Dear PARE
Members,
How are you getting a long? Autumn
is coming. Colors change from green to yellow, red and gold. Those are awesome.
Never have I seen the scene this beautiful before.
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| Ginkgo Street of Hokkaido University |
In this beautiful season, I conduct
my research in Laboratory of Groundwater and Mass Transport, Division of Sustainable
Resource Engineering, Hokkaido University. The researches in our laboratory are
mainly concerned with terrestrial and environmental problems. Basic knowledge
on movement of groundwater and contaminants is necessary to conduct research in
our laboratory. The transport phenomena of groundwater and contaminant are
closely connected with geological structure and chemical-biochemical reactions
of materials. Therefore, there is an emphasis on the researches based on earth
chemistry, multi-phase fluid dynamics and environmental radioactivity. Some of
researches conducted in our laboratory are the following; Removal of heavy
irons from waste water, Acid mine drainage, Groundwater and mass transport,
Groundwater dating and Biological cycle in nature.
To support the researches, there are
sophisticated tools and instruments for conducting experiments in our
laboratory. We can investigate almost all chemical components of the solid and
liquid materials such as water, rock, soil, trees, etc. Although it is fascinated,
we must be careful of that instrument. It’s because the price is very expensive.
As well as I know, the price is around 5-50 Million Japan Yen per instrument.
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| Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (MS) and Optical Emission Spectrometry (OES) |
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| ION-Matography (Anion and Cation) |
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| Laboratory Preparation Room |
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| Hydraulic Pump |
In addition, our laboratory also
hold seminar every week on Wednesday. Every student must prepare some
presentation to the seminar turn by turn. Mostly, the topics are about the
knowledge from published paper, book, and experiment. Even for newcomer, we
have to present about ourselves, our country, foods in our country, our home
university, and our research plan.
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| Our sensei explains something during seminar |
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| Nohara san (my lab friend) discusses about his experiment |
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| Equation in Kanji is difficult to understand |
That’s all for this autumn in our
laboratory (Groundwater and Mass Transport). Please don't forget to keep your health to enjoy it.
Regards,
Shofa
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