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Yohey Suzuki, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Suzuki Lab studies how life and rock interact on a planetary scale, including on the early Earth when life first emerged and on Mars. In particular, the lab goes directly to unexplored places, the deep sea and deep underground, using submersibles and underground laboratories, and analyzes the collected samples to reveal the nature of life that is still unknown. The lab's research combines solid-sample analysis, a strength of earth science, with genome analysis, a strength of life science. The lab also puts great effort into training people who will take part in future searches for extraterrestrial life.
Kazuhisa Goto, Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
Goto Lab studies event deposits, which are sedimentary layers formed all at once by events such as tsunamis and typhoons, from the perspectives of geology and sedimentology. Centered on fieldwork, the lab combines various analyses and calculations to uncover the history of the Earth and the realities of natural disasters. Its interdisciplinary research also draws on engineering techniques and on insights from history and archaeology, and it works to contribute to disaster prevention and to society. The lab collaborates with research institutions in Japan and abroad, and students can also acquire skills in high-precision analysis and numerical computation.
Hiroya Yamano, Professor
Environment & Sustainability0 student voices
The Yamano Lab studies coastal zones such as coral reefs, focusing on how global environmental change affects landforms, ecosystems, and human society. The lab deals with global environmental change in the Holocene and the Anthropocene, assessing and predicting its impacts and exploring measures for adapting to the changes. Its research methods are on-site field surveys and spatial data analysis. The lab aims to understand the connections among the global environment, living organisms, and human society, and to conduct research that contributes to building a sustainable society.
Eiichi Tajika, Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
The Tajika Lab studies how the surface environments of Earth and other planets formed and have changed over time, and how these changes relate to the origin, evolution, and extinction of life. The lab focuses in particular on large-scale environmental changes linked to mass extinctions, such as global glaciation (Snowball Earth), asteroid impacts, and oceanic anoxic events. Its main method is numerical simulation using climate models and biogeochemical cycle models, and it also takes part in collaborative research involving field surveys and chemical analysis. Building on these findings, the lab investigates the conditions for habitable planets, including Mars, Venus, and planets outside the solar system.
Masayuki Ikeda, Associate Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
The Ikeda Lab studies how Earth's environment and life have influenced each other throughout geological time. In particular, it investigates how changes in insolation drive climate change, and how this relates to the extinction, adaptation, and evolution of dinosaurs, plants, and other organisms. The lab has also continued research on reading Milankovitch cycles from the striped patterns of bedded chert, a stratum formed in the deep sea. Through fieldwork, geochemical analysis, and analysis of the fossil record, the lab aims to uncover the causes and actual nature of major environmental changes in Earth's history.
Seiji Sugita, Professor
Space, Particle Physics & Aerospace0 student voices
The Sugita Lab uses planetary exploration as a clue to study how the Solar System came to take its present form. The lab has worked on developing and operating the camera on Hayabusa2 and analyzing its data, investigating the history of the asteroid Ryugu. The lab is also developing measurement instruments to be carried on spacecraft for future missions to the Moon and Mars. Together with the Kasahara Lab and others, it conducts research as the Planetary Exploration Research Group in Faculty of Science Building 1.
Takashi Oguchi, Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
The Geomorphology and Geography Lab studies the shapes of landforms on the Earth's surface and the processes by which they form. Centered on geomorphology, the lab conducts research with an eye toward applications in hydrology, Quaternary science, planetary science, and geography education, and the regions it studies span the globe. The lab collects and analyzes landform data using geographic information systems (GIS). The lab also develops teaching materials that support the high school course Comprehensive Geography, and creates lesson models in collaboration with current teachers.
Fukashi Maeno, Associate Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
The Maeno Lab (Volcanic Geology and Materials Lab) studies volcanic eruptions at the Volcano Research Center of the Earthquake Research Institute. Erupted materials record the entire process, from the formation of magma underground to its eruption at the surface and its accumulation as deposits. From the structure, texture, shape, and chemical composition of erupted materials, the lab clarifies phenomena such as eruption plumes, pyroclastic flows, and lava flows, as well as the history and hazards of past eruptions. The lab studies not only volcanoes on land but also eruptions of volcanic islands and submarine volcanoes.
Toshiya Mori, Associate Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
The Mori Lab, part of the Geochemical Research Center in the Graduate School of Science, studies volcanoes using volcanic gases as clues. The composition and emission rate of volcanic gases reflect the state of the magma and hydrothermal system underground. The lab focuses on developing new methods for measuring volcanic gases from a distance, and conducts observations at volcanoes across Japan. It aims to move closer to understanding how gas escapes from magma and how eruptions work.
Hiroaki Ohfuji, Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
The Ohfuji Lab studies where and how minerals form, and by what mechanisms they become crystals. Using electron microscopes, the lab observes natural samples and experimentally synthesized samples in fine detail down to the nanometer scale, examining their structures and chemical compositions. From fieldwork to microscope observation, the lab pursues the question "why?" at many different scales. By connecting information obtained from tiny regions to an understanding of large-scale geological phenomena, the lab aims to find the universal physics and chemistry that underlie them.
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