The most important thing when choosing a lab is to actually visit the lab you are interested in and find out what they are doing and what the atmosphere is like. Most students probably get their information from the website first, but it often happens that after entering the lab, they find that it is not what they first imagined.
Therefore, I recommend that you do as much preliminary research as possible. Also, it is especially important to talk not only with the teachers, but also with the students when you visit. By doing so, you can get important information that you really want to know, such as the actual atmosphere of the laboratory and the advantages and disadvantages, which you cannot get from just talking to the professor. So when you come to visit our laboratory, please take the time to talk with the students.
What kind of human resources will be required by society in the future? Looking back on the past, from the post-war period until the bursting of the bubble economy, emphasis was placed on the ability to complete a given task quickly and accurately. After that, the ability to discover issues and find solutions to them came to be required. In the future, it is believed that the ability to find the most important issues (top issues) out of the various large and small issues that exist will be required.
The same can be said for research. In the field of earth science, there are a variety of issues, from small ones to important issues that form the center of the field. You can hone your problem-solving skills by choosing small issues. However, solving small issues will not lead to breakthroughs or other major changes, and will hardly attract any attention. This is the same in business.
In this laboratory, we ask ourselves what is the most important question? Is that really the issue that needs to be addressed? In this laboratory, we train students to find the top issues by starting from the point of "What is the most important question? I believe that this will be a powerful weapon for you whether you go on to a doctoral course or find a job.
北海道大学大学院 環境科学院 地球圏専攻 大気海洋化学・環境変遷学コース(HPはこちら)を担当しています。
Research themes for graduate students will be decided in consultation with the students.
You can study climate change on various time scales (decades to hundreds of thousands of years scale). As the marine sediment core records global climate change, it is recommended for students who want to investigate the mechanism of global climate change. It is also recommended for students who are interested in ocean cruise.
From lake/peat sediments, you can study climate change mainly on the decade to tens of thousands years scale. Because lake/peat sediment reflects local land climate change, it is recommended for students who are interested in regional climate change. It is also recommended for students who are interested in land fieldwork.
From ice core, you can study climate change on the scale of ten to tens of thousands years. Information on past atmospheric environment can be obtained from ice core. It is recommended for students interested in relation between aerosol and climate. You may have opportunities to join fieldwork in Greenland, Antarctica and mountain glaciers.
環オホーツク観測センターの西岡先生（大気海洋化学・環境変遷学コース）や的場先生（雪氷・寒冷圏科学コース）のグループと一緒に月に1,2回程度行うセミナーです。
環オホーツク観測センターのメンバー全員が参加するセミナーです。週１で開催しています。
安宅和人著：「シン・ニホン」より命名された、新しい単独セミナー（2020年6月～）
Earth's Climate: Past and Future (William F. Ruddiman 著, 2013)
現時点で最も優れた気候変動学の教科書。気候変動の研究を志す人は必読の書。
Ocean Biogeochemical Cycle
地球の 気候を大きく支配する海洋の生物地球化学サイクルの教科書。
海洋学（ポール・R・ピネ 著, 2010）
日本語訳です。
気候変動-多角的視点から(W.J.バローズ 著, 2003)
日本語訳です。気候変動の教科書。
チェンジング・ブルー(大河内直彦 著, 2008)
気候変動学に関する一般書の決定版その１。
気候変動を理学する(多田隆治 著, 2013)
気候変動学に関する一般書の決定版その２。
気候変動はなぜ起こるのか — グレート・オーシャン・コンベヤーの発見 —(ウォーレス・ブロッカー 著, 2013)
日本語訳です。海洋循環の重要性を解説した本です。
アイスコア — 地球環境のタイムカプセル —(藤井 理行，本山 秀明 [編], 2011)
アイスコアについての入門書。
地球システムを科学する(伊勢武史 著, 2013)
地球システム思考の重要さを学べる本です。
地球の変動はどこまで宇宙で解明できるか: 太陽活動から読み解く地球の過去・現在・未来(宮原ひろ子, 2014)
太陽活動が気候に与える影響を解説した良書です。
謎解き・海洋と大気の物理―地球規模でおきる「流れ」のしくみ(保坂直紀, 2003)
図解・気象学入門―原理からわかる雲・雨・気温・風・天気図(古川 武彦, 大木 勇人 著, 2011)
地球温暖化との闘い(James Hansen 著, 2012)
日本語訳です。地球温暖化に対する警鐘の本。古気候データの重要性が語られています。
地球温暖化の予測は「正しい」か？(江守正多, 2008)
気候モデルの一般書。気候モデルのイメージを掴むのに最適の書。
地球温暖化はどれくらい「怖い」か? ～温暖化リスクの全体像を探る(江守正多, 2012)
異常気象と人類の選択(江守正多, 2013)
ウェザー・オブ・ザ・フューチャー―気候変動は世界をどう変えるか(ハイディ カレン 著, 2011)
日本語訳です。
10万年の未来地球史(カート・ステージャ, 著)
日本語訳です。長い時間スケールでみた地球温暖化の影響を解説した本。
古代文明と気候大変動―人類の運命を変えた二万年史(ブライアン フェイガン 著, 2008)
気候文明史(田家康 著, 2010)
気候で読み解く日本の歴史―異常気象との攻防1400年(田家康 著, 2013)