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学士(Undergraduate)

University of Tsukuba

• 農学･環境科学 (Agriculture & Environmental sciences)

earthquake physics, weather forecasting, forest hydrology, permafrost creep, GIS (geographical information systems)

Japanese, English

The College of Geoscience of the University of Tsukuba is top-ranked in Japan and is known for its outstanding research at an international level. Pioneering research of our College includes earthquake physics, weather forecasting, forest hydrology, permafrost creep, GIS (geographical information systems) and many more.

The Earth is a unique planet with a history of 4.6 billion years. It has abundant water which forms the basis for life, including human life. Geoscience addresses issues relating to the evolution of the Earth, the natural processes on the Earth’s surface, in the Earth's atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and the interactions between natural environments and human activities.

The main applications of geoscience are: environmental protection from local to global scales, restoration from environmental damage, exploration and responsible development of natural resources (oil, gas, coal, minerals, construction aggregate, water, soil), mitigation of geohazards such as earthquakes and landslides, as well as forecasting climate change and its impacts.

As human population numbers continue to increase, our planet will be put under increasing stress, and managing our environment will become more important. Remediation of polluted industrial sites requires specialized knoweldge and understanding, and is becoming more important.

The US government predicts an 18% growth in the number of positions for geoscientists and hydrologists between 2008 and 2018, underscoring the need for well trained specialists in the geo-environmental sciences.
Program webpage

• Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Triassic, conodont, graptolite, tentaculite
• Tectonics, Geodynamics, Structural Geology, Accretionary prism, Faults, Ophiolite, Mid-Oceanic Ridge
• Igneous Petrology, petrology of volcanic rocks, Isotope Geology, Chronology, Geochemistry
• Hydrometeorology, Surface Hydrology, Land-Atmosphere interaction, Boundary Layer Meteorology
• tsunami; tsunami deposit; paleo-earthquake; Nankai Trough; Indian Ocean; stratigraphy; sedimentology
• water environment, lake, environmental monitoring, sustainability science, modeling
• Geomorphology, Hydrogeomorphology, landslide, erosion, weathering
• Sedimentary Petrology, Tectonics
• Geomorphology, Permafrost
• Rural Geography
• Igneous Petrology・Economic Geology・Geochemistry・Volcanology
• accretionary tectonics
• Environmental Hydraulics, Ecological Hydraulics, Tidal Lagoon, Brackish Lake, Habitat Evaluation , Semi-arid, Groundwater, Salt Water Intrusion
• Economic geology
• Human Geography, Regional Geography, Tourism, Ski Resort, Europe, Austria
• Mineralogy, Trace element analysis, Hydrogen analysis, Mineral chemistry, Fluid inclusion, PIXE, LA-ICP-MS
• Urban climate, Local meteorology, Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Numerical simulation, Synoptic-scale Weather in East Asia, Weather forecast, Global warmin
• Mineralogy, Inorganic Chemistry, Crystallography, Syntheses, High temperature and high pressure
• stable isotope geochemistry, mass spectrometry, mass extinction event, ground water
• Geography of culture, Geography of religion, Geography of tourism
• Indigenous peoples' rights and biodiversity , Environmental history and policy, Water ethics and water rights, The creation of a new watershed studies based on history and environmental ethics,traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples
• Geomorphology, Geocryology, Permafrost, Periglacial environment, Alpine geomorphology, Weathering, Slope processes
• Remote sensing , GIS, Geo-ecology
• human geography, agricultural geography, GIS(geographical information systems/science)
• Geography, GIS, Geographical Information Science, Spatial Analysis, Urban/Tranasport Geography
• Hydrogeomorphology, Hillslope Hydrology, Landslides, Geomorphic development Environmental isotopes
• soil erosion, gully erosion, mass movement
• radiolarians, conodonts, paleogeography, Paleozoic and Mesozoic
• tsunami deposit, biomarker, climate change, the Quaternary, stable isotpoe ratio, radiocarbon
• Boundary Layer Meteorology, Hydrology, Atmosphere-surface interaction, atmospheric turbulence, Interaction of Hydrosphere with atomosphere and biosphere in Northeastern Asia, Hydrologic Cycle in the Kasumigaura lake basin, Nile Delta
• Atmospheric science, General circulation of the atmosphere, Atmospheric dynamics
• isotope hydrology, tracer hydrology, hydrological cycle in watershed, hydrogeomorphology, age dating of water using CFCs, groundwater and surface water interaction water resources in arid/ semi-arid regions
• metamorphic rock, granulite, crustal evolution, Precambrian, fluid inclusion, Gondwana
• Urban Geography, Australian Studies, Geographic Information System
• Meteolorogy & climatology, Land-atmosphere interaction, mountain weather and water cycle weather variability in the Tibet/Himalayas and monsoon Asia
• accretionary prism, subduction zone, fault, earthquake faulting, frictional property, deep ocean drilling
• Source rupture process of Large earthquake
• Hydro-eco-atmospheric science, Isotope tracers, Environmental circulatory system structure
• Regional Geography, Environmental Study, Geographic Information System, Water Environment in Urban Area, Water Supply and Demand on Watershed Scale
• Ethnic Geography, Urban social geography, Geography of China and Southeast Asia