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Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
The Abe-Ouchi Lab uses climate models to study the mechanisms that drive climate change across Earth's history and into the future. A climate model is, in a sense, a "virtual Earth": it reproduces the behavior of the atmosphere, oceans, ice sheets, vegetation, and more inside a computer. The lab takes on questions such as why ice ages recur, and how the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets will change in the future and affect sea level. The lab belongs to the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, and accepts graduate students as a cooperating laboratory of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science in the Graduate School of Science.
Kentaroh Suzuki, Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
The Suzuki Lab studies how clouds, rain, and particles in the atmosphere affect Earth's climate. Clouds both cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight back to space and warm it by trapping heat. Which effect wins out depends on the height and thickness of the clouds, and this is one reason why predicting climate change is so difficult. The lab investigates these cloud effects by combining analysis of satellite observation data with numerical models.
Hiroyasu Hasumi, Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
The Hasumi Lab studies the large-scale currents that circulate through the world's oceans and the mechanisms of climate that operate through them. The ocean can store more than a thousand times as much heat as the atmosphere, so it is essential for understanding climate, which changes slowly and on a large scale. The interior of the ocean is difficult to observe, and many phenomena there are still not understood. The lab develops its own numerical models of the ocean and climate, and investigates ocean currents by reproducing them on computers.
Takashi Furumura, Professor
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The Furumura Lab studies how the strong shaking of great earthquakes is generated and how it travels through the Earth. The lab analyzes data from Japan's dense seismic observation networks, as well as seismic wave records from around the world. Using numerical simulations on supercomputers, it reproduces the characteristics of seismic waves traveling through complex underground structures. The lab reproduces the shaking of past great earthquakes to identify the causes of damage, and predicts the shaking and tsunami of future great earthquakes, with the aim of contributing to earthquake disaster prevention.
Kimihiro Mochizuki, Professor
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The Mochizuki Lab uses seismological methods to study earthquakes that occur where oceanic plates subduct. Most earthquakes, large and small, occur at plate boundaries beneath the seafloor. The lab deploys ocean-bottom seismometers on the seafloor for observation and investigates how fault slip begins and spreads. Its observations center on the subduction zones around Japan, and also cover subduction zones elsewhere in the world, including New Zealand.
Atsushi Yasuda, Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
The Yasuda Lab studies volcanic ejecta to clarify the processes of magma eruptions. Volcanic ejecta record the original composition of the magma and what happened between the magma chamber and the eruption. Using instruments such as the electron probe microanalyzer (EPMA), the lab measures the structure and composition of very small areas, and uses these microscale analyses to understand the larger picture of an eruption.
Shingo Watada, Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
The Watada Lab studies solid Earth phenomena, including earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis. Using data from satellites and from land-based and seafloor instruments, the lab aims to explain, from first principles, Earth phenomena that are still not understood. The lab treats the atmosphere, the ocean, and the Earth's interior as a single system linked by forces, and investigates atmospheric waves and tsunamis generated by earthquakes and eruptions.
Tatsuya Ishiyama, Associate Professor
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Ishiyama Lab studies active faults and the seismogenic faults that give rise to earthquakes. For active faults located undersea or along the boundary between sea and land, the overall picture, including their shape, distribution, and slip rate, is still not well understood. In addition to field surveys of topography and geology, the lab conducts research using methods that span several fields, such as numerical modeling and geophysical observation. Students can take on a wide range of problems, matched to their interests and strengths.
Takashi Iidaka, Professor
Earth & Climate0 student voices
The Iidaka Lab studies earthquakes as physical phenomena and works to describe the full picture, from the occurrence of an earthquake to the resulting disaster. Beneath the Japanese archipelago, the Pacific Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate are subducting, and earthquakes large and small occur almost every day. The lab investigates where earthquakes occur, the subsurface structure through which seismic waves travel, how the waves propagate, the structure of the ground, and how it shakes. It works with related labs to capture the full picture of earthquake disasters. The lab also conducts surveys of crustal structure on land and temporary seismic observations.
Mie Ichihara, Professor
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The Ichihara Lab studies the dynamics of volcanic eruptions and airwaves (acoustic waves emitted from volcanoes). Using methods such as theoretical calculations, analog experiments, and observations of airwaves, the lab aims to clarify how volcanoes erupt. The lab places great importance on fieldwork, and students can get hands-on experience with volcanoes all over Japan. The lab belongs to the Volcano Research Center of the Earthquake Research Institute.
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