Professor Koji Ikeuchi
Realization of a safe and prosperous society by disaster prevention and countermeasuresFocus on disaster prevention and mitigation against water-related disasters. Try to find adaptation method considering climate change under global warming. Use ICT on river management and risk management. Conduct research and education on reserve and reconstruct river envrionment.
Development of risk assessment method of water related disaster and proposal of strategic disaster mitigation methods
Analyze the damage situation of water-related disasters that occurred in recent years, identify risks that may become apparent is apparent, develop risk assessment methods, and systemize risks.
Proposal of adaptation methods considering climate change under global warming
Due to climate change accompanying global warming, the frequency of heavy rain will increase in the future and the risk of flood damage will also increase. On the other hand, it is expected that the economic activities of the company will change due to the declining population in Japan. Based on these circumstances, we will forecast how flood risk will change due to future natural and social environments, and propose adaptation methods from both hard and soft perspectives.
Development of new river management / crisis management method utilizing ICT and etc.
As the risk of floods increases due to climate change, the diversity and complexity of people's needs also increases, but the number of experienced technicians has declined. In order to tackle the problem, a new river management method using ICT, IoT, drone, LP and satellite image is developed.
results arehere， theses arehere
Project professor Akiyuki Kawasaki
Generating public interest through data integrationPromote research on data integration in water-related field. Systemize scientific knowledge and produce it to the society.
Simulate the inflow of power generation dam with high accuracy. Develope dam operation technique in order to improve power generation efficiency while mataing the flood control function.
In order to mitigate flood damage with extrem rainfall, the cost of power generation dam pre-discharge and the cost of damage due to unpredicted rainfall are compared. The flood control ability of power generation dam is therefore clear to the public.
Development of dam operating technique considering power generation and flood control in developing countries
In developing countries with data scarcity, the satellite data, in-situ data and numerical model are used to predict flood in semi-real time.
And a supporting system on power generation dam operating is developed considering flood control effect downstreams.
Social response on water-related disaster and disaster mitigation methods
Analyze the relationship between disaster and poverty in developing countries. Clerify the impact of flood on different social class from different department. With the integration of field investigation and inundation analysis, the strategy on local development is produced considering flood risk and residents' properties.
results are here， theses are here
Associate professor Takeyoshi Chibana
Understand and maintain our beautiful landscape and culture through potamologyEstablish and spread an innovative potamology focusing on river-building and river-activation which are suitable for next generation. Find strategy to maintain beautiful landscape in our country and the whole world.
Explain the mechanism of river morphology and landscape in our country
Be aware that the river landscape is not always static. It actually changes together with the local society and historical process. Try to understand the differences and analyse the reason of this change will help to forcast the change in the future.
Understand the features of people and land in mountainous areas, alluvial fan, meandering area and delta
It's important to understand the relationship between river landscape and people living there. From this point of view,
it's also meaningful to analyse the relationship of flood risk and micro topography, channel properties. Understand the agriculture,
forestry and fisheries condition and analyse their influence on the river landscape.
Investigate the activation of local residents in river. Propose strategy for future activation.
The situation of our rivers is getting worse these years. And those who care about that are getting old as well. In order to educate and cultivate young generation for river maintenance, we are discussing strategy on promoting education and experience among primary school students and arouse residents' concern about river.
results arehere， theses are here
Project Lecturer Satoshi Watanabe
Development and usage of forcasting system for a better future societyEstablish and spread an innovative potamology focusing on river-building and river-activation which are suitable for next generation. Find strategy to maintain beautiful landscape in our country and the whole world.
Usage of climate forcasting system in hydrological field
To forcast the climate change in hydrological field, it's necessary to have fully usage of climate forcasting information from climate field. Despite the techinique of tranforming information from global scale to local scale, development of technique getting knowledge from forcasting in large-scale region is also undergoing.
River/basin environment under climate change and depopulation condition
The river/basin evironment is largely affected by climate change and depopulation. Researchs are taken out to understand this impacet to water cycle and basin.
Understand the impact from natural environment and social economic to local society
Local societies in mountainous region and islands are especially sensitive to natural environment change (like climate change) and social economic change.
It's important to understand the influence of future change. Researches are taken out in these regions in order to solve problems about tourist industry.
results arehere， theses arehere
