Daisuke Ishimura
Associate professor
Department of Earth Science,
Chiba University
1‐33 Yayoi‐cho, Inage‐ku, Chiba 263‐8522, Japan
e-mail: ishimura<at>chiba-u.jp
Last update 1 Apr 2024
Associate professor
Department of Earth Science,
Chiba University
1‐33 Yayoi‐cho, Inage‐ku, Chiba 263‐8522, Japan
e-mail: ishimura<at>chiba-u.jp
Last update 1 Apr 2024
9 Oct. 2019 Ishimura & Yamada's paper was taken up in EOS news.
2012.4- 2014.2 Department of Earth Sciences, Chiba University, Project researcher
2014.3- 2016.3 International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Assistant Professor
2016.4- present Department of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Assistant Professor
2003.4- 2007.3 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Science, Kyushu University
2007.4- 2009.3 Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
2009.4- 2012.3 Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Tectonic geomorphology
Quaternary geology
Paleoseismology
Tsunami deposit research to reveal paleo-tsunami history and paleo-tsunami size (Pacific coast area in Tohoku region, Philippines)
Paleoseismology of the 2016 Kumamoto EQ focusing on the coincidence of paleo-events between primary and subsidiary faults
Fluvial/marine terrace chronology and their formation processes based on tephrochronology (Pacific coast area in Tohoku region)
Processes of transportation and deposition of sediment particle using image analysis (fluvial and beach sediments, tsunami deposits, drift pumice)
Ishimura, D., Hiramine, R. (2025) Dispersion, fragmentation, abrasion, and organism attachment of drift pumice from the 2021 Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba eruption in Japan. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science volume 12: 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00678-z
Fukushima, Y., Ishimura, D., Takahashi, N., Iwasa, Y., Malatesta, L. C., Takahashi, T., Tang, C.-H., Yoshida, K., & Toda, S. (2024). Landscape changes caused by the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake in Japan. Science Advances, 10, eadp9193. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp9193
Albert, P.G., McLean, D., Buckland, H.M., Suzuki, T., Jones, G., Staff, R.A., Vineberg, S., Kitaba, I., Yamada, K., Moriwaki, H., Ishimura, D., Ikehara, K., Manning, C.J.,SG14 Project Members, Nakagawa, T., Smith, V.C. (2024) Cryptotephra preserved in Lake Suigetsu (SG14 core) reveals the eruption timing and distribution of ash fall from Japanese volcanoes during the late-glacial to early Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 324, 108376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108376
Sato, K., Yamada, M., Ishimura, D., Ishizawa, T., and Baba, T. (2022) Numerical estimation of a tsunami source at the flexural area of Kuril and Japan Trenches in the fifteenth to seventeenth century based on paleotsunami deposit distributions in northern Japan. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 9: 72. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-022-00530-2
Ishimura, D., Ishizawa, T., Yamada, M., Aoki K., Sato, K. (2022) Washover deposits related to tsunami and storm surge along the north coast of the Shimokita Peninsula in northern Japan. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 9: 69. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-022-00529-9
Ishimura, D., Iwasa, Y., Takahashi, N., Tadokoro, R., Oda, R. (2022) Paleoseismic events and shallow subsurface structure of the central part of the Futagawa fault, which generated the 2016 Mw 7.0 Kumamoto earthquake. Geomorphology 414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108387
Claro, S.M.D., Ramos, N.T., Fernando, A.G.S., Ishimura, D., Switzer, A.D. (2021) Sedimentological evidence of washover deposits from extreme wave events in Zamboanga del Sur, Mindanao, southern Philippines. Marine Geology, 438, 106535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106535
Ishimura, D., Yamada, K. (2021) Integrated lateral correlation of tsunami deposits during the last 6000 years using multiple indicators at Koyadori, Sanriku Coast, northeast Japan. Quaternary Science Reviews, 256, 106834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106834
Ishimura, D., Tsutsumi, H., Toda, S., Fukushima, Y., Kumahara, Y., Takahashi, N., Ichihara, T., Takada, K. (2021) Repeated triggered ruptures on a distributed secondary fault system: an example from the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, southwest Japan. Earth, Planets and Space, 73, 39. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-021-01371-x
Fukushima, Y., Ishimura, D. (2020) Characteristics of secondary-ruptured faults in the Aso Caldera triggered by the 2016 Mw 7.0 Kumamoto earthquake. Earth, Planets and Space, 72, 175. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-020-01306-y
Ishimura, D., Hiramine, R. (2020) Proximal–distal fall deposit correlation of VEI‐5 tephra (Towada‐Chuseri) from Towada volcano, northeast Japan. Journal of Quaternary Science, 35, 334-348. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3161
Ishimura, D., Yamada, K. (2019) Palaeo-tsunami inundation distances deduced from roundness of gravel particles in tsunami deposits. Scientific Reports, 9, 10251. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46584-z
Ishimura, D., Toda, S., Mukoyama, S., Homma, S., Yamaguchi, K., Takahashi, T. (2019) Three-dimensional surface displacement and surface ruptures associated with the 2014 Mw6.2 Nagano earthquake using differential LiDAR. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 109, 780-796. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120180020