Affiliation: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)

Email: nagano@jamstec.go.jp

Dr. Akira Nagano, the Physical oceanographer, has been dedicated to the Kuroshio study from the Origin region to the Extension region for many years since his time at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and has published about 38 papers on the Kuroshio and related topics. After he joined the tropical climate research group in JAMSTEC, he started planning the Philippine buoy project by using the m-TRITON buoy system and then the observation of the Philippine buoy at the 13N137E site in December 2016. He is also actively involved in activities of the 2nd Cooperative Study of Kuroshio and its Adjacent region (CSK-2) of IOC/WESTPAC.