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To those who are interested in this laboratory's research

Welcome to Tomomichi KATO lab

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This lab was opened recently in January, 2014 in Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University. We are investigating the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystem under the changing climate system mainly by ecosystem modeling technics.

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Terrestrial ecosystem, composing of forest, grassland, desert, and etc., is a quite large component in Earth’s climate system. Temporal and spatial distributions of exchange rates of heat, water, CO2 between ecosystem and atmosphere form global climate.

Climate change and human activities would alter the structure of terrestrial ecosystem largely, leading to the acceleration of global environmental change. To know the future status of our world, terrestrial ecosystem model, which represents the ecosystem’s activity like as photosynthesis and respiration, is a very useful tool. Currently, I am working on the ecosystem modeling of temporal and spatial changes in ecosystem’s activities on both European continental and global scales.
International Postgraduate Students
We really appreciate the enthusiastic candidates overseas for Master and Ph.D courses in Graduate School of Global Food Resources or Agriculture. We have taken Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese students already, usually with scholarships: MEXT Embassy recommendation, MEXT University recommendation, Hokkaido Univ's scholarship DX and EXEX, in future with CSC

Post-doc researcher
We call for post-doc positions via JREC-IN website under our own research projects. We also appreciate the self-funded post-doc like as JSPS PD or Marie-Curie, etc.

Research collaborator
We always appreciate you. Contact Prof. Kato via email.
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