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Soil Environment Lab
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A lab that makes use of soil and conserves the soil environment to create healthy farmland.
AboutAbout the lab
Making use of soil and conserving the soil environment to create healthy farmland
The Soil Environment Lab studies soil and ground on the basis of soil mechanics and geoenvironmental engineering.
Its subjects are agricultural and rural areas, including shallow coastal seas, and the infrastructure that supports agricultural production and rural life.
The lab conducts education and research on the conservation, restoration, and creation of a sustainable soil environment.
Its education and research also cover the effective use of local resources that can serve as geomaterials, and disaster prevention for farmland.
Key terms
- Marine clay
- Clay formed by sediment accumulating on the sea floor
- Consolidation settlement
- A phenomenon in which ground under load loses water from within the soil and slowly sinks over a long period of time
- Salt leaching
- The process in which salts contained in soil dissolve in water and are carried out of the soil
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies soil and ground from the perspective of conserving, restoring, and creating a sustainable soil environment. It places emphasis on understanding the properties of soil, conserving the soil that supports structures, and creating the soil environment with new technologies.
*Illustrative imageUnderstanding Soil as a Material
The lab investigates the mineralogical, chemical, and engineering properties of marine clay. It uses micro-scale techniques to evaluate the mechanical behavior of clay, and also examines how salt leaching affects the structure and deformation characteristics of clay.
*Illustrative imageConserving the Soil That Supports Structures
Based on measured data, the lab predicts the long-term residual settlement of soft ground using nonlinear optimization methods, and is also examining machine-learning-based methods for predicting consolidation settlement. It also works on the consolidation deformation characteristics of marine clay and on settlement prediction for hydraulic structures.
*Illustrative imageCreating the Next-Generation Soil Environment with New Technologies
The lab aims to establish soil solidification technologies that use industrial waste such as oyster shells and bamboo fibers. It also researches and develops changes in the strength properties of soil that has fixed CO2, and ground improvement technologies that apply microbial functions.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Soil Environment Lab are faculty and students in the master's and undergraduate programs.
- ProfessorMotohei Kanayama
- Assistant ProfessorAkiko Nakano
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “- Landgewinnung vorm Deich” Fabian Horst / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Understanding Soil as a Material: “Soil fertility analysis 2 Sample density” Alandmanson / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Conserving the Soil That Supports Structures: “Retaining wall with embankment under construction in Budapest” BluberdeBlubBlub / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Creating the Next-Generation Soil Environment with New Technologies: “Retaining wall construction - geograph.org.uk - 4458284” Ian Taylor / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Food System Lab): “Western Wholesale Food Market 2” Minghong / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Food Process Engineering Lab): “Microwave Oven” Srini297 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Water Environment Lab): “Flood under the Old Route 49 bridge crossing over the South Yuba River in Nevada City, California” Kelly M. Grow/ California Department of Water Resources / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Forest Production Control Lab (University Forests)): “Spring forest Yyteri 3” kallerna / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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