WATANABE Tsuyoshi
Associate Professor, RIHN / Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
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Program/Project
High-resolution Reconstruction of Resilient Indigenous Lifestyle in Environmental Changes to Future Collective Knowledge Deduced from the Fusion of Science and Arts
Position & Title
Associate Professor, RIHN / Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
Area of Expertise
Earth Environmental Science
Biography
WATANABE Tsuyoshi started in coral research in Hokkaido University with BS in 1994, MS in 1996, and PhD in environmental earth science in 1999 and continued to study on the coral reefs and earth environmental sciences in Australia, France, Germany, and US. He established KIKAI institute for coral reef sciences since 2014 and is organizing a lot of field excursions inside and outside of Japan, with his friends and students.
Q&A
- What kind of research are you doing at RIHN?
- How can we make global environmental issues our own? We will discover local indigenous knowledge related to changes in the local and global environment based on the high-resolution environmental reconstruction of coral annual bands. In this project, arts are connecting between scientific results and residents. We discuss how local communities are able to work toward spontaneous solutions to global environmental problems. We create future collective knowledge to obtain an image empathized among the local communities.
- Do you have a message you would like to share to people who want to do research at RIHN?
- The novel geological era, Anthropocene are influenced both by earth environments and social change, and difficult to estimate the future image and comprehensive understanding the relationship between nature and human by single approach of specific field of science and conventional growth models. We are looking for and working together with people who have own unique interest, method, idea, and experience, but also have strong interest and could enjoy the interdisciplinary- transdisciplinary frame works of collaboration.