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Kiyonobu Kasama, Professor
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The Disaster Prevention Geotechnical Engineering Lab conducts research and education aimed at preventing natural disasters such as earthquakes and heavy rain before they occur and minimizing the damage they cause. Students learn theories for understanding disaster phenomena and predicting damage, and acquire knowledge of urban design that is resilient to disasters. The lab was established in April 1998 as one of the geotechnics chairs in the Social Infrastructure Division of the Faculty of Engineering, and since April 2021 it has continued its research and education in the Department of Civil Engineering. Lab visits are accepted at any time.
Hemanta Hazarika, Professor
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The Disaster Prevention Geotechnical Engineering Lab studies preparedness for natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and landslides from a geotechnical engineering perspective. It also focuses on climate change caused by global warming and the disasters that accompany it, and conducts research to develop climate change adaptation measures based on geotechnical engineering. One of the lab's major goals is to create a research methodology that combines disaster prevention and nature conservation. In addition to field surveys, testing, and model experiments with their simulations, the lab works on improving disaster prevention systems using drones, IoT, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Mitsuteru Asai, Professor
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The Disaster Mathematics Lab studies how to predict the damage caused by natural disasters such as tsunamis and landslides before they happen. Using mathematical science, the lab seeks to understand the principles of nature (water, soil, and wind) and to quantify the uncertainty inherent in disasters. The lab works on disaster simulation using the particle method, a numerical analysis technique, together with machine learning and high-performance computing on supercomputers and GPUs. The lab also studies VR, which lets people experience damage in a virtual space beforehand, and photogrammetry, which creates 3D models from photographs.
Kenichi Tsukahara, Professor
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The Land Policy and Disaster Prevention Lab studies how to build a safe national land and how cities and regions should be shaped in Japan, which faces population decline and growing disasters caused by climate change. To prepare for disasters that disaster prevention facilities alone cannot handle, the lab studies disaster prevention through social systems, including ways of living, land-use management, and local communities. Infrastructure management and international cooperation on urban problems in Asia are also research themes. Associate Professor Tatsuro Sato studies regional development that uses water as its axis, covering disaster prevention, the water environment, and renewable energy.
Masaru Yamashiro, Professor
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The Coastal and Ocean Engineering Lab studies how to understand, predict, and take countermeasures against coastal disasters such as typhoons, high waves, and storm surges. Focusing mainly on the Kyushu coast, the lab combines field observation, hydraulic model experiments, numerical simulation, and AI to capture phenomena and risks such as wave overtopping, storm surges, and high waves. The lab aims to turn the knowledge it obtains into technologies that benefit coastal communities, such as disaster prevention facilities and prediction systems.
Hironori Hayashi, Associate Professor
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The Watershed Systems Engineering Lab conducts research and education on systems in which nature and human activity merge, with water as the medium. Its foundation is engineering, but it aims to be a new field that merges the boundaries of a wide range of disciplines, including the humanities, natural sciences, agriculture, and ecology. Its work ranges from research on applied ecological engineering and sediment hydraulics to research on consensus building, landscape, and flood damage. The lab also works with citizens and government agencies to put actual river restoration and community building into practice. Research is carried out through field surveys and observations, physical model experiments, interviews and questionnaires, and workshops.
Hirofumi Hirofumi, Professor
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The Resource Circulation and Waste Engineering Lab researches technology development for promoting resource circulation and the proper treatment of waste, with the aim of moving toward a sustainable society. The lab also studies how to evaluate the rationality of these technologies, and works on both the hardware and software sides. It also conducts research that clarifies the interrelationships among the global environment, human activity, and social systems, with the aim of forecasting future environmental problems and proposing designs for social systems. The same site also introduces another division, the Resource Circulation IoT Systems Division.
Yosinari Hirosiro, Associate Professor
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The Aquatic Environmental Engineering Lab researches the groundwater environment and water-related problems such as heavy rain and drought. Its topics include groundwater quality and salinization, diagnosis of heavy rain using artificial intelligence, artificial rainfall using liquid carbon dioxide, and investigations of past debris flow disasters based on old documents. Its groundwater research is mainly conducted in the western part of Fukuoka City.
Satoko Seino, Associate Professor
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The Ecological Engineering Lab researches ecological engineering, centered on fieldwork, in coastal, river, and nearshore environments. Its scope is broad, ranging from the conservation and restoration of habitats for organisms on tidal flats and sandy beaches, to water resource management, laws and institutions for environmental planning and assessment, and regional planning for fishing villages. Its joint research is carried out not only with researchers at universities and research institutions, but also with a diverse range of partners, including local residents, NPOs, NGOs, and private-sector engineers. The lab's goal is a society in which people live in coexistence with the natural environment and ecosystems.
Yoshiki Hori, Professor
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The Urban and Architectural History Lab studies the history of cities and architecture by investigating ancient Roman urban sites, castles, and more. It conducts field surveys at sites such as Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Ostia in Italy and Akoris in Egypt, and is also digitizing sites with laser scanners. The lab has also carried out research involving measured surveys of samurai and commoner houses from the Edo to Meiji periods in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Architectural and Urban History Lab."
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