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[U08-P05] Geoscience Field Trips in Japan: My Experience from Saitama University
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キーワード：Geoscience education, Earth Science, Field survey, Environmental Engineering, Environment
During my seven years long stay at Japan for postgraduate studies, I had wonderful opportunities to visit a number of geologically unique areas under various academic and research activities at the Geosphere Research Institute (GRI) of Saitama University (SU). Various geoscientific courses related to earth sciences, environments, earthquake engineering, civil engineering, etc. had quite a good number of field visits at several interesting places. Among the masters and PhD academic syllabus, GRI-SU used to conduct those field works along with the class room lectures which made the both Japanese and foreign students very much passionate about geoscience education. I had the excellent opportunity to take part in those geological field works first as students and later as research assistant to assist specially the foreign students at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty.
As part of the field surveys at Japan, I have visited many natural heritage areas such as Chichibu, Jogashima, Hakone, Kusatsu lava park, Jogasaki, Izu peninsula, Hakone, etc. which present many geological structures those can be found in text books. Several hilly caves and archeological sites such as Oya tuff cave, Kamakura, Yoshimi, Fukushima caves also presents wonderful underground features. Several dam sites, road construction sites, mining and waste treatment areas, flood management structures, underground radioactive waste disposal sites, etc. presents the amazing civil construction sites considering engineering geological aspects. Post-earthquake and tsunami affected areas at Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures and near Tokyo were other breathtaking memories in the geoscience education. Such places made the geoscience researches in Japan quite unique which became wonderful examples for me to teach younger researchers, and earth and environmental science students in very passionate ways. Since the geology of Bangladesh is quite different from that of Japan, such unique geological features are very helpful to understand the text book geology and related topics.
As part of the field surveys at Japan, I have visited many natural heritage areas such as Chichibu, Jogashima, Hakone, Kusatsu lava park, Jogasaki, Izu peninsula, Hakone, etc. which present many geological structures those can be found in text books. Several hilly caves and archeological sites such as Oya tuff cave, Kamakura, Yoshimi, Fukushima caves also presents wonderful underground features. Several dam sites, road construction sites, mining and waste treatment areas, flood management structures, underground radioactive waste disposal sites, etc. presents the amazing civil construction sites considering engineering geological aspects. Post-earthquake and tsunami affected areas at Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures and near Tokyo were other breathtaking memories in the geoscience education. Such places made the geoscience researches in Japan quite unique which became wonderful examples for me to teach younger researchers, and earth and environmental science students in very passionate ways. Since the geology of Bangladesh is quite different from that of Japan, such unique geological features are very helpful to understand the text book geology and related topics.