Laboratory Training with Sawada-san

kaikikazanbear2 months ago2 months ago01 mins

This semester, Sho Sawada is teaching Laboratory skills to third year students, using part of his research on volcanic pumices. It provides a window on the research process to the younger generation.

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.

J.Y.Park’s new paper on Unzen and debris flow accepted in the International Journal of Erosion Control Engineering

Radon and Thoron Associated with Active Faults in Japan (new paper out)

Miho Nomura does river and marine microplastic and plasticizer research in Java (Indonesia)

ゴメス教授の流木研究調査・焼岳火山

博士課程の大海陸人さんがインドネシア・セメル火山火山にフィールド調査

Collaborative Paper led by A. Saputra on Covid and Heat Island effects in Indonesia has been published in Geographica Technica