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	Shingo Kusaka

Research Group
Cultural History and Geoscience Research Group
Degree
M.Sc. (Science)
Photograph Explanation
Me with children helping with planting trees in an experimental project of forest restoration in Mongolia (I am the person on the right hand side) (May, 2006).

E-MAIL: kusaka@lbm.go.jp

	Career

I graduated in biology from Shizuoka University's Science Department and then took a master's degree at Hiroshima University's Environmental Science Department. After that I acquired enough credits of a doctorate postgraduate course of biology at Osaka City University. I then worked for the Shiga Prefectural Board of Education, Executive Office Cultural Promotion Section, and then joined the Lake Biwa Museum in April 1996.

Specialty

1. Estimating the effects and loads of deforestation on downstream waters and investigation of forest administration methods designed to minimize those effects and loads.
2. Forest restoration technology in burned areas, such as in northern Mongolia.
3. Investigation of the influences of vegetative differences according to the successional stage on the water chemistry regulated by the forests.

Key Words of Research

Nutrition salt load, forest soil, paired watersheds method, regeneration sheltered by fallen trees, regulation of water quality.

Professional Society Membership

The Ecological Society of Japan, the Japanese Forest Society, the Japanese Association of Hydrological Sciences.

Readily Accessible Research Contributions

Kusaka, S. and Hamabata, E. 2001. The influence of forest clear-cutting on nitrate-nitrogen load downstream in a Lake Biwa watershed, "Toward sustainable management of lake- watershed ecosystems, Proceedings of the Shiga-Michigan Joint Symposium 2001", S46-49.