2015 
		Renewal of Entrance hall for Earthquake countermeasures (photo)
 
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              仠December 21, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: Forestry Promotion and Environment Division, Kochi Prefectural Goverment
 
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              仠Dec. 18, 2015Deadline 
		Job vacancies: The Center is accepting applications for two faculty positions (click here)
 
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              仠December 3, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: Kobe Ocean-Bottom Exploration Center, Kobe Universty 
		Visitor: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology 
		Visitor: Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University 
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              仠November 28, 20154th KCC Lecture 
@ Kochi Prefectural Culture Hall (Green Hall) 14:10 - 17:10  
Introduction: 
 Tsuyoshi Ishikawa (Director, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, JAMSTEC) 
1st Speaker: 
 Fumio Inagaki (Group Leader, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, JAMSTEC) 
2nd Speaker: 
 Minoru Ikehara (Professor, Center for Advanced Marine Core Research, Kochi University) 
Panel discussion coordinator: 
 Hidekazu Tokuyama (Director, Center for Advanced Marine Core Research, Kochi University) 
more information in Japanese only 
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              仠November 25, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: Japan Agricultural Cooperatives Tosashi 
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              仠November 20, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: 2nd-year students from Kochi Minammi Senior High School 
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              仠November 13, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: Students from overseas Institutions which have cooporating Agreements with Faculty of Agriculture, Kochi  University 
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              仠November 10, 2015KCC seminar 
		Lecturer: Prof. Toshitsugu Yamasaki (AORI, the University of Tokyo) 
		Title: Magnetite produced by magnetotactic bacteria extracted from sediments 
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              仠November 10, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: City council members of Hachinohe city, Aomori 
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              仠Sep. 15 - Nov. 8, 2015 
		Short exhibition @ Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History 
(Exhibition detail in Japanese only) 
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              仠November 6, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: Kinki and Shikoku region Mining Industry Association 
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              仠November 3, 2015KCC Open day 
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              仠October 23, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  5th grade students from Nissho elementary school 
		Visitor: Kochi Ozu high school students in Super Science High school program 
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              仠October 14, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  Oversea students invited by Kuroshio Science, Kochi University as part of "SAKURA Exchang Program in Science" 
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              仠September 29, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  Students from Anhui, China invited by Kochi prefecture as part of "SAKURA Exchang Program in Science" 
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              仠September 8, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  Management and Coordination Division, Minister's Secretariat, MEXT 
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              仠August 19, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  PTA of Hiroshima Pref. Fukuyama Seishikan High School 
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              仠August 10-12, 2015Summer break 
		CMCR will be closed from August 10 to 12 for summer break. 
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              仠August 7, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  Students of Kochi University of Tecnology and Overseas Partner Universities 
Visitor: Students of Faculty of Education, Nagasaki University 
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              仠August 6, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  Junior High School Educational Foundation of Okayama 
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              仠August 3, 2015SSH program 
		Visitor:  Students of Toyonaka Senior High School@Osaka 
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              仠July 31, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  National University Corporation Support Division, Higher education Bureau, MEXT 
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             仠July 28, 2015Publication (Science) 
	F. Inagaki, K.-U. Hinrichs, Y. Kubo, M. W. Bowles, V. B. Heuer, W.-L. Hong, T. Hoshino, A. Ijiri, H. Imachi, M. Ito, M. Kaneko, M. A. Lever, Y.-S. Lin, B. A. Meth?, S. Morita, Y. Morono, W. Tanikawa, M. Bihan, S. A. Bowden, M. Elvert, C. Glombitza, D. Gross, G. J. Harrington, T. Hori, K. Li, D. Limmer, C.-H. Liu, M. Murayama, N. Ohkouchi, S. Ono, Y.-S. Park, S. C. Phillips, X. Prieto-Mollar, M. Purkey, N. Riedinger, Y. Sanada, J. Sauvage, G. Snyder, R. Susilawati, Y. Takano, E. Tasumi, T. Terada, H. Tomaru, E. Trembath-Reichert, D. T. Wang, Y. Yamada, Exploring deep microbial life in coal-bearing sediment down to ~2.5 km below the ocean floor, Science, Vol. 349, no. 6246, pp. 420-424, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa6882, 2015 [Link] Press Releases(JAMSTEC web site)  
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              仠July 28, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  Science Educational Foundation of Kochi Prefecture 
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              仠July 24, 2015Publication (Nature Communications) 
	Keiji Horikawa, Ellen E. Martin, Chandranath Basak, Jonaotaro Onodera, Osamu Seki, Tatsuhiko Sakamoto, Minoru Ikehara, Saburo Sakai & Kimitaka Kawamura, Pliocene cooling enhanced by flow of low-salinity Bering Sea water to the Arctic Ocean, Nature Communications, 6, 7587, doi:10.1038/ncomms8587, 2015 [Link] 
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              仠July 18-19, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor: Students of Kochi Nishi Senior High school & Kochi Marunouchi Senior High school 
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              仠July 15, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  Deputy Director, Research Program Department, JSPS 
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              仠July 14, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor1:  Jadge@Global Geoparks Network 
		Visitor2:  Society to protect the sea of Nankoku (Nankoku-shi no Umi wo Mamoru kai) 
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              仠July 9, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  Higher education Bureau, MEXT 
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              仠July 1, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  Equipment Support Planning Office, Kochi University 
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               仠June 24, 2015Lecture@Asakura Campus 
		Kochi University Education Program, "The 3rd Tsukai-konasu (to master instruments) Series" is going to be held by Equipment Support Planning Office. 
 Title: Instrments Introduction in Center for Advanced Marine Core Research 
  -Marine Core Research in Earth Sciences- (in Japanese) 
 Presenter: Prof. Masafumi Murayama
  
              仠June 18, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  Shikoku Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry 
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              仠June 10, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  Student at Faculty of Science, Kochi University 
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              仠June 8, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  International Seabed Authority trainee member 
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              仠May 21, 2015KCC Lab Tour 
		Visitor:  International Ichnofabric Workshop member 
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              仠May 1, 2015 
		Dr. Minoru Ikehara has been promoted to Professor. 
		Dr. Yuhji Yamamoto has been promoted to Associate Professor.
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              仠April 27-28, 2015 
		External Evaluation Committee Meeting on Joint Usage/Research Center was held. 
		 
              仠April 2, 2015 
		KUTV, television Kochi, visited to record footage for "Gambare Kochi !! eco ohendan"(April 26 on air). 
                   
                 
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