This paper reviews achievements and findings from studies associated with numerical
modeling of tsunami since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, and addresses challenges for …

SUMMARY “Monitoring Sites 1000”–Japan's long‐term monitoring survey was established
in 2003, based on the Japanese Government policy for the conservation of biodiversity …

Heavy metal pollution of marine sediments has attracted a great deal of attention because of
its persistence, bioaccumulation, and toxicity. To evaluate the effects of mega-tsunami …

Highly diverse megabenthic assemblages dominated by passive and active suspension
feeders have been recently reported in shelf edge environments of the Mediterranean Sea …

Mercenaria stimpsoni (Stimpson's hard clam) is a shallow-water bivalve species distributed
along mid-to high-latitude coasts of the Northwest Pacific influenced by the Oyashio cold …

The huge tsunami waves induced by the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake
severely affected shallow marine ecosystems along the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan …

Macaronichnus segregatis degiberti, a relatively large ichnosubspecies of Macaronichnus
segregatis, is an almost straight to gently curved, cylindrical, fossilized burrow, oriented …

A huge tsunami is one of the greatest disturbance events in coastal benthic communities,
although the ecological consequences are not fully understood. Here we examined the …

Although research dealing with the geological evidence of past tsunamis has increased
significantly in the last two decades, studies of tsunami deposits emplaced during the …

Tsunami deposits present an important archive for understanding tsunami histories and
dynamics. Most research in this field has focused on onshore preserved remains, while the …