Publications

Publications

[Articles and Proceedings]

2022

Fukushima, T., Tsune, A., & Sugishima, H. (2022). Comprehensive understanding of seafloor disturbance and environmental impact scenarios. Perspectives on Deep-Sea Mining: Sustainability, Technology, Environmental Policy and Management, 313-337.

2022

Matsushima, J., Kobayashi, H., & Tanaka, S. (2022). Acoustic backscattering properties of manganese nodules: Numerical and laboratory experiments based on Sub-bottom acoustic profile surveys. Marine Georesources & Geotechnology, 1-22.

2021

Lins, L., Zeppilli, D., Menot, L., Michel, L. N., Bonifácio, P., Brandt, M., Pape, E., Rossel, S., Uhlenkott, K., Macheriotou, L., Bezerra, T., Sánchez, N., M. Alfaro-Lucas, J., A., Pedro, K., Stefanie, Murakami, C., & Vanreusel, A. (2021). Toward a reliable assessment of potential ecological impacts of deep‐sea polymetallic nodule mining on abyssal infauna. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 19(9), 626-650.

2021

Shimada, D., Takeda, N., Tsune, A., & Murakami, C. (2021) Two new species of Trophomera Rubtzov and Platonova, 1974 (Nematoda: Plectida: Benthimermithidae) from the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ), North Pacific. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 62(2), 157-167.

2021

Tsune, A. (2021). Quantitative Expression of the Burial Phenomenon of Deep Seafloor Manganese Nodules. Minerals, 11(2), 227.

2021

Washburn, T. W., Menot, L., Bonifácio, P., Pape, E., Bribiesca-Contreras, L., Dahlgren, T., Fukushima, T., Glover, A., Ju, S. J., Yu, O. H., & Smith, C. R. (2021) Patterns of macrofaunal biodiversity across the Clarion-Clipperton Zone: an area targeted for seabed mining. Frontiers in Marine Science, 250.

2020

Fujimoto, S., & Murakami, C. (2020). A new genus and species of Nanaloricidae (Loricifera: Nanaloricida) from the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 289, 177-188. doi: 10.1016/j.jcz.2020.10.009

2020

Shimada, D., Takeda, N., Tsune, A., & Murakami, C. (2020). Three new species of free-living marine nematodes (Nematoda: Enoplida) from the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ), North Pacific. Zootaxa, 4859(4), 507–526. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4859.4.3

2020

Van Dover, C. L., Colaço, A., Collins, P. C., Croot, P., Metaxas, A., Murton, B. J., Swaddling, A., Boschen-Rose, R., Carlsson, J., Cuyvers, L., Fukushima, T., Gartman, A., Kennedy, R., Kriete, C., Mestre, N. C., Molodtsova, T., Myhrvold, A., Pelleter, E., Popoola, S.O., Qian, P. Y., Sarrazin, J., Sharma, R., Suh, Y.J., Sylvan, J. B., Tao, C., Tomczak, M., & Vermilye, J. (2020) Research is needed to inform environmental management of hydrothermally inactive and extinct polymetallic sulfide (PMS) deposits. Marine Policy, 121, 104183.

2019

Tsune A., & Murakami C. (2019). Preliminary shipboard observations of nodule fauna in a polymetallic nodule area of the western part of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone. 2019 International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, 98-105.

2018

Nishi, K., Koizumi, A., Tsune, A. and Tanaka, S. (2018). A preliminary study of the relationship between topographic features and the distribution of polymetallic nodules in Japan’s Licensed Areas, Central Pacific. The 12th Ocean Mining and Gas Hydrates Symposium, International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers.

2018

Fukushima T., & Tsune A. (2018). Environmental Condition 17 -18 years after the Benthic Impact Experiment, Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth (2018) International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, 112 -118.

2015

Tsune, A. and Okazaki, M. (2015). Current status of exploration activity for polymetallic nodules in Japan. Journal of MMIJ, 131(12), 602-609.

2015

Haiki, K., Okazaki, M. and Ishiyama, T. (2015). Reconsideration of Polymetallic Nodule Processing Methods - Further Improvement of Existing Methods. The 11th Ocean Mining and Gas Hydrates Symposium, International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers.

2015

Tsune, A. (2015). Effects of Size Distribution of Deep-Sea Polymetallic Nodules on the Estimation of Abundance Obtained from Seafloor Photographs using Conventional Formulae. The 11th Ocean Mining and Gas Hydrates Symposium. International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers.

2014

Tsune, A. and Okazaki, M. (2014). Some Considerations about Image Analysis of Seafloor Photographs for Better Estimation of Parameters of Polymetallic Nodule Distribution. The 24th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers.

2013

Okazaki, M. and Tsune, A. (2013). Exploration of Polymetallic Nodule Using AUV in the Central Equatorial Pacific. The 10th ISOPE Ocean Mining and Gas Hydrates Symposium. International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers.

[Presentations]

2015

Ishiyama T., Okazaki, M. and Tsune, A. (2015). Resources Evaluation of Polymetallic Nodule - Results of AUV Survey. The 44th Conference of the Underwater Mining Institute, November 1-6, 2015, Tampa Bay, Florida, USA.

2014

Ishiyama T., Okazaki, M., Tsune, A., Kubota, R., Sugimoto, S. and Saito, N. (2014). Detailed Survey of Polymetallic Nodules - Results of AUV Survey. The 43rd Conference of the Underwater Mining Institute, September 21-28, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal.

2012

Tsune, A. and Okazaki, M. (2012). Re-evaluation and future development of polymetallic nodules. The 23rd Ocean Engineering Symposium, August 2-3, 2012, Surugadai Campus of Nihon University Faculty of Science and Technology.

2012

Okazaki, M. and Tsune, A. (2012). Polymetallic Nodule Project: Approaches to Exploration. Minerals of OCEAN-6 & Deep-sea minerals and mining-3 Joint International Conference, June 4-8, 2012, VNIIOkeangeologia, St. Petersburg, Russia.