Members of the International Graduate Program in the Natural History Sciences
Professors
Junji
Koyama
e-mail: "koyama" before "@MANDE001.sci.hokudai.ac.jp"
Kosuke Heki
Any scientific topics related to space geodesy are pursued. They include, positioning with GNSS, gravimetry by GRACE, measurements of earth rotation. and planetary geodesy. Topics include seismology, tectonics, and environmental sciences.
e-mail: "heki" before "@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp"
Shoshiro Minobe (physical oceanographer and meteorologist)
I am interested in air-sea interaction, interannual-to-decadal variability in the atmosphere and ocean, influence of climate changes to ecosystems. I work using data analysis and numerical modelings, including ocean general circulation models and a regional atmospheric model.
e-mail: "minobe" before "@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp"
Kiyoshi Yomogida
My research field mainly covers laterally heterogeneous structure of the Earth. While new theoretical and numerical methods are developed on seismic wave propagation, I always consider their application to seismic data, covering both global and local scales.
e-mail: "yomo" before "@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp"
Associate Professors
Masaru Inatsu
The major research topics are global-to-synoptic scale atmospheric circulation and climate variability mainly by using numerical models or observational data. Atmospheric multi-scale interaction, air-sea interaction, and impacts of climate changes have also been studied with the other researchers.
e-mail: "inaz" before "@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp"
Kazuhisa Chikita
e-mail: "chikita" before "@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp"
Masato Furuya
Masato Furuya's research interests are to employ modern geodetic techniques to observe slow but measurable phenomena, and to better understand them by devising quantitative models. He has been studying crustal mechanics, including earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and interaction between the solid Earth and its fluid envelope.
e-mail: "furuya" before "@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp"
Kazunori Yoshizawa
My major research interests are the study of the Earth's internal structure and dynamics using seismological approaches on regional and global scales, seismic wave propagation in 3-D complex media, waveform analysis of seismic waves and the development of seismological inversion techniques.
e-mail: "kazu.yoshizawa" before "@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp"
Earth and Planetary System Science
Professors
Noriyuki Suzuki
Hydrocarbon geology and geochemistry. Sedimentology and sedimentary sciences. Studies on the change and evolution of Earth system and the conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources.
e-mail: "suzu" before "@sci.hokudai.ac.jp"
Mitsuhiro Nakagawa
e-mail: "mnakagawa" before "@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp"
Hisayoshi Yurimoto (Geochemistry, Cosmochemistry)
I am interested in the origin and evolution of the solar system. I also study the origin and evolution of Earth. This research is carried out on meteorites from asteroids, Moon and Mars, and on terrestrial samples
e-mail: "yuri" before "@ep.sci.hokudai.ac.jp"
Takaya Nagai
My research interests cover the wide range in the field of mineralogy. Especially, mineral stabilities, phase transformations, strcutural modifications at high pressure and high temperature attract me in order to understand the mineral behavior in the Earth's interior. Recently, our research group tackles some specific issues such as diamond formation at the lower mantle, cation order-disorder in oxide perovskites, aragonite formation in coral skeletons, hydrogen bondings in minerals at high pressure and so on.
e-mail: "nagai" before "@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp"
Associate Professors
Lecturer
Tsuyoshi Watanebe
e-mail: "nabe" before "@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp"
Professor
Toru Mogi
My major research interests are the study of the subsurface structure of seismogenic areas and volcanoes using electromagnetic method and electromagnetic field variations relating to seismic and volcanic activities.
e-mail: "mogitisv" before "@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp
My research interests are source processes of large earthquakes. Seismic waveforms, tsunami waveforms, and geodetic data are used to study the source processes of recent large earthquakes. Numerical simulation of tsunami is also carried out to model tsunami waveforms observed in the world.
e-mail: "tanioka" before "@mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jp"
Associate Professors
Takeshi Hashimoto
My research background is geophysics. Especially, I have been interested in volcano physics and geomagnetism. My recent studies are focused on the applications of magnetic and electric methods to active volcanoes, based on field observations with modeling of thermal processes and subsurface structure.
e-mail: "hasimoto" before "@uvo.sci.hokudai.ac.jp"
The Hokkaido University Museum
Professor