A joint paper titled “Carbon isotope stratigraphy and depositional 1 oxia through Cenomanian/Turonian boundary sequences (Upper Cretaceous) in New Zealand” written by T. Hasegawa, Y. Kakizaki, K. Hukushi, J. Crampton and other member of palaeontological research group of GNS.

Cross-national research of the Cretaceous between New Zealand, Canada and Japan which is the following research of the New Zealand project ended in 2011, was adopted in the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B

Thanks to Dr. Masayuki Noda, we watched collections of Noda and Taturo Matumoto, a professor emeritus at the Kyushu University. I would like to appreciate Professor Toshifumi Komatu at the Kumamoto University and the people in Kashima town for their help in the Koshikijima islands. We enjoyed dynamic successive formations of marine sediments (from continental slope to terrigenous deposits) during the Upper Cretaceous, Campanian.
(Right: The view of Himeura Group from the observatory, Left: An outcrop of the Himeura Group which records the development oyster reef during the Cretaceous)

He will discourse about the change of biodiversity from the point of view of a palaeontologist at the lecture of the Earth Science Course.

Yoshito Tominaga got a degree of Ph.D. in Science and Syunsuke Yonezawa got a degree of Master of Science.

The majority of the participants were scientists who research micro fossils
Professors of the Geology and Palaeontology Course at the Tohoku University
Alumni of the course who are active in various universities and academic institutions and pupils of the alumni