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Satoshi Suzuki, Associate Professor
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Associate Professor Satoshi Suzuki studies how forests change over long periods, from several decades to a century. The research examines how climate change, environmental change, natural disturbance, and human disturbance and management of forests are involved in changes too long for one person to observe. The lab combines field surveys, the use of past data, and a variety of analyses and statistical analysis. The lab belongs to the Nakagawa Experimental Forest of the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere.
Takafumi Gotoh, Professor
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The Gotoh Lab studies livestock nutritional physiology applying epigenetics, centered on 'metabolic programming' in Japanese Black (Wagyu) cattle. It examines how nutrition during the fetal period and right after birth affects how cattle develop, aiming to produce high-quality beef even with grazing or grass-based feeding. In the COI-NEXT project (the Next-Generation Wagyu Production System Hub) based in Shiraoi Town, the lab works on smart grazing management using advanced ICT and space technology. The lab accepts graduate students (master's and doctoral) and postdocs. Because the Graduate School of Environmental Science, to which it belongs, is a graduate-only school, undergraduates cannot join.
Yoichiro Hoshino, Professor
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The Hoshino Lab studies the exploration and evaluation of genetic resources of wild plants native to Hokkaido, and the breeding of new cultivars from them. Targeting haskap, wild kiwifruit (hardy kiwi), Rubus species, raspberries, and apples, the lab carries out interspecific hybridization and polyploid breeding. To solve problems related to plant reproduction and apply the results to breeding, the lab analyzes how pollen germinates and grows on an artificial culture medium. Research themes and target plants are chosen through discussion, following each student's interests. To join the lab, students must enter the Cropland Science Course of the Division of Biosphere Science, Graduate School of Environmental Science.
Toshiyuki Hirata, Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor Toshiyuki Hirata studies how to make crop cultivation methods suited to Hokkaido's growing conditions more efficient. Today's crop production must respond to rising costs caused by fertilizer price increases and water shortages, as well as to fertilizers, pesticides, and greenhouse gases leaving the field. Aiming for cropping systems that avoid overspending on money and materials and place a small burden on the environment, the lab investigates how to use green manure crops and the effects of no-till cultivation, which grows crops without plowing. The lab belongs to the Research Farm of the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere.
Masahito Kawai, Associate Professor
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Associate Professor Masahito Kawai studies how cattle and horses eat and digest, researching better grazing and feeding methods. At the Shizunai Livestock Farm, the entire wide area of land including forest is used to raise Hokkaido Native horses and Japanese Shorthorn cattle, practicing livestock production that does not rely on imported grain feed. It is a field where, in addition to livestock nutrition, feed, behavior, and grassland, researchers can work across disciplines on themes surrounding livestock, such as insects and wild animals living on the farm, soil, and forests. The lab is based at the Shizunai Livestock Farm of the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere in Shinhidaka Town, in the Hidaka region.
Koh Nakamura, Associate Professor
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Associate Professor Nakamura conducts research to protect threatened plants of Hokkaido and Northeast Asia. The lab also does fieldwork overseas. It sorts out threatened species whose classification differs from country to country, and evaluates their distinctiveness and conservation priority from a global perspective. His specialties are plant systematics and phylogeography, and he also studies vascular plants of Asia and Oceania. He belongs to the Botanic Garden (Chuo-ku, Sapporo) of the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere.
Takayuki Azuma, Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor Azuma studies the classification and evolution of plants, focusing on those native to Hokkaido. The lab investigates the phylogeny of groups whose classification is disputed, and explores how their morphological characteristics have evolved. It also conducts genetic analyses of populations of plants at risk of extinction, and surveys of the local flora of Hokkaido. He belongs to the Botanic Garden (Chuo-ku, Sapporo) of the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere.
Masaru Kato, Associate Professor
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Associate Professor Kato studies the history of the specimens and materials of the Sapporo Agricultural College Museum (today's Botanic Garden and Museum). The museum holds specimens that can no longer be collected, such as those of the Ezo wolf, tree specimens made by the Kaitakushi, and archaeological and Ainu materials. The aim is to re-examine information that has been lost or confused over many years, and thereby raise the value of the specimens and materials. He belongs to the Botanic Garden (Chuo-ku, Sapporo) of the Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere.
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