Research Grants:

• Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists from Center for Chronological Research, Nagoya University to carry out “Pressure-temperature-time path of the far-eastern Nepal Himalaya”, 2010.

• Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists from Center for Chronological Research, Nagoya University to carry out “Himalayan metamorphic ages inferred from U-Pb zircon geochronology”, 2009.

• Grant-in-Aid from Fukada Geological Institute to carry out “Metamorphic P-T profile and P-T path discontinuity across the far-eastern Nepal Himalaya”, 2008

Professional Membership:

The Geological Society of America

The Geological Society of Japan

Publications:

Peer-reviewed articles:

(1) Ueda, H., Niida, K, Usuki, T., Hirauchi, K., Meschede, M., Miura, R., Ogawa, Y., Yuasa,　M., Sakamoto, I., Chiba, T., Ijimino, T., Kuramoto, Y., Azuma, T., Takeshita,　T., Imayama, T., Miyajima, Y., and Saito T., 2010. Seafloor geology of a serpentinite - eclogite complex in the Ohmachi Seamount (Izu-Bonin arc) as an exhumed subduction zone within the Philippine Sea. In: Ogawa, Y., Anma, R., Dilek, Y., Brian K., and Wortel, M.J.R., eds., Accretionary Prisms and Convergent Margin Tectonics in the Northwest Pacific Basin: Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, Published from Springer, v. 8., in revision.

(2) Imayama, T., Takeshita, T., and Arita, K., 2010. Metamorphic P-T profile and P-T path discontinuity across the far-eastern Nepal Himalaya: Investigation of channel flow models. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, v. 28, p. 527-549.

(3) Okamura, S., Yahata, M., Nishido, M., Ibusuki, A., Yokoi, S., Yonejima, M., Imayama, T., and Maeda, J., 2010. K-Ar ages and petrology of the Takinoue stage volcanic rocks in central Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, v. 116, p. 181-198.

(4) Imayama, T., and Arita, K., 2008. Nd isotopic data reveal the material and tectonic nature of the Main Central Thrust zone in Nepal Himalaya. Tectonophysics, v. 451, p. 265-281.

Other articles (report etc.):

(1) Imayama, T., 2010. Formation conditions of pelitic gneisses in far-eastern Nepal. Proceeding of the International symposium on Radiometric studies, Summaries of Researches using AMS at Nagoya University (XXI), p. 40-45.

(2) Imayama, T., 2009. Metamorphic P-T profile and P-T path discontinuity across the far-eastern Nepal Himalaya. The Report of the Fukada Geological Institute, no. 4, p. 33-53.

(3) Kuramoto, Y., Maeda J., Yamasaki, T., Yamamoto, H., Imayama, T., and Watanabe, T., 2004. Quantitative analyses of Rb, Sr, Sm and Nd for GSJ rock reference samples (JB-1a, JGb-1 and JG-1a) by isotope dilution method using thermal ionization mass spectrometer. Hokkaido University Earth Planetary Science Technical Report, 3: 1-12 (in Japanese with English abstract).

International Symposium:

(1) Imayama, T., Takeshita, T., Kitajima, K., Tsutsumi, Y., Arita, K., and Sano, Y. The P-T-t path of metapelites from far-eastern Nepal Himalaya. 2009 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (October, 2009, Portland, USA). Oral.

(2) Imayama, T., and Arita, K. What are material and tectonic characteristics of the Main Central Thrust zone in Himalaya? : New constraints from Nd geochemistry in Nepal. "Gondowana Research - Tectonics, Metamorphism, Mineralogy, and Fluid Activity", International Symposium of the Hokkaido University Museum (May, 2007, Sapporo, Japan). Oral.

(3) Imayama, T., and Arita, T. Sr-Nd isotopic study of the Main Central Thrust zone in the Nepal Himalaya. 20th Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop (April, 2005, Aussois, France). Poster.

(4) Paudel, L. P., Imayama, T., and Arita, K. Metamorphic history of the Lesser Himalaya in Central Nepal recorded by metabasic rocks: new constraints from amphibole chemistry and thermobarometry. 20th Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop (April, 2005, Aussois, France). Poster.

(5) Imayama, T., and Arita, K. Isotope study of the Himalayan metamorphic rocks in far-eastern Nepal. 19th Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop (July, 2004, Niseko, Japan). Poster.