We held a farewell party for Mahua sensei who will leave Takara lab soon, and also welcome the new comer Saima san who will stay in Takara lab for 2 months. Aas usual, we celebrate lab members’  birthdays in June: Hendy san, Tien san and Kobayashi san. Unfortunately, Takara sensei could not attend our party because of business trip in Tokyo, 残念です… we have a visitor, Tanaka san who also kindly join our party.

佐山先生、石咏雪と小林亮佑は６月11日に立命館大学びわこ・くさつキャンパスで開催した平成２８年度土木学会関西支部年次学術講演会に参加しました。石が水災害セッションの優秀発表賞を受賞しました。

The Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting 2016 was held from 22 to 26 May 2016 in Makuhari Messe, Chiba. Hundreds of oral presentations and poster were presented every day in this meeting. About 49 international sessions were provided by JpGU Committee as a joint sessions with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to facilitate the international researchers and students from all over the world.

Two PhD students from Takara Lab, Mr. Josko Troselj and Mr. Hendy Setiawan, were participated in this conference. Mr. Josko had his poster presentation on Monday 23 May in the session of Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences, sub-session Contintental-Oceanic Mutual Interaction: Global-scale Material Circulation through River* Runoff (A-CG08). Josko’s poster entitled ‘Estimation of total river flux from Japanese basins to Pacific ocean and its numerical prediction using cell distributed runoff model’.

Mr. Hendy Setiawan had his poster presentation on Thursday 26 May in the session of Human Geosciences, subsession Landslides and Related Phenomena (H-DS05). Hendy’s poster entitled ‘Simulation of the Aratozawa landslide using ring shear tests and LS-RAPID model’.

Our lab members including Sayama sensei and Mahua sensei enjoyed our Spring BBQ along Uji River on Apirl 23, 2016

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Farewell party and birthday party of Takara Lab. has been held on March 24, 2016

Congratulations for Dr. Hu (Doctor course), Mr. Adnan and Miss Shi (Master course) for your graduation

Happy birthday for Takara-sensei, Hu-san, Takahashi-san and Mr. Xue who were born in February and March

Thanks Ismail Abustan-sensei, Masafumi Hoto-sensei, Muhamad Ali Bin Muhammad Yuzir-sensei and Mrs. Pham Hong Nga for attending this party.

Takara Lab.’s members have participated DPRI Annual Meeting 2016 on Feb 23 and 24
We have made presentations as summary and report for our research and study of the last year and had good communication with other DPRI members

Dr. Hu Maochuan’s Defense has been successfully held on Feb 19, 2016.

Takara-sensei, Tachikawa-sensei, Sayama-sensei and students from our lab. have attended this defense

Dr. Hu has done his presentation with topic as “Impacts of Climate Change and Anthropogenic Activites on Catchment Water Balance and Hydrologic Exremes” and achived his doctoral degree.

We wish you success in your future career and all the best!

In order to protect Georgetown (UNESCO heritage site) from flooding risk and study the effectiveness of alternative countermeasures, I have conducted an international cooperation project of GSS (Global Sustainability Study) program for a bilateral research through hydrological model simulation.
This project lasted from Feb 1st, 2015 to Nov 30th, 2015 and was in partnership with Prof. Ismail Abustan from University Sains Malaysia. This project contains material and data preparation, field work, bilateral research and results report. The results of this project has been provided as consulting references for government project and presented in Amsterdam International Water Week 2015.

12th Dec, 2015, Dr. Vounhieng Vilaysane’s Defense has been held and he has successfully done his presentation.

Congratulations Vilaysane!
You have achived your doctoral degree after three years and three months’ hard work.

Thanks Takara-sensei, Tachikawa-sensei, Sayama-sensei and all students for attending.

We wish you success in your future career and all the best!

The 4^th Italian Workshop on Landslides (IWL2015) was held on November 23 to 25, in Centro Congressi Federico II via Partenope 36, Naples Italy. This workshop was jointly organized by the Seconda Universita di Napoli and the Universita di Napoli Federico II.

The main topic in the workshop this year is the interaction between landslides and man-made works. In addition, special session deals with the interdisciplinary studies of hydrology and soil mechanics including precipitation induced landslides, hydrological processes on hilly slope, as well as impact of climate change on landslides.  Several distinguished professors were invited to give keynote speeches such as Prof. Roy Sidle (Australia), Prof. Ning Lu (USA), Prof. Fausto Guzzetti (Italia) and Prof. Claudio Margottini (Italia).

One of Takara Lab. Members, Mr. Hendy Setiawan (D2) -during his internship study in Water Resources Section of TU Delft- had a chance to deliver his research work in the workshop. His oral presentation in the session of Interaction between landslides and large infrastructures entitled ‘Initial pore pressure ratio in the earthquake triggered large-scale landslide near Aratozawa Dam in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan’.

The full papers of this workshop will be peer-reviewed and published by Elsevier in a thematic issue of Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, an open access journal indexed by ISI Web of Science.

On November 26 a short course on landslide processes and land management effects was given by Professor Roy Sidle from University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. This one day course held at Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Design, Edilizia e Ambiente of the Seconda Universita degli Studi di Napoli, located in Aversa. This course emphasized the hydrological and geomorphological factors in landslides, vegetation influences and land management practices that contribute to landslide initiation.