Education
A graduate has won the Award in ADB-JSP Thesis of the Year 2025
Kyaw Soe Win, a master’s graduate from the Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies, has been awarded 3rd Place in the Rural Development and Environment Cluster of the Asian Development Bank–Japan Scholarship Program (ADB-JSP) Thesis of the Year Award 2025. His thesis, titled “Change Detection of Mangrove Forests Using Deep Learning with Medium-Resolution Satellite Imagery: A Case Study of Wunbaik Mangrove Forest, Myanmar,” explored the application of deep learning models with the multi-temporal and multi-source imagery to monitor long-term changes in mangrove ecosystems, contributing to improved accuracy and valuable information for effective conservation strategies in Myanmar. Source: ADB Japan Funds Facebook Page
April 2025 Lab's welcome party
In April 2025, two doctoral students and two research students joined our laboratory. In addition, one special research student has joined us as a visiting student for six months since January 2025. The welcome party for new students were held in the 6th floor lounge of the Environmental Studies Building on April 14th, 2025.
Research Introduction Video by SPRING GX Student Xinlei Shao
The "Fostering Advanced Human Resources to Lead Green Transformation (GX)" project proposed by Professor Shin-ichi Ohkoshi (Project officer) has been accepted as a program for Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by Next Generation (SPRING) of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) since Autumn 2021. Hereinafter this project is referred to as "SPRING GX". Currently, 1154 doctoral students from across all schools of the University of Tokyo participate in this project. Xinlei Shao, a third-year doctoral student from our laboratory, is a current participant in this program. Her research focuses on developing a novel method for monitoring coral reef conditions by integrating underwater imaging hardware with computer vision models. Videos introducing […]
Lab's farewell in September 2024
On September 20th, 2024, the commencement for September graduates was held, and four students in the laboratory were awarded a Master's degree in Environmental Studies. Congratulations! We wish you all the best as you enter the world of work. We were photographed by the Public Relations Office at GSFS, which was posted on X. Group photo in the student room
Presentation Award in the Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences Section at the 2023 Congress of the Japan Geoscience Union
Wataru Nakamura, Ph.D. candidate (3rd-year), received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award in the Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences Section at the 2023 Congress of the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU Meeting 2023). The title of the presentation was "Inorganic carbon cycle in mangrove soils and possibility for assimilation of outwelled mangrove carbon in seagrass and coral ecosystems." In the presentation, the carbon cycle among mangroves, seagrasses, and coral reef ecosystems was discussed using radiocarbon isotopes as a tracer. Congratulations!
Seminar by a visiting Ph.D. candidate from the UK in April 2023
Ph.D. candidate from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, visited our laboratory and gave a seminar on April 10, 2023. The lecture's title was "Using Fractals to approximate riverbeds for realistic flow analysis." It would be a valuable technique for creating high-resolution spatiotemporal data. After the seminar, we held a reception party to deepen our friendship.
Lab's farewell party in March 2023
The commencement for the graduate school was held on March 23rd and the graduation ceremony for the undergraduate school was held on March 24th. One master’s student and one undergraduate student from our laboratory were awarded degrees. Congratulations! Lab's farewell party
Best Poster Award at the 70th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (ESJ70)
Wataru NAKAMURA, a Ph.D. candidate and Phyo Thet Naing, a former master student, received the Best Poster Award in the Material Cycling Section at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (ESJ70). The title of the poster is Carbon and nutrient cycling among mangrove-seagrass-coral continuum in the Fukido estuary, Ishigaki Island, Japan." Congratulations!
Seminar by Reader from University of East London in February 2023
We invited Ravindra Jayaratne, a reader (equivalent to associate professor) at University of East London, to the University of Tokyo for one week in late February 2023. On February 27, we asked him to give a lecture at our laboratory seminar.
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 […]