Paleoenvironmental reconstruction by imaging mass spectrometry of banded sediment

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12198
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Environmental dynamic analysis
• Research Institution: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: IJIRI Akira 国立研究開発法人海洋研究開発機構, 高知コア研究所, 主任研究員 (70374212)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 池原 実 高知大学, 教育研究部自然科学系理学部門, 教授 (90335919)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: イメージング質量分析 / バイオマーカー / 古環境復元

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We established the method to analyze a two-dimensional distribution of organic molecules (biomarkers), which is an index of environmental variation contained in single layer of oceanic and lake sediments, by using Imaging Mass Spectrometry. And, by using the method, we tried to analyze geological samples.

Free Research Field

地球化学