November 2022
FY2022 Coastal Engineering Paper Award
The following paper, published in Journal of JSCE B2 (Coastal Engineering), received Coastal Engineering Paper Award from the JSCE Coastal Engineering Committee. This research focused on a blue carbon function of Tokyo Bay, one of the world's representative urban bays. This paper reported on the continuous observation of partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2) in the surface seawater in a harbor using an inexpensive and practical handmade sensor system. Congratulations to Masanori Endo, Project Academic Specialist, and SUN Jing, 2nd-year master's student. Publication Endo, M., Sun, Jing and Sasaki, J.: Continuous observation of partial pressure of carbon dioxide in winter at a port in the head of Tokyo Bay. Journal […]
Seminar by Prof Changsheng CHEN on November 2022
A seminar was held inviting Prof. Changsheng CHEN, a project professor (Montgomery Charter Chair Professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth), both in person and online on Kashiwa Campus, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, on November 18, 2022. The title of the talk was "Potential Impacts of Offshore Renewable Wind Energy Development on Marine Environment over the US Northeast." The talk was on predicting and evaluating the impact on coastal circulation, environmental fields, and aquatic resources such as scallops regarding offshore wind power generation plans along the North Atlantic coast of the United States. The presentation used many easy-to-understand animations and there was a lively Q&A […]