Division of Rural Communities and Environmental Sciences

Name of Advisory Professor	Univ.	Special Subject	Fields of Instruction and Research
KUSABA Motoaki	SAGA	Plant Pathology	Molecular genetics of plant-microbe interactions.
KONDO Fumiyoshi		Environmental Geotechnics	Study of physical, chemical and geotechnical properties of soft soil, and development of environmental material for soil improvement.
TANAKA Munehiro		Agriculture Engineering	Preservation of Agricultural products and sustainable utilization of biomass resources.
TOKUDA Makoto		System Ecology	Plant-herbivore interaction.
FUJIMURA Miho		Rural Sociology	Community organizations and environmental change in rural society.
YUGE Kozue		Irrigation engineering	Optimization of water management in farmlands and quantification of multifunctionality of irrigation water.
YOSHIGA Toyoshi		Nematology	Physiological and ecological studies on nematodes.
ANAN Mitsumasa		Water Environment in rural areas	Evaluation and optimization of agricultural water management.
INABA Shigeki		Agricultural Engineering	Fields of Instruction and Research Study of the agricultural machinery and information technology in agriculture.
KORIYAMA Masumi		Environment of Shallow Sea and Tidal Flat	Environmental Characteristics and Function in Shallow Sea and Tidal Flat Area.
TSUJI Kazunari		Farm Business Management	Administration and human resource development in agricultural management entities Agricultural structure in Southeast Asian developing countries.
TOKUMOTO Ieyasu		Environmental Soil Science	Development of measurements and analysis of water and nutrient cycles in agricultural fields.
DEMURA Mikihide		Bioresource Science of Microalgae	Studies of utilization of microalgae as a bioresource.
NAKAI Shinsuke		Ecological Anthropology, Human Geography	Natural resource use.
NISHIDA Sho		Plant Nutrition	Plant response to nutrient avaiabilty and improvement of crop.
HAYAMI Yuichi		Coastal Oceanography	Environmental dynamics of estuaries and coastal oceans
HARAGUCHI Tomokazu		Water Environment	Movement of load originated from agricultural fields, Conservation of water environment in water sheds.
MIYAMOTO Hideki		Environmental Soil Physics	Modeling of water, solute, heat, and gas transport within soil ecosystems.
AYMAN KHAMIS ELSAYED		Entomology	Ecological and taxonomic studies on insects
OTA Ikuo	RYUKYUS	Forest Policy	Comparative study on international forestry related institution and sustainable management.
KAJITA Tadashi		Plant Diversity Science	Plant diversity studies involving Systematics, Phylogeography and Population Genetics.
KITOU Makoto		Plant Nutrition	Nitrogen and phosphorus nutrition of leguminous plants.
KONOSHIMA Masashi		Forest resource economics, Forest planning & management	Optimization Modeling and Mathematical Modeling for Forest Resource Utilization and Management
SAKAI Kazuhito		Environmental Hydrology	Analysis of material cycle in agricultual watersheds.
SHIKANAI Takeshi		Agricultural Machinery Systems and Information Technology	Research and development of agricultural production systems utilizing information science.
SUGIMURA Yasuhiko		Agricultural Economics	Agricultural Policy and Agricultural Marketing.
TAIRA Eizo		Agricultural environmental engineering	Quality evaluation of agricultural products using non-destructive measurement.
TANIGUCHI Shingo		Forest science	Silvics forest ecology Tree-reproduction reproductive physiology
TABA Satoshi		Plant pathology	Diagnosis and development of environmentally friendly control method for subtropical plant diseases.
TSUJI Mizuki		Evolutionary Ecology	Integrative studies on individuals, populations and ecosystems from the evolutionary perspectives.
NAITOH Shigeyuki		Agricultural Marketing	Agricultural Marketing and food distribution.
NAKAMURA Shinya		Geoenvironmental Engineering	Sustainable Land-Use and Landslide Studies in Rural Regions.
YAMAOKA Masaru		Sustainable development technologies for rural areas	Establishment of Biomass Circulation System in Rural Area.
KINJO Kazutoshi		Soil Science	Soil and Environmental Science.
KIMURA Sho		Regional disaster prevention	Soil physics and mechanics for environmental conservation and landslide in rural regions.
SHIMOJI Hiroyuki		Evolutionary Ecology	Evolutionary ecology in social insects.
CHEN, Bixia		Human-Environmental Sciences	Appropriate utilization, conservation of the built environment, and culturally preserved forests and landscapes
SEKINE Ken-Taro		Plant Virology	Control of the viral diseases in subtropical plants.
TSURUI Kaori		Behavioral Ecology	Behavioral ecology, conservation biology, and applied entomology in insects and fish.
NAKANDAKARI Tamotsu		Water Environment Engineering	Hydraulic approach on transport phenomena of silt and clay particles.
YAMAMOTO Junko		Farm Management	Clarification of management and support measures on farm succession.
RAZAFINDRABE Bam H.N.		Disaster Risk Management and Integrated Watershed Management	Water and Sediment related Disaster Risk Management and Integrated Watershed Management.
WATANABE Shin		Environmental science and conservation biology intensive lecture	Elucidation of Relationship between ecological niche of mangrove tree species and the physiological tolerance to environmental stresses.
TAKASHIMA Atsushi		Forest Planning	Forest management, Forest conservation and sustainable use.
MATSUURA YU		Symbiotic Microbiology	Evolutionary biology, molecular biology and developmental biology of microbial symbionts in insects
LEE, Jaehyeon	KAGOSHIMA	Farm Business Management	Farm Management Strategy in Food System.
SAKAI Norio		Agricultural Economics	Agricultural policy and agricultural structure.
SAKAI Masao		Soil Science	Analysis of the structure and function of soil ecosystem and utilization of soil microbial function.
SAKAMAKI Yositaka		Systematics	Morphological and behavioral studies on terrestrial arthropoda.
YUTAKA Tomoyuki		Agricultural Marketing	Conduct and Performance of Agricultural Marketing and Distribution.
NISHINO Yoshihiko		Wood Engineering	Wood physics and technology.
IKENAGA Makoto		Soil Microbiology	Microbial diversity and function in soil and plant-associated ecosystems, Characterization and classification of novel microorganism.
ITO Yuji		Water Resources	Hydrologic approach on conservation and management of fresh water resources.
UGAWA Shin		Silviculture and Forest Ecology	Development of silviculture techniques, Clarification of maintenancy mechanism of tree ecosystems.
KAMITANI Yoshinori		Food safety and Engineering	Engineering approach on The matters of food safety.
KANDA Eiji		Agricultural Meteorology	Development of crop model and analysis of agricultural information.
TERAMOTO Yukiyoshi		Erosion Control	Mechanism and prediction of sediment disaster.
CHISHAKI Naoya		Plant Nutrition	Physiological disorder of plant.
NAKAMURA Masayuki		Plant pathology	Analysis of pathogenicity and virulence factors in phytopathogens.
HATA Kunihiko		Forest Protection	Control of Forest Pests, Ecology of Forest organisms.
HAMANAKA Daisuke		Postharvest Science and Technology	Shelf-life extension of fruits and vegetable. Food preservation, Food Safety.
AKAGI Isao		Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	Behavior and distribution of trace elements in agro-ecosystem.
EIMURA Naoko		Forest Protection	Ecology and ontrol of forest organisms
OKUYAMA Yoichiro		Forest Policy	Socio-economic conditions for sustainable forest resource management.
SAKUMA Yoshiaki		Fisheries Management	Socioeconomic Analysis of Fisheries Management Policy.
SANO Masaaki		Fisheries Economics	Economical analysis of fisheries industry.
KUGA Mizuho		Fisheries Economics	Economic analysis of fisheries industr.
TORII Takashi		Fisheries Economics	Economic analysis of the fisheries industry.