AWARD
10. Award of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology: 4 June 2022, The Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology
9. Award of Japan Society of Protistology: Nov 2018, The Japan Society of Protistology.
8. Progress Award of Japanese Society of Soil Zoology: May 2017, The Japanese Society of Soil Zoology (decided on March 2017).
7. Scientific Archive Award: September 2014, The Korean Society of Soil Zoology.
6. Best Paper Award of the Plankton Society of Japan 2012,（Kazama, T., Ishida, S., Shimano, S. and Urabe, J.), the Plankton Society of Japan.
5. Invited Professor by CNRS (French national center for scientific research) : 2009 (September – December), Studying with microbial ecology research team in the Laboratory of Chrono-Environment, the University of Franche-Comté at Franche-Comté, France.
4. Finalist (Runner-up): June 2009, Agriculture and Natural Resources Category, United Nation University ProSPER.Net (the network for the Promotion of Sustainability in Postgraduate Education and Research)/ Elsevier Scopus Young Scientist Award in Sustainable Development.
3. Award for Encouragement: May 2007, The Japanese Society of Soil Zoology.
2. OECD Fellowship: 2002, Laboratory of soil arthropods, Professor. Roy A. NORTON, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) UNITED STATES, OECD Cooperative Research Program: Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Theme 3 -Enhancing Environmental Quality in Agricultural Systems, “Establishment of a taxonomic database for evaluating soil animal diversity in agricultural ecosystems and evaluation of chemical effects on soil animal diversity”.
1. Domestic Research Fellow: 1997 (for 3 years), the Japanese Science and Technology Corporation, Japan. At the Soil Management Laboratory, Department of Upland Farming, National Agricultural Research Center for Tohoku Region. “Evaluation approach on functions of community and systematics on oribatid mites.”
COMMITTEE MEMBER
2021 - : IUCN SSC Mite Specialist Group member (https://www.iucn.org/commissions/ssc-groups/invertebrates/mite)
2021 Nov- : Editor-In-Chief, "Journal of Protistology" published by the Japan Society of Protistology
2020 Jan- : Editor-In-Chief, "Species Diversity" published by the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology
2020 -: A committee member, the Acarological Society of Japan
2018 May- 2022 May : Editor-In-Chief, "Edaphologia" published by the Japanese Society of Soil Zoology
2019 Oct- : Subject Editor, "Journal of the Acarological Society of Japan" published by the Acarological Society of Japan
2018 Nov- : A committee member, the Japan Society of Protistology
A committee member: the Japanese Society of Soil Zoology, the Acarological Society of Japan
2009 Nov- present: the person in charge of biodiversity council, the Japan Society of Protistology
2021 Jan- 2022 Sep: Committee Member of The Entomological Society of Japan （日本昆虫学会 大会理事）
2016: Executive Committee Chairman (Secretat-general), International Colloquium of Soil Zoology (in Nara, Japan)
2016–2017: a member of Executive Council of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology（日本動物分類学会評議員）
2014: International Congress of Acarology in Kyoto, Executive Committee Member.
2014: 7th International Symposium on Testate Amoebae (ISTA-7), Poznan, Poland, 8–12 September 2014. Scientific Committee Member.
2012: Nov-2015Nov General Secretary, The Protozoological Society of Japan/ The Japanese Society of Protozoology
2012: Representative of Japan (Japan-China Joint organizing) for the International Symposium on Shelled Amoebae (ISTA6) (in Xiamen, China)
2011: (one year period) Nominating committee of ISOP (International Society of Protistology)
2011 Nov-: Chair, Working Group on Society Name Change, The Japanese Society of Protozoology (November 2011-2012)
2009 March- present: a member of the ‘Invertebrate Subcommittee of the Study Group for the Selection and Evaluation of Wildlife at Risk of Extinction', Ministry of the Environment, Japan.
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EDUCATION
1994-1997 – PhD degree in Environmental Science.
Department of Soil Zoology, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Japan. Specialized in the Soil Zoology (Ecology, Conservation Biology and Taxonomy).
SCIENTIFIC WORK EXPERIENCE
April 2014 – Present: Professor (a permanent position) of the Science Research Center/ Faculty of Intercultural communication, Hosei University. Specialization: Acarology, Microbial Ecology, Biological Diversity.
April 2016 – Present: Part-time instructor in Acaroligy of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan. National University Corporation. Specialization: Acarology.
April 2015 – Present: visiting researcher of Tokyo Metropolitan University. Specialization: Acarology.
April 2015 – Present: Part-time instructor in Acaroligy of Tokyo University, Japan. National University Corporation. Specialization: Acarology.
April 2015 – Present: Part-time instructor of the Environmental Education Center, Miyagi University of Education, Japan. National University Corporation. Specialization: Microbial Ecology, Biological Diversity.
May 2005 – March 2014: Associate Professor (a permanent position) of the Environmental Education Center, Miyagi University of Education, Japan. National University Corporation. Specialization: Microbial Ecology, Biological Diversity.
April 1999 – April 2005: Researcher and Senior Researcher (October 2003-) (a permanent position) of the Soil Management Laboratory, Department of Upland Farming, National Agricultural Research Center for Tohoku Region, National Agricultural Research Organization. (formerly Tohoku National Agricultural Experiment Station, The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan.) Specialization: Soil Zoology, Microbial Ecology and Biological Control in Agricultural Systems.
May 1999: Part-time instructor in parasitology (acarology) at Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
October 1997 - March 1999: Domestic Research Fellow (Postdoc: temporary contract) of the Japanese Science and Technology Corporation, Japan. At the Soil Management Laboratory, Department of Upland Farming, National Agricultural Research Center for Tohoku Region. Field of research: Soil Zoology, Microbial Ecology and Biological Control in Agricultural Systems.
April 1997 – October 1997: Part-time instructor in biology at Odawara Women’s Junior College, Japan.
April 1997 – October 1997: Researcher (temporary contract) of the Department of Biodefence Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan. Field of research: Acarology, Aracnology and Protozoology.
大学間一般協定締結 (MoU)
・モンゴル国立大学（モンゴル）と法政大学（日本）との大学間協定（学生交流・教員交流・研究交流などすべての条件を含む協定）・2017年2月．[役割：コンタクトパーソン]．（MoA，生物多様性研究協定も締結）
・プリンス=オブ=ソンクラ大学（PSU）（タイ王国）と法政大学（日本）との大学間協定（学生交流・教員交流・研究交流などすべての条件を含む協定）・2017年2月．[役割：コンタクトパーソン]．（MoA，海外フィールドワークの実施と，生物多様性研究協定も締結）
他に マレーシア科学大学（マレーシア），タマサート大学（タイ王国）
非常勤講師
2019年度 琉球大学理学部海洋自然科学科生物系 非常勤講師
2020年度 京都大学大学院 理学研究科 非常勤講師
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OECD project
OECD Fellowship 2002. Laboratory of soil arthropods, Professor Roy A. NORTON, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) UNITED STATES, OECD Cooperative Research Program: Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Theme 3 -Enhancing Environmental Quality in Agricultural Systems, Establishment of a taxonomic database for evaluating soil animal diversity in agricultural ecosystems and evaluation of chemical effects on soil animal diversity.
Swiss National Foundation
• Biodiversity and biogeography of soil protists in continental and oceanic islands (no. 31003A_182531) 2018-2023 (Edward MITCHELL, 632,000 Euro) (part)
Japanese projects (more than ¥ 1,000,000 JPY) until 2010 (not updated)
令和4年度国立極地研究所一般共同研究
Bilateral Collaborations, JSPS: Tobias PFINGSTL Institute of Biology, University of Graz, FWF-Project Nr. [I 3815] Evolutionary domain transitions in intertidal oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida). Joint-Project with Japan; Japanese PI Prof. Dr. Satoshi Shimano, Hosei University Tokyo, Japan [application number 18035011-000163].
• The last enigma of mites: evolutionary transition of the Endeostigmata JSPS no. 18K06392, 2018-2023 (Satoshi Shimano, ¥4,290,000JPY)
• Newts and water mites: Species diversity and its conservation created by host-parasite systems that utilize aquatic and terrestrial environments JSPS no. 17K07271, 2017-2020 (Kanto Nishikawa, ¥4,940,000JPY)
• Phylogenetic estimation of Prostigmata and critical measures for the huge and only specimen collection in Japan JSPS no. 15K07201, 2015-2018 (Satoshi Shimano, ¥4,940,000JPY) • Conditions for the establishment of mineral soil marshes and their biological communities. JSPS no. 15H02858, 2015-2019 (Keisuke Ohtsuka, ¥15,080,000JPY)
• Is Diurodorilus a new phylum? JSPS no. 25650133, 2013-2015 (Hiroshi Kajihara, ¥4,940,000JPY)
Inventory and DNA database of ciliate and testate amoebae from Japan. JSPS no. 18770060 2006-2008 (Single name, ¥ 3,500,000 JPY, approx. $ 35,000 USD)
Evaluation of the effect of global warming on structural change and chain relations of microbe and protist communities in North Forest soil. JSPS no. 20380082 (part) 2008-2010
(Total, ¥ 18,000,000 JPY, approx. $ 180,000 USD)
The biodiversity of Lake Biwa and its drainage basin: Taxonomy, Morphology and Systematics using molecular biology techniques. Lake Biwa Museum General Research (part) 2006-2010 (Total, ¥ 25,779,000 JPY, approx. $ 257,790 USD)
Development of research techniques for root ecology. JSPS no. 17380196 (part) 2005-2007 (Total, ¥ 14,700,000 JPY, approx. $ 147,000 USD)
Evaluation of the impact of organic farming on soil environment and verification of its environmental preservation effect. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan 2003-2005 (Each person, ¥ 7,500,000 JPY, approx. $ 75,000 USD)
Evaluation of the influence of extermination insecticide medicine for cows on dung decomposition. Ministry of Environment 2002-2004 (Each person, ¥ 8,500,000 JPY, approx. $ 85,000 USD)
Development of basic research technique for biological control of plant disease caused soil fungi by protozoa 2000-2002 (Single name, ¥ 28,000,000 JPY, approx. $ 280,000 USD)
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Fund (鳥類保護 Coservation of bids)
1) 島野智之（2019）ブータン王国における絶滅危惧鳥類シロヘラサギ保全手法研修 平成31年度 山階武彦助成事業 助成申請書（299,000円）
2) Pema Khandu, George A. Gale, Sara Bumrungsri (Conservationists for White-bellied Herons) host: Satoshi Shimano（2019） Factors affecting foraging activity of critically endangered White-bellied Herons Ardea insignis (Hume, 1878) in two river basins of Bhutan. 第28期 プロ・ナトゥーラファンド助成．海外助成．（145万円）https://www.pronaturajapan.com/archive/pnnews/pdf/PNnews29(2019).pdf
3) シロハラサギ保全チーム（代表：島野智之）（2021）絶滅が危惧されるシロハラサギの保護施設のブータン王国飼育者の飼育放鳥技術の向上．令和2年度 東京動物園協会 野生生物保全基金（997,540円）
https://www.tokyo-zoo.net/fund/list.html
4) Royal Society for Protection of Nature（ブータン王立自然保護協会）（日本側代表：島野智之）（2021）「サントリー世界愛鳥基金」2022年度助成 「鳥類保護団体への活動助成」（200万円）https://www.suntory.co.jp/news/article/14126.html