Faculty Staff

Professor Koji FUJITA
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  • Change in Asian glaciers
  • Study on Asian ice cores
  • Stable water isotopes in Antarctic snow

    • Associate Professor Akiko SAKAI
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  • Hydrology of Asian glaciated regions
  • Expansion mechanism of glacier lakes
  • GAMDAM Glacier inventory

    • Assistant Professor Ken KONDO
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  • Hydrology of Asian glaciated regions
  • Glacier flow acceleration due to hydrological processes at bottom of Antarctic Ice Sheet

    • Post Doctoral Researcher

    Researcher: Christina DRAEGER
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  • Advancing global glacier mass balance and ice dynamics with physics-informed machine learning

    • Graduate Student

    M2: Mayu KITO

  • Precipitation and glacier mass balance

    • M1: Iroha KAWAGUCHI

  • Geomorophorogy of glacial lake dam

    • M1: Yumi OKUBO

  • Mass balance of impurity and its impact on glacier surface albedo

    • Under Graduate Student

    B4: Sojun UCHIKURA

  • TBD

    • B4: Yuya ARAI

  • TBD

    • Former members

    Mar 2026

    Ryu UEMURA, (Associate Professor)
    -> Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University
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  • Paleoclimate studies on ice cores and speleothem through stable isotopes

    • Kaoru KAWAKAMI (Researcher)
    -> Researcher, Tokyo Metropolitan Research Institute for Environmental Protection
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  • Climate reconstruction from Greenland ice cores

    • Sep 2025

    Nao ESASHI (D4) PhD
    -> Researcher, National Institute of Polar Research

  • Sources and controlling factors of atmospheric aerosols based on insoluble components preserved in ice cores

    • Mar 2025

    Yuta ARIMURA (M2)

  • Millennial-Scale Hydroclimate Variability from 92 to 49 Thousand Years Ago from a Speleothem in Subtropical Northwest Pacific

    • Saaya HAMAMOTO (M2)

  • Multi-Month Precision Age Scale of Greenland Ice Core for the Last 150 Years: Oxygen Isotope Synchronization with Models

    • Shunki OGAWA (M2)

  • Estimation of frontal ablation in the laketerminating glaciers of the Himalayas

    • Sep 2024

    Keita YASUE (M3)

    Mar 2024

    Purevdagva KHALZAN (D3) PhD
    -> Researcher, Information and Research Institute of Meteorology Hydrology and Environment, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

  • Glaciers and their contribution to river runoff in western Mongolia

    • Reo HOSHIYA (B4)

  • A seasonally-resolved 12-year record of triple oxygen isotopes from a Greenland ice core

    • Dec 2023

    Syed AZHARUDDIN (Researcher)

  • Stable isotopes in speleothem inclusion water

    • Mar 2023

    Naoya ISHIDA (M2)

  • Mass balance and surface albedo of Altai glaciers

    • Sep 2022

    Yota SATO (D3) PhD
    -> Researcher, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama
    -> Researcher, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Vienna
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  • Fluctuation processes of Himalayan debris-covered glaciers with high-resolution aerial photogrammetry

    • Mar 2022

    Orie SASAKI (Researcher)
    -> Researcher, Shibaura Institute of Technology
    -> Assistant Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo
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  • Glacio-hydrology of glacierized catchments

    • Sep 2021

    Weixi CHEN (M3)

  • Interaction between glacial lakes and glaciers in High Mountain Asia

    • Jul 2021

    Masahiro MINOWA (JSPS Researcher)
    -> Assistant Professor, ILTS, Hokkaido University
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  • Dynamics of calving glaciers

    • Mar 2021

    Yuka TANAKA (M1)

    Mar 2020

    Ryohei ITO (B4)

  • Dust impact on glacier mass balance and runoff

    • Oct 2019

    Sojiro SUNAKO (D5) PhD
    -> Researcher, Snow and Ice Research Center, NIED, Nagaoka
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  • Mass balance of Himalayan glacier

    • Mar 2019

    Koichi NISHIMURA, Professor Emeritus/Retired
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  • Avalanche and blowing snow dynamics

    • Akane TSUSHIMA (Researcher)
    -> PostDoc Researcher, Chiba University
    -> Technician, Nagasaki University
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  • Stable isotopes in ice core and tree ring

    • Asami KOMATSU (D3) PhD
    -> Japan Meteorological Association, Sapporo
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  • Blowing snow projection in Hokkaido

    • Hiroki TSUJI (M2)

  • Experimental study on water infiltration into snowpack

    • Apr 2018

    Cristina Carla PEREZ-GUILLEN (JSPS Researcher)
    -> PostDoc Researcher, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Switzerland

  • Avalanche study with seismometer

    • Mar 2018

    Reiko HIRATA (Secretary)

    Kozaburo OHTA (M2)

  • Elevation changes in glaciers in the Khumbu region, Nepal Himalaya revealed with oblique photographs

    • Yuki SHIGEOKA (M2)

  • Paleoclimate reconstruction in northern Japan during the last 400 years by spatiotemporal correlation analyses of tree-ring oxygen isotopic ratio

    • Mar 2017

    Hirofumi NIIYA (PostDoc Researcher)
    -> Assistant Professor, Niigata University
    -> Associate Professor, Niigata University
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  • Theoretical study for morphodynamics of sand dunes and snow avalanches

    • Sunal OJHA (D5) PhD
    -> Project Manager, Kathmandu University, Nepal

  • Monitoring of glaciers and their regional shrinkage over mid-eastern Himalaya using high resolution satellite observations

    • Takehiro SUZUKI (M2)

  • Effect of black carbon on water retention in snow layer

    • Mar 2016

    Damodar LAMSAL
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  • Changes in Himalayan glaciers with remote sensing data

    • Aug 2015

    Claire DONNELLY (Research Student)
    -> PhD Student, Bristol University

  • Avalanche hazard map around Mt. Fuji

    • Mar 2015

    Yu HOSHINA (D5) PhD
    -> PostDoc Researcher, Center for Global Environmental Research, NIES
    -> Science Communicator, Miraikan, Tokyo
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  • Post depositional changes in snow chemistry in inland Antarctica

    • Phuntsho TSHERING (M2) MSc
    -> Department of Geology and Mines, Bhutan

  • Geodetic mass balance of Gangju La Glacier in the Bhutan Himalayas

    • Yuta MATSUHASHI (M2) MSc

  • Grain size property of Gregoriev Ice Core

    • Mar 2014

    Takayuki NUIMURA (D5) PhD(Sc, Mar2011)
    -> PostDoc Researcher, Nagoya University
    -> Assistant Professor, Chiba Institute of Science
    -> Associate Professor, Tokyo Denki University
    -> Associate Professor, Senshu University
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  • Changes in Himalayan glaciers with remote sensing data

    • Shuhei TAKENAKA (Researcher)

  • Analysis of Himalayan glacial lakes

    • Kae TSUNEMATSU (PostDoc Researcher)
    -> Researcher, Mt. Fuji Research Institute, Yamanashi Prefecture
    -> Associate Professor, Yamagata University
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  • Volcanic plumes

    • Hiroto NAGAI (D4) PhD(Env)
    -> PostDoc Researcher, JAXA
    -> Assistant Professor, Waseda University
    -> Assistant Professor, Risho University
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  • Climatic and topographic influences on glacier distribution and debris-covered area formation in the Bhutan Himalaya

    • Keisuke MORI (M2) MEnv

  • Simulation and hazard map for avalanche

    • Dec 2013

    Satoshi OMIYA (PostDoc Researcher)
    -> PostDoc Researcher, Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region
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  • Electric charge of blowing snow particle

    • Nov 2013

    Yoichi ITO (PostDoc Researcher)
    -> PostDoc Researcher, Cemagref, France
    -> Snow and Ice Research Center, NIED, Nagaoka
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  • Drifting snow and avalanche

    • Oct 2013

    Keisuke TANIGUCHI (PostDoc Researcher)
    -> PostDoc Researcher, CRiED, Tsukba University
    -> Fukushima Prefecture
    -> Lecturer, National Institute of Technology, Tsuyama College, Okayama
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  • Wind dunes on Earth and Mars

    • Mar 2013

    Shun TSUTAKI (PostDoc Researcher)
    -> PostDoc Researcher, NIPR/ILTS
    -> PostDoc Researcher, JAXA
    -> PostDoc Researcher, AORI, University of Tokyo
    -> PostDoc Researcher, NIPR
    -> Assistant Professor, NIPR
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  • Interaction between glacier and glacial lake using a dynamics model

    • Kosei MURAKAMI (M2) MEnv

  • Trace elements in Gregoriev ice core, Inner Tien Shan

    • Chika YOKOYAMA (M2) MEnv

  • Particle size distribution in drifting snow

    • Tainien CHEN (M2) MEnv

  • Blower snow fence

    • Aki KOZAWA (B4) BGeogr

  • Climatic constraint on glacier distribution in the Asian highland

    • Mar 2012

    Jiro KOMORI (Assistant Prof.)
    -> Thimphu, Bhutan/GLOF project completed
    -> Lecturer, Teikyo Heisei University
    -> Associate Professor, Teikyo Heisei University
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  • Study on glacial lake outburst flood in the Bhutan Himalaya

    • Sachiko OKAMOTO (D4) PhD(Sc)
    -> PostDoc Researcher, RIKEN
    -> PostDoc Researcher, Center for Global Environmental Research, NIES
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  • Study on climatic proxies in ice cores from Mt. Belukha, Siberian Altai

    • Jan 2011

    Evgeniy A PODOLSKIY (D3) PhD(Sc, Jun2010)
    -> PostDoc Researcher, Nagoya University
    -> PostDoc Researcher, Cemagref, France
    -> Assistant Professor, Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University
    -> Associate Professor, Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University
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  • Studies on snow avalanche induced by earthquake

    • Sep 2010

    Yong ZHANG (D3) PhD(Sc)
    -> PostDoc Researcher, Department of Engineering, University Tokyo
    -> PostDoc Researcher, NIPR
    -> Professor, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China
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  • Debris mantle distribution and its effect on changes in surface elevation of Hailuogou glacier, southeastern Tibetan Plateau

    • Mar 2010

    Tomoki SATAKE (M2) MSc

  • Study on changes in distribution of seasonal snow cover during melting season in Tateyama region, the Japan Northern Alps

    • Tomokiyo YAMAMOTO (M2) MSc

  • Chemical analysis of a re-drilled ice core on Dunde Ice Cap, western China

    • Mar 2009

    Takashi SUZUKI (M2) MSc

  • Research on drifting snow dynamics with windtunnel experiment and numerical modeling

    • Mar 2008

    Yoshihiro MATSUDA (D5) PhD(Sc)
    -> PostDoc Researcher, HyARC, Nagoya Univ.(May-Dec2011)

  • Response of Asian glaciers to climate change

    • Mar 2007

    Yutaka AGETA, Professor Emeritus/Retired

  • Fluctuation of Asian glaciers

    • Chiyuki NARAMA (JSPS Researcher)
    -> PostDoc Researcher, RIHN
    -> Associate Professor., Niigata University
    -> Professor., Niigata University
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  • Fluctuation and hydrology of glaciers in Kyrgyz Tienshan

    • Tomohiro AKIYAMA (D4) PhD(Sc) PostDoc
    -> Researcher, Aichi University
    -> PostDoc Researcher, University of Tokyo
    -> Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo
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  • Ground water hydrology in hyper arid region

    • Ryohei SUZUKI (D3) PhD(Sc)

  • Thermal properties of debris-covered glacier

    • Kuniharu HIYAMA (M2) MSc

  • Fluctuation of Hamaguriyuki snow patch