Nakayama Group - Members

Yoshihiro Nakayama

Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

Yoshihiro.Nakayama(at)dartmouth.edu CV

Yoshihiro (Ph.D.Natural Sciences, University of Bremen/Alfred Wegener Institute) is an expert on the Southern Ocean and the interaction between ice and ocean. He joined Hokkaido University in 2018. He combines satellite, ship-based, bio-logging, and other observations with numerical ocean-ice models to understand what is currently happening, what happened in the past, what is projected to happen in the future for both Antarctic ice and the Southern Ocean. Now Nakayama's lab is located at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

Shuntaro Hyogo

JSPS Postdoctoral Scholar at Dartmouth College (starting in Jan 2026)

Shuntaro joined our group in 2019 and he is working on ocean simulation in the Bellingshausen Sea. He recently started working on the development and optimization of East Antarctic ocean simulations to understand drivers of ocean heat intrusions towards Antarctic ice shelves.

Wakaba Otani

Graduate student at Hokkaido University

Wakaba joined our group in 2022. She is working on the development of MITgcm simulation for the region off Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland.

Hiroki Moriyoshi

Graduate student at Hokkaido University

Hiroki joined our group in 2021. He is working on the development of MITgcm simulation for the Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

Yichen Lin

Graduate student (exchange student from Sun Yat-sen University)

Yichen joined our group in 2024. He is working on the remote sensing of sea ice and ECCO-Darwin development of regional Cape Darnley simulation.

Gobishankar Sathiyamohan

Graduate student at Dartmouth College

Gobi joined our group in 2026.

Jillian O. Martin

Undergraduate student at Dartmouth College

Jillian joined our group in 2026. She works on Sea Surface Salinity data using observations and satellite.

Former Members

Toshiki Hirata

Graduated in 2022

Toshiki joined our group in 2020 and he is working on the development of ice-ocean coupled simulation in the idealized setting. He tackles the fundamental question in ice shelf-ocean interaction of what determines the ice shelf shape

Keito Iwata

Graduated in 2023

Keito joined our group in 2021. He is working on the analysis of CMIP6 simulations with focuses on Southern Ocean hydrography and circulation.

Tsubasa Yasui

Graduated in 2023

Tsubasa joined our group in 2021. He is working on the analysis of LLC270 ECCO global simulation to understand what determines ASC strength and variability.

Taketo Shimada

Graduated in 2024

Taketo joined our group in 2022. He is working on the analysis of the Amundsen/Bellingshausen Sea simulation to understand what determines the interannual variability of mCDW intrusions.