Apr. 2017 - present : Assistant Professor - Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Sep. 2016 - Mar. 2017: Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, The University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
Apr. 2016 - Aug. 2016: Postdoctoral Fellow - Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2016: PhD in Department of Earth Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Apr. 2011 - Mar. 2013: MS in Department of Earth Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Publications
Akuhara, T., Nakahigashi, K., Shinohara, M., Yamada, T., Shiobara, H., Yamashita, Y., et al. (2021). Lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary beneath the Sea of Japan from transdimensional inversion of S-receiver functions. Earth, Planets and Space, 73(1), 171. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-021-01501-5
Kim, H., Kawakatsu, H., Akuhara, T., Shinohara, M., Shiobara, H., Sugioka, H., & Takagi, R. (2021). Receiver Function Imaging of the Amphibious NE Japan Subduction Zone—Effects of Low‐Velocity Sediment Layer. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(9), e2021JB021918. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jb021918
Yamaya, L., Mochizuki, K., Akuhara, T., & Nishida, K. (2021). Sedimentary structure derived from multi-mode ambient noise tomography with dense OBS network at the Japan Trench. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2021JB021789. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB021789
Spica, Z. J., Nishida, K., Akuhara, T., Pétrélis, F., Shinohara, M., & Yamada, T. (2020). Marine sediment characterized by ocean‐bottom fiber‐optic seismology. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(16), e2020GL088360. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088360
Akuhara, T., Tsuji, T., & Tonegawa, T. (2020). Overpressured underthrust sediment in the Nankai Trough forearc inferred from transdimensional inversion of high‐frequency teleseismic waveforms. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(15), e2020GL088280. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl088280
Akuhara, T., Bostock, M. G., Plourde, A. P., & Shinohara, M. (2019). Beyond receiver functions: Green's function estimation by transdimensional inversion and its application to OBS data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(2), 1944-1961. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016499
Akuhara, T. (2018), Fluid Distribution Along the Nankai-Trough Megathrust Fault off the Kii Peninsula, Springer Theses, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8174-3.
Akuhara, T., Mochizuki, K., Kawakatsu, H., & Takeuchi, N. (2017). A fluid-rich layer along the Nankai trough megathrust fault off the Kii Peninsula inferred from receiver function inversion. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB013965
Akuhara, T., Mochizuki, K., Kawakatsu, H., & Takeuchi, N. (2016). Non-linear waveform analysis for water-layer response and its application to high-frequency receiver function analysis using OBS array. Geophysical Journal International, 206(3), 1914–1920. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw253
Akuhara, T., & Mochizuki, K. (2015). Hydrous state of the subducting Philippine Sea plate inferred from receiver function image using onshore and offshore data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120(12), 8461–8477. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JB012336
Akuhara, T., & Mochizuki, K. (2014). Application of cluster analysis based on waveform cross-correlation coefficients to data recorded by ocean-bottom seismometers: results from off the Kii Peninsula. Earth, Planets and Space, 66(1), 80. https://doi.org/10.1186/1880-5981-66-80
Akuhara, T., Mochizuki, K., Nakahigashi, K., Yamada, T., Shinohara, M., Sakai, S., et al. (2013). Segmentation of the Vp/Vs ratio and low-frequency earthquake distribution around the fault boundary of the Tonankai and Nankai earthquakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(7), 1306–1310. https://doi.org/10.1002/grl.50223
Grants
Apr. 2019 - Mar. 2022: JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Carrier Scientists
Aug. 2017 - Mar. 2019: JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity start-up
Sep. 2016 - Mar. 2017: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for research abroad
Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2016: JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientist (for Doctoral Course Students)
Awards
Mar. 2016: Research Encouragement Award, School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Oct. 2015: Student Outstanding Presentation Award at Seismological Society of Japan fall meeting
May. 2015: Student Outstanding Presentation Award at JpGU Meeting 2015
