Mitsuru Osaki | Hokkaido University (original) (raw)

Mitsuru Osaki is Professor of Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University and Professor of Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University from 2006 to 2017. Now he is Professor Emeritus, HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY. He was trained as a plant physiologist and soil scientist, and obtained his doctorate degree in from the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, in Japan in 1981. He worked as Associate Scientist in Maize Unit of CIMMYT in Mexico from 1982 to 1984. Until 2006, he has been working with the Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University in Japan, to implement a research and teaching on Rhizosphere Management. He also has been carried out many collaborative researches and teaching projects on tropical land management and rehabilitation of tropical forest. Also he jointed many projects such as: 1) the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Core University Program on "Environmental Conservation and Land Use Management of Wetland Ecosystem in Southeast Asia" between Hokkaido University, Japan, and the Research Center for Biology (LIPI), Indonesia, from April 1997 to March 2007; 2) the Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) Project on "Wildfire and Carbon Management in Peat-Forest in Indonesia" between Hokkaido University, Japan, and the National Standardization Agency (BSN), Indonesia, founded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) from September 2009 to March 2014; 3) the IJ-REDD project founded by JICA in 2014; and 4) the JICA-JPS-BRG Program of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA, Japan), the Japan Peatland Society (JPS, Japan) and the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG, Indonesia) from October 2017 to March 2018. The reports, proceedings and guidebooks of these projects are available from the website of the Japan Peatland Society (JPS) as follows: https://jps.sakura.ne.jp/jspsproc/jspsproc.html.
He published 228 academic papers and 72 books, presented more than 346 papers in International Symposium, Workshop, or Forum, organized 14 International Symposium or Workshop, until now. He edited and published e-book of " Tropical Peatland Ecosystem" (Springer, 2016), " Tropical Peatland Eco-management" (Springer, 2021), and " Tropical Peatland Eco-evaluation" (Springer, 2024).
Supervisors: Dr. Akira Tanaka, Faculty of Agriculture, and Hokkaido Univerrsity

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