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Environmental Meteorology Lab
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A lab that explores the relationship between plants and the meteorological environment, working toward smart agriculture and adaptation to climate change.
AboutAbout the lab
Clarifying and controlling the relationship between plants and the meteorological environment.
Centered on fields such as agricultural meteorology and bio-environmental control, the Environmental Meteorology Lab studies the biological and physical phenomena that occur between plants and the meteorological environment.
By clarifying and controlling these phenomena, the lab works on smart agriculture and on developing adaptation measures to climate change, aiming to achieve sustainable and highly profitable agricultural production.
The lab works in laboratories, greenhouses, and experimental fields on the Kyushu University campus, as well as in rural areas such as Itoshima and elsewhere in Kyushu.
It also collaborates with other universities and with prefectural and national research institutions.
Key terms
- Agricultural meteorology
- A field that studies the relationship between weather, such as temperature, solar radiation, and precipitation, and the growth of crops and agriculture.
- Experimental field
- Farmland where crops are grown, such as fields and paddies. For the lab, it is a place of activity alongside laboratories and greenhouses.
- Transpiration
- The phenomenon in which plants release water vapor to the outside through the stomata of their leaves and other routes.
- Microclimate
- The weather, such as temperature, humidity, wind, and solar radiation, observed over a very small area, such as around crops.
NewsLab news
A paper first-authored by a doctoral student received a paper award from the American Society for Horticultural Science
A paper first-authored by a master's student was published in HortScience
A paper co-authored by an assistant professor and a project assistant professor was published in Agric. For. Meteorol.
A paper first-authored by a doctoral student was published in Environ. Control Biol.
A paper first-authored by a doctoral student was published in Photosynthetica
ResearchResearch themes
As climate change is expected to bring more heat, heavy rain, and water shortages, sustainable food production that is resilient to environmental change is needed. The lab aims to create knowledge and technology for understanding and optimizing the physical and physiological phenomena between plants and the environment, and the mechanisms behind them.
*Illustrative imageViewing the meteorological environment from the organism's perspective
The lab views the meteorological environment from the perspective of the organisms being produced, and studies the environmental responses of the ecophysiological functions of crops, environmental control and smart agriculture, and the assessment of climate change impacts and adaptation measures.
*Illustrative imageVisualizing and controlling plant responses to the environment
The lab measures and visualizes how plant functions such as photosynthesis, transpiration, stomatal behavior, nutrient and water uptake, growth, and yield respond to the environment, and aims to optimize plant production systems by controlling them.
*Illustrative imageImpacts of climate change on agriculture and adaptation measures
The lab observes the microclimate of agricultural land and captures long-term trends through model development. Building on these results, it assesses the impacts of climate change and global warming on agriculture and studies adaptation measures.
*Illustrative imageSoil waterlogging and plant water status
The lab studies waterlogging, in which soil holds too much water and damages plants, from the perspectives of soil physics, drainage engineering, and plant ecophysiology. It is also developing a method to measure the water status of plants by using changes in stem diameter.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Environmental Meteorology Lab are faculty, administrative assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.
- ProfessorTomoyoshi Hirota
- Assistant ProfessorGaku Yokoyama
- Associate ProfessorDaisuke Yasutake
- Project Assistant ProfessorShigehiro Kubota
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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: “Weather station in the solar farm - geograph.org.uk - 8132676” DS Pugh / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Viewing the meteorological environment from the organism's perspective: “Bureau of Meteorology weather station at Mount Bassett lookout, Mackay Harbour, 2016 01” Kerry Raymond / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Visualizing and controlling plant responses to the environment: “Greg Glatzmaier determines the high-temperature thermal and mechanical stability of sealants used in a lab prototype of the integrated hydrogen sensor separator module” Dennis Schroeder, NREL / Public domain (cropped)
- Impacts of climate change on agriculture and adaptation measures: “Drought tolerant bioenergy crops ( )” Oak Ridge National Laboratory / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Soil waterlogging and plant water status: “Mühlenau - Messeinrichtung” Karbohut / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Forest Conservation Lab): “Vargas debris flow deposits 1999” Wieczorek, G.F., Larsen, M.C., Eaton, L.S., Morgan, B.A. and Blair, J. L. / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Aquatic Environmental Biology Lab): “Red algae bloom, Boathaven Bay, Airlie Beach IMGP0273” John Robert McPherson / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Crop Science Lab): “Khndzoresk, Wheat field, Armenia” Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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