Graduate School of Science Department of Earth and Planetary Science
Doctor's Program, The University of Tokyo
Last updated: June 8, 2026
Biography

About me
Name:
Nodoka Kuramoto
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Science Department of Earth and Planetary Science Doctor's Program,
The University of Tokyo
Education
March, 2026 :
M.S. Department of Earth and Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo (Supervisor: Assoc. prof. Masayuki Ikeda)
March, 2024 :
B.S. Department of Earth and Planetary Environment, The University of Tokyo (Supervisor: Assoc. prof. Masayuki Ikeda)
Awards & Funds
2026
・2026-2029, JST Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation (SPRING) Program, The University of Tokyo "Advanced Human Resource Development Leading Green Transformation (GX) (SPRING GX)" Project student
・Outstanding Student Paper Award (Master thesis; The University of Tokyo)
・2026: Outstanding Qualifying Examination Award, The University of Tokyo “International Graduate Program for Excellence in Earth-Space Science (IGPEES)” Project
・2026-2027: Fujiwara Natural History Foundation, High-resolution reconstruction of climate change at the “unstable climate” periods using varved sediments from Lake Suigetsu.”
2025
・2026: Earth and Planetary Science Fund, “Connecting Paleoclimatology and Arcaeology: Insights from the 130th Excavation of Karako-Kagi Ruins,” a part of the University of Tokyo Foundation and administered by Earth and Planetary Science major.
・Best Presentation Award (Paleosciences Society 11th annual meeting)
・2025-2026: the 2025 Research Grant for supporting Early-Career Researchers by Paleo Labo Co., Ltd., “Reconstruction of atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations over the past 50,000 years using a stalagmite from eastern Shiga Prefecture, Japan.”
2024
・2024: the 2024 Graduate Research Abroad in Science Program (GRASP), “Reconstruction of “unstable climate” using a stalagmite from eastern Shiga, Japan,” The University of Tokyo, report.
・2024-2029, World-leading Innovative Graduate Study (WINGS) Program, The University of Tokyo “International Graduate Program for Excellence in Earth-Space Science (IGPEES)” Project student
Presentations
International conference
2026
・Kuramoto N., Ikeda M., Kano A., Shen C-C., Huang C-Y., Sakuma A., and Abe Y., High-resolution climate change from the Late-glacial to early Holocene transition reconstructed from stalagmite, Shiga, Japan, and implications for human history. JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2026, U11-06, Chiba, Japan, May 2026, Oral, Invited.
・Yamada K., Kuramoto N., Nagaya K., Ono I., Omori T., Ikeda M., Kitaba I., Sanjo R., SG25 members, and Nakagawa T., New Drilling of the SG25 Cores at Lake Suigetsu and Integrated Stratigraphic Modelling, JpGU AGU Joint Meeting 2026, MIS04-P33, Chiba, Japan, May 2026, Poster.
・Ikeda M., Kuramoto N., Nakagawa T., Kitaba I., Satoguchi Y., Inouchi Y., Kubota Y., Inoue T., Albert P., Mclean D., and Smith V., Response of East Asian Continental Hydroclimate to Modulation of Glacial–Interglacial Cycles: Toward a New Lake Biwa Drilling Proposal, M-GI37, Chiba, Japan, May 2026, Oral.
Domestic conference
2026
・倉本和佳.滋賀石筍を用いた過去10万年間の高解像度古気候復元.科学研究費補助金 学術変革領域(A)『「暴れる気候」と人類の過去・現在・未来』第3回 領域会議(佐賀, 2026.1)ポスター.
・倉本和佳,狩野彰宏ほか.滋賀県産石筍に記録された過去10万年間の気候変動.炭酸塩コロキウム2026(高知, 2026.3)口頭.
2025
・Kuramoto N., Ikeda M., Kano A., Shen C-C., Huang C-Y., and Abe Y., High-resolution reconstruction of East Asian monsoon variability during the Last Glacial Period using stalagmite from Shiga, Japan, Paleosciences Society 11th annual meeting, Aichi, Japan, December 2025, Oral, Best presentation award.
・Kuramoto N., Ikeda M., Shen C-C., Kano A., Huang C-Y., and Abe Y., High-resolution reconstruction of “Stormy two centuries” at the onset of Bølling-Allerød warming period using stalagmite from Shiga, Japan, JpGU 2025, MIS14-04, Chiba, Japan, May 2025, Oral.
・Kuramoto N., Ikeda M., Extreme rain events over the past 1.8 million years inferred from the frequency of fluvial gravel beds in the Karasuma Deep Core on the side of Lake Biwa, The Sedimentological Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, April 2025, Oral.
2024
・Kuramoto N., Ikeda M., Orbital-scale flooding frequency inferred from Lake Biwa core for the past 1.8 million years, JpGU 2024, MIS12-P27, Chiba, Japan, May 2024, Poster.
・Ikeda M., Kuramoto N., Sakuma A., Tojima M., Niki S., Kamikura H., Miyata R., and Izumi K., Astrochronology and radiometric ages for orbital-scale dynamics across the geologic stage boundaries, JpGU2024, SGL19-01, Chiba, Japan, May 2024, Oral, Invited.
Skills
Field work
Past 4.0
Acycle
SEM
EPMA
Skills
Field work
Past 4.0
Acycle
SEM
EPMA
Qualification
Curator
J-DESC Core School -Basic Core Analysis course-
(Completed J-DESC Core School 2024 Core Analysis Basic Course)
Hobby
Table tennis
Chinese