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Dr. Kyoko S. Kataoka

Professor

Geology, Volcanic Sedimentology, Natural Hazards Science


Niigata University

Research Institute for Natural Hazards and Disaster Recovery


Research field

Volcanic Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

Volcanic Sedimentary Geology

Lahars and Tephra Studies

Neogene-Quaternary Geology

Fluvial Geomorphology

Natural Hazard Science


Research achievements

Dr. Kataoka is a geologist and volcanic sedimentologist with interests in volcanic sedimentary systems and volcanic impacts and hazards on human activities in modern and ancient, approaching from multidisciplinary views of sedimentology, volcanology, geomorphology, and geo-archaeology (volcanic source-to-sink view). Her studied volcanic and river areas cover the active volcanoes in northeast Honshu, Kyushu, and Hokkaido in Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, and Italy. She is also interested in hydrological volcanic sediment transportation and deposition such as lahars, debris avalanche, volcaniclastic turbidity currents in subaerial, lacustrine, and marine environments. She has participated and led several projects relating to the recent eruptions at Mt Ruapehu 2007, New Zealand, Mt. Ontake 2014, and Mt. Kusatsu-Shirane 2018, Japan, where surface disturbance by eruptions and lahars have been observed.


Academic qualifications:

PhD, Geosciences, Osaka City University, 2002

MSc, Geology, Osaka City University, 1998

BSc, Geology, Osaka City University, 1996


Professional positions held:

2020–current Professor, Research Institute for Natural Hazards and Disaster Recovery, Niigata University

2004–2020 Associate Professor, Research Institute for Natural Hazards and Disaster Recovery, Niigata University

2004 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Kyoto University

2002–2004 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Research Institute for Hazards in Snowy Areas, Niigata University

2002 Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Geosciences, Osaka City University.

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2007–2008 Visiting Research Fellow, GNS Science, Wairakei Research Centre, New Zealand


Recent research activities

  • Hydrological volcaniclastic sedimentation (lahars) and assessments of associated volcanic hazards

  • Reconstruction of eruptive and lahar history

  • Sedimentology and geomorphology of catastrophic volcanogenic floods

  • Earth surface disturbance by eruptions and lahars: impacts and hazards on human activities in modern and ancient

  • Applications of ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey on volcanic areas

  • Volcano-snow/water interaction: hydrology at snow-clad volcanoes

  • Alluvial, fluvial, and lacustrine system evolution linked to volcanic processes

  • Caldera forming eruption aftermath

  • Submarine and sublacustrine eruptions: processes and mechanism

  • Distal volcaniclastic resedimentation and redistribution in non-marine/marine settings


Study areas

(in Japan)

  • Kussharo caldera and Shari Plain

  • Oshima-Ooshima volcano

  • Towada caldera–Oirase River & Iwaki River systems

  • Chokai volcano–Shirayukigawa River system

  • Hijiori caldera

  • Zao volcano–Nigorigawa River system

  • Azuma volcano and volcanic fan

  • Bandai volcano & Adatara volcano– Sukawa River & Nagasegawa River systems

  • Lake Inawashiro-ko

  • Numazawa caldera– Tadamigawa River & Aganogawa River systems- Niigata Plain

  • Kusatsu-Shirane volcano 2018 eruption

  • Asama volcano

  • Niigata-Yakeyama volcano– Hayakawa River system

  • Myoko volcano–Sekikawa River system

  • Ontake volcano 2014 eruption– Nigorigawa River system

  • Aso caldera–Shirakawa River system


(Overseas)

  • Mt. Vesuvio, Italy

  • Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines

  • Mt. Ruapehu, New Zealand,

  • Mt. Pelee and Off Lesser Antilles (IODP exp . 340)

  • Cerro Barcino Formation, Argentine

  • Dharwar Group, sourth India

  • Baat archaeological site (fluvial-alluvial system), Oman


Membership of societies and committees:

Geological Society of America (Member)

Geological Society of Japan (Member)

International Association for Sedimentologists (Member)

International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) (Member)

Japan Association for Quaternary Research (Member)

Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) (Member)

Sedimentological Society of Japan (Member)

Volcanological Society of Japan (Member)


Journal reviewer:

Bulletin of Volcanology

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Geological Society of America Bulletin

Geomorphology

International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau)

IAS (International Association of Sedimentologists) Special Publication

Island Arc

Journal of Mountain Science

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Marine Geology

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Paleoecology

Quaternary International

Quaternary Research

Scientific Reports

Sedimentary Geology

Sedimentology

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Bulletin of Volcanological Society of Japan (Volcanological Society of Japan)

Earth Science (The Association for the Geological Collaboration in Japan)

Journal of Geological Society of Japan (Geological Society of Japan)

Journal of Natural Disaster Science (Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science)

Journal of Sedimentological Society of Japan (Sedimentological Society of Japan)

The Quaternary Research (Japan Association for Quaternary Research)

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Reviewer for MSc. Dept. Geology, Otago University, NZ


Journal editor:

The Quaternary Research (Japan Association for Quaternary Research) : 2011–2015

Geomorphology (Guest Editor) : 2016

Volcanica: 2017–

Bulletin of Volcanological Society of Japan: 2018–2022

Reviewed journal articles:

  1. Kataoka, K.S. (2022) From “source to sink” to “sink to source”: A review of volcanic fluvial and lacustrine successions in Japan. In: Di Capua, A. et al. (eds.) Volcanic processes in the sedimentary record: When volcanoes meet the environment. Geological Society, London, Special Publication. in press

  2. Ban, M., Kawashima, K., Tsunematsu, K., Kataoka, K.S., Imura, T. (2022) Lahar deposits along the Nigorikawa River in the eastern foot of Zao Volcano, Japan, during the last 8,000 years. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, in press

  3. Ban, M., Kawashima, K., Tsunematsu, K., Imura, T., Kataoka, K.S., Yamanoi, T. (2022) Geologic and petrologic characteristics of the lahar deposits at western foot of Zao Volcano. Journal of Disaster Research, 17(5) 736–744. OPEN ACCESS

  4. Nagahashi, Y., Kataoka, K.S., Nanba, K. (2022) Prediction for the next 50 years of radiocesium concentration after the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident based on the lacustrine sediment analysis, Lake Inawashiro-ko, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), v.131 (3), 339-363. OPEN ACCESS

  5. Kataoka, K.S., Tsunematsu, K., Matsumoto, T., Urabe, A., Kawashima, K. (2021) Crisis hazard assessment for snow-related lahars from an unforeseen new vent eruption: the 2018 eruption of Kusatsu-Shirane volcano, Japan Earth, Planets and Space, 73, Article number: 220 (22 pages). OPEN ACCESS

  6. Yoshida, T., Takashima, R., Kudo, T., Prima, O.D.A, Maeda, S., Yoshida, K., Okada, T., Miura, S., Takahashi, T., Nagahashi, Y., and Kataoka, K. (2020) Late Cenozoic igneous activity and crustal structure in the NE Japan Arc: Background of inland earthquake activity. Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), v.129(4), 529-563.

  7. Solaro, C., Boudon, G., Le Friant, A., Balcone-Boissard, H., Emmanuel, L., Paterne, M., and IODP Expedition Science Party (2020) New insights into the recent eruptive and collapse history of Montagne Pelée (Lesser Antilles Arc) from offshore marine drilling site U1401A (IODP Expedition 340). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 403, 107001

  8. Le Friant, A., Lebas, E., Brunet, M., Lafuerza, S., Hornbach, M., Coussens, M.,Watt, S., Cassidy, M., Talling, P.J., and IODP 340 Expedition Science Party (2020) Submarine landslides around volcanic islands -A review of what can be learned from the Lesser Antilles Arc-. In: Ogata, K., Festa, A., Pini, G.A. (eds.) Submarine Landslides: Subaqueous Mass Transport Deposits from Outcrops to Seismic Profiles. Geophysical Monograph Series, American Geophysical Union, pp. 277-297.

  9. Subramanyam, K.S.V., Balaram, V., Manikyamba, C., Roy, P., Krishna, A.K., Sawant, S.S., Narshimha, C., and the IODP Expedition 340 Scientists (2020) Geochemistry of Marine Carbonates from Hole 1394, off the Coast of Montserrat, IODP Expedition-340: Implications on Provenance, Paleoenvironment and Lesser Antilles Arc Migration. In: Pandey D., Ravichandran M., Nair N. (eds) Dynamics of the Earth System: Evolution, Processes and Interactions. Society of Earth Scientists Series, Springer, Cham, pp. 101-140.

  10. Kataoka, K.S. and Nagahashi, Y. (2019) From sink to volcanic source: Unravelling missing terrestrial eruption records by characterization and high-resolution chronology of lacustrine volcanic density flow deposits, Lake Inawashiro-ko, Fukushima, Japan. Sedimentology, v. 66(7), p. 2784-2827. OPEN ACCESS

  11. Minami, Y., Ohba, T., Hayashi, S., Kokubu, Y., Kataoka, K.S. (2019) Lahar record during the last 2500 years, Chokai Volcano, northeast Japan: Flow behavior, sourced volcanic activity, and hazard implications. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 387, 106661 (17 pages)

  12. Villegas, P., Umazano, A.M., Melchor, R.N. and Kataoka, K. (2019) Soft-sediment deformation structures in gravelly fluvial deposits: a record of Cretaceous seismic activity in Patagonia? Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 90, p. 325-337.

  13. Kataoka, K.S., Matsumoto, T., Saito, T., Nagahashi, Y., Iyobe, T. (2019) Suspended sediment transport diversity in river catchments following the 2014 phreatic eruption at Ontake Volcano, Japan. Earth, Planets and Space, v. 71(1): 15. (11 pages) (pdf) OPEN ACCESS

  14. Nagahashi, Y., Kataoka, K. (2019) Descriptions and 14C ages of the Holocene tephra layers on the northwestern flank of Bandai volcano, northeast Japan. Earth Science (Chikyu Kagaku), v. 73, p. 49-50. (in Japanese)

  15. Nagahashi, Y., Kataoka, K. (2019) Descriptions and 14C ages of the Holocene tephra layers on the eastern flank of Adatara volcano, northeast Japan. Earth Science (Chikyu Kagaku), v. 73, p. 47-48. (in Japanese)

  16. Kataoka, K.S., Matsumoto, T., Saito, T., Kawashima, K., Nagahashi, Y., Iyobe, T., Sasaki, A., and Suzuki, K. (2018) Lahar characteristics as a function of triggering mechanism at a seasonally snow-clad volcano: Contrasting lahars following the 2014 phreatic eruption of Ontake Volcano, Japan. Earth, Planets and Space, v. 70(1): 113. (28 pages) (pdf) OPEN ACCESS

  17. Nagahashi, Y., Kimura, J.-I., Sumita, M., Ikehara, K., Kataoka, K.S., and Nakazawa, N. (2018) Spfa-1 tephra identified from core samples in Lake Inawashiro-ko and off Sendai Pacific Ocean, northeast Japan. The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-kenkyu), v. 57, p. 65-75.

  18. Gomez, C., Kataoka, K.S., Saputra, A. Wassmer, P., Urabe, A., Morgenroth, J. and Kato, A. (2017) Photogrammetry-based texture analysis of a volcaniclastic outcrop-peel: Low-cost alternative to TLS and automation potentialities using Haar Wavelet and Spatial- Analysis Algorithms. Forum Geografi, v. 31, p. 16-27.

  19. Coussens, M., Wall-Palmer. D., Talling, P., Watt, S., Cassidy, M., Jutzeler, M., Gernon, T., Clare, M., Palmer, M., Hatter, S., Boudon, G., Endo, D., Fujinawa, A., Hatfield, R., Hornbach, M., Ishizuka, O., Kataoka, K., Le Friant, A., Maeno, F., Manga, M., McCanta, M., and Stinton, A. (2016) The relationship between eruptive activity, flank collapse, and sea level at volcanic islands: A long-term (>1 Ma) record offshore Montserrat, Lesser Antilles, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3), Volume 17, Issue 7, July 2016, Pages 2591–2611.

  20. Kondo, Y., Miki, T., Kuronuma, T., Hayakawa, Y.S., Kataoka, K., Oguchi, T. (2016) Concurrent and sustainable development of a local-scale digital heritage inventory through action research at Bat, Oman. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Vol. 6 Iss: 2, pp.195 - 212.

  21. Kataoka, K.S., Urabe, A., and Nagahashi, Y. (2016) Millennial-scale reworking of tephra in alluvial to shallow marine settings: distinguishing pseudo-isochrons from genuine ones. Quaternary International, v. 397, p. 173-193.

  22. Kataoka, K.S., Kamino, N., Nagahashi, Y., Kimura, K. (2015) Stratigraphy, chronology and depositional processes of lahar deposits in the Sukawa River System, Adatara volcano, northeast Japan. Bulletin of the Volcanological Society of Japan, v. 60, p. 461-475. (in Japanese with English abstract)

  23. Kataoka, K.S. and Nagahashi, Y., and Ono, E. (2015) Reworking and mixing of tephra derived from multiple eruptive sources, the Iwaki River catchment, Tsugaru Plain, northeast Japan. The Quaternary Research, v. 54, p. 21-29. (in Japanese with English abstract)

  24. Hornbach, M.J., Manga, M., Genecov, M., Valdez, R., Miller, P., Saffer, D., Adelstein, E., Lafuerza, S., Adachi, T., Breitkreuz, C., Jutzeler, M., Le Friant, A., Ishizuka, O., Morgan, S., Slagle, A., Talling, P.J., Fraass, A., Watt, S.F.L., Stroncik, N.A., Aljahdali, M., Boudon, G., Fujinawa, A., Hatfield, R., Kataoka, K., Maeno, F., Martinez-Colon, M., McCanta, M., Palmer, M., Stinton, A., Subramanyam, K. S. V., Tamura, Y., Villemant, B., Wall-Palmer, D., and Wang, F. (2015) Permeability and pressure measurements in Lesser Antilles submarine slides: Evidence for pressure-driven slow-slip failure. Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth), Volume 120, p. 7986–8011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015JB012061

  25. Cassidy, M., Watt, S.F.L., Talling, P., Palmer, M.R., Edmonds M., Jutzeler, M., Wall-Palmer, D., Manga, M., Coussens, M., Gernon, T., Taylor, R.N., Michalik, A., Inglis, E., Breitkreuz, C., Le Friant, A. Ishizuka, O., Boudon, G., McCanta, M.C., Adachi, T., Hornbach, M.J. , Colas, S.L., Endo, D., Fujinawa, A., Kataoka, K.S., Maeno, F., Tamura, Y., Wang, F., and Shipboard Science Party (2015) Rapid onset of mafic magmatism facilitated by volcanic edifice collapse. Geophysical Research Letters, v. 42, p. 4778-4785. DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064519

  26. Le Friant, A., Ishizuka, O., Boudon, G., Martin, P., Talling, P., Villemant, B., Adachi, T., Aljahdali, M., Breitkreuz, C., Brunet, M., Caron, B., Coussens, M., Deplus, C., Endo, D., Nathalie, F., Fraas, A., Fujinawa, A., Hart, M., Hatfield, R., Hornbach, M., Jutzeler, M., Kataoka, K., Komorowski, J.-C., Lebas, E., Lafuerza, S., Maeno, F., Manga, M., Martinez-Colon, M., McCanta, M., Morgan, S., Saito, T., Slagle, A., Stephen J.S.R., Stinton, A., Stroncik, N., Konduri, S., Tamura, Y., Trofimovs, J., Barry, V., Wall-Palmer, D., Wang, F., and Watt, S. (2015) Submarine record of volcanic island construction and collapse in the Lesser Antilles arc: First scientific drilling of submarine volcanic island landslides by IODP Expedition 340. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3), v. 16, p. 420-442. DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005652

  27. Minami, Y., Ohba, T., Hayashi, S., and Kataoka, K.S. (2015) Depositional processes and temporal component-change of lahar deposits at the northern foot of Chokai volcano, NE Japan. Bulletin of the Volcanological Society of Japan, v. 60, p. 1-16.

  28. Kataoka, K.S., Toyoshima, T., Mishima, K.,Hokada, T., Satish-Kumar, M., Ueno, Y., and Kamei, A. (2015) Preserved sedimentary structures in the Archean Dharwar Supergroup, southwest India. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, v. 121, p. VII-VIII.

  29. Wall-Palmer, D., Coussens, M., Talling P., Jutzeler, M., Cassidy, M., Marchant, I., Martin, P., Watt, S., Christopher, S., Fisher, J., Hart, M., Fraas, A., Trofimovs, J., Le Friant, A., Ishizuka, O., Adachi, T., Aljahdali, M., Boudon, G., Breitkreuz, C., Endo, D., Fujinawa. A., Hatfield, R., Hornbach, M., Kataoka, K., Lafuerza, S., Maneo, F., Manga, M., Martinez-Colon, M., McCanta, M., McManus, J., Morgan, S., Saito, T., Slagle, A., Stinton, A., Konduri, S., Tamura, Y., Villemant, B., Wang, F. (2014) Late Pleistocene stratigraphy of IODP Site U1396 and compiled chronology offshore of south and south west Montserrat, Lesser Antilles. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3), v. 15, p. 3000-3020, July, 2014. doi: 10.1002/2014GC005402.

  30. Nagahashi, Y. and Kataoka, K.S. (2015) Tephrology (part 7) : Evaluation of cryptotephra. The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-Kenkyu), v. 54, p. 31-38.

  31. Lafuerza, S., Le Friant, A., Manga, M., Boudon, G., Villemant, B., Stroncik, N., Voight, B., Hornbach, M., Ishizuka, O. and Expedition 340 Science Party (2014) Geomechanical characterization of submarine volcano-flank sediments, Martinique, Lesser Antilles Arc, in. S. Krastel et al. (eds) Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, Advances in Natural and Technologial Hazards Research, vol. 37, 73-81, doi 10.1007/978-3-319-00972-8_7.

  32. Kataoka, K.S. and Nagahashi, Y. (2014) Tephrology (part 6): Methods of description for medial to distal tephra beds. The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-kenkyu), v. 53, p. 323-329. (in Japanese)

  33. Nagahashi, Y. and Kataoka, K.S. (2014) Tephrology (part 5): Major elements composition of volcanic glass shards and tephra beds correlation. The Quaternary Research, v .53, p. 265-269.(in Japanese)

  34. Nagahashi, Y. and Kataoka, K.S. (2014) Tephrology (part 4) : Grain morphology and component of tephra. The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-kenkyu), v .53, p. 229-234.(in Japanese)

  35. Kataoka, K.S. and Nagahashi, Y. (2014) Tephrology (part 3): Reworking and resedimentation of tephra. The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-kenkyu), v. 53, p. 175-183.(in Japanese)

  36. Nagahashi, Y. and Kataoka, K.S. (2014) Tephrology (part 2): Simultaneity of tephra deposition. The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-kenkyu), v .53, p. 111-116.(in Japanese)

  37. Nagahashi, Y. and Kataoka, K.S. (2014) Tephrology (part 1): Terminology. The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-kenkyu), p. 103-109. (in Japanese)

  38. Tsukamoto, S., Kataoka, K.S., Oguchi, T., Murray, A.S., and Komatsu, G. (2014) Luminescence dating of scoria fall and lahar deposits from Somma-Vesuvius, Italy. Quaternary Geochronology, Volume 20, April 2014, p. 39–50.

  39. Urabe, A. and Kataoka, K.S. (2013) Correlation of tephra beds in peaty bog sediments on the summit of Mt. Naebasan, central Japan. The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-kenkyu), v .52, p. 241-254. (in Japanese with English abstract)

  40. Tsukamoto, S., Kataoka, K.S. and Miyabuchi, Y. (2013) Luminescence dating of volcanogenic outburst flood sediments from Aso volcano and tephric loess deposits, southwest Japan. Geochronometria, December 2013, Volume 40, Issue 4, p 294-303.

  41. Gomez, C., Kataoka, K.S., and Tanaka K. (2012) Large-scale internal structure of the Sanbongi Fan - Towada Volcano, Japan: Putting the theory to the test, using GPR on volcaniclastic deposits. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 229-230, p. 44-49．

  42. Ono, E., Kataoka, K.S., Umitsu, M., and Satoguchi, Y. (2012) Impact of lahar on sedimentary environmental changes in the central Tsugaru Plain after the AD 915 eruption of Towada volcano, northeast Japan. The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-kenkyu), v .51, p. 317-330. (in Japanese with English abstract)

  43. Manga, M., Hornbach, M. Le Friant, A., Ishizuka, O., Stroncik, N., Adachi, T., Aljahdali, M., Boudon, G., Breitkreuz, C., Fraas, A., Fujinawa, A., Hatfield, R., Jutzeler, M., Kataoka, K., Lafuerza, S., Maeno, F., Martinez-Colon, M., McCanta, M., Morgan, S., Palmer, M.R., Saito, T., Slagle, A., Stinton, A.J., Subramanyam, K.S.V., Tamura, Y., Talling, P., Villemant, B., Wall-Palmer, D., and Wang, F. (2012) Heat flow in the Lesser Antilles island arc and adjacent back arc Grenada basin. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3), v. 13, Q08007, doi:10.1029/2012GC004260 (Publication Date: 16 August 2012 ; 19 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables)

  44. Kataoka, K.S. and Nagahashi, Y. (2012) A linkage between source volcanoes and alluvial basins on the basis of facies and thickness variation of distal tephra beds, Plio-Pleistocene Second Setouchi Supergroup, central Japan. Journal of Geological Society of Japan, v. 118, 139-156 (in Japanese with English abstract).

  45. Kataoka, K.S. (2011) Geomorphic and sedimentary evidences of a gigantic outburst flood from Towada caldera after the 15 ka Towada-Hachinohe ignimbrite eruption, northeast Japan. Geomorphology, v. 125, p. 11-26.

  46. Urabe, A., Fujimoto, Y., and Kataoka, K.S. (2011) Influence of a volcanogenic flood event on alluvial depositional system, the Holocene Echigo Plain, northeast Japan. Journal of Geological Society of Japan, v. 117, 483-494 (in Japanese with English abstract).

  47. Kataoka, K.S., Manville, V., Nakajo, T., and Urabe, A. (2009) Impacts of explosive volcanism on distal alluvial sedimentation: examples from the Pliocene—Holocene volcaniclastic successions of Japan. Sedimentary Geology, v.220, p.306-317.

  48. Kataoka, K.S., Urabe, A., Manville, V, and. Kajiyama, A. (2008) Breakout flood from an ignimbrite-dammed valley after the 5 ka Numazawako eruption, northeast Japan. Geological Society of America, Bulletin, v. 120, p. 1233-1247.

  49. Naruse, H., Sequeiros, O, Garcia, M.H., Parker, G., Endo, N., Kataoka, K.S., Yokokawa, M., and Muto, T. (2007) Self-accelerating Turbidity Currents at Laboratory Scale. River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics, v. 1, p. 473-476.

  50. Kataoka, K.S. and Manville, V. (2007) Breakout flood from Crater Lake of Ruapehu volcano, 18th March 2007, New Zealand. Journal of Geological Society of Japan, v. 113, p. xix-xx (in Japanese).

  51. Urabe, A., Yasui, S., Inaba, M., Kataoka, K., Takahama, N., Mitsuda, S. (2006) Upper Pleistocene to Holocene stratigraphy in the Higashi-Niigata gas field, central Japan: The characteristics and sources of maker pumice beds. Journal of the Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology, v 71, p. 337-348. (in Japanese with English abstract)

  52. Kataoka. K. (2005) Distal fluvio-lacustrine volcaniclastic resedimentation in response to an explosive silicic eruption: Pliocene Mushono tephra bed, central Japan. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 117: , p. 3-17.

  53. Kataoka, K. and Nakajo, T. (2004) Flow transformation and depositional organization of debris flow—hyperconcentrated flow—streamflow spectrum in volcanic fan-delta setting: the Pleistocene Lower and Middle Formations, Yachiho Group, central Japan. Journal of Sedimentological Society of Japan, n. 59, 17-26.

  54. Kataoka, K. (2003) Volcaniclastic remobilization and resedimentation in distal terrestrial settings in response to large-volume rhyolitic eruptions: examples from the Japanese Plio-Pleistocene volcaniclastic sediments. Journal of Geosciences, Osaka City University, v. 46, 49-67.

  55. Kataoka, K. and Nakajo, T. (2002) Volcaniclastic resedimentation in distal fluvial basins induced by large-volume explosive volcanism: the Ebisutoge-Fukuda tephra, Plio-Pleistocene boundary, central Japan. Sedimentology, v. 49, 319-334.

  56. Nagahashi, Y., Kataoka, K., Yoshikawa, S, and, Sato, T. (2002) Correlation of the Km3 tephra from the Kitaura Formation with the Om-SK110 wide-spread tephra, Oga Peninsula, Akita prefecture, Japan. Journal of Geological Society of Japan, v. 108, 761-764. (in Japanese with English abstract)

  57. Kataoka, K., Nagahashi, Y. and Yoshikawa, S. (2001) An extremely large magnitude eruption close to the Plio-Pleistocene boundary: reconstruction of eruptive style and history of the Ebisutoge-Fukuda tephra, central Japan. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 107, 47-69.

  58. Sakamoto, T., Moriyama, Y. and Kataoka, K. (2001) The volcanic ash layer resedimented by turbidity currents in the Osaka Group, Osaka, Japan. Earth Science (Chikyu Kagaku), v. 55, 173-181. (in Japanese with English abstract)

  59. Kataoka, K. and Nakajo, T. (2000) Depositional processes of the debris-flow and hyperconcentrated flow deposits, the Ebisutoge-Fukuda tephra (Karegawa volcanic ash) in the Tokai Group, Plio-Pleistocene boundary, central Japan. Journal of Geological Society of Japan, v. 106, 897-900. (in Japanese with English abstract)

  60. Satoguchi, Y., Watanabe, M., Nakajo, T. and Kataoka, K. (2000) Kd 38 volcanic ash bed intercalated in the lower part of the Kazusa Group in the Boso Peninsula, central Japan: Re-examination for the correlated volcanic ash bed. Journal of Geological Society of Japan, v. 106, 189-204. (in Japanese with English abstract)

  61. Kataoka, K. and Yoshikawa, S. (1997) Fluvial terrace deposits along the Suzuka River, Mie Prefecture, central Japan: Chronology of terrace rarely intercalated with volcanic ash. The Quaternary Research, v. 36, 263-276. (in Japanese with English abstract)

PhD Dissertation

  • Kataoka, K. (2002) Large-scale volcaniclastic resedimentation in terrestrial settings: examples from the Plio-Pleistocene volcaniclastic sediments, central Japan. PhD Dissertation, Osaka City University 198p．

Book chapters and Field guidebooks:

  1. Nagahashi, Y., Kataoka, K.S., and Nakazawa, N. (2016) Formation and geologic history of Lake Inawashiro-ko based on stratigraphy and sedimentary facies of the INW2012 core sediments. In: Environmental Study in Urabandai-Inawashiro area, p. 17-31. (in Japanese)

  2. Kataoka, K.S. and Miyabuchi, Y. (2011) Outflow event from the Aso caldera lake. 2011 PERC Planetary Geology Field Symposium Guidebook for fieldtrip, 37-40.

  3. Oikawa, T., Ishizaki, Y. and Kataoka, K.S. (2011) Large-scale lahar and pyroclastic flow deposits of Yakedake Volcano Group, central Japan. Journal of Geological Society of Japan, v. 116, Supplement, 49-61. (in Japanese with English abstract)

  4. Kataoka, K.S. and Nakajo, T. (2005) Volcanic and non-volcanic, deltaic sedimentation in the Pliocene-Pleistocene Kobiwako Group, Shiga Prefecture, central Japan. Excursion Guidebook, the 112th Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, 99-112.

Reports and other articles:

  1. Kataoka K.S., Oguchi, T. and Komatsu, G. (2010) Lahar deposits preserved in a relict plunge-pool, northern flank Vesuvio Volcano, Italy. Report, In: K. Takeuchi (ed.) Reconstruction of historical garden in the area that suffered from volcanic hazards - natural environment change and protection and usage of landscape, 51-58. The Japanese Ministry of Education and Science Grand in Aid (Specific area A07). (in Japanese)

  2. Kataoka K.S., Morishima, W., Collado, M.B., Aoki, T. and Oguchi, T. (2010) Sedimentary facies analysis on lahar deposits, Pasig-Potorero River basin, central Luzon, Philippines. Report, In: K. Takeuchi (ed.) Reconstruction of historical garden in the area that suffered from volcanic hazards - natural environment change and protection and usage of landscape, 83-89. The Japanese Ministry of Education and Science Grand in Aid (Specific area A07). (in Japanese)

  3. Aoki, T., Morishima, W., Kataoka K.S., and Oguchi, T. (2010) Flood control effect of the riparian forest along the Tarlac River, central Luzon Island, the Philippines - controlling lahar sediment from Pinatubo volcano -. Report, In: K. Takeuchi (ed.) Reconstruction of historical garden in the area that suffered from volcanic hazards - natural environment change and protection and usage of landscape, 91-93. The Japanese Ministry of Education and Science Grand in Aid (Specific area A07). (in Japanese)

  4. Kataoka, K.S. and Urabe, A. (2007) Volcanogenic breakout flood deposits: aftermath of the 5 ka Numazawako ignimbrite eruption, northeast Japan. Journal of the Sedimentological Society of Japan, n. 66, 1-2 (cover story).

  5. Kataoka, K.S., Urabe, A., Kajiyama, A., and Manville, V. (2006) Facies and geomorphic analyses of resedimented volcaniclastic deposits: evidence for volcanogenic floods and hazards. Earth Monthly (Gekkan Chikyu), v. 28, p. 507-511 (in Japanese)

  6. Kataoka, K. and Nakajo, T. (2001) Resedimentation and redistribution of volcaniclastic sediments related to explosive eruptions. Invited paper for Earth Monthly (Gekkan Chikyu), v. 23, 619-623. (in Japanese)

  7. Yoshikawa, S., Tsukuda, E., Mitamura, M., Nakagawa, K., Mizuno, K., Higashiwaki, A., and Kataoka K. (1997) Litho-and tephrostratigraphy of the Yuhigaoka boring cores from the Osaka Plain, central Japan. Bulletin of Geological Survey of Japan, v. 48, 661-672.

Grants awarded:

(as PI only)

MEXT: Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; JSPS: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  • 2022-2025: MEXT, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research “Why do volcanoes collapse? Analysis of matrix facies of debris avalanche deposits and prediction of future collapses " JPY 14,000,000

  • 2021-2024: MEXT, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) “Identification of earthquake-triggered turbidites in lacustrine sedimentary sequences using anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and micro-XRF analyses" JPY 4,900,000

  • 2018-2022: MEXT, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research “Unraveling small-scale eruptions and lahar events by high-resolution stratigraphy of distally deposited volcaniclastic deposits: Re-assessment of eruption frequency and hazard risk areas" JPY 13,100,000

  • 2016-2019: MEXT, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research “Sediment transport by volcano-snow/water interaction: hydrology at snow-clad volcanoes” JPY 2,700,000

  • 2012-2015: MEXT, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists “Fluvial response to an eruption: geomorphology and sedimentology of caldera lake breakouts and rain-triggered lahars” JPY 3,700,000

  • 2011-2012: Grant-in-aid for young researcher at Niigata University. “Breakout floods from intra-caldera lakes and rain-triggered lahar around caldera volcanoes: their processes and lahar hazards assessments”

  • 2011-2012: Kurita Water and Environment Foundation Research Grant Programme. “Fluvial recovery after large-scale sediment input in the volcanically affected river catchments”

  • 2008-2011: MEXT, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists “Breakout floods from caldera lakes: geology, geomorphology and paleohydrology”. JPY 3,300,000

  • 2007-2008: JSPS (Japan)-FRST (NZ) Scientist Exchanges programme “Catastrophic break-out floods from intra-caldera volcanic lakes: generation and depositional mechanisms and post-flood recovery processes” NZD 29,000

  • 2006-2007：Grant-in-aid for young researcher at Niigata University. “Experiment for volcanogenic floods”

  • 2005-2008: MEXT, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists “Triggering mechanism and depositional processes of catastrophic volcanogenic floods and their hazard assessments” JPY 3,400,000

  • 2002-2003: Grant-in-aid for geological survey, Fukuda Geological Institute

  • 1999-2000: Special research grants for PhD students, Osaka City University

Awards and other distinctions:

2022: Invited Plenary Lecturer: The 21st International Sedimentological Congress

2017: Invited Keynote Speaker: EGU General Assembly 2017

2016: Invited Keynote Lecturer (Plenary): The 7th Latin American Congress of Sedimentology –CLS- and 15th Argentine Meeting of Sedimentology –XV RAS-

2013: Best paper award, Japan Association for Quaternary Research

2010: Best paper award, Sedimentological Society of Japan

2010: Invited session convener, 18th International Sedimentological Congress, Technical Session on “Volcanogenic sedimentation”

2006: Invited speaker, 17th International Sedimentological Congress.