This year the Japan Geoscience Union meeting at Makuhari Messe (Chiba) gathered a rather large number of noble-gas geochemists. Our contributions are listed under Publications. The featured image has been taken after the party to celebrate the JpGU fellowship of Prof. Kaneoka. Some “vintage” pictures of the JpGU meeting 2011 (see below) show that noble-gas scientists are not subject to aging.
In March 2015 we collected gas samples in the region of Mt. Ontake (for the first time during the cold season). Up to 3 m of snow hampered the access to the highest sampling location (Nigorigo).
More impressions can be found under Expeditions/Fieldwork.
Finally also this story has been published:
Tomonaga, Y., Brennwald, M. S., & Kipfer, R. (2015). Attenuation of diffusive noble-gas transport in laminated sediments of the Stockholm Archipelago. Limnol. Oceanogr., 60(2), 497–511, doi:10.1002/lno.10045.
