Members

• Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

	Fusheng Li 　Professor / Program Leader
	Water quality environmental engineering　｜　Water quality assessment, Water quality control, Water treatment, Aquatic microorganisms, Aquatic ecosystem 　Physicochemical and biological water treatment 　Behavior of contaminants in river and lake water systems 　Assessment of aquatic microbial community and microbe-based water environment assessment

Seirou Shinoda 　Professor

Hydrology, Water Environmental Engineering　｜　watershed environment, hydrological information, forest environment, human activities, material balance, community system 　Strategy to make the forest ecosystem be a sustainable activity source at a community 　Evaluating the validity of the forest management influencing on the watershed environment 　Evaluation of the influence of human activities on a watershed environment

	Nobuoto Nojija 　Professor
	Earthquake Engineering　｜　Urban Disaster Prevention 　Assessment of damage and restoration of lifelines 　Assessment of seismic hazard and risk management 　Prevention and mitigation of urban earthquake disaster

	Akiyoshi Takagi 　Professor
	Infrastructure planning　｜　disaster risk management, environmental planning, disaster mitigation planning, regional and urban planning, cost benefit analysis 　Implementing integrated disaster risk management (IDRiM) in a changing world 　Integrated evaluation model of basin water environment and social economy 　Regional development and vitalization through Mingling and Cooperation

	Ichiro Tamagawa 　Professor
	Meteorology, Hydrometeorology　｜　turbulent transport, land surface process, heat and water budget, observation, numerical model 　transport process of momentum, heat, water, carbon dioxide over complex topography 　heat, water and carbon dioxide exchange over forest 　heat environment in urban area

	Morihiro Harada 　Associate Professor
Civil engineering, Hydraulic engineering, River Engineering, River Hydraulics　｜　River Restoration Program, Sedimentation and River Engineering 　River restoration works considering both of disaster prevention, environment conservation and dynamics of sedimentation

	Toshiharu Kojima 　Associate Professor
hydrology　｜　forest environment, runoff simulation, remote sensing 　investigation of rainfall-runoff system, and its modeling 　land cover classification with remote sensing

	Toshiro　Yamada 　Associate Professor
	water environment protection engineering， 　Dynamics of organic matters and microbial environment in rivers in a high-mountain area 　Effect of Johkasou effluent of Johkasou on local water environment 　Effect of climate change on the water supply system and its adaptation

	Kayako Hirooka 　Associate Professor

	Fumitaka Kurauchi 　Professor
Transport planning, control and management　｜　Public transport, transport planning, transport management, transport in an emergency situation, project evaluation 　Public transport planning for sustainable society 　Road transport planning based on risk evaluation 　Project evaluation of disaster prevention measures

	Yoshifumi Demura 　Associate Professor
Planning of Landscape Neighborhood, History of Town Formed　｜　Town, Landscape, Modern History, Human Environment, Neighborhood Regeneration 　History of Formed Town in Modern Minor Cities 　Visual Spatial Information in the Stations 　Footpath as a Spine of the Formed Landscape Neighborhood

	Kohji Kamiya 　Professor
	Geotechnical Engineering, Groundwater Engineering　｜　groundwater, water permeability, air permeability, unsaturated soil 　Management of groundwater resources at urban areas 　Behavior of pore air and water in unsaturated soils

	Yuki Kojima 　Assistant Professor
Environmental soil physics　｜　Heat and mass transfer in soil, Soil freezing and thawing, Soil sensor development, Soil contamination 　Development of soil property sensors using heat transfer 　Quantifying amount of soil contaminants and understanding their behavior

	Keisuke Ohashi 　Assistant Professor
	river engineering, sediment run-off　｜　sediment run-off, GIS, river channel measurement, image analysis 　sediment run-off in mountainous region 　geological analysis by GIS 　measurement technology of sediment by digital image analysis

• Department of Energy Engineering

	Tomonao Kobayashi 　Professor
	Hydraulics, Energy Assessment　｜　Coastal Engineering, Meteorology, Photovoltaic Assessment 　High accuracy forecasting of ocean waves in nearshore 　Evaluation of spectrum solar irradiance for assessment of photovoltaic 　Diffusive process analysis of contaminated materials in atmosphere

	Kazuhiro Kumabe 　Assistant Professor
	Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Energy Technology, Environmental Engineering　｜　Biomass, Wastes, Gasification, Gas Cleaning, Liquid Fuel, FT-Syn 　Development of production process of liquid fuel from biomass (Biomass to Liquid; BTL) 　Study on application development of biomass tar and recycled CFRP waste

	Shinji Kambara 　Professor
Chemical Engineering, Chemical Reaction　｜　NOx, SOx, Trace Element, Leaching 　Leaching mechanisms of trace elements in coal fly ashes 　Environmental chemistry of FGD waste water in a pulverized coal combustion plant 　Gas phase reaction mechanisms for DeNOx and DeSOx

	Jun Yoshino 　Associate Professor
	Meteorological Engineering　｜　Weather forecasting, Coastal environment, Typhoon, Rainfall, Natural energy 　Development of a real-time local weather forecasting system 　Development of a typhoon disaster hazard map under the global warming 　Development of a high-resolution renewable energy database

• Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science

	Masateru Senge 　Professor
Irrigation and Drainage　｜　hydrology, soil physics, water balance, runoff analysis, soil conservation 　Deficit irrigation of crop field 　Estimation of water requirement in green house 　Hydrological analysis of forest catchment

	Yoshio Awaya 　Professor
Plant remote sensing　｜　biomass, NPP, monitoring, forest management 　Biomass mapping using optical sensors, SAR and LiDAR 　Forest monitoring using remote sensing

	Toshiyuki Ohtsuka 　Professor
Ecosystem Ecology　｜　Forest ecosystem, carbon cycling, net ecosystem production, Net primary production, succession 　Carbon cycling in forest ecosystems 　Change of carbon cycling along secondary succession 　Dynamics of non-living carbon pools in forest ecosystems

	Koji Kageyama 　Professor
Fungal ecology　｜　Environmental assessment, Fungal ecology, Molecular ecology, Microbiology 　Environmental assessment using microorganism 　Analysis of microbe diversity 　Molecular integrated diagnosis of plant pathogen

	Koji Tsuchida 　Professor
Insect Ecology　｜　Genetic variation, Gene flow, Population structure, Population genetics, Ecology 　Genetic study for colony structures of social insects 　Genetic study for sub-population structure of insect populations 　Genetic study for alien species

	Isao Hirota 　Assistant Professor
Agricultural Ecology　｜　Agriculture in mountainous area, Swidden agriculture, Livelihood compound, Southeast Asia, Forest resource 　Swidden agriculture and its transition in Southeast Asia Ecology, diversity and sustainable management of natural resource in Southeast Asia

	Yuzuru Mukai 　Professor

	Hiroyuki Muraoka 　Professor
Plant Ecology, Ecosystem Physiology　｜　photosynthesis, plant growth, plant architecture, carbon cyle, forest 　Light environment and growth response in terrestrial plants 　Ecophysiological study on forest carbon cycling

	Taku M.Saitoh 　Assistant Professor
Meteorology, Ecosystem Physiology　｜　 　Effects of canopy phenology on deciduous overstory and evergreen understory carbon budgets in a cool-temperate forest ecosystem under ongoing climate change

	Shin-ichi Nishimura 　Professor
Soil Mechanics　｜　hydraulic fracturing, fill dam, FEM, energy release rate, crack 　Occurrence of Extensile Cracks in Cohesive Soils due to Compression 　Evaluating Crack Propagation in a Cohesive Soil using J integral 　Estimation of Hydraulic Fracturing in the Earth Fill Dam by 3-D Analysis

	Ken Hiramatsu 　Professor
	Water Resources and Environmental Engineering　｜　Water Resources, Irrigation, Environmental Hydraulics, Water Quality, Aquatic Ecology 　Water environment of irrigation channels and human activities 　Aquatic ecology and hydraulic environment in rural areas 　Influence of long-term change of water environment on agriculture

	Naomasa Nishimura 　Associate Professor
Soil Physics and Environmental Engineering　｜　Soil physics, Soil water movement, Soil contamination, Sewage purification, Water quality 　Simplified measurement of water retention and permeability of soil 　Soil contamination, ground water pollution, and these mechanisms 　Improvement of water environment in farmland and rural regions

	Nobumitsu Kawakubo 　Professor
Plant Taxonomy, Evolutional Biology, Conservation Ecology　｜　Morphological Variation, Plant-Animal Interaction, Pollination, Flowering, Sexual Reproduction 　Analysis of the floral signal function as pollinator attractants 　Establishment of the movie-recording method for flower behaviors 　Studies on the education system for conservation ecology

	Takeo Onishi 　Associate Professor
	Hydrology　｜　Hydrological modeling, catchment, fish breeding forest, global environmental problem 　Hydrological modeling of production and transport of dissolved iron in the Amur River basin 　Biogeochemical cycle of terraced paddy fields 　Wise use of natural resources in the Kiso River system and the Ise bay

	Takashi Tanaka 　Associate Professor
	Agronomy　｜　 　Precision agriculture in rice, wheat, and soybean production 　Sustainable agronomic practices for forage rice and corn silage production system 　Statistical modeling for agronomy data

	Satoshi Tsuda 　Associate Professor
Plant Ecology　｜　Vegetation, Fire, Succession 　Post-fire vegetation and succession in Japan 　The role of burning in Japanese semi-natural gressland

	Kengo Ito 　Associate Professor

• Rearing Program for Basin Water Environmental Leaders

	Wei Yongfen 　Associate Professor
	Environmental science　｜　Water environment, Quantitative assessment, Remote sensing, Land cover classification 　Quantitative assessment on water environment using remote sensing 　Catchment-based correlation analysis between water environment change and land use