Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Land Management – School of Agriculture / Graduate School of Agriculture / Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University

Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research | Research Group of Forest Science

Research Theme

Current research activities

basis of watershed management and forest conservation, restoration of desertification and land degradation, observation and measurement of geo-hydrosphere dynamics, prediction and mitigation for flooding and sediment disaster, sustainable land management linking with earth surface processes.

Members

Professor

KASAI Mio

Degree	Ph.D. Environmental Sciences
Specialty	Catchment Sediment Behavior, Applied Geomorphology
Charge (US)	Department of Forest Science \| Earth Surface Processes and Land Management
Charge (GS)	Division of Agriculture \| Frontiers in Environmental Sciences \| Unit of Integrated Forest-Landscape Management
Research Theme	Catchment sediment dynamics with human influence, Assessment of landslide susceptibility

Specially Appointed Professor

YAMADA Takashi

Degree	D. Agr.
Specialty	Earth Surface Processes and Land Management
Charge (US)	Department of Forest Science \| Earth Surface Processes and Land Management
Charge (GS)	Division of Agriculture \| Frontiers in Environmental Sciences \| Unit of Integrated Forest-Landscape Management
Research Theme	Mechanism of debris flow initiation and Its prediction methods, Sediment-related disaster mitigation, Development of self-diffence methods against sediment-related disaster for local people

Assistant Professor

KATSURA Shin'ya

Degree	D. Agr.
Specialty	Erosion Control Engineering, Forest Hydrology
Charge (US)	Department of Forest Science \| Earth Surface Processes and Land Management
Charge (GS)	Division of Agriculture \| Frontiers in Environmental Sciences \| Unit of Integrated Forest-Landscape Management
Research Theme	Groundwater Dynamics in Mountainous Slopes, Mechanism and Countermeasures of Sediment-related Disasters