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Goto Lab
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A lab that reads past catastrophic disasters and the history of the Earth from traces preserved in strata.
AboutAbout the lab
For sound disaster prevention grounded in physical evidence
Goto Lab studies event deposits, which are sedimentary layers formed all at once by events such as tsunamis and typhoons, from the perspectives of geology and sedimentology.
Centered on fieldwork, the lab combines various analyses and calculations to uncover the history of the Earth and the realities of natural disasters.
Its interdisciplinary research also draws on engineering techniques and on insights from history and archaeology, and it works to contribute to disaster prevention and to society.
The lab collaborates with research institutions in Japan and abroad, and students can also acquire skills in high-precision analysis and numerical computation.
Key terms
- Event deposits
- Sedimentary layers formed when material is carried and deposited all at once by an event that occurs over a short time, such as a tsunami, flood, or typhoon
- Comparative planetary geology
- A field that examines the landforms and geology of Mars and other bodies using satellite images, and considers how they formed by comparing them with surveys of similar places on Earth
- Paleotempestology
- Research that investigates the intensity and frequency of past typhoons from traces preserved in strata and other records
NewsLab news
A graduate student received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting 2026
A graduate student received the Outstanding Oral Presentation Award at the Japanese Society for Mangroves
A graduate student received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting 2024
A student's paper on a new source model of the 1771 Meiwa Tsunami was published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
A graduate student received the Best Poster Award at the 2024 Kumamoto Meeting of the Sedimentological Society of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies event deposits from the perspectives of geology and sedimentology. Centered on fieldwork, it carries out analyses and calculations to uncover the history of the Earth and the realities of natural disasters. Its research rests on three pillars: past catastrophic disasters, the history of the Earth and Mars, and the coexistence of the global environment and humanity.
*Illustrative imageInvestigating past catastrophic disasters
The lab estimates from strata when and at what scale past catastrophic disasters, such as tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and typhoons, occurred. Its work covers catastrophic disasters in the South Pacific and the dispersal of humans, paleotsunamis in Japan, changes in coastal landforms and ecosystems caused by huge tsunamis, and paleotempestology.
*Illustrative imageReading the history of the Earth and Mars
The lab takes part in research expeditions of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and examines drill cores from inside an impact crater, in order to study the asteroid impact at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary and the mass extinction of dinosaurs and other organisms. It also conducts research in comparative planetary geology, which studies similar environments on Earth to understand how the landforms and geology of Mars formed.
*Illustrative imageCoexistence of the global environment and humanity
Using high-precision surveying techniques, the lab investigates how typhoon waves and tsunamis affect the formation of coral reefs, as well as the distribution and formation of mangrove forests. It also puts effort into pioneering a new kind of geomorphology that makes use of centimeter-scale topographic surveying.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKazuhisa GotoPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Higashi-Hen na zaki Cape - panoramio” Kaz Ish / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Investigating past catastrophic disasters: “From Cape Higashi-hennazaki 20130206 - panoramio” 690 Noda / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Reading the history of the Earth and Mars: “K-Pg boundary at Zumaia” TheFurther21 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Coexistence of the global environment and humanity: “Hutan Mangrove Sumatera” M. Wildan Faris / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Yamaguchi Lab): “Flexure-chert kyuzo-pass01” KAMUI / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (OFGS (Ocean Floor Geoscience / Okino-Kuroda Lab)): “Louisville seamount chain - bathymetry” World Data Center for Geophysics & Marine Geology (Boulder, CO), National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Ikeda Lab): “Ribbon chert of the Marin Headlands Terrane, exposed at Marshall's Beach, San Francisco” Callanbentley / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Maeno Lab (Volcano Research Center)): “Shinmoe-dake Volcano Erupts on Kyushu Feb 2011” Robert Simmon / Public domain (cropped)
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