Masayuki Kawahigashi

Dr Masayuki KAWAHIGASHI, Ph.D.

Department of Geography

Faculty of Urban Environmental Sciences

Tokyo Metropolitan University in Tokyo

Minamioosawa 1-1, Tokyo, 1920397 Japan

E-mail: kawahigashi-masayuki＠tmu.ac.jp

My major is chemistry and dynamics of soil organic matter, elemental dynamics in soil and river. I have experiences of field researches in south-east Asia, China, Mongolia and Siberia, mainly tracking organic substances as carriers for pollutants and metals, and also as carbon sink. Technogenic soils are also my big interests since my first participation to SUITMA7 in Poland. I struggle with the soils beneath asphalt, constructions and distributing in reclamation areas. Since I have engaged to faculty of agriculture for a long time, I have considered soils as natural body or media for plant productivity. But now I will have a wide view for soils after meeting to SUITMA. My researches are focusing on two main issues in SUITMA topics:

i) Dynamics of organic and inorganic carbon in soils containing artefacts

ii) Primary process in man-made soils

I am delegate of Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition and council of Japanese Society of Pedology.

Key SUITMA publications:

1. Kawahigashi, M. (2016) Specific properties of soils underneath pavement construction. In M.Levin and KH Kim Ed., Urban Soils. Catena Verlag, Germany, in press.
2. Batdulam, B. Bolormaa, O., Khakhinov, VV., Kawahigashi, M. (2016) Hydrochemical study and self purification process of tributaries of Lake Baikal. Proceedings of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 56, 65-79
3. Alidoust, D., Kawahigashi, M., Yoshizawa, S., Sumida, H., Watanabe, M. 2015 Mechanism of cadmium biosorption from aqueous solutions using calcined oyster shells. J. Environ. Manage., 150, 103-110.
4. Kida K., Kawahigashi, M. 2015 Influence of asphalt pavement construction processes on urban soil formation in Tokyo. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr., 61, 135-146.
5. Kawahigashi, M. 2015 Soils in urbanization. In Future and Present of soils, Japanese J. Science, 85, 11,pp1101-1102 (in Japanese)
6. Kawahigasih, M. 2015 Urban soils. In Secrets in soils, pp28-29 (in Japanese)

7. Kawahigashi M. Do NM., Nguyen BV., Sumida H. (2012) Effective land and water management for controlling solutes from acid sulfate soils in Mekong Delta paddy fields. Pedologist55: 458-465