Tohru Ohta

Associate Professor

Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences
Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences
Waseda University

Dual affiliation:
Graduate School of Creative Sciences and Engineering
Waseda University

Education:
BSc., Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. 1998.
MSc., Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. 2000.
PhD., Waseda University, Tokyo Japan. 2004.

PhD. thesis: 2004
Sedimentary evolution and tectono-stratigraphy of the Mesozoic sedimentary basins of the Kurosegawa and Nagato tectonic zones.

Professional career:
2004 - 2005 Visiting researcher at Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University.
2005 - 2007 Research Associate at Department of Earth Sciences, School of Education & Integrated Sciences and Art, Waseda University
2008 - 2012 Assistant Professor at Department of Earth Sciences, School of Education & Integrated Sciences and Art, Waseda University
2012 - present Associate Professor at Department of Earth Sciences, School of Education & Integrated Sciences and Art, Waseda University

Research interest:
Sedimentology, sedimentary petrology, provenance analysis, sand grain morphology, compositional data analysis, terrestrial rock weathering, Cretaceous OAEs, space weathering on the moon