Research theme for competitive and other funds (3):
2025 - 2026 Topographical and geological characteristics of the Arase-gawa River in the Shonai region, Yamagata Prefecture-Case study of the flood and sediment disaster caused by the heavy rain of July 2024-
2020 - 2021 Identification of paleotsunami deposits in the Plio-Pleistocene Nakatsu Group in Kanagawa Prefecture, central Japan.
Papers (9):
NAGASAWA Kazuo, SETO Hiroki, TAKAHASHI Shizuo. Lithofacies of the Hashigami Member of Hongo Formation aroudn the excavation site of the fossil sirenian, Dusisiren dewana, and depositional process of the individual. Bulletin of the Yamagata Prefectural Museum. 2025. 43. 23-30
NAGASAWA Kazuo, SETO HIroki, KAIHOKO Zinko. Fossil tooth and vertebrae of giant sharks, Otodus megalodon, from the Furukuchi Formation in Hanesawa, Sakegawa Village, Ymagata, northeastern Japan. Bulletin of the Yamagata Prefectural Museum. 2025. 43. 13-22
SETO Hiroki. Museum exhibition and education of geoscience through the fossil, rock, and mineral specimens -A case study of the 2024 prime exhibition "Great Natural History of Tohoku" in Yamagata Prefectural Museum. Bulletin of the Yamagata Prefectural Museum. 2025. 43. 1-12
Seto HIroki, Nagasawa Kazuo. Lucinoma-dominated chemosynthetic fossil community associated with Mamurogawa whale bone fossils in the Noguchi Formation (Upper Miocene) of Mamurogawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Journal of Fossil Research. 2024. 57. 1/2. 26-36
Stratigraphy and paleontology of the stratigraphic horizon of the Réunion and Olduvai normal-polarity subchrons in the northeastern part of the Miura Peninsula, Pacific side of central Japan. Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi). 2023. 132. 1. N18
Hiroki Seto, Ryuichi Majima. Characteristic species and significance of Shiobara fauna from the lower Nakatsu Group (upper Pliocene), in Kanagawa Prefecture, central Japan. 2020
Books (1):
令和6年度プライム企画展「東北の自然史大図鑑ーThe Great Natural History of Tohokuー」図録
山形県立博物館 2024
Lectures and oral presentations (14):
Characteristic of Mizuhopecten and Chlamys from the Late Miocene Hongo Formation exposed in Sagae City, Yamagata Prefecture, Northeastern Japan
(The 2025 Annual Meeting The Palaeontological Society of Japan 2025)
Identifications of other individuals of the Yamagata Sea Cow and its significance
(The 2025 Annual Meeting The Palaeontological Society of Japan 2025)
1Research and development of the fossil identification system using deep learning and programming -Case study of the late Miocene Hongo Formation in Sagae City, Yamagata Prefecture, Northeastern Japan -
(The 2025 Annual Meeting The Palaeontological Society of Japan 2025)
Characteristic species of the Omma-Manganji fauna from the Shinazawa Formation (Upper Pliocene to Lower Pleistocene) in the Shonai region, Yamagata Prefecture, Northeast Japan
(The 131st Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan 2024)
Prime exhibitions Natural history encyclopedia in Tohoku
SETO Hiroki 2024 - 2024
Education (2):
2013 - 2019 Yokohama National University Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences Department of Environment and Natural Sciences
2009 - 2013 Tokyo Gakugei University Faculty of Education
Professional career (1):
Ph.D. (Environmental Studies (Yokohama National University)
Work history (4):
2023/04 - 現在 Yamagata Prefectural Museum Curator
2020/04 - 2024/03 Yokohama University of Pharmacy
2021/04 - 2023/03 Oyo Corporation
2019/04 - 2021/03 Kaichi International University
Committee career (1):
2020/03 - 現在 The Geological Society of Japan Representative
Association Membership(s) (6):
山形応用地質研究会
, 化石研究会
, Japan Society of Engineering Geology
, Japan Society of Earth Science Education
, The Geological Society of Japan
, Palaeontological Society of Japan