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Earth History (Nagoya University Museum) Lab
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A museum-based course that explores how nature came to be and evolved, through fieldwork and specimens.
AboutAbout the lab
Tracing the history of nature through fieldwork and specimens.
The Earth History Course (Museum) studies how nature came to be and evolved, based on field research and collected specimens.
Faculty members of the Nagoya University Museum pursue their own specialized research while preserving and studying academic collections and serving as a bridge between the university and society.
Their fields are wide-ranging, including geology, botany, and the functional morphology of animals.
The lab also has strong ties overseas, including with Mongolia.
Key terms
- Concretion
- A hard, rounded mass of rock that forms within strata and is harder than its surroundings.
- Orogenic belt
- A zone where strata have been compressed and folded, forming mountain ranges, for example through collision between continents.
- Reproductive interference
- When closely related species "mistakenly" interfere with each other during reproduction, so that reproduction does not go well, for example with fewer offspring.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts natural history research that clarifies the diversity and evolution of nature on the basis of fieldwork and the materials obtained there. Each faculty member takes on a wide range of themes, from the interaction between rocks and groundwater to the history of continental collision, plant reproduction, and animal locomotor function.
*Illustrative imageLearning Mass Transport from Nature (Applied Geology)
The lab studies the interaction between rocks (minerals) and groundwater near the Earth's surface and the accompanying movement of elements. It learns from natural phenomena such as spherical concretions forming within strata and attempts to apply the underlying mechanisms to engineering.
*Illustrative imageElucidating Earth History and Developing Environmental Law
The lab conducts geological surveys in Mongolia to investigate how the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, a major structural belt separating Siberia and China, was formed. It also explores the process of continental collision through the geology of the Sør Rondane Mountains in Antarctica. In cooperation with the field of law, it also investigates environmental pollution in Mongolia and works on developing environmental law.
*Illustrative imageReproductive Interference in Plants
The lab empirically studies reproductive interference between closely related species, using plants such as Geranium and dandelions. It also studies the relationships between insects and structures that plants form, such as mite chambers (acarodomatia), as well as the taxonomy of the laurel family (Lauraceae).
*Illustrative imageLimb Locomotor Function and Form
The lab explores the relationship between limb locomotor function and form in living animals, based on dissection, mechanical analysis, and observations at zoos. It also reconstructs the posture and movement of extinct animals such as dinosaurs from their skeletons.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorHidekazu Yoshida
- ProfessorKazuhiro Tsukada
- Associate ProfessorSachiko Nishida
- LecturerShinichi Fujiwara
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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: “Eurhinosaurus fossil located under the monumental staircase of the Gallery of Paleontology (French National Museum of Natural History, Paris)” Kintaro / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Learning Mass Transport from Nature (Applied Geology): “Concretion in the Dakota Sandstone (Lower Cretaceous) (Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado, USA)” James St. John / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Elucidating Earth History and Developing Environmental Law: “Alpiner Gebirgsgürtel” Jo weber / Public domain (cropped)
- Reproductive Interference in Plants: “Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)” PhotoDoc / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Limb Locomotor Function and Form: “Protoceratops skeleton Carnegie Museum” James St. John / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Geology and Geobiology Lab): “Rock Strata in Glen Nevis” Bill Kasman / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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