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Soil Science Lab
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The lab studies soils in Asia and Africa to find ways of using land in harmony with nature.
AboutAbout the lab
No Soil, No Life: Sustainable Land Use Starts with Soil.
The Soil Science Lab studies soil in search of sustainable ways of using land in harmony with nature.
Soil is the cornerstone of the ecosystems that support agriculture and the natural environment, and it is deeply connected to both food production and environmental problems.
The lab conducts fieldwork in many parts of the world, mainly in Asia and Africa, including Indonesia, Vietnam, and Tanzania.
Undergraduate students are assigned to the Plant Production Science Course in their third year, and to this lab within the course in their fourth year (the graduate program is the Division of Agronomy and Horticultural Science, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Key terms
- Material dynamics
- How carbon, nitrogen, minerals, and other substances move and change among soil, plants, water, and the atmosphere
- Soil erosion
- The washing away or blowing away of surface soil by rain or wind
ResearchResearch themes
Soil is the cornerstone of the ecosystems that support agriculture and the natural environment, and it is deeply connected to both food production and environmental problems. To meet the demand for food while protecting the environment, the lab studies soils in diverse regions around the world.
*Illustrative imageMethods for sustainable land management
Targeting many parts of the world, including Asia and Africa, the lab works on countermeasures against greenhouse gas emissions, desertification, soil erosion, and water pollution, with the aim of establishing methods for sustainable land management.
*Illustrative imageSoils and material dynamics in diverse ecosystems
In diverse ecosystems, from the tropics to the subarctic and from wet lands to drylands, the lab clarifies the characteristics of the soils that form there and studies the dynamics of materials such as carbon, nitrogen, and minerals.
*Illustrative imageHow people relate to soil, nature, and agriculture
The lab studies how people in different regions perceive and use natural resources, including soil, and what is needed for new agricultural technologies to spread, taking social and economic backgrounds into account.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Soil Science Lab consist of faculty, researchers, administrative staff, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.
- ProfessorHitoshi Shinjo
- Associate ProfessorTetsuhiro Watanabe
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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: “Gombe state University Geography students visits an Escavated hill showing soil profile with its horizons at Waka biu, Borno state 03” Csasavage / CC0 (cropped)
- Methods for sustainable land management: “Soil erosion in a field in Ohangwena Region” Martin Hipangwa / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Soils and material dynamics in diverse ecosystems: “Soil profile in Wuhlheide in Berlin-Köpenick” Leonhard Lenz / CC0 (cropped)
- How people relate to soil, nature, and agriculture: “Farmers in a sweet potato garden” Emmanuel Ssekaggo / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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