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Coastal and Aquatic Environment Lab (Division II)
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A lab that explores disaster countermeasures and environmental restoration for coasts and coastal areas.
AboutAbout the lab
Protecting people from coastal disasters and restoring the coastal environment.
In the fields of coastal engineering and coastal environmental engineering, the Coastal and Aquatic Environment Lab studies the management of coastal areas, including coastal conservation, promoting the use of coastal areas, and the conservation, remediation, and restoration of the coastal environment.
Its research rests on two pillars: investigating the mechanisms of disasters such as tsunamis, storm surges, and high waves to devise countermeasures, and predicting and evaluating the environment of coastal areas and estuaries in order to restore it.
The wave flume in the hydraulic experiment building owned by the lab is used for experiments and exercises for third-year undergraduates, and for experiments conducted as part of undergraduate, master's, and doctoral research.
Every week, the lab holds a joint lab seminar attended by everyone from undergraduate thesis students to doctoral students, and presentations by international students are in English in principle.
Key terms
- Wave overtopping
- When high waves go over a seawall or similar structure. Countermeasures are considered necessary as preparation against high waves.
- Coastal erosion
- The wearing away of a coastline by high waves and other forces. It is regarded as a problem that leads to the loss of national land.
- Material cycling
- The flow in which materials circulate within a coastal area, including the food chain. Its restoration is called for on a regional basis.
NewsLab news
A master's student won the Coastal Engineering Paper Encouragement Award
A former postdoc's paper was accepted by Scientific Reports
A doctoral student's paper was accepted by Ocean Engineering
A doctoral student's paper was accepted by Coastal Engineering Journal
An undergraduate student won an Excellence Award for a poster at the Urban Sciences Symposium
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research on coastal area management, including coastal conservation, promoting the use of coastal areas, and the conservation, remediation, and restoration of the coastal environment, in two broad areas. One is research on protecting lives and property from natural disasters in coastal areas, and the other is research on predicting, evaluating, and restoring the environment of coastal areas, inland waters, and estuaries.
*Illustrative imageProtecting lives and property from coastal natural disasters
The lab clarifies the mechanisms of coastal disasters such as tsunamis, storm surges, wave overtopping caused by high waves, and coastal erosion, and examines measures to protect human lives and property. It aims to present countermeasures through field observation, laboratory experiments, and numerical simulation.
*Illustrative imagePredicting and restoring the environment of coastal areas and estuaries
For coastal areas and estuaries that have long suffered from pollution and ecosystem degradation, the lab aims to present remedies through field monitoring and numerical modeling of environmental processes. It considers the restoration of material cycling to be becoming increasingly important.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Coastal and Aquatic Environment Lab are faculty, secretaries, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakayuki Suzuki
- Associate ProfessorHiroto Higa
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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: “Coastal Erosion-4230, Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry, Ireland” Maoileann / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Protecting lives and property from coastal natural disasters: “Key West Seawall Damage” NOAA / Public domain (cropped)
- Predicting and restoring the environment of coastal areas and estuaries: “Exe estuary from balloon” steverenouk / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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