Purpose
In this section, research is informed by predictions of environmental changes resulting from the effects of global warming and human conflict on the ocean environment and forest ecosystems. Based on new efforts in the area of active earthquake prediction, researchers in the Environmental Sciences Section are developing a type of future-oriented environmental earth science that is firmly tied to social interest in global ecosystem maintenance, disaster prevention and safety education.
Students analyze long-term environmental changes of the planet and the responses of various types of life forms to these environmental changes, as well as evolution and related models, in order to examine the magnitude of future global environmental changes and our response to them.
Topics covered include environmental change analysis on a molecular scale and the examination of biodiversity on a molecular level, environmental materials science that focuses on molecules, and science aimed at examining environmental problems, including ethical problems related to human survival and maintenance of the global ecosystem.
Faculty Members(2024)
| Name | Position | Department | Campus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hiroyuki Kimura | Professor | Environment and Energy Systems | Shizuoka |
| Masaki Shintani | Professor | Environment and Energy Systems | Hamamatsu |
| Satoru Morita | Professor | Environment and Energy Systems | Hamamatsu |
| Atsushi Kubo | Lecturer | Environment and Energy Systems | Hamamatsu |
| Tatsuhiko Kawamoto | Professor | Environment and Energy Systems | Shizuoka |
| Akihisa Kitamura | Professor | Environment and Energy Systems | Shizuoka |
| Shin’ichi Sato | Professor | Environment and Energy Systems | Shizuoka |
| Akira Tsukagoshi | Professor | Environment and Energy Systems | Shizuoka |
| Taketomo Fujiwara | Professor | Environment and Energy Systems | Shizuoka |
| Quan Wang | Professor | Environment and Energy Systems | Shizuoka |
| Hidemi Ishibashi | Associate Prof. | Environment and Energy Systems | Shizuoka |
| Rei Sonobe | Associate Prof. | Environment and Energy Systems | Shizuoka |
| Dur Gael | Associate Prof. | Environment and Energy Systems | Shizuoka |
| Ken’ichi Hirauchi | Associate Prof. | Environment and Energy Systems | Shizuoka |
| Yuta Mitsui | Associate Prof. | Environment and Energy Systems | Shizuoka |
| Yutaro Suzuki | Associate Prof. | ― | Shizuoka |
| Miki Tasaka | Associate Prof. | ― | Shizuoka |
| Legrand Julien | Assistant Prof. | ― | Shizuoka |
Faculty Members Attached to the Section
Yutaro Suzuki Associate Professor / Shizuoka
Research Area
Palaeozoology, Evolutionary Morphology, Functional Morphology
Research Detail
Understanding the morphology of extinct arthropods, especially those of trilobites, from the perspectives of organismal evolution and function
Miki Tasaka Associate Professor / Shizuoka
Research Area
Rock Mineral Physics
Research Detail
We use natural rocks and deformation experiments to understand how the Earth’s mantle deforms.
