Frontiers in Environmental Sciences
This course aims to clarify the characteristics, management, conservation and multiple utilization of local agriculture and forest resources, environmental harmony, ecosystem restoration and disaster prevention/mitigation. For example, it covers the management, restoration and utilization of farmland, forests and natural ecosystems, the assessment and conservation of biodiversity, and integrated science in which the sustainable use of their surroundings is promoted. The evaluation of biomass from environmental DNA and research on complex large-scale disasters are involved in frontier science for environmental conservation.
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Frontiers in Production Sciences is comprised of following 4 units.
Units
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Unit of Ecology and Systematics
The diversity of animals and plants in the natural environment and on farmland is explained from the perspectives of ecology, ethology, taxonomy, phylogeny and genetics, and interactions between species and the life histories and the evolution process in the life history, action and morphological characters of living organisms are explored. Applied education and research are conducted on the conservation and management of endangered species, populations and communities, and the maintenance/management and utilization of biological specimens.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)
- 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)
- KATO MasaruAssociate 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)
- Matsumura YokoAssistant Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Agrobiology and Bioresources | Laboratory of Systematic Entomology)
- SHUTOH KoutarouAssistant Professor (Outside organization | Hokkaido University Museum)
- AZUMA TakayukiAssistant Professor (Outside organization | Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere)
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Unit of Regional Environment
Education is provided on the conservation and high-level application of soil, water and air, which are basic natural environmental elements, the clarification of material circulation, energy flow between the above elements and interactions between those elements, including living organisms, and the efficient acquisition and analysis of comprehensive information on the natural environment in order to help create an excellent regional environment infrastructure and promote sustainability in regional communities.Faculties in Charge
- Toma YoProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioscience and Chemistry | Laboratory of Soil Science)
- HIRANO TakashiProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering | Laboratory of Ecological and Environmental Physics)
- HAMAMOTO ShoichiroProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering | Laboratory of Soil Conservation)
- NAKAHARA OsamuAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioscience and Chemistry | Laboratory of Soil Science)
- YAMAMOTO TadaoAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering | Laboratory of Land and Water Management)
- 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)
- Nemoto ManabuVisiting Professor (Outside organization | National Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Region)
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Unit of Forest Resource Utilization
Education is provided based on botany, material mechanics, structural dynamics, mycology, organic chemistry and biochemistry, in order to promote effective new uses of wood, woody biomass and specific forest products such as mushrooms, advanced processing technologies, and the sustainable and efficient production of such resources.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)
- SASAKI TakanobuProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Timber Engineering)
- URAKI YasumitsuProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Wood Chemistry)
- KODA KeiichiAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Forest Bioresource Technology)
- ARAKAWA KeitaAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Woody Plant Biology)
- SAWATA KeiAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Timber Engineering)
- SHIGETOMI KengoLecturer (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Wood Chemistry)
- Suzuki ShioriAssistant Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Wood Chemistry)
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Unit of Integrated Forest-Landscape Management
Education is provided to clarify the functions of forests and green spaces, which are the predominant environmental resources in continental areas, using natural scientific and social scientific methods, the development and conservation of forest resources, the construction of new multipurpose management methods, the establishment of nature restoration/ecosystem remediation technologies for basin zones surrounding forests and green spaces, surface erosion and water/sediment disaster mitigation, and forest/forestry policies and afforestation planning.Faculties in Charge
- MORIMOTO JunkoProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Ecosystem Management)
- KASAI MioProfessor (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)
- SHIBUYA MasatoSpecially Appointed Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Silviculture and Forest Ecology)
- YAMADA TakashiSpecially Appointed Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Land Management)
- ISHIYAMA NobuoAssociate Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Ecosystem Management)
- AIKOH TetsuyaProfessor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Agrobiology and Bioresources | Laboratory of Ornamental Plants and Landscape Architecture)
- MATSUSHIMA HajimeLecturer (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Agrobiology and Bioresources | Laboratory of Ornamental Plants and Landscape Architecture)
- 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)
- MAMENO KotaAssistant Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Forest Policy)
- OWAKE TatsuyaAssistant Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Forest Policy)
- KATSURA Shin'yaAssistant Professor (Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science | Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Land Management)