● Scholarship for application and enrollment✓

● Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi) 2012-2013 of the Lab.:

・Research representative of “New restoration method of Tsunami attack history for the last several thousand years by Sr isotopic measurement in blackish varve lake sediment.” (No. 24654158; Challenging Exploratory Research)

・Research member of “Pan Pacific Environmental Changes and Civilizations” (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas; Res. representative: Prof. H. Yonenobu with Naruto Univ. Ed.) 　新聞記事（篠塚氏の写真あり：平成25年6月22日）

> Past Kakenhi funds (過去の科研費・代表のみ :ONLY the chief investigator is K.Toyoda)

● The latest publication:

> Narumi K. Tsugeki, Tetsuro Agusa, Shingo Ueda, Michinobu Kuwae, Hirotaka Oda, Shinsuke Tanabe, Yukinori Tani, Kazuhiro Toyoda, Wan-lin Wang, Jotaro Urabe (2012) Eutrophication of mountain lakes in Japan due to increasing deposition of anthropogenically produced dust. Ecological Research 27, 1041-1052. -- Awarded the Ecological Research Paper Award 2012

> Kazuhiro Toyoda and Bradley M. Tebo. (2013) The effect of Ca2+ ions and ionic strength on Mn(II) oxidation by spores of the marine Bacillus sp SG-1. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 101, 1-11.

> Michinobu Kuwae, Narumi K. Tsugeki, Tetsuro Agusa, Kazuhiro Toyoda, Yukinori Tani, Shingo Ueda, Shinsuke Tanabe, Jotaro Urabe (2013) Sedimentary records of metal deposition in Japanese alpine lakes for the last 250 years: Recent enrichment of airborne Sb and In in East Asia. Science of The Total Environment 442, 189-197.

> Lim, C., Toyoda, K., Ikehara, K., Peate, D.W., Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphy of Baegdusan and Ulleung volcanoes using marine sediments in the Japan Sea/East Sea (2013) Quaternary Research, 80, 76-87.

> Past publication (Rare-earth elements✓; Paleoenvironment reconstruction✓;

                                   Extra-terrestrial, volcano, and fault activities✓;  etc.)

● Recent invited talk:

> Environmental purification by manganese-oxidizing bacteria. - Annual meeting of Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry 2011 Kyoto, Japan (March 28, 2011) by K.Toyoda

> Airborne radioactive contamination in urban areas from the nuclear accident in Fukushima - the Second International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment (ICSBE) 2012 Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (July 11th, 2012) by K. Toyoda