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Research Staff

	Masahiro Ogawa

Research Group
Biotic and Human Interaction Research Group

Photograph Explanation
Watching fish swim upstream in a waterway. When spring arrives it is crowded with fish.

E-MAIL: ogawa@lbm.go.jp

	Career

I graduated in manufacturing from Chuo University's Department of Science and Engineering. From 1993 I worked as an agricultural engineering technical official for Shiga Prefecture and then joined the museum in April 2006.

Specialty

1. Biodiversity and direct payment systems in farming regions.
2. The formation of techniques of environmental preservation activities in farming regions.
3. Irrigation systems and the fish which use them to travel upstream.

Key Words of Research

Paddy fields, multifunctionality, environmental direct payment, social capital, Carassius auratus grandoculis (fish).

Professional Society Membership

The Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Reclamation Engineering.