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(*student/**post-doctoral advisee when work was initially conducted)

*Kim, HJ., H. Kawakatsu, T. Akuhara, N. Takeuchi, T. Isse, H. Shiobara, H. Sugioka, H. Utada, YH Kim, S-M Lee (2025), Application of the reverberation waveform inversion for the high-resolution sediment layer structure in the Pacific Geophys. Jour. Inter., 240, 1331-1344. doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae444
Park, J-Y, YH Kim, T. Isse, S-M Lee, K-H Kim, H. Kawakatsu, H. Shiobara, H. Utada, N. Takeuchi, H. Sugioka (2025), Detection and location of the oceanic intraplate earthquakes at the oldest Pacific Plate using Pacific Array (Oldest-1) data, Seismol. Res. Lett., 96(2A), 664--667. doi.org/10.1785/0220240336
He, B., Y. Chen, D. Lumley, Q. Liu, N. Takeuchi, H. Kawakatsu, H. Zhu (2024), Passive source reverse time migration based on the spectral element method, J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 10.1029/2023JB028370. doi.org/10.1029/2023JB028370
Kawakatsu, H. (2024), Characterizing Lithospheric Transverse Isotropy using Moment Tensors - On the origin of the Non-double-Couple Components of GCMT solutions Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., XX, 1-16, doi:10.1785/0120240136. doi.org/10.1785/0120240136 (preprint)
*Kim, HJ., H. Kawakatsu, T. Akuhara, N. Takeuchi (2023), Characterizing the Seafloor Sediment Layer Using Teleseismic Body Waves Recorded by Ocean Bottom Seismometers, J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 128, e2023JB027616. doi.org/10.1029/2023JB027616
Kang, HS, YH Kim, S-H Hung, P-Y P. Lin, T, Isse, H. Kawakatsu, S-M Lee, H. Utada, N. Takeuchi, H. Shiobara, H. Sugioka., and S-S Kim (2023), Seismic Velocity Structure of Upper Mantle Beneath the Oldest Pacific Seafloor: Insights from Finite-frequency Tomography, G-cubed, 24, e2022GC010833. doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010833
Takeuchi, N., T. Isse, H. Kawakatsu, H. Shiobara, H. Sugioka, A. Ito, H. Utada, and T. Yamada (2023), Olivine Fabrics in the Oceanic Lithosphere Constrained by Pn Azimuthal Anisotropy, J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 128, e2023JB026428. doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026428
*Kawano, Y., T. Isse, A. Takeo, H. Kawakatsu, M. Morishige, H. Shiobara, N. Takeuchi, H. Sugioka, YH. Kim, H. Utada, and S.-M. Lee, (2023), Seismic Structure of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System Beneath the Oldest Seafloor Revealed by Rayleigh-Wave Dispersion Analysis, J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 128, e2023JB026529. doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026529
Kim, TS, JH Park, SY Oh, JW K, M. Witek, SJ Chang, S.-M. Lee, YH. Kim, and H. Utada, H. Kawakatsu, H. Shiobara, T. Isse and N. Takeuchi (2023), Characteristics of Background Noise in the Oldest-1 Array Deployed on the Oldest Part of the Pacific Plate, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., XX, 1-22. doi:10.1785/0120220215
*Kawano, Y., T. Isse, H. Kawakatsu, H. Shiobara, Nozomu Takeuchi, H. Sugioka, YH. Kim, H. Utada, and S.-M. Lee, (2023), Noise reduction from vertical component seismograms recorded by broadband ocean bottom seismometers deployed at the western Pacific, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., XX, 1-13. doi:10.1785/0120220256
Nagai, H., N. Takeuchi, H. Kawakatsu, H. Shiobara, T. Isse, H. Sugioka, A. Ito, and H. Utada (2023), Inference of velocity structures of oceanic crust and upper mantle from surface waveform fitting, Geophys. Jour. Inter., 233 1974-1986. doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad049
*Kim, HJ., H. Kawakatsu, T. Akuhara, M. Shinohara, H. Shiobara, H. Sugioka, R. Takagi (2021), Receiver function imaging of the amphibious NE Japan subduction zone - effects of low-velocity sediment layer, J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 126, e2021JB021918. doi.org/10.1029/2021JB021918
Ko, JW., TS. Kim, JH. Park, SY. Oh, SJ. Chang, K. Y. Kim, S.-M. Lee, YH. Kim, H. Utada, H. Kawakatsu, H. Shiobara, T. Isse and N. Takeuchi (2021), Analysis on microseism characteristics by typhoon‘ HAGIBIS ’using land and ocean-bottom seismometers (in Hangul), J. Geol. Soc. Korea. 57, 339-352. doi.org/10.14770/jgsk.2021.57.3.339
Korenaga, T., J. Korenaga, H. Kawakatsu, M. Yamano (2021), A new reference model for the evolution of oceanic lithosphere in a cooling Earth, J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 126, e2020JB021528. doi.org/10.1029/2020JB021528
Kawakatsu, H. (2021), Unexpected consequences of transverse isotropy, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 111, 129-138. doi:10.1785/0120200205 (pdf, SI), (preprint+SI); Erratum, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 112, 1190. doi:10.1785/0120210328

Selected recent papers (before 2020):

*Kawano, Y., T. Isse, A. Takeo, H. Kawakatsu, D. Suetsugu, H. Shiobara, H. Sugioka, A. Ito, Y. Ishihara, S. Tanaka, M. Obayashi, T. Tonegawa, and J. Yoshimitsu (2020), Persistent Long-Period Signals Recorded by an OBS Array in the Western-Central Pacific: Activity of Ambrym Volcano in Vanuatu, Geophy. Res. Lett., 47, e2020GL089108. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089108 (pdf, SI).
Isse, T., H. Kawakatsu, T. Yoshizawa, A. Takeo, H. Shiobara, H. Sugioka, A. Ito, and D. Suetsugu (2019), Surface wave tomography for the Pacific Ocean incorporating seafloor seismic observations and plate thermal evolution, Earth Planet Science Lett., 510, 116-130. (pdf, SI)
*Takeo, A, H. Kawakatsu, T. Isse, K. Nishida, H. Shiobara, H. Sugioka, A. Ito, and H. Utada (2018), In-situ characterization of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system beneath NW Pacific Ocean via broadband dispersion survey with two OBS arrays, G-cubed, 19. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007588 (PDF).
Takeuchi, N., H. Kawakatsu, H. Shiobara, T. Isse, H. Sugioka, A. Ito, and H. Utada (2017), Determination of Intrinsic Attenuation in the Oceanic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System, Science, 358, 1593-1596, DOI: 10.1126/science.aao3508 (PDF)
Kawakatsu, H. and H. Utada (2017), Seismic and Electrical Signatures of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System of the Normal Oceanic Mantle, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 45, 139-167, doi: 10.1146/annurev-earth-063016-020319 (E-print). (PDF)
Kawakatsu, H. (2016), A new fifth parameter for transverse isotropy, Geophys. Jour. Inter., 204 682-685, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv479. (PDF)
Kawakatsu, H., and M. Yamamoto (2015), Volcano Seismology (2nd ed.), Schubert, G. (ed.) Treatise on Geophysics, 2nd edition, Volume 4 389-419, Oxford: Elsevier. (PDF)
*Iritani, R., N. Takeuchi and H. Kawakatsu (2014), Intricate heterogeneous structure of the top 300 km of the Earth's inner core inferred from global array data: II. Frequency dependence of inner core attenuation and its implication, Earth Planet Science Lett, 405, 231-243 (on line). PDF
Tang, Y., M. Obayashi, F.-L. Niu, S. P Grand, Y. J. Chen., H. Kawakatsu, S. Tanaka, J. Ning, J. F Ni (2014), Changbaishan volcanism in northeast China linked to subduction-induced mantle upwelling, Nature Geoscience, 7, 470-475, doi:10.1038/ngeo2166. (online; PDF, SI)
*Takeo, A., K. Nishida, T. Isse, H. Kawakatsu, H. Shiobara, H. Sugioka, and T. Kanazawa (2013), Radially anisotropic structure beneath the Shikoku Basin from broadband surface wave analysis of ocean bottom seismometer records J. Geophys. Res., 118, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50219. (PDF)
Song, T.-R. A., and H. Kawakatsu (2012), Subduction of oceanic asthenosphere: evidence from sub-slab seismic anisotropy, Geophy. Res. Lett., 39, L17301, doi:10.1029/2012GL052639 . ( pdf , supplement )
Kawakatsu, H., and S. Yoshioka (2011), Metastable olivine wedge and deep dry cold slab beneath SW Japan, EPSL, 303, 1-10. (PDF)
**Kumar, P., and H. Kawakatsu (2011), Imaging the seismic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary of the oceanic plate, G-cubed, 12, Q01006, 1-13. (PDF)
Nishida, N., J-P. Montagner, and H. Kawakatsu, (2009), Global Surface Wave Tomography Using Seismic Hum, Science, 326, 112, 2009 (pdf).
Kawakatsu, H., **P. Kumar, Y. Takei, M. Shinohara, T. Kanazawa, E. Araki, K. Suyehiro (2009), Seismic Evidence for Sharp Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundaries of Oceanic Plates, Science, 324, 499-502. (pdf).
Kawakatsu, H., J.-P. Montagner (2008), Time-reversal seismic-source imaging and moment-tensor inversion Geophy. J. Int., 175, 686-688. (PDF)
Nishida, K., Kawakatsu, H., and S. Obara (2008), Three-dimensional crustal S-wave velocity structure in Japan using microseismic data recorded by Hi-net tiltmeters , J. Geophys. Res., 113, B10302, doi:10.1029/2007JB005395. (PDF)
Kawakatsu, H., and S. Watada (2007), Seismic evidence for deep water transportation in the mantle, Science, 316, 1468-1471. (PDF)

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