Gaku NISHIHIRA
3rd-yr Doctral Student at Physical Oceanography Lab.
Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
2023, M.Sc. Physical Oceanography, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
2021, B.Sc. Geophysics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
2017, 沖縄県立向陽高等学校 卒業
2014, 沖縄県糸満市立糸満中学校 卒業
1998, 沖縄県名護市 生まれ
Professional Experience
Student Intern, Dept. SOEST/IPRC, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA, April 2024 - September 2024
Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion Science (DC1), April 2023 - March 2026
Publications
Adiwira, H., S. Yasunaka, J. M. Kass, A. H. O. Açıkbaş, S. Adiningsih, E. Gairin, H. B. C. Ilham, E. Lahcene, Y. Li, G. Nishihira, P. Peñalver-Pereira, F. M. P. Sie, C. L. Amedo-Repollo, C. L. Ames, D. Armitage, A. Brännström, U. Dieckmann, T. Fujii, F. Husnik, M. Kawamiya, T. Masuda, C. Plessy, L. Sallan, T. Shimada, S. L., Smith, P. Strutton, A. Wirasatriya and T. Suga, 2025: Pathways to an integrated understanding of marine environments and ecosystems in the Asia-Pacific Region. Front. Mar. Sci., 12, 1680145. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1680145
Nishihira, G., and S. Sugimoto, 2024: Record breaking marine heatwave over the central North Pacific in 2021 summer: its formation associated with loss of the Central Mode Water. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 54, 2361–2372. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-24-0021.1
Nishihira, G., and S. Sugimoto, 2022: Severe cold winters in East Asia linked to first winter of La Niña events and in North America linked to second winter. Geophys. Res. Lett., 49, e2021GL095334. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095334
Presentations (with Peer-reviewed)
Gaku Nishihira, Shusaku Sugimoto, Bo Qiu, Niklas Schneider, Kelvin Richards: Change in the atmospheric forcing increases wintertime sea surface temperature in the subarctic region around Japan. Ocean Science Meeting 2026, CC24A-0852, Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow, UK, 2026/02/24, Poster.
Gaku Nishihira, Shusaku Sugimoto: Record-breaking marine heatwave over the central North Pacific in 2021 summer: its formation associated with loss of the Central Mode Water. Ocean Science Meeting 2024, AI43A-06, The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, USA, 2024/02/22, Oral.
Gaku Nishihira, Shusaku Sugimoto: Formation of an intense marine heatwave in the central North Pacific during 2021 summer by the atmospheric and oceanic conditions. The 28th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG2023), M31p-250, CityCube Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2023/07/12, Poster.
Presentations
Gaku Nishihira, Shusaku Sugimoto, Bo Qiu, Niklas Schneider, Kelvin Richards: Change in the atmospheric forcing increases wintertime sea surface temperature in the subpolar region around Japan. International Workshop “Mid-latitude Atmosphere-Ocean-Ecosystem Interactions: Processes, Predictability, and Habitability”, Shiiki-Hall, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, 2025/07/16, Oral.
Gaku Nishihira, Shusaku Sugimoto: Change in the atmospheric forcing increases wintertime sea surface temperature in the subpolar region around Japan. Earth, Sea and Sky XI: International Joint Graduate Program Workshop in Earth and Environmental Sciences, P-11, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 2025/06/02, Poster.
Gaku Nishihira, Shusaku Sugimoto: Change in the atmospheric forcing increases wintertime sea surface temperature in the subpolar region around Japan. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2025, ACG36-P19, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 2025/05/26, Poster.
Gaku Nishihira, Shusaku Sugimoto: Ocean-driven record-breaking marine heatwave over the central North Pacific in 2021 summer. World Class University Program, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Sciences, Guest Lecture “Marine Heatwave”, Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia, 2025/03/12, Oral.
Gaku Nishihira, Yuma Kawakami, Shusaku Sugimoto, Bo Qiu, Niklas Schneider, Kelvin Richards: Increasing wintertime sea surface temperature around the subarctic front region in the western North Pacific. Earth, Sea and Sky Ⅸ: International Joint Graduate Program Workshop in Earth and Environmental Sciences, P-23, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 2024/06/03, Poster.
Gaku Nishihira, Yuma Kawakami, and Shusaku Sugimoto: Increasing wintertime sea surface temperature around the subarctic front region in the western North Pacific. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2024, ACG32-09, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 2024/05/26, Oral.
Gaku Nishihira, Shusaku Sugimoto: Record-breaking marine heatwave over the central North Pacific in 2021 summer: its formation associated with loss of the Central Mode Water. Workshop for Interaction of Ocean, Atmosphere, and Land by Remote Sensing and Numerical Model, 18PM-N03, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, 2023/12/18, Oral.
Gaku Nishihira, Shusaku Sugimoto: Formation of record-breaking marine heatwave over the central North Pacific in 2021 summer. International Symposium: Past, Present, and Future of the Marine Environment and Ecosystems, P8, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 2023/10/18, Poster.
Gaku Nishihira, Shusaku Sugimoto: Record-breaking marine heatwave over the central North Pacific in 2021 summer: its formation associated with loss of the Central Mode Water. Mid-latitude Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions: Their Processes and Predictability, P-46, Toyama International Conference Center, Toyama, Japan, 2023/06/17, Poster.
Gaku Nishihira, Shusaku Sugimoto: Record-breaking marine heatwave over the central North Pacific in 2021 summer: its formation associated with loss of the Central Mode Water. Earth, Sea and Sky Ⅷ: International Joint Graduate Program Workshop in Earth and Environmental Sciences, P-26, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 2023/05/31, Poster.
Gaku Nishihira, Shusaku Sugimoto: Formation of an intense marine heatwave in the central North Pacific during 2021 summer favored by the atmospheric and oceanic conditions. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2023, ACG30-04, Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, Japan, 2023/05/21, Oral (Highlight talk).
Gaku Nishihira, Shusaku Sugimoto: Unprecedented marine heatwave in the central North Pacific during summer/fall 2021. e-ASIA Joint Research Program Workshop, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 2022/11/09, Oral.
Gaku Nishihira, Shusaku Sugimoto: Severe cold winters in East Asia linked to first winter of La Niña events and in North America linked to second winter. Earth, Sea and Sky Ⅶ: International Joint Graduate Program Workshop in Earth and Environmental Sciences, P-21, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 2022/06/09, Poster.
西平 楽, 杉本 周作：Change in the atmospheric forcing increases wintertime sea surface temperature in the subpolar region around Japan. 学術変革領域研究「ハビタブル日本」 令和6年度領域全体会議, 新潟大学五十嵐キャンパス, 2025/03/07, ポスター発表.