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Environmental Risk Engineering Lab
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The lab traces the fate of heavy metals and radioactive substances to assess environmental risk.
AboutAbout the lab
Uncovering the risks of environmental pollutants
The Environmental Risk Engineering Lab assesses the environmental risks that arise when harmful substances such as heavy metals and radioactive materials contaminate air, water, and soil.
Combining data from field surveys, experiments, and numerical simulation, the lab studies how harmful substances move through the environment.
The lab assesses risk by analyzing the pathways by which harmful substances reach people and the amounts involved.
In addition to engineering, the lab draws on social science methods to clarify which measures are effective in reducing risk.
Key terms
- Environmental risk
- The possibility that pollutants or other substances will have adverse effects on human health, daily life, society, or ecosystems
- Exposure pathway
- The route by which a harmful substance enters the human body through air, water, food, and other media
ResearchResearch themes
The lab assesses the environmental risks posed by contamination from harmful chemicals released into the environment, particularly heavy metals and radioactive substances, from the urban level to the global scale. It combines engineering and social science methods.
*Illustrative imageRisk assessment for forest restoration in Fukushima
So that residents can use forests contaminated by the nuclear accident with peace of mind, the lab works with researchers in agriculture and medicine. It studies the movement of radioactive materials in forests, health risks, and economic impacts, and develops assessment methods that point the way for forest restoration.
*Illustrative imageRisk assessment of soil and groundwater contamination
For heavy-metal contamination of river basins and soil, the lab models how the metals move through the environment and the exposure pathways from release to the human body, and comprehensively assesses environmental risk.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorYoko Shimada
- Associate ProfessorMaiko Ikegami
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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: “Soilcontam” Dumelow / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Risk assessment for forest restoration in Fukushima: “Fukushima” Ka23 13 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Risk assessment of soil and groundwater contamination: “Castor Creek Groundwater ( )” Savannah River Site / Public domain (cropped)
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- Related lab (Environmental Health Lab): “Air pollution amid blue skies, the day after reopening from lockdown near Mumbai” Sumaira Abdulali / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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