Marc Humblet, M.Sc., D.Sc.
Designated Associate Professor (G30 International Programs)
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Graduate School of Environmental Studies
Nagoya University
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Doctor degree in Earth Science, Tohoku University (Japan), 2004-2007
Master degree in Oceanology, Liege University (Belgium), 2000-2002
Bachelor degree in Earth Science, Liege University (Belgium), 1996-2000
GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2017-2019
Project: Study of reef biota and sediment distribution in the South Ryukyus and application to paleoenvironmental interpretation of Quaternary fossil reef deposits
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists, 2016-2017
Project: AUV exploration of the mesophotic reef zone in the South Ryukyu Islands
Hadal environmental science education program (HADEEP) fellowship, 2010-2011
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship for foreign researchers, 2008-2010
Japanese Government (MEXT) scholarship for foreign students, 2004-2007
Marine Science Student Mobility Program Grant, 2001-2002
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & INTERNSHIPS
G30 Designated Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences of Nagoya, since 2011
Research assistant in the Institute of Geology and Paleontology of Tohoku University (Prof. Y. Iryu), 2006, 2007 and 2008
Teaching assistant in the department of carbonate petrology of Liege University (Prof. F. Boulvain), 2002-2004
Internship in the laboratory of geochemistry and geochronology (GEOTOP) of the University of Quebec in Montreal (Canada), 2002
SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS & RESEARCH ABROAD
Seychelles LIG expedition (Exp. leader: Dr. Gilbert Camoin, CEREGE), Jan-Feb. 2019
Project: Quest for past analogues of current and future sea-level and climate changes: coral reef records from the last interglacial (LIG) of the Seychelles
Goethe University Frankfurt (Prof. Eberhard Gischler), Sept. 2017
Project: Late Quaternary evolution of the coral reef ecosystem at Bora Bora, Society Islands, French Polynesia
The University of Sydney (Assoc. Prof. Jody Webster), Sept. 2016
Project: Quaternary history of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia
Goethe University Frankfurt (Prof. Eberhard Gischler), March 2015
Project: Late Quaternary evolution of the coral reef ecosystem at Bora Bora, Society Islands, French Polynesia
The University of Sydney (Assoc. Prof. Jody Webster), Sept. 2013
Project: Quaternary history of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia
IODP EXPEDITION 325: Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes (GBREC). Onshore Science Party, Bremen, July 2010
R/V TANSEI-MARU (Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Tokyo University), cruise KT-09-16: Dredging off Kikai-jima, Aug. 2009
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
BOOK CHAPTERS
SINNIGER, F., HARII, S., HUMBLET, M., NAKAMURA, Y., OHBA, H., and PRASETIA, R., 2019. Ryukyu islands, Japan. In: Loya, Y., Puglise, K.A., and Bridge, T.C.L. (Eds.), Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems. Series: Coral Reefs of the World, Springer, vol. 12, 231-247.
ARTICLES (peer reviewed)
SANBORN, K.L., WEBSTER, J.M., WEBB, G.E., BRAGA, J.C., HUMBLET, M., NOTHDURFT, L., PATTERSON, M.A., DECHNIK, B., WARNER, S., GRAHAM, T., MURPHY, R.J., YOKOYAMA, Y., OBROCHTA, S.P., AND ZHAO, J. A., 2020. new model of Holocene reef initiation and growth in response to sea-level rise on the Southern Great Barrier Reef. Sedimentary Geology 397, 105556.
HUMBLET, M., POTTS, D.C., WEBSTER, J.M., BRAGA, J.C., IRYU, Y., YOKOYAMA, Y., BOURILLOT, R., SEARD, C, DROXLER, A., FUJITA, K., GISCHLER, E., and KAN, H., 2019. Late glacial to deglacial variation of coralgal assemblages in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Global and Planetary Change 174, 70-91.
BASSI, D., IRYU, Y., HUMBLET, M., MATSUDA, H., MACHIYAMA, H., SASAKI, K., MATSUDA, S., ARAI, K., and INOUE, T. 2019. Deep-water macroid beds of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan: encrusting acervulinids as ecosystem engineers. Journal of Coastal research 35, 463-466.
MAKI, T., NOGUCHI, Y., KURANAGA, Y., MATSUDA, K., SAKAMAKI, T., HUMBLET, M., and FURUSHIMA, Y., 2018. Low-altitude and high-speed terrain tracking method for lightweight AUVs. Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics 30, 971-979.
YOKOYAMA, Y., ESAT, T.M., THOMPSON, W.G., THOMAS, A.L., WEBSTER, J.M., MIYAIRI, Y., SAWADA, C., AZE, T., MATSUZAKI, H., OKUNO, J., FALLON, S., BRAGA, J.C., HUMBLET, M., IRYU, Y., POTTS, D.C., FUJITA, K., SUZUKI, A., and KAN, H., 2018. Rapid glaciation and a two-step sea-level plunge into The Last Glacial Maximum. Nature 559, 603-607.
WEBSTER, J.M., BRAGA, J.C., HUMBLET, M., POTTS, D.C., IRYU, Y., YOKOYAMA, Y., FUJITA, K., BOURILLOT, R., ESAT, T.M., FALLON, S., THOMPSON, W.G., THOMAS, A.L., KAN, H., MCGREGOR, H.V., HINESTROSA, G., OBROCHTA, S.P., and LOUGHEED, B.C., 2018. Response of the Great Barrier Reef to sea level and environmental changes over the past 30 ka. Nature Geoscience 11, 426-432.
FUJITA, K., ARUGA, K., HUMBLET, M., AND NAGAI, K., 2018. Depositional environments of well-sorted detrital limestone from the Minatogawa Fromation in the southern part of Okinawa Island, the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Island Arc e12247. DOI: 10.1111/iar.12247.
GISCHLER, E., HUMBLET, M., BRAGA, J.C., and EISENHAUER, A., 2018. Last interglacial reef facies and late Quaternary subsidence in the Maldives, Indian Ocean. Marine Geology 406, 34-41.
GISCHLER, E., HUDSON, J.H., HUMBLET, M., BRAGA, J.C., SCHMITT, D., ISAACK, A., EISENHAUER, A., and CAMOIN, G., 2018. Holocene and Pleistocene fringing reef growth and the role of accommodation space and exposure to waves and currents (Bora Bora, Society Islands, French Polynesia). Sedimentology. DOI: 10.1111/sed.12533.
HUMBLET, M. and WEBSTER, J.M., 2017. Coral community changes in the Great Barrier Reef in response to major environmental changes over glacial-interglacial timescales. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 472, 216-235.
GISCHLER, E., HUDSON, H., HUMBLET, M., BRAGA, J-C., EISENHAUER, A., ANJA, I., ANSELMETTI, F., and CAMOIN, G., 2016. Late Quaternary barrier and fringing reef development of Bora Bora (Society Islands, south Pacific): first subsurface data from Darwin's type barrier-reef system. Sedimentology 63, 1522-1549.
HUMBLET, M., HONGO, C., and SUGIHARA, K., 2015. An identification guide to some major Quaternary fossil reef-building coral genera (Acropora, Isopora, Montipora, and Porites). Island Arc 24, 16-30.
HUMBLET, M. and IRYU, Y., 2014. Pleistocene coral assemblages on Irabu-jima, South Ryukyus, Japan. Paleontological Research 18, 224-244.
ARAI, K., MACHIYAMA, H., CHIYONOBU, S., MATSUDA, H., SASAKI, K., HUMBLET, M., and IRYU, Y., 2014. Subsidence of the Miyako-Sone submarine carbonate platform, east of Miyako-jima Island, northwestern Pacific Ocean. Island Arc 23, 1-15.
DA SILVA, AC., DE VLEESCHOUWER, D., BOULVAIN, F., CLAEYS, P., FAGEL, N., HUMBLET, M., MABILLE, C., MICHEL, J., SARDAR ABADI, M., PAS, D., and DEKKERS, M.J., 2013. Magnetic susceptibility as a high-resolution correlation tool and as a climatic proxy in Paleozoic rocks-merits and pitfalls: examples from the Devonian in Belgium. Marine and Petroleum Geology 46, 173-189.
BASSI, D., IRYU, Y., HUMBLET, M., MATSUDA, H., MACHIYAMA, H., SASAKI, K., MATSUDA, S., ARAI, K., and INOUE, T., 2012. Recent macroids on the Kikai-jima shelf, Central Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Sedimentology 59, 2024-2041.
SAGAE, K., HUMBLET, M., ODAWARA, K., CHIYONOBU, S., SATO, T., KABAMOTO, J., TAKAYANAGI, H., and IRYU, Y., 2012. Stratigraphy of the Ryukyu Group and the Chinen Formation in southern Okinawa-jima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 118, 117-136.
BASSI, D., HUMBLET, M., and IRYU, Y., 2011. Recent ichnocoenoesis in deep water macroids, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Palaios 26, 232-238.
HUMBLET, M., IRYU, Y., and NAKAMORI, T., 2009. Variations in Pleistocene coral assemblages in space and time in southern and northern Central Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Marine Geology 259, 1-20.
DA SILVA, A-C, POTMA, K., WEISSENBERGER, J., WHALEN, M., HUMBLET, M., MABILLE, C., and BOULAIN, F., 2009. Magnetic susceptibility evolution and sedimentary environments on carbonate platform sediments and atolls, comparison of the Frasnian from Belgium and from Alberta, Canada. Sedimentary Geology 214, 3-18.
BOULVAIN, F., CORNET, P., DA SILVA, A-C., DELAITE, G., DEMANY, B., HUMBLET, M., RENARD, M., and COEN-AUBERT M., 2004. Reconstructing atoll-like mounds from the Frasnian of Belgium. Facies 50, 313-326.
FAGEL, N., HILLAIRE-MARCEL, C., HUMBLET M., BRASSEUR, R., WEIS, D., and STEVENSON, R., 2004. Nd and Pb isotope signatures of the clay-fraction of Labrador Sea sediments during the Holocene: implications for the inception of the modern deep circulation pattern. Paleoceanography 19, PA3002.
HUMBLET, M. and BOULVAIN, F., 2001. Sedimentology of the Bieumont Member: influence of the Lion Member carbonate mounds (Frasnian, Belgium) on their sedimentary environment. Geologica Belgica 3, 97-118.
MEETING PROCEEDINGS
MAKI, T., KURANAGA, Y., NOGUCHI, Y., SAKAMAKI, T., MASUDA, K., HUMBLET, M., AND FURUSHIMA, Y., 2017. AUV HATTORI: a lightweight platform for high-speed low-altitude survey of rough terrains. OCEANS 2017 MTS/IEEE Anchorage, Conference Proceedings.
HUMBLET, M., FURUSHIMA. Y., IRYU, Y., and TOKUYAMA, H. Deep zooxanthellate corals in the Ryukyu Islands: insight from modern and fossil reefs, 2010. In: Proceedings of the 27th IAS meeting of Sedimentologists (September 20-23, 2009, Alghero, Italy), Ed. Medimond, Bologna, 129-133.
EXCURSION GUIDE BOOK
IRYU, Y., YAMAMOTO, K., and HUMBLET, M., 2006. Quaternary reef development in Okinawa-jima, Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan. In: Ito, M., Yagishita, K., Ikehara, K., Matsuda, H. (eds.), Field Excursion Guidebook, 17th International Sedimentological Congress, Fukuoka, Japan, Sed. Soc. Japan, FE-B12, 1-24.
EXPEDITION REPORTS
WEBSTER, J.M., YOKOYAMA, Y., COTTERILL, C., and THE EXPEDITION 325 SCIENTISTS, 2011. Proceedings of the IODP, 325, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc, Tokyo.
[Online] Available from: http://publications.iodp.org/proceedings/325/325title.htm
IODP EXPEDITION 325 SCIENTISTS, 2010. Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes. The Last Deglacial Sea Level Rise in the South Pacific: Offshore Drilling Northeast Australia. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Expedition 325 Preliminary Report. DOI:10.2204/iodp.pr.325.2010.
[Online] Available from: http://publications.iodp.org/preliminary_report/325/
SELECTED PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS
TOMATSU, H., HUMBLET, M. and FUJITA, K., 2019. Coral-based paleoenvironmental interpretation and depositional history of the late middle Pleistocene Minatogawa Formation, southern Okinawa-jima, Japan. Japanese Geoscience Annual Meeting, 26-30 May, Makuhari Messe. (Poster Presentation)
HUMBLET, M., MAKI, T., FURUSHIMA, Y., NOGUCHI, Y., HORIMOTO, H., YATAGAI, H., SAKAMAKI, T., ITO, S. and SUSUKI, S., 2019. Study of macrobenthic community structure at mesophotic depths in the South Ryukyus based on ROV and AUV seafloor imaging. Japanese Geoscience Annual Meeting, 26-30 May, Makuhari Messe. (Poster Presentation)
HUMBLET, M. and FUJITA, K., 2018. Fossil coral assemblages of the late middle Pleistocene Minatogawa Formation, southern Okinawa-jima, Japan. Japanese Geoscience Annual Meeting, 22-26 May, Makuhari Messe. (Poster Presentation)
HUMBLET, M. and FUJITA, K., 2017. A remarkable fossil Heliopora coerulea community from the Pleistocene Minatogawa Formation, southern Okinawa-jima, Japan. 20th Annual Conference of the Japanese Coral Reef Society, 23-26 November, Tokyo institute of Technology, Tokyo. (Oral presentation)
HUMBLET, M., MAKI, T., FURUSHIMA, Y., NOGUCHI, Y., KURANAGA, K., SAKAMAKI, T., ITO, S., and SATOSHI, Y., 2017. ROV and AUV exploration of the mesophotic reef zone around the Sekisei Lagoon, South Ryukyus, Japan. 20th Annual Conference of the Japanese Coral Reef Society, 23-26 November, Tokyo institute of Technology, Tokyo. (Poster presentation)
HUMBLET, M. and WEBSTER, J.M., 2016. Coral successions in the Great Barrier Reef during glacial-interglacial cycles. 13th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), 19-24 June, Honolulu, Hawaii. (Oral Presentation)
HUMBLET, M. and WEBSTER, J.M., 2016. Glacial-interglacial biotic changes on the Great Barrier Reef from onshore and offshore boreholes. Japanese Geoscience Annual Meeting, 22-26 May, Makuhari Messe. (Poster Presentation)
HUMBLET, M. and WEBSTER, J.M., 2015. Variations in coral assemblages and Late Quaternary environmental changes in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia: data from onshore and offshore drilling. 19th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), 26 July-2 Aug., Nagoya. (Oral Presentation)
HUMBLET, M., WEBSTER, J.M., BRAGA, J.C., IRYU, Y., POTTS, D.C., YOKOYAMA, Y., ESAT, T., FALLON, S., THOMPSON, W.G., and THOMAS, A.L., 2015. Last glacial to deglacial biotic changes on the Great Barrier Reef from offshore boreholes. Japanese Geoscience Annual Meeting, 24-28 May, Makuhari Messe. (Poster Presentation)
HUMBLET, M., FURUSHIMA, Y., MAKI, T., and IRYU, Y., 2014. Geological significance of the mesophotic reef zone: example from the Sekisei Barrier Reef. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, 13-15 Sept., Kagoshima. (Poster Presentation)
HUMBLET, M. and WEBSTER, J.M., 2014. Response of reef corals to Late Quaternary climate changes in the Great Barrier Reef: the Ribbon Reef 5 and Boulder Reef deep drill cores revisited. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, 13-15 Sept., Kagoshima. (Oral Presentation)
HUMBLET, M., POTTS, D.C., WEBSTER J.W., YOKOYAMA, Y., and IODP EXPEDITION 325 SCIENTISTS, 2013. Changes in coral assemblages in the Great Barrier Reef since the last glaciation. Japanese Geoscience Annual Meeting, 19-24 May, Makuhari Messe. (Oral Presentation)
HUMBLET, M. and IRYU, Y., 2012. Geological significance of mesophotic coral reef ecosystems. Mesophotic reef studies in Japan (Workshop organized by F. Sinniger, S. Harii and M. Humblet). 15th Annual Conference of the Japanese Coral Reef Society, 22-25 November, University of Tokyo Hongo campus, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. (Oral presentation)
HUMBLET, M., MATSUDA, H., SASAKI, K., MACHIYAMA, H., and IRYU Y., 2012. Mesophotic Montipora from Kikai-jima. 15th Annual Conference of the Japanese Coral Reef Society, 22-25 November, University of Tokyo Hongo campus, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. (Oral presentation)
HUMBLET, M., POTTS, D.C., WEBSTER J.W., and IODP EXPEDITION 325 SCIENTISTS, 2012. Changing coral assemblages since the Last Glacial Maximum: IODP Expedition 325. 12th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), 9-13 July, Cairns, Queensland, Australia (Oral Presentation)
HUMBLET, M., POTTS, D.C., WEBSTER J.W., YOKOYAMA, Y., and IODP EXPEDITION 325 SCIENTISTS, 2012. Response of reef-building corals to post-glacial sea level rise: IODP Expedition 325. Japanese Geoscience Union Annual Meeting, 20-25 May, Makuhari Messe. (Poster Presentation)
Marc Humblet, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Nagoya University