【Research Area 】　Area of Environmental Science (Number of Faculty: 12)

Name	English Name	Position	Research Field	Department in the Master's Course
浅枝 隆	Asaeda, Takashi	Professor	Aquatic Ecology	Environmental Science and Technology
Research fields are field and laboratory studies on interactions between biological, chemical and physical processes in rivers and lakes. Recent topics are 1) effects of dam construction, such as forestation in river channels, effects of discontinuity in material transports and faunal migration, 2) effects of sediments on aquatic plants, 3) element transport through aquatic plants, 4) physiological processes in fish and benthic invertebrates, 5) modeling of aquatic systems.
藤野 毅	Fujino, Takeshi	Associate Professor	Ecology	Environmental Science and Technology
Specialty: Environmental engineering. 1) Physical, chemical and biological characteristics of organic substances occurring in rivers and mountain streams, and their mutual interaction. 2) Management of heat in the urban environment.
長谷川 靖洋	Hasegawa, Yasuhiro	Associate Professor	Environmental Sensing and Ecoelectronics	Environmental Science and Technology
Specialty: Energy conversion engineering. Thermoelectric technology, which can convert from heat to electric power directly, is worthy of remark from the viewpoint of Global warming. Developments of thermoelectric materials have been performed to improve energy conversion efficiency by using nano-wire array structure, introducing the quantum effect to be able to improve the efficiency drastically.
石山 高	Ishiyama, Takashi	Visiting Associate Professor (Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, CESS)	Circulation of Environmental Chemicals	Environmental Science and Technology
Specialty: Development of analytical methods for simple and highly sensitive determination of harmful metals in aqueous environmental samples.　These analytical techniques without time-consuming and troublesome pretreatment are applied to the determination of trace arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead and zinc in soil, groundwater, river water and industrial wastewater.
門野 博史	Kadono, Hirofumi	Associate Professor	Environmental Sensing and Ecoelectronics	Environmental Science and Technology
Specialty: Statistical optics, laser speckle interferometry, measurements using biospeckle, measurements through light scattering. I am applying these non-contact, non-destructive, but highly sensitive optical techniques to measure the dynamic state of plants and hope to develop new environmental sensing technologies based on them.
河村 清史	Kawamura, Kiyoshi	Visiting Professor (Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, CESS)	Circulation of Environmental Chemicals	Environmental Science and Technology
Specialty: Environmental engineering. Research field: management and recycling of organic household wastes such as domestic wastewater and kitchen waste. I am especially interested in wastewater treatment technologies and systems for the former and integration of recycling technologies with social system for the latter.
三宅 潔	Miyake, Kiyoshi	Professor	Environmental Sensing and Ecoelectronics	Environmental Science and Technology
Specialty: Research and development of eco-electronics technology that will allow the creation of devices for communications and energy conversion that minimize the burden on the environment and use re-usable elements with high potential availability.
三輪 誠	Miwa, Makoto	Visiting Associate Professor (Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, CESS)	Circulation of Environ- mental Chemicals	Environmental Science and Technology
Specialty: Environmental botany. Especially, studies on the effects of environmental stresses, such as air pollutants, on plants. Research topics: the effects of elevated CO2 and O3 concentrations on the symbiotic system between trees and mycorrhizal fungi.
坂本 和彦	Sakamoto, Kazuhiko	Professor	Circulation of Environmental Chemicals	Environmental Science and Technology
Specialty: Environmental chemistry, aerosol science, environmental control engineering. Research topics: behavior of environmental pollutants in the atmosphere, generation mechanism of atmospheric pollution and development of pollutant emission control technology, and development of new methods for the measurement of pollutants.
豊岡 了	Toyooka, Satoru	Professor	Environmental Sensing and Ecoelectronics	Environmental Science and Technology
Specialty: Development of novel environmental sensing technology by measuring the response of (mainly) plants to pollutants. This is achieved through high-sensitivity non-contact sensing methods derived from new optical interferometric and spectroscopic techniques.
王 青躍	Wang, Qingyue	Associate Professor	Circulation of Environmental Chemicals	Environmental Science and Technology
Specialty: Effective utilization technologies for resources, analytical chemistry, biological environmental sciences, environmental control engineering and technologies. Research topics: Basic environmental chemistry (pollution mechanisms) and the source apportionment based on the measurement of air pollutants. Optimization of carbonization treatment processes for industrial and urban solid organic wastes. Systematic design for the effective energy conversion (e.g. gasification) of fossil fuels and renewable resources (e.g. biomasses).
山根 敏	Yamane, Satoshi	Associate Professor	Environmental Sensing and Ecoelectronics	Environmental Science and Technology
Specialty: Sensing and control engineering. Research topics: development of a robotic welding system by using intelligent control to reduce the load of workers in the industrial welding environment. Research on the evaluation of the expose risk in the electromagnetic environment due to electric current used in industrial processes.