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June 11, 2025
  • ゴメス教授がインドネシアにおける持続可能性と防災に関する研究で賞を受賞しました・Professor Gomez was presented an award for his work on Sustainability and disaster risk research and education in Indonesia, and helping fund a new research project in sustainable agriculture at UMS.
  • New Publication in Geosciences (IF2.4) on Savage-Hutter Model for seismic-shallow landslides, with statistical parameterization using an Elder-Mead optimization model
  • New Publication on the Noto Earthquake Land Deformation and how the changes affect floodplain flooding
  • JPGU: Noto Earthquake & EPS hacking sediment and pollutant cycles
砂防 Laboratory

砂防 Laboratory

Exploring Sediment Hazards, Disaster Risk, and Environmental Science

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    • Asakura Field work with French and Tokyo U. Researchers
    • Photos Hodaka Research Station
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    • 1D Crank-Nicholson Implicit
    • Python Codes
  • The Research TEAM
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    • Publications Melody Dumont
    • Publications of Daikai Rikuto
    • Publications of Sho Sawada
    • Publications of Zhang Miao
    • Publications Vincent Siccard
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  • ゴメス教授がインドネシアにおける持続可能性と防災に関する研究で賞を受賞しました・Professor Gomez was presented an award for his work on Sustainability and disaster risk research and education in Indonesia, and helping fund a new research project in sustainable agriculture at UMS.

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  • New Publication in Geosciences (IF2.4) on Savage-Hutter Model for seismic-shallow landslides, with statistical parameterization using an Elder-Mead optimization model

    4 weeks ago4 weeks ago
  • New Publication on the Noto Earthquake Land Deformation and how the changes affect floodplain flooding

    4 weeks ago4 weeks ago
  • JPGU: Noto Earthquake & EPS hacking sediment and pollutant cycles

    1 month ago
  • Collaborative manual of Sub-tropical and tropical geomorphology with Aditya Saputra is out.

    1 month ago1 month ago
  • 大海陸人の砂防セミナー Daikai Rikuto gave a seminar for High-School Students at Kobe University, to attract the next generation of researchers

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Undegraduate Education

INTRODUCTION TO GEOMORPHOLOGY

Powerpoint with all the introductory classes in Geomorphology (Eng/Jp)

2nd Year Geosciences (Q3) From the coast to the Abyss (and back up)

Lecture 1: About Landforms

Lecture 2: Coastal processes

Lecture 3: Submarine canyons, fans and channels

Lecture 4: Contourites

Lecture 5: Continental margins

Lecture 6: Tools in Geomorphology

Lecture 7: Climatic Geomorphology

Lecture 8: Volcanic Geomorphology

Lecture 9: Fluvial Geomorphology

Lecture 10: Coastal Geomorphology: tsunami as geomorphic processes

3rd Year Class on Natural Hazards & Disaster Risk

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Where and when disasters occur – powerpoint

Lecture 2: Where and when disasters occur questions

Lecture 3: Coastal cities and climate change

Lecture 4: The Christchurch earthquake

Lecture 5: Multihazards in Tokyo

Lecture 6 and 7: The tsunami in Banda Aceh

Lecture 8: Evacuation at Reunion Island (by Dr. J. Morin)

Lecture 9: Typhoon Morokot in Taiwan: mass movements borne disasters

Lecture 10: Factor of Safety for landslides

SABO is the science, engineering and art of sediment disaster risk reduction. It has no real equivalent in the Western part of the world, nor outside Asia. Although its detractor are often criticizing its impact on landscapes and ecological continuity, new solutions are today being developed, and one has to remember that it is a necessary response for island countries that sit on earthquake, heavy rainfalls, typhoons and heavy snowfall regions, even more so because short river system drain steep drainage basins.

At the laboratory, we are experimenting and working on different elements of SABO, but we are specialized on Volcanic Sabo, and volcanic Sabo for islands and island countries. If you are interested in working in the science and engineering of sediment transfer, erosion, deposition, disaster risk and if you want to understand the mechanisms behind the different landslides, slope collapses and debris flows, come and talk to us.

The summit of UnzenFugenDake