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Crustal Environment Engineering Lab
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The lab maps the distribution of resources and groundwater through measurement and mathematical methods.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward a sustainable society that coexists with resources.
The Crustal Environment Engineering Lab studies how mineral, water, and energy resources are distributed underground, using measurement and mathematical methods.
The lab aims to build a sustainable society that coexists with resources and is in harmony with the global environment.
It clarifies the chemical properties and flow of underground gas and water, and estimates the geological, thermal, and physical-property structure of the crust more accurately.
By combining satellite data, electromagnetic surveys, and field surveys, the lab also explores for seafloor resources.
Key terms
- Mathematical geology
- A field that uses statistics and mathematics to represent the distribution of underground geology and resources as models
- Remote sensing
- A technology that measures the condition of the ground surface in distant places from satellites or aircraft
- Environmental tracer
- A component or isotope contained in water that serves as a marker for tracing where the water came from and how it flows
ResearchResearch themes
Using earth measurement methods and mathematical geology, the lab models the distribution of mineral, water, and energy resources, and clarifies the properties and flow of underground gas and fluids as well as the geological, thermal, and physical-property structure of the crust. It also aims to make advanced use of geological formations as storage sites.
*Illustrative imageExploring subsurface structure and properties with satellites
Knowing how resources are distributed requires information on geological structure, types of rocks and minerals, and crustal deformation. The lab develops methods that use remote sensing to estimate the distribution of geology from light and radio waves, and to extract changes in terrain from radar images with high accuracy.
*Illustrative imageClarifying the flow of groundwater and geothermal fluids
To use groundwater sustainably and develop geothermal resources, it is important to understand the flow of underground water and hot water. Using environmental tracers and geostatistics, the lab simulates groundwater flow and the transport of substances to make high-accuracy predictions.
*Illustrative imageExploration technology for visualizing the subsurface in detail
The lab develops technologies that investigate subsurface structure using electricity and magnetism. For the exploration of active faults, geothermal reservoirs, and seafloor oil, natural gas, and hydrothermal deposits, it builds new data analysis techniques and observation instruments, and actually conducts resource exploration on the seafloor.
*Illustrative imageGeological models from the micro to the macro scale
By combining 3D geostatistical modeling and numerical simulation with field measurements, the lab clarifies the distribution of subsurface properties.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKatsuaki Koike
- Associate ProfessorKoki Kashiwaya
- Assistant ProfessorTaiki Kubo
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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: “Satellite Image, Pearl River Bridge 19660823” CIA/NRO/USGS / Public domain (cropped)
- Exploring subsurface structure and properties with satellites: “A Danish Perspective” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Clarifying the flow of groundwater and geothermal fluids: “Evolution of groundwater chemistry” Microbialmatt / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Exploration technology for visualizing the subsurface in detail: “Geophysical survey, Long Meg ^ Her Daughters - geograph.org.uk - 3379792” Andrew Curtis / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Geological models from the micro to the macro scale: “3D Geological Model” Nmsol / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Resource and Energy Processes Lab): “Film - The Romance of Iron and Steel (1938) - sheet steel storage” sponsor: ARMCO studio: Tri-State Motion Pictures / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Earth Resource Systems Lab): “Mutnovsky geothermal power plant” -= Nikita Zhuravlev = / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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