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Yamada Lab
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A lab that reads the history of how people have interacted with nature from the sediment layers of lakes and coasts.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading environmental change from the past to the present in sediment layers.
The Yamada Lab is a lab seminar whose theme is aquatic environmental science.
Waterside areas such as lakes, rivers, and coasts are places where the balance between people and nature, caught between development and conservation, becomes visible.
By tracing the sediments that have accumulated at lake bottoms and the surrounding landforms, the lab clarifies environmental change from the past to the present.
Centered on geography and earth science, the lab carries out its research in collaboration with biology, archaeology, and sociology.
Key terms
- Varves
- Banded sediment layers that form on a lake bottom each year. They are also called the "tree rings of soil"
- Anthropocene
- A term for the era in which human activity has come to change the Earth's environment significantly
- Sediment
- Sand and mud carried by water or wind and piled up on the bottom of lakes or seas
NewsLab news
Co-edited volume "Invitation to Island Environmental History" published
Contributed as one of the authors to the "Latest" Dictionary of Earth Science
ResearchResearch themes
Focusing on aquatic environments, the lab investigates how humans have modified nature, and how they have been affected by it, in the Anthropocene. Centered on the methods of geography and earth science, it pursues research from four perspectives.
*Illustrative imageEnvironmental history
The lab extracts lake-bottom sediments, including varves, to reveal the history of environmental change, pollution, and disasters. It also conducts surveys that use sound waves to measure underwater topography.
*Illustrative imageUrban environments: past and future
The lab studies waterside areas that remain within cities, such as moats and flood-control reservoirs. It measures water quality and collects water samples regularly to understand the current state of the environment.
*Illustrative imageLandform development
The lab investigates how coastal and river-mouth landforms have changed and what has caused those changes. The work ranges from interpreting topographic maps and aerial photographs to drone-based field surveys.
*Illustrative imageEnvironmental education
The lab studies how to teach earth science and environmental education effectively. It also works on practice in museums and on developing teaching materials for citizens and schoolchildren.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Yamada Lab are faculty, doctoral and master's students, undergraduate students, and e-School (distance education program) students.As of 2025
- ProfessorKazuyoshi Yamada
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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: “Lake Seliger. Ostashkov. View of Voroniy Island” Александр Байдуков / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Environmental history: “LakeAtnaDeposits” Henry R. Schmoll / Public domain (cropped)
- Urban environments: past and future: “Osaka Castle Outer Moat and Osaka Business Park, November 2016” Martin Falbisoner / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Landform development: “Erosion of Dunes at beach in Pinery Provincial Park” Tgrignon / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Environmental education: “Bamberg Naturkundemuseum Vogelsaal HDR” Ermell / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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