Members |
Fusheng Li Professor / Program Leader |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Fumitaka Kurauchi Professor |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Tomonao Kobayashi Professor |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Masateru Senge Professor |
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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 |
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Plant remote sensing | biomass, NPP, monitoring, forest management Biomass mapping using optical sensors, SAR and LiDAR Forest monitoring using remote sensing |
Toshiyuki Ohtsuka Professor |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Hiroyuki Muraoka Professor |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Wei Yongfen Associate Professor |
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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 |
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