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Shomei Kobayashi

Drilling Engineer, Former Operations Manager, Deputy Director General of CDEX, JAMSTEC (Japan)

Micropaleontologist, Vice-Director of the Marine Core Research Institute (Kochi University, Japan)

Program administration, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research (Japan)

Director of the JOIDES Resolution Science Operator, Texas A&M (USA)

Earthquake physicist, Distinguished Professor, University of California Santa Cruz (USA)

Program Director for scientific ocean drilling at NSF (USA)

Geomicrobiologist, Senior Scientist at Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research (Japan)

IODP Core Curator and Technical Support Group Leader. Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research (Japan)

Marine geoscientist, Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University (India)

Marine geoscientist, Director of the Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas (USA)