Katagiri, C., Nakanishi, Y., Yoshizaki, S., Kimura, H., Kan, H. (2022) Reconstructing a WWII underwater wreck site: the battle of the destroyer USS Emmons and Japanese Special Attack Airplanes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, https://doi.org/10.1080/10572414.2021.2018870
Minamidate, K., Goto, K., Kan, H. (2022) Numerical estimation of maximum possible sizes of paleo-earthquakes and tsunamis from storm-derived boulders. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 579, Article number: 117354, p.1-13, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117354
Minamidate, K., Goto, K., Watanabe, M., Roeher, V., Toguchi, K., Sannoh, M., Nakashima, Y., Kan, H. (2020) Millennial scale maximum intensities of typhoon and storm wave in the northwestern Pacific Ocean inferred from storm deposited reef boulders. Scientific Reports, 10, Article number: 7218, p.1-9, DOI:/10.1038/s41598-020-64100-6
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Fujita, K., Yagioka, N., Nakada, C., Kan, H., Miyairi, Y., Yokoyama, Y., Webster, J.M. (2020) Reef-flat and back-reef development in the Great Barrier Reef caused by rapid sea-level fall during the Last Glacial Maximum (30–17 ka). Geology, 48, 39-43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G46792.1
Humblet, M., Potts, D.C., Webster, J.M., Braga, J.C., Iryu, Y., Yokoyama, Y., Bourillot, R.7, Séard, C, Droxler, A., Fujita, K., Gischler, E., and Kan, H. (2019) Late glacial to deglacial variation of coralgal assemblages in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Global and Planetary Change, 174: 70-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.12.014
Yagioka, N., Nakada, C., Fujita, K., Kan, H., Yokoyama, Y., Webster, J.M. (2019) Depositional environments beneath the shelf-edge slopes of the Great Barrier Reef, inferred from foraminiferal assemblages: IODP Expedition 325. Palaeogeography, Palaeclimatology, Palaeoecology,, 514: 386-397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.10.033
Yokoyama, Y., Esat, T.M., Thompson, W.G., Thomas, A.L., Webster, J.M., Miyairi, Y., Sawada, S., Aze, T., Matsuzaki, H., Okuno, J., Fallon, S., Braga, J-C., Humblet, M., Iryu, Y., Potts, D.C., Fujita, K., Suzuki, A., Kan, H., (2018) Rapid glaciation and a two-step sea-level plunge into The Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, 559: 603-620. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0335-4
Kan, H., Katagiri, C., Nakanishi, Y., Yoshizaki, S., Nagao, M., Ono, R. (2018) Assessment and significance of a World War II battle site: recording the USS Emmons using a high-resolution DEM combining multibeam bathymetry and SfM photogrammetry. The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12301
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Miklavič, B., Yokoyama, Y., Urata, K., Miyairi, Y., Kan, H. (2018) Holocene relative sea level history from phreatic overgrowths on speleothems (POS) on Minami Daito Island, Northern Philippine Sea, Quaternary International, 471, 359-368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.09.032
Ono, R., Katagiri, C., Kan, H., Nagao, M., Nakanishi, Y., Yamamoto, Y., Takemura, F., Sakagami, N. (2015) Discovery of Iron Grapnel Anchors in Early Modern Ryukyu and Management of Underwater Cultural Heritages in Okinawa, Japan. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Vol.45, p.75-91.
Hamanaka, N., Kan, H., Nakashima, Y., Yokoyama, Y., Okamoto, T., Ohashi, T., Adachi, H. Matsuzaki, H., Hori, N., (2015) Holocene reef-growth dynamics on Kodakara Island (29N, 129E) in the Northwest Pacific. Geomorphology, Vol.243, p.27-39.
Kan, H., Urata, K., Nagao, M., Hori, N., Fujita, K., Yokoyama, Y., Nakashima, Y., Ohashi, T., Goto, K., Suzuki, A., (2015) Submerged karst landforms observed by multibeam bathymetric survey in Nagura Bay, Ishigaki Island, southwestern Japan. Geomorphology, Vol.229, p.112-124.
Sowa, K., Watanabe, T., Kan, H., Yamano, H. (2014) Influence of land development on Holocene Porites coral calcification at Nagura Bay, Ishigaki Island, Japan. Plos One, Vol.9(2), e88790, p.1-16. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088790
Hamanaka, N., Kan, H., Yokoyama, Y., Okamoto, T., Nakashima, Y., Kawana, T. (2012) Disturbances with hiatus in high-latitude coral reef growth during Holocene: Correlation with millennial-scale global climate change, Global and Planetary Change, Vol.80-81, p21-35
Inoue, M, Shinmen, K, Kawahata, H, Nakamura, T, Tanaka, Y, Kato, A, Shinzato, C, Iguchi, A, Kan, H, Suzuki, A, Sakai, K. (2012) Estimate of calcification responses to thermal and freshening stresses based on culture experiments with symbiotic and aposymbiotic primary polyps of a coral, Acropora digitifera., Global and Planetary Change, Vol.92-93, p.1-7
Seki, A., Yokoyama, Y., Suzuki, A., Kawakubo, Y., Okai, T., Miyairi, Y., Matsuzaki, Y., Namizaki, N., Kan, H. (2012) Mid-Holocene sea-surface temperature reconstruction using fossil corals from Kume Island, Ryukyu, Japan. Geochemical Journal, Vol.46, e27-e32
Nagao, M., Kan, H., Nakano, K., Takada, S., Ogasawara, H., Nakamura, T., Ohashi, T., Suzuki, A. (2011) An attempt to find small artificial objectsin the shallow sea bottom using broadband multibeam echosounder. Proceedings of International Sessions in Coastal Engineering, JSCE, Vol.2, p.51-55
Araoka, D, Inoue, M, Suzuki, A, Yokoyama, Y, Edwards, RL, Cheng, H, Matsuzaki, H, Kan, H, Shikazono, N, Kawahata, H.(2010) Historic Historic 1771 Meiwa tsunami confirmed by high- resolution U/Th dating of massive Porites coral boulders at Ishigaki Island in the Ryukyus, Japan. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 11, No.6, 1-11
Riyaz, M., Park, K-H., Ali, M., Kan, H. (2010) Infuluence of geological setting of islands and significance of reefs for tsunami wave impact on the Atoll Islands, Maldives. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Vol.69, No.3, 443-454
Suzuki, A., Yokoyama, Y., Kan, H., Minoshima, K., Matsuzaki, H., Hamanaka, N., Kawahata, H. (2008) Identification of 1771 Meiwa Tsunami deposits using a combination of radiocarbon dating and oxygen isotope microprofiling of emerged massive Porites boulders. Quaternary Geochronology, Vol.3, p.226-234.
Kan, H., Ali, M., Riyaz, M. (2007) The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in the Maldives: scale of the disaster and topographic effects on atoll reefs and islands. Atoll Research Bulletin, No.554, p.1-65.
Kan, H., Kawana, T. (2006) ‘Catch-up’ of a high-latitude barrier reef by back-reef growth during the post-glacial sea-level rise, Southern Ryukyus, Japan. Proc. 10th International Coral Reef Symposium, p.494-503.
Suzuki, A., Gagan, M.K., Kan, H., Edward, A., Siringan, F.P., Yoneda, M., Kawahata, H. (2006) Coral records of 1990s in the northwest Pacific: El Niño, coral bleaching, and global warming. In: Kawahata, H. (ed.) Global Climate Change and Response of Carbon Cycle in the Equatorial Pacific and Indian Oceans and adjacent landmasses. Elsevier Oceanography Series 73, 217-244.
Watanabe, T. Suzuki, A., Kawahata, H. Kan, H., Ogawa, S. (2004) A 60-year isotopic record from a mid-Holocene fossil giant clam (Tridacna gigas) in the Ryukyu Islands: physiological and paleoclimatological implications. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Vol.212, p.343-354.
Inoue, M., Suzuki, A., Nohara, M., Kan, H., Edward, A., Kawahata, H. (2004) Coral Skeletal Tin and Copper Concentration at Pohnpei, Micronesia: Possible Index for Marine Pollution by Toxic Anti-biofouling Paints.Environmental Pollution, Vol.129, p.399-407.
Kan,H., Nakashima,Y., Hopley,D. (1997) Coral communities during structural development of a fringing reef flat, Hayman Island, the Great Barrier Reef. Proc. 8th International Coral Reef Symp., Vol.1, p.465-470.
Kan,H., Hori,N., Kawana,T., Kaigara,T., Ichikawa,K. (1997) The evolution of a Holocene fringing reef and island: reefal environmental sequence and sea level change in Tonaki Island, the central Ryukyus. Atoll Research Bulletin, No.443, p.1-20.
Kan, H., Hori, N., Ichikawa, K. (1997) Formation of a coral reef-front spur Coral Reefs, Vol.16, p.3-4.
Kan, H., Hori, N., Nakashima,Y., Ichikawa,K. (1995) The evolution of narrow reef flats at high-latitude in the Ryukyu Islands. Coral Reefs, Vol.14, p.123-130.
Kan, H. (1995) Typhoon effects on sediment movement on reef edges and reef slopes. In: Bellwood,O. et al. (eds.) Recent advances in marine science and technology ’94. Pacon International and James Cook Univ., Townsville, p.191-201.
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