Chidanau watershed, Indonesia

Concept

Human can’t live without soil:
Land Resource and Environmental Science

　　
　 As human population increase, high productive agricultural land is essential resource to increase food production in the world. However, many problems occur recently such as land devastation of salt accumulation in arid area, pollution of grand water and eutrophication of lake or sea caused by too much input of chemical fertilizer, water shortage for irrigation, and so on.Such environmental issues have relation to inappropriate soil and water management, so it is crucial to keep balance between increase of food production and environmental conservation.
　　
　　

To solve such difficult problems in the field, we need to understand the specific problems by universal principles of sciences and basic properties of nature; that is, scientific attitude is required. Especially, science and technology of soil and water are essential because water, nutrient, and energy cycling in/above soil restrict plant growth and human environment. On the other hand, in field sciences, we have to grasp essential processes and key parameter in relation to the whole, instead of merely analyzing each component separately. Also, we have to choose adequate methodology, depending on the object, but not depending on our preferences.In this Laboratory, students are studying soil and water sciences for basic knowledge. In addition, if it needed, we employ any approaches to solve the problem, such as Measuring and Monitoring in the field, Remote Sensing, GIS, Experiment in Labo, Computer Simulation.
　　“Object Oriented Research” style, it is our policy!!

by Professor　Sho Shiozawa