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Water Environment Specialists Incubated from the Sunny Country

Quality educationClean water and sanitationLife below waterLife on land

Objectives (for the first and the second grade students):
1. To learn how to understand and analyze the
  complicated natural environment through field survey
  of meteorological, water quality and vegetation
  conditions.
2. To study current status of environmental activities
  by governmental and non-governmental groups, and to
  consider effects of their activities on environmental
  conservation.
3. To develop “water environment specialists” who can
  capture the environment from a broad perspective and
  solve local and international environmental problems.
Activities:
1. Meteorological observation, water quality analysis,
  botanical and biological survey at Kojima Lake area,
  and field experiment and observation at the water
  circulation facilities on the campus.
2. Lectures and field survey conducted by
  environmentalists invited from governmental agencies
  and environment conservation groups. The students
  participate in and/or organize forums, workshops and
  field surveys related with environmental issues.
3. The environmental learning program conducted in
  Kasetsart University in Thailand, and field survey
  of environmental problems at surrounding regions of
  the university.
4. “International practical environmental education
  program for development of global human resources”
  conducted in Okayama. Undergraduate students of
  Kasetsart University in Thailand join this program,
  and Japanese and Thai students consider
  international environmental conservation together by
  comparison between environmental issues in Japan and
  those in Thailand.

Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University
Prof. Hidetaka Chikamori, Asst. Prof. Yoshitaka Nakashima
(Specially-appointed Prof. Yoko Oki, Emeritus Prof. Tadashi Adachi)
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