Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University

Schedules for entrance examinations and information sessions of the fiscal year 2019 are available now. Information sessions for prospective students will take place in Sapporo and Tokyo. Please come to the sessions to learn more about our school. Visit the link below for more information. http://www.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/modules/top/entrance0.html

GSES Homecoming Day 2019 will be held on Friday, September 27th at the Graduate School of Environmental Science. Please check the event schedule below and join us!

◆Courses and laboratories panel exhibition 
Sept. 26 - Oct. 2 GSES Entrance Hall
 

Friday, September 27^th

◆Matsuno Environmental Science Award Ceremony

[3:00pm – 3:30pm]　GSES Room D201 (No registration needed)
 

◆Homecoming Lectures –Their graduate school days, job-hunting episodes, and advise to current students.

[3:30pm – 5:00pm] GSES Room D201 (No registration needed)
3:30pm – 3:50pm Rie NAKAYA M. S., 2017,

Hokkaido Electric Power Co., Inc.

3:50pm – 4:10pm Manami TAKIZAWA M. S., 2015,

Ajinomoto Frozen Foods Co., Inc.

4:10pm – 4:30pm Kana NIKAIDO M. S., 2014,

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

4:30pm – 4:50pm Yuki MIURA Ph. D., 2013,

Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.

◆Reunion Party [6:00pm – 8:00pm] -Registration required

Venue: Restaurant Elm (in Faculty House Trillium, next to Chuo/Central Cafeteria to the north)

Fee: Students \1,000 / Non-students \5,000 

Online registrations are required for joining the party by September 25th at 

http://www.hokudai.ac.jp/home2019/registration/.  
*If you need help for registration in English or to cancel your registration, please send an email to home-coming (at) ees.hokudai.ac.jp, Environmental Science Alumni Association Office.

Hokkaido University’s Homecoming Day is scheduled on Saturday, September 28th. https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/home2019/ (Japanese website only)

Poster (Japanese ver. only)

環境科学院の皆様

「ベビーリーフの高品質・周年供給に関するセミナー・講演会」

北海道大学ロバスト農林水産工学研究プログラムの中で「環境ストレスによるベビーリーフの高品質化に関する国際連携研究」が遂行されています。この研究課題について、下記のセミナーや講義等を開催しますのでふるって参加下さい。ニコラ教授はベビーリーフや養液栽培研究の第1人者で、国際園芸学会副会長です。LED研究の先駆者である趙鉄軍先生は植物工場やLED研究の先駆者です。

7月25日（木）実務者セミナー　

植物工場＆養液栽培事業者・種苗関係・研究者・普及技術者等対象。20-30名規模

　9:30-12:30セミナー：北大北方生物圏フィールド科学センター講義室

「環境ストレスとベビーリーフ品質」高濱雅幹（道南農試）　

「ベビーリーフの需要および養液栽培の改良」シルバーナ・ニコラ（トリノ大学）

「養液栽培での根域発達」趙　鉄軍（新潟食料農業大学）

　14:00アドワンファームでのフィールドシンポ（希望者のみ）

7月26日（金）専門講義と学生・市民講演会

　9:00-10:30　大学院生向け専門講義　シルバーナ・ニコラ教授「養液栽培の新技術」

北大北方生物圏フィールド科学センター講義室

14:00-16:00　学生・市民講演会　北大農学部大講堂

「ベビーリーフの生産動向と技術課題」（報告者調整中）

「植物工場での環境制御　温度、CO2と光」趙　鉄軍（新潟食料農業大学）

「ベビーリーフの世界・・生産・消費・技術」シルバーナ・ニコラ（トリノ大学）

ニコラ先生の講演は英語ですが、スライドには日本語説明が入ります。質問は日本語でも結構です。趙先生の発表は日本語です。

実務者セミナーは事前申し込みです。すでに20名以上の申し込みがあります。希望者は早急に連絡下さい。大学院講義と学生・市民講演会へは自由参加です。

申し込み・問い合わせ先

世話役：荒木　肇（北大北方生物圏フィールド科学センター）

araki@fsc.hokudai.ac.jp 　電話011-706-3645

（お願い：メールの件名に　ベビーリーフ　と書いて下さい。）

The Environmental Earth Science Seminar will be held as follows.

Location: D101 in GSES
Date and Time: 16:30-18:00 on July 18th (Thu)
Speaker: Marc Abrams (Department of Ecosystem Science and Management Penn State University)

Title: The impact of global change on tree species growth and dominance in the eastern U.S.

Abstract: Global change processes, including climate and natural and anthropogenic (land-use) disturbances have profoundly impacted tree dominance and growth rates worldwide.  To help decipher the relative importance of various drivers of forest change tree species/genera were partitioned into temperature, shade tolerance, and pyrogenicity classes and applied to comparative tree-census data.  We examined changes during the Euro-American period (ca. 1500 to present), which spans two major climatic periods, from Little Ice Age and the Anthropocene. We found that most tree species and age classes exhibited increasing basal area increment (BAI) and/or ring width index (RWI) in recent years.  This is particularly unusual for trees in the older age classes that we expected to have declining growth in the latter years, as predicted by physiological growth models.  There exists an inverse relationship between growth rate and increasing age class.  The oldest trees within each species have consistently slow growth throughout their lives, implying an inverse relationship between growth rate and longevity. Younger trees (< 60 years of age) within each species are consistently growing faster than the older trees when they were the same age resulting from a higher proportion of fast-growing trees in these young age classes. In contrast, changes in tree dominance were not highly consistent with warming. Instead, post-European settlement disturbance regimes mostly overrode climate signals across the eastern US. In the north, intensive and expansive disturbances resulted in the ubiquitous loss of conifers and a large increase in Acer, Populus, and Quercus in northern hardwoods, whereas to the south, these disturbances perpetuated the dominance of Quercus. Mid-twentieth century fire suppression led to large increases in Acer in the latter case, often leading to significant warm-to-cool shifts in temperature class. These series of studies helped elucidate the wide spread and profound impacts of global change on trees and delivered some unexpected results. The reasons for increasing tree growth in the study region and the main drivers of forest change will be discussed, including the climate-disturbance debate.

If you have any question regarding this seminar, please feel free to contact Shiro Tsuyuzaki (tsuyu@ees.hokudai.ac.jp).

Thank you for reading.
See you in D101 by 16:30 on July 18th (Thu).
Best,
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