Faculty Members

"○"at the column of faculty name refers to a faculty who is qualified for research guidance.

A building name and room number are shown at the column under a faculty member name.

【FA】Faculty of Agriculture
【AC】Arid Land Research Center
【FR】Faculty of Regional Sciences
【UE】University Education Building

Faculty Members of Department of Dryland Science

Field of Education and Research	Position	Name and room No.	Research key words
Remote Sensing Hydrology	Prof.	○ Ayele Alemaw FENTA 【AC　A208】	Hydrology, Watershed Management, Ecosystem Services, Soil Erosion, Remote Sensing
Sustainable Land Management	Prof.	○ Nigussie Haregeweyn AYEHU 【AC　A208】	Land degradation, Sustainable land management, Integrated watershed management, Spatial analysis, Haydrologic modeling
Soil and Water Management	Prof.	○ Koji INOSAKO 【FA　A-2130】	Restoration of farm land Soil-Plant-Atmospheric continuum system Irrigation and drainage Desalinization Environmental biophysics
Dryland Environmental Resources	Prof.	○ Tsuneyoshi ENDO 【FA　A-1640】	Soil resources, Irrigated agriculture, Behavior of salts, Soil salinization, Environmental remidiation
Construction and Management Engineering of Facility in Rural Regions	Prof.	○ Hidehiko OGATA 【FA　A-2180】	Irrigation and drainage facilities, Farm road, Functional diagnosis, Stock management, Frost damage
Dryland Climatology	Prof.	○ Yasunori KUROSAKI 【AC　B301】	Climatology & meteorology, Aeolian dust, Wind erosion, Climatic variation, Desertification
Agricultural Water Use and Management	Prof.	○ Katsuyuki SHIMIZU 【FA　A-2160】	Agricultural water use, Field hydrology, Assessment of water delivery performance, Soil salinization, Micro hydropower
Renewable Energy Engineering	Prof.	○ Kotaro TAGAWA 【FR　3570】	Solar and wind energy, Energy generation and conversion, Evaluation of energy system, Desalination, Heat and mass transfer
Conservation Informatics	Prof.	○ Atsushi TSUNEKAWA 【AC　A207】	Environmental evaluation and modeling, Remote sensing, GIS, Regional environmental planning, Sustainable Land Management
Climate Risk Management	Prof.	○ Mitsuru TSUBO 【AC　A209】	Agrometeorology, Micrometeorology, Crop model, Drought, Climate-smart agriculture
Crop Production in Drylands	Prof.	○ Eiji NISHIHARA 【FA　A-1660】	Medicinal plants, Allelopathy, Mitigation of replant problem, LED light in plant factory, Biochar
Irrigation and Drainage in Drylands	Prof.	○ Haruyuki FUJIMAKI 【AC　A314】	Water-saving irrigation, Water harvesting, Leaching, Salinization, Erosion
Agricultural Development Studies	Prof.	○ Kumi YASUNOBU 【FA　A-4310】	Area studies, Farm management studies, Technology diffusion, Rural development, Common resource management
Plant Nutrition	Prof.	○ Satoshi YAMADA 【FA　Ａ-2650】	Salinity, Mineral absorption, Crop quality, Aquaponics, Water saving
Environmental Soil Science	Prof.	○ Sadahiro YAMAMOTO 【FA　A-1650】	Conservation oriented agriculture, Salt affected soils, Soil quality assesment, Soil organic matter, Soil formation and classification
Agricultural Extension Studies	Assoc. Prof.	Asres Elias BAYSA 【FA　A-3280】	Agricultural extension studies, Gender and development, Agricultural economics, Rural development, Africa
Plant Eco-Physiology	Assoc. Prof.	○ Ping AN 【AC　A311】	Environmental stresses, Tolerance Mechanisms , Dry lands agriculture, Saline soils, Halophytes
Plant Cytogenetics	Assoc. Prof.	Takayoshi ISHII 【AC　A308】	Germplasm enhancement, Wide hybridization, Chromosome elimination, Genome editing (CRISPR), New breeding techniques (NBT)
Dryland Restoration and Conservation Ecology	Assoc. Prof.	○ Toshihiko KINUGASA 【FA　A-1670】	Arid and semi-arid grassland, Global environmental change, Human disturbance, Secondary succession, Plant matter production
Meteorology in Drylands	Assoc. Prof.	○ Reiji KIMURA 【AC　B303】	Climatology-Meteorology, Land atmosphere interaction, Atmospheric boundary layer, Satellite, Hazard map
Land Environment and Conservation	Assoc. Prof.	○ Tadaomi SAITO 【FA　A-2120】	Soil water and solute movement, Interaction among soil, water and vegetation, Soil erosion, Environmental measurement techniques, UAV(Drone)
Microbiology in Drylands	Assoc. Prof.	○ Takeshi TANIGUCHI 【AC　A217】	Microbial ecology, Ecosystem restoration, Use of rhizosphere microorganisms, Metagenome, Mycorrhizal fungi
Facilities and Environmental Materials	Assoc. Prof.	○ Masahiro HYODO 【FA　A-2170】	Buried pipe, Evaluation of the residual strength , Environmental materials, Restoration of aquatic environment, Industrial by-product
Aquatic Environmental Science	Assoc. Prof.	○ Yuri YAMAZAKI 【FA　A-2150】	Environmental impact assessment of agricultural catchments, Nitrogen run-off control, Environmentally friendly grazing, WEBGIS-based hydrological model, UAV Smart Agriculture
Terrestrial carbon cycle	Assis.Prof.	Munemasa TERAMOTO 【AC　B201】	Global warming, Soil respiration, Carbon cycle, Terrestrial ecosystems, Greenhouse gas