Associate Professor:Osamu Sasaki
Research field
Paleobiology
Research Interest
Analysis and development of statistical methods to quantify large-scale temporal and spatial patterns of biodiversity in the history of life, as preserved in the fossil records.
Papers
- Selected papers
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- Osozawa, S., Sasaki, O. and Kanisawa, S., 2006, New and significant outcrop of the Aoba Eastern Fault cutting the lower terrace gravel, Aobayama Hill, Sendai, northeast Japan. Chikyu kagaku, 60, 501-505. (in Japanese with English abstract)
- Shimamoto, M., Ota, S., Hayashi, H., Sasaki, O., Saito, T., 2001, Planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Miocene Hatatate Formation in the southwestern part of Sendai City, Northeast Japan. Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, 107, 258-269. (in Japanese with English abstract)
- Irizuki, T. and Sasaki O., 1993, Analysis of morphological changes through ontogeny : genera Battinicythere and Elotsonella (Hemicytherinae). Proceedigns of the 11th International symposium on Ostracoda, 335-350.
- Ishizaki, K., Irizuki, T. and Sasaki O., 1993, Cobb Mountain spike of the kuroshio Current detected by Ostracoda in the lowen Omma Formation (Early Pleistocene), anazawa City, central Japan : analysis of depositional environments. Proceedings of the 11th International symposium on Ostracoda, 315-334.
- Tsukawaki, S., Nemoto, N., Maruyama, T., Shimamoto, M., Sasaki, O., Motoyama, I., Irizuki, T., Kato, H., Chatterijee, D., Fujimoto, E., and Hasegawa, S., 1993, reliminary Results from the R. V. Tansei-maru Cruise KT92-13 (Leg2) in the Eastern Marginal Area of the Japan Sea. Science Reports of the Hirosaki University, 40, 61-99.
- Sasaki, O., 1991, Discrimination of two new Anadara species using shell growth parameters and further descriptons. Transactions and proceedings of the paleontological society of Japan New series, 161, 697-713.
- Sasaki, O., 1990, Parameters for description of the shell form of genus Anadara (Mollusca : Bivalvia). Transactions and proceedings of the paleontological society of Japan New series,158, 513-534.
- Ogasawara, K. and Sasaki, O., 1988, The Dainenjian molluscan association from the environs of Sendai, Northeast Honshu and its zoogeographic significance. Saito Ho-on Kai Museum Reserch Bulletin, 56, 1-15.