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Kinouchi Lab
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A lab that uses advanced technology to unravel floods, droughts, and water pollution around the world.
AboutAbout the lab
Assessing and predicting regional water resources by integrating advanced technologies
Kinouchi Lab studies how to assess and predict water resources in each region.
Water supports ecosystems and human activities, but it is unevenly distributed in time and space, causing droughts and floods.
Climate change and the expansion of human activity are expected to intensify this tendency and make water pollution more conspicuous.
Targeting a wide range of river basins in Japan and abroad, the lab aims to understand these phenomena and propose solutions.
Key terms
- Water cycle
- The continuous flow of water that falls as rain and moves through the ground, rivers, groundwater, oceans, and atmosphere
- Satellite data
- Information on the Earth's surface and atmosphere observed from space by satellites, which allows wide areas to be monitored continuously
- eDNA
- Fragments of DNA left in water by living organisms. The organisms living in an area can be identified from collected water samples
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Water supports ecosystems and human activities, but it is unevenly distributed in time and space, causing droughts and floods. Targeting a variety of regions in Japan and abroad, the lab aims to understand the phenomena that cause water problems and to propose solutions.
*Illustrative imageMekong River and Tonle Sap Lake Basin
The lab assesses how basin development and climate change affect water resources, water disasters, water quality, and ecosystems. It works on the effects of land use change and dam construction on runoff, analysis of the water cycle and sediment runoff using satellite data, and assessment of fish fauna using eDNA.
*Illustrative imageChao Phraya River Basin
To improve the accuracy of flood and drought prediction, the lab estimates river discharge from satellite and hydrological data. It also works on numerical modeling of rainfall-runoff and inundation, and on predicting extreme weather using climate indices.
*Illustrative imageCities in Southeast Asia
The lab assesses how urbanization and climate change affect vulnerability to flood damage. It is investigating the relationship between extreme rainfall and flood risk, improving the accuracy of urban inundation simulations, and clarifying the actual health impacts of flooding.
*Illustrative imageTerrestrial Water and Groundwater in South Asia
Using satellite data and land surface models, the lab quantifies the movement of terrestrial water and groundwater. It assesses the effects of drought on agriculture, and assesses and predicts water resources in the Indus River basin.
MembersFaculty
The members of Kinouchi Lab are faculty members, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and visiting researchers.As of 2026
- ProfessorTsuyoshi KinouchiPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorGang Zhao
- Program-Specific ProfessorKazuhito Ichii
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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: “Mountains Mekong river and dwellings seen from Mount Phou Si at dusk in Luang Prabang Laos” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Mekong River and Tonle Sap Lake Basin: “20171129 Tonle Sap Lake Cambodia 6200 DxO” Jakub Hałun / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Chao Phraya River Basin: “2011 Thailand floods-MODIS” MODIS Rapid Response Team / Public domain (cropped)
- Cities in Southeast Asia: “Mai Dịch Overpass, Cầu Giấy District, Hanoi flooded - May 2022” Nguyen QuocTrung / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Terrestrial Water and Groundwater in South Asia: “Indus River, Ladakh, India” Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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