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About HydroSphere Science Seminar (HSS Seminar)
About HydroSphere Science Seminar (HSS Seminar)
HSS Seminar is a monthly public lecture series organized by UTokyo Hydrosphere Environment Group (Dpt. Civil). The seminar is usually held on the 1st Monday of each month. Everyone interested in our activities is always welcome to join.
The seminar info is summarized here (this webpage):
https://sites.google.com/view/ut-hydro-seminar
Next seminar info
Next seminar info
#37: Daisuke Tokuda (Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo)
From Land to Atmosphere: Exploring Fingerprints and Memory in Coupled Systems
2026.2.9 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
#38: Hong Wang (Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo / PhD in University of Leeds)
Impacts of climate change on river flow seasonality and water temperature: implications for freshwater biodiversity
2026.3.9 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
About UTokyo Hydrosphere Environment Group
About UTokyo Hydrosphere Environment Group
Hydrosphere Environment Group is a research and education unit of the Department of Civil Engineering in The University of Tokyo. Our mission is to build a desirable relationship between water and human society. Our research activities cover various topics related to water environment from river basin, coastal area to ocean, and even global scale.
水圏環境グループは、東京大学 工学系研究科 社会基盤学専攻内の研究グループです。水と人間社会との望ましい関係を構築するため、河川流域、沿岸域から海洋、さらには地球規模までの広い水環境を対象とした研究を進めています。
River and Environmental Engineering Lab (Hongo) http://aqua.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
IIS Global Hydrology Group (Komaba / Kashiwa) http://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Coastal Engineering Lab (Hongo) http://coastal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Estuary & Coastal Env. Lab (Kashiwa) https://estuarine.jp/
How to join UTokyo Hydrosphere Environment Group?
How to join UTokyo Hydrosphere Environment Group?
International Graduate Program of Dpt. Civil Engineering recruits master and PhD students.
Application opens in autumn every year.
If you join us as a postdoc, research staff, or short-term visitor,
Please contact professors about the possibility
Application to JSPS postdoc fellow is always welcomed, but please contact us in advance. Note that the UTokyo internal deadline is about one month earlier than the JSPS deadline.
Please email professors in each lab about more detailed info.
水圏環境グループに参加するには？
卒業研究に取り組むには、東京大学工学部社会基盤学科に進学すると
水圏環境グループの研究室に入ることができます。
修士研究や博士研究に取り組むには、
毎年夏に行われる大学院入試を受験してください。
研究員やスタッフとして参加したい場合は、まずは各研究室の教員に連絡してください。
JSPS研究員は常時受け入れています。
より詳しくは、各教員/研究室に問い合わせてください。
研究室見学は随時受け入れています。
List of HSS seminar topics (2026)
List of HSS seminar topics (2026)
#38: Hong Wang (Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo / PhD in University of Leeds)
Impacts of climate change on river flow seasonality and water temperature: implications for freshwater biodiversity
2026.3.9 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
#37: Daisuke Tokuda (Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo)
From Land to Atmosphere: Exploring Fingerprints and Memory in Coupled Systems
2026.2.9 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
List of HSS seminar topics (2025)
List of HSS seminar topics (2025)
#36: Tianan DENG (Dpt. Civil & Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Mechanisms Behind the Shifting Patterns of Coastal Pollutant Transport Induced by Land Reclamation
2025.12.8 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
#35: Charles Vörösmarty (Professor, City University of New York Environmental CrossRoads Initiative)
Citizen Science as a Tool for Earth Observation, Technical Workforce Development, and Sustainability Policy Support
2025.11.17 (Mon) 16:30 - 18:00
#34: Huiran Jin (Associate Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology)
From Space to Earth: Satellite-Based Insights into Land and Water Systems
2025.11.10 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
#33: Masaaki Kitajima (Professor, RECWET, U-Tokyo)
Wastewater-based Epidemiology: Frontiers in Water-Driven Infectious Disease Surveillance
2025.10.6 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
#32: Guy Midgley (Distinguished Professor, School for Climate Studies, Stellenbosch University)
Hydrobioscape approach for climate change adaptation
2025.8.21 (Thu) 16:00-17:00
#31: Pokhrel Yadu (Red Cedar Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University)
A systems approach to model natural-human hydrologic systems across scales
2025.8.6 (Wed) 17:00-18:30
#30: GünterBlöschl (Professor, Vienna University of Technology)
Title: The Future of Hydrology
2025.7.22 (Tue) 14:00-16:00
#29: Wei Jiang (China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research)
Estimation of Direct Economic Losses Caused by Flood Disaster Based on Remote Sensing
2025.7.7 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
#28: Yoshimitsu Tajima (Professor, Coastal Lab, Dpt. Civil, UTokyo)
Characteristics of the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake Tsunami
2025.6.2 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
#27: Laurence Hawker (Research Fellow, University of Bristol)
Flooding and Human Fragility: Managing Risk for the Socially Vulnerable and Displaced
2025.5.12 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
#26: Ronald Holzhacker (Professor, Univ Griningen / IFI UTokyo)
Transformative Futures of Cities: Climate and Sustainable Development
-Moving from scientific research to societal impact-
2025.4.18 (Fri) 15:00-16:30
#25: Kei Yoshimura (Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, UTokyo)
History of Isotope Hydrometeorology and Development of Millennium Atmospheric Reanalysis
2025.4.7 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
#24: Matthew Matsuyama (Mansfield Fellow from FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency)
Recent Changes to FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
2025.3.13 (Thu) 16:00-17:30
#23: Tomoko Nitta (Assistant Professor [Lecturer], Institute of Industrial Science, UTokyo)
Development of Integrated Land Simulator
2025.3.3 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
#22: Qian Yao (PhD student, East China Normal Univ / Visiting student, UTokyo IIS)
Climate change, population aging, and emergency management:
Projected essential supplies shortage for the elderly in extreme floods in China
2025.2.17 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
List of HSS seminar topics (2024)
List of HSS seminar topics (2024)
#21: Bellie Sivakumar (Professor, IIT Bombay)
Complexity and Connectivity in Hydroclimatic Systems: A Complex Network Science View
2024.12.4 (Wed) 16:30-18:00
#20: Xinlei Shao (PhD candidate student, Estuary & Coastal Environment Lab, UTokyo)
Facilitating Coral Reef Conservation through Computer Vision:
Deep Learning Models for Monitoring Coral Condition
2024.12.2 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
#19: Colin Gleason (Armstrong Prof, Univ. Massachusetts Amherst / Visiting Professor, UTokyo)
Everything everywhere all at once: Satellites and the new global river science
2024.11.11 (Mon) 16:50-18:20
#18: Takashi Hashimoto (Prof, Research Center for Water Environment Technology, UTokyo)
Ensuring Safe Potable Water Supply with Membrane Filtration: Aging Mechanisms and Monitoring Strategies
2024.10.7 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
#17: Fitsum Woldemeskel (Bureau of Meteorology, Australia)
Hydrological predictions for Australia: from research to services
2024.7.2 (Tue) 15:00-17:00
#16: Takenori Shimozono (Professor, Coastal Lab, Dpt. Civil, UTokyo)
Observation and Modeling of Coastal Sediment Loss into the Deep Ocean
2024.6.3 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
#15: Hannah Cloke (Professor, University of Reading, UK)
Florian Pappenburger (Director of Forecast, ECMWF, UK)
The rise of the machines & the journey of imagination
2024.5.13 (Mon) 15:00-17:00
#14: Asit Biswas (Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow)
Challenges to Water Management during the Second Quarter of 21st Century
2024.4.25 (Thu) 15:30-16:40
#13: Akiyuki Kawasaki (Professor, Institute for Future Initiativve, U-Tokyo)
Poverty reduction through climate adaptation in Monsoon Asia
2024.4.8 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
#12: Yuta Itsumi (PhD student, Dpt Civil Engineering, UTokyo)
River Landscape Improvement in Contemporary Japan:
Incremental Approach Rooted in Geographical and Historical Context
2024.3.4 (Mon) 15:00-16:40
#11: Alexandre Cauquoin (Assist Prof, Institute of Industrial Science, UTokyo)
Modeling of tritium in climate models to investigate the solar activity, water cycle and Fukushima releases
2024.2.9 (Fri) 15:00-16:40
List of HSS seminar topics (2023)
List of HSS seminar topics (2023)
#10: Wataru Nakamura (PhD Stuent, Estuary & Coastal Environment Lab, UTokyo)
Stock and Flow. Inorganic Carbon Cycle in a Mangrove Ecosystem
2023.12.21 (Thu) 13:00-14:30
#9: Futoshi Kurisu (Prof, Research Center for Water Environment Technology, UTokyo)
Target and Non-target Screening Analysis of Unregulated Micropollutants in the Water Environment
2023.11.06 (Mon) 15:00-16:30
#8: Masashi Minamide (Assist Prof. River Engineering and Environment Lab, UTokyo)
Predictability of moist convection and tropical cyclones: insights from all-sky satellite radiance assimilation
2023.10.02 (Mon) 15:00-16:30
#7: Jing Yang (Hydrology Scientist, National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, NZ)
Hydrologic modelling for future challenges in New Zealand
2023.09.27 (Wed) 15:30-17:00
#6: Xudong Zhou (Assist Prof. Institute of Industrial Science, UTokyo)
Integrating Remote Sensing Data with Large-scale Hydrodynamic models
2023.09.11 (Mon) 15:00-16:30
#5: Yoshinao Matsuba (Assist Prof. Coastal Lab, Dpt. Civil, UTokyo)
Nearshore wave dynamics during storms
2023.07.03 (Mon) 15:00-16:30
#4: Daniel Schertzer ( Professor, École des Ponts ParisTech)
Intermittency in the water cycle and geophysics: why so fundamental and how to quantify it across scales?
2023.06.21 (Wed)
#3: Yohei Sawada (Assoc Prof, Institute of Engineering Inovation, UTokyo)
A new paradigm of hydro-meteorological modeling? Toward data assimilation learning physical processes
2023.06.05 (Mon) 15:00-16:30
#2: John Selker (AGU Hydrology Section President / Professor, Oregon State University)
Topics in Hydrology: New sensors, movement deep under deserts, and water on Mars
2023.05.01 (Mon) 15:00-16:30
#1: Dai Yamazaki (Assoc Prof, Institute of Industrial Science, UTokyo)
Potential co-benefit of hydropower dams for flood mitigation in the Mekong River under climate change
2023.04.03 (Mon) 15:00-16:30
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