Category: Hokkaido
Teshima-san (4th year) and Sawada-san (D1) went to collect data in Hokkaido (Iburi and Usu Volcano) for their research
For his work on pumices and how their structure may relate to the explosive activity of volcano, and for his work on tree loading by rainfall on tree stems, Mr. Sawada and Mr. Teshima headed to Hokkaido to work in collaboration with my colleague Dr. Koi, of Hokkaido University. Dr. Koi, thank you so much…
Summer School at Hokkaido University – talking Point-cloud technology
北海道大学のサマースクールが行われてる！環境科学科の早川先生がドローンと地形のテーマで企画している。ゴメスが点群データ、ライダーと写真測量の話する。
JPGU: Noto Earthquake & EPS hacking sediment and pollutant cycles
If you don’t have much to do at the JPGU and want to come for a chat, I will be there from the 26th to the 29th May 2025.
Sho Sawada’s first international paper on pumices buoyancy is out in Forum Geografi (indexed in Scopus)
Sho Sawada, Christopher Gomez and Takashi Koi. 2025. Volcanic Pumice Rafts at Sea: Buoyancy and Infiltration with Micro-particles. Forum Geografi. https://journals2.ums.ac.id/index.php/fg/article/view/7463/2642 Pumice, characterised by its high vesicularity, oftenforms pumice rafts as it floats on water. Although the vast majority of research has focused on understanding the behavior of pumice rafts, studies on the water infiltration…
New Collaborative papers using PCL for Environment and Ecology is out
Hayakawa, Gomez, Watanabe, Wang, Kobayashi, Inomata, Sakai, Imagawa. 2025. Effects of ground-contacting gears on trail surface deformation from trampling. Environmental Challenges 101107 (IF 4.42)
Atsuma-chou field-work (Hokkaido)
In the aftermath of the 2018 Iburi earthquakes, thousands of mass movements ran downslopes, and sadly took many lives.