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Environmental Diagnosis on Earth Surface Systems

 Research Keyword: Hydrological cycle, Material cycle, Environmental conservation, Stable isotopes, Data science

The hydrological cycles and material transports involving the effects of climate changes and human impacts on the earth surface, an important aspect of environmental science and human life, has not yet been fully depicted. New recent observations performed in regional scales have revealed changes on the earth surface systems that should be more deeply investigated by a multidisciplinary approach in multiple spatiotemporal scales as providing important base for developing sustainable and well-being society. Our research group investigates these issues on near-surface environments including atmosphere, watershed, aquifers, and costal environments on regional to global scale, using various physicochemical parameters, isotopes, simulation tools, AI approaches and big data. Effects of natural disasters on earth systems including floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are also major concerns of this research unit.

Environmental Diagnosis on Earth Surface Systems

Cluster members

  • Japan
    Coordinator
    Takahiro HOSONO Website

    Professor
    Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Kumamoto University

    Japan
  • Germany
    Jens HARTMANN Website

    Professor
    Institute for Geology, University of Hamburg
    ＊IROAST Visiting Professor

    Germany
  • Italy
    Gibran ROMERO-MUJALLI

    Research Associate
    National Institute for Geology and Volcanology, University of Hamburg

    Italy
  • Italy
    Marino Domenico BARBERIO

    Researcher, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology

    Italy
  • Japan
    Kimpei ICHIYANAGI

    Associate Professor
    Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Kumamoto University

    Japan
  • Japan
    Yu ZHI-QIANG

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Kumamoto University

    Japan

Achievement

Publications
2024
2023
2022
Publications

 

 

Grants
  • TSMC/JASM Green Joint Development Project, Multidisciplinary study for comprehensively understanding the groundwater flow systems and environmental dynamics in Kumamoto region, 2024-2026, Leader: Takahiro Hosono
  • JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research A (22H00563), 2022-2025, Leader: Takahiro Hosono
  • JSPS Fostering Joint International Research A (19KK0291), 2020-2022 Leader: Takahiro Hosono

Activities

2024


Experiment for metagenomic analysis (Joint research with Kitasato University)


River water sampling survey

2023
・Water sampling survey of 109 first class rivers in Japan

・March, 2024: Invitation of Visiting Professor Jens Hartmann to co-author a paper

2022
・Overseas research stay in Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy ( June 5th to October 3rd, 2022)
  
(Sampling of spring water)                                                   (Lecture in Sapienza Univ. of Rome)

･Water sampling survey of 23 major rivers in New Zealand

･Discussion with Prof. Jens Hartmann (Research Cluster member/IROAST Visiting Professor) in Kyoto  (October 14th to 16th, 2022)

 

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