Ko-ichi Nakamura is a research geologist working at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba, Japan. He has been working on hydrothermal vent fields on ridges and island arcs as well as cold-seep area including Cascadia Margin since 1985. He joined this cruise to fabricate redox electrodes on AUV Sentry and Towcam for sensing fluid emission.
Affiliation: AIST