Division of Environmental Resources
This division consists of 5 chairs: Ecology and systematics, Regional environment, Science of forest resources, Integrated forest-landscape management, and Bio-production engineering. Each chair has several education and research fields. The major educational themes of the chairs are as follows:
- Elucidating biodiversity of bio-resources and its utilization and management;
- Monitoring of regional environmental resources including microclimate, soil processes, and hydrology and their management and control;
- Elucidating physiology and ecology of forest bio-resources and their sustainable use and management;
- Development of technology and policy for management, conservation, restoration, and multiple-use of forests and landscape, and mitigation of natural disaster linking with earth surface processes;and
- Construction of environmental friendly system of bio-production and material cycling.
To foster successors contributing to sustainable development is aimed at through these educations and researches.
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Division of Environmental Resources is comprised of following 5 chairs.
Chairs
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Chair of Ecology and Systematics
The purpose of the education and research in our chair is to understand biodiversity through researches in ecology, systematics, evolutionary biology, population genetics, ethology and biogeography. This chair also covers education and research in conservation biology in natural and artificial environments.Faculties in Charge
- ARAKI HitoshiProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Agrobiology and Bioresources | Laboratory of Animal Ecology)
- OHARA MasahiroProfessor (Outside organization | Hokkaido University Museum)
- FUJITA HirokoProfessor (Outside organization | Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere)
- HASEGAWA EisukeAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Agrobiology and Bioresources | Laboratory of Animal Ecology)
- YOSHIZAWA KazunoriAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Agrobiology and Bioresources | Laboratory of Systematic Entomology)
- NAKAMURA KohAssociate Professor (Outside organization | Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere)
- SAKATA MasayukiAssistant Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Agrobiology and Bioresources | Laboratory of Animal Ecology)
- AZUMA TakayukiAssistant Professor (Outside organization | Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere)
- KATO MasaruAssistant Professor (Outside organization | Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere)
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Chair of Regional Environment
Education and research fields of this chair are environment of land and water resources, agricultural and environmental physics, soil conservation, soil science, and eco-informatics. Each education and research fields focuses its activities on sustainable development of regional societies with maintaining good quality of environment through conducting following 5 major themes:
1) Conservation and management of land and water in rural areas,
2) Monitoring of local and micro meteorology, estimation and utilization of agroclimatic resources,
3) Monitoring and understanding of water, gas and solute in soils for production and environmental conservation,
4) Monitoring of materials flow and cycling associated with agricultural activities and food consumption, and
5) Field-sensing and assessment of environment and ecosystems.Faculties in Charge
- INOUE TakashiProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering | Laboratory of Land and Water Management)
- HIRANO TakashiProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering | Laboratory of Ecological and Environmental Physics)
- YAMAMOTO TadaoAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering | Laboratory of Land and Water Management)
- NAKAHARA OsamuAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioscience and Chemistry | Laboratory of Soil Science)
- KURAMOCHI KantaLecturer (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioscience and Chemistry | Laboratory of Soil Science)
- OKADA KeijiLecturer (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering | Laboratory of Ecological and Environmental Physics)
- YAMADA HiroyukiLecturer (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering | Laboratory of Ecological and Environmental Physics)
- KASHIWAGI Jun-ichiLecturer (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering | Laboratory of Soil Conservation)
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Chair of Science of Forest Resources
Our current research activities are; adaptation to environmental factors and stress physiology of boreal forest, the natural regeneration and silvicultural characteristics of important trees in mixed forests, biosynthesis and biodegradation of wood components, Utilization of wood components by chemical conversion, biological characteristics of forest plants, genetic control of fungi breeding, phylogenetic systematics of woody plants and fungi, formation, ultrastructure and function of woody plants, adaptational mechanisms of woody plant cells to low temperature and freezing, woody quality and identification, mechanical properties of wood and wood-based materials, mechanical performance of wooden structures, jointing of lumber.Faculties in Charge
- TAMAI YutakaProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Forest Bioresource Technology)
- SANO YuzouProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Woody Plant Biology)
- URAKI YasumitsuProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Wood Chemistry)
- SHIBUYA MasatoSpecially Appointed Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Silviculture and Forest Ecology)
- SAWATA KeiAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Timber Engineering)
- SAITO HideyukiLecturer (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Silviculture and Forest Ecology)
- MIYAMOTO ToshizumiLecturer (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Silviculture and Forest Ecology)
- KODA KeiichiAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Forest Bioresource Technology)
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Chair of Integrated Forest-Landscape Management
Our final goal is to elucidate the forestlandscape functions as major environmental resources of terrestrial biosphere with integration of natural and social scientific base. The proficiency in restoration of human and natural disturbances, multi-purpose management and landscape planning, biological conservation and watershed management, natural disaster and restoring desertification, as well as forest policy and environmental economics is educated.Faculties in Charge
- NAKAMURA FutoshiProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Ecosystem Management)
- YAMADA TakashiProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Land Management)
- SHOJI YasushiProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Forest Policy)
- AIKOH TetsuyaAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Agrobiology and Bioresources | Laboratory of Ornamental Plants and Landscape Architecture)
- MORIMOTO JunkoAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Ecosystem Management)
- KASAI MioAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Land Management)
- MATSUSHIMA HajimeLecturer (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Agrobiology and Bioresources | Laboratory of Ornamental Plants and Landscape Architecture)
- KATSURA Shin'yaAssistant Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Land Management)
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Chair of Bioproduction Engineering
The Bioproduction Engineering deals with very wide range of technological topics to establish sustainable production and utilization systems of food and bioresource. For this purpose, intensive research and educational activities are promoted on technologies for food production, processing of agricultural and food products, and utilization of organic wastes. The curriculums provide the students with specific information on the phenomena analyses and developments of novel technologies for important issues of environment, energy, human labor, food safety, sustainable food supply, and material cycling systems.Faculties in Charge
- NOGUCHI NoboruProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering | Laboratory of Vehicle Robotics)
- IWABUCHI KazunoriProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering | Laboratory of Agricultural Bio-System Engineering)
- OKAMOTO HiroshiAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering | Laboratory of Vehicle Robotics)
- SIMIZU NaotoAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering | Laboratory of Agricultural Bio-System Engineering)
- ISHII KazunobuAssociate Professor (Division of Research Innovation and Cooperation | Cooperative Research Group | Laboratory of Applied Bioproduction Engineering)
- Itoh TakanoriAssistant Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering | Laboratory of Agricultural Bio-System Engineering)