Members
Staff

Kensuke Kawamura, Associate Professor
- Hometown
- Iwakuni, Yamaguchi
- kamuken(a)obihiro.ac.jp
- Languages
- Japanese / English, Chinese
- Interests
- Baseball and football
- Specialisms
- Grassland ecology, remote sensing and GIS
- Research theme
- Conservation and sustainable use of grassland ecosystems
Doctoral students
Applications welcome
We welcome enquiries from prospective graduate students.
Master’s students

Misato Itoh
- Year
- Master’s, year 2
- Hometown
- Kanazawa, Ishikawa
- Research theme
- On-site diagnosis of forage composition using portable spectroscopy and deep learning
- Interests
- Travel
- Web
- researchmap

Kasumi Kakiuchi
- Year
- Master’s, year 2
- Hometown
- Kagawa
- Research theme
- Smart sensing of horse grazing behaviour in pastures
- Interests
- Skiing

Mio Ogata
- Year
- Master’s, year 1
- Hometown
- Tokyo
- Research theme
- Developing acoustic monitoring methods to assess bird diversity in grasslands
Undergraduate students

Daichi Sato
- Year
- Undergraduate, year 4
- Hometown
- Oita
- Research theme
- Evaluation of growth and yield characteristics of three forage maize cultivars for early harvesting to facilitate Metaplexis japonica control
- Interests
- Running

Nene Shibusawa
- Year
- Undergraduate, year 4
- Hometown
- Gunma
- Research theme
- Post-winter growth and forage chemical composition of Festulolium in a vertical agrivoltaics system in Tokachi, Japan
- Interests
- Travel

Mai Yoshihara
- Year
- Undergraduate, year 4
- Hometown
- Sapporo, Hokkaido
- Research theme
- Management of grazing cattle using virtual fencing
- Interests
- Yosakoi dance

Rio Matoba
- Year
- Undergraduate, year 3
- Hometown
- Yokohama, Kanagawa
- Research theme
- Analysis of horse behaviour using deep learning
- Interests
- Horses

Kanta Ugajin
- Year
- Undergraduate, year 3
- Hometown
- Matsudo, Chiba
- Research theme
- Research topic under development

Haruna Takeshita
- Year
- Undergraduate, year 3
- Hometown
- Fukuoka
- Research theme
- Research topic under development

Hibiki Sakai
- Year
- Undergraduate, year 3
- Hometown
- Asahikawa, Hokkaido
- Research theme
- Research topic under development

Taku Shingyoji
- Year
- Undergraduate, year 3
- Hometown
- Saitama
- Research theme
- Research topic under development

