Members
Meet our members for a long-term monitoring project of Lake Kasumigaura.
Water quality monitoring
Ayato KOZU (Head)
- Section:
- Lake and River Environment Section, Regional Environment Conservation Division
- Speciality:
- Material cycling in freshwater ecosystems, and bio-geochemical cycles by the stable isotope ratios
- Subject:
- Sediment core sampling, elemental analysis of the sediment samples
- Chemical analysis of the extracted pore water
- Measurement of stable isotope ratios
- Email:
- kohzu
- Research task of the project:
- Nitrogen metabolism in the water column
- Carbon sequence within sediment, nutrient flux from sediment,
- Research in material cycling by using
Ryuuichiro SHINOHARA (Senior Researcher)
- Section:
- Lake and River Environment Section, Regional Environment Conservation Division
- Speciality:
- Ecological engineering
- Subject:
- Phosphorus biogeochemistry
- Email:
- r-shino
- Research task of the project:
- Speciation of inorganic and organic phosphorus compounds in sediment and suspended particles in Lake Kasumigaura
Kenji TSUCHIYA (Researcher)
- Section:
- Lake and River Environment Section, Regional Environment Conservation Division
- Speciality:
- Limnology
- Subject:
- Water quality
- Bacteria
- Email:
- tsuchiya.kenji
- Research task of the project:
- Spatiotemporal variation in bacterial production
Biology and ecosystem monitoring
Ryuhei UENO (Senior Researcher)
- Section:
- Biodiversity Resource Conservation Office, Biodiversity Division
- Speciality:
- Limnology, Animal taxonomy
- Subject:
- benthic macroinvertebrates
- Email:
- uenor
- Research task of the project:
- Collection with an Ekman-Birge grab, identification and biomass-monitoring of benthic macroinvertebrates
Shin-Ichiro MATSUZAKI (Senior Researcher)
- Section:
- Biodiversity Resource Conservation Office, Biodiversity Division
- Speciality:
- Fish ecology, Limnology, Conservation ecology
- Subject:
- Fish
- Email:
- matsuzakiss
- Research task of the project:
- Analyzing the impacts of human activities on long-term trends in communities and ecosystem services
- Food web analysis based on stable isotopes
- Promoting long-term monitoring research through JaLTER activities
Megumi NAKAGAWA (Specialist)
- Section:
- Biodiversity Resource Conservation Office, Biodiversity Division
- Speciality:
- Limnology, Plankton ecology
- Subject:
- Phytoplankton
- Primary production
- Zooplankton
- Bacteria
- Protozoa
- Research task of the project:
- Phytoplankton identification and counting
- Development of monitoring methods
Megumi YOSHIBA (Specialist)
- Section:
- Biodiversity Resource Conservation Office, Biodiversity Division
- Speciality:
- Limnology
- Subject:
- Bacteria
- Pico-phytoplankton
- Benthos
- Protozoa
- Research task of the project:
- Sample treatment and counting
Kumiko TOTSU (Specialist)
- Section:
- Biodiversity Division
- Speciality:
- Database, Conservation ecology
- Subject:
- Web development
- Database management
- Email:
- biodiv.data
- Research task of the project:
- Website development
- Database management
- Data submission to JaLTER and GBIF
Previous members (2010 onwards)
Akio IMAI (Fellow)
- Section:
- Planning Department
- Speciality:
- Water environmental engineering
- Subject:
- Water quality in general
- Dissolved organic matter
- Sediment pore water
- Email:
- aimai
- Research task of the project:
- Origin, function, and dynamics of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter in aquatic environments
- Estimation of sediment fluxes of dissolved organic matter and nutrients
- Elucidation of mechanism for algal blooms in lake environments
Noriko TAKAMURA (Fellow)
- Section:
- Biodiversity Division
- Speciality:
- Freshwater ecology
- Subject:
- Plankton
- Primary production
- Email:
- noriko-t
- Research task of the project:
- Long-term monitoring to understand lake ecosystems
Noriko TOMIOKA (Senior Researcher)
- Section:
- Environmental Systems Engineering Section, Regional Environment Conservation Division
- Speciality:
- Microbial ecology
- Subject:
- Water quality analysis
- DNA analysis
- Email:
- tomioka
- Research task of the project:
- Study of dynamics of cyanobacterial biomass
Komatsu KAZUHIRO (Senior Researcher)
- Section:
- Lake and River Environment Section, Regional Environment Conservation Division
- Speciality:
- Limnology, Environmental engineering
- Subject:
- Water quality in lakes and rivers
- Email:
- kkomatsu
- Research task of the project:
- Characterization of DOM (dissolved organic matter) in lakes
- Method development of measuring primary productivities by detecting chlorophyll fluorescence
* The members as of the 1st of October 2023 are shown above. Please add @nies.go.jp for email addresses.
Predecessors as of April 2003
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Chronological table of predecessors (1976-2020)
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