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The University of Tokyo Professor, "The University of Tokyo Teaches Us About the Oceans."
Hajime Kaya’ne, Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science
| Edited by Hajime Kaya’ne and Yoshihiro Niwa "The University of Tokyo's Professor Teaches Us About the Ocean |
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Seizando Shoten (2023) |
The oceans give birth to life, support diversity, and provide us with marine products. It drives the global environment through the circulation of water, carbon, and other elements, and the landforms that contain it fluctuate over time, creating not only the places where we live, but also the earthquake and tsunami disasters that result. In The University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Science, there are researchers in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Department of Biological Sciences, as well as in Agriculture, Engineering, International Law, and Graduate School of Education, who are studying the ocean as a subject.
This book describes the state-of-the-art of ocean research at The University of Tokyo in a way that high school students can understand, covering topics such as biologging, ocean observation, evolution and diversity, the nervous system of fish, life history of eels, the birth of water planets, coral reefs, the Arctic Ocean, ocean circulation and global warming, tsunami, and the topography of Tokyo Bay. We also had a column written from the humanities about the earthquake disaster and scattering of bones. The science writers interviewed researchers and wrote the columns in a way that breaks down the specialized content, so that not only high school and College of Arts and Sciences students, but also elementary and junior high school students, College of Arts and Sciences students, Research Students, and researchers should read the columns. The researchers in all chapters will be able to feel their passion for ocean research, not only in the computer and the laboratory, but also in the vast field of the ocean, where they find new challenges and develop new methods to achieve their goals. We hope that young readers of this book will deepen their understanding of the oceans and aspire to pursue ocean research.
The foundation of this book is the Ocean Alliance Collaborative Reasearch Organization, a cross-disciplinary group of ocean researchers at The University of Tokyo, and this book was conceived and edited by the Research Center for Marine Education, Graduate School of Education, in order to apply the research results to elementary and secondary education.
The Rigaku-bu News, November 2023