We presented our research progress in the SCIS-ISIS2022 held in Ise, Mie, Japan. Thanks to the great efforts by the presenters, we received good feedbacks from the audience. 

Mr. Ishikawa, Application of Yolo for monitoring fish

Mr. Ogami, Random Forests modelling for habitat assessment of Genji-fireflies

Inspiring plenary talk by Prof. Takayama

Professor Nojima led the Program Committee of the conference. It was a hard work, but resulted in fruitful and fun conference at the end.

Next conference will be held in Korea ISIS2023.

Our lab members presented their research outcomes in the International Symposium on Ecohydraulics 2022 (online). It was a great opportunity to know researches in progress in other countries.

Takuma Nishimura reporting on the application of a deep learning method for water fowl detection and species identification

Risa Kawashima reporting on the ecohydraulic assessment and simulations in Yagawa

Taichi Jibiki reporting on the application of random forests for habitat suitability modelling in Yagawa

Wataru Ishikawa reporting on the application of deep learning for underwater monitoring

Three master course students (Asano, Kasahara and Tanaka) and three bachelor course students (Ishikawa, Fujii and Kawasaki) have graduated successfully even under the tough period due to COVID-19. Wishing all the best for their bright future!!!

B4 students

M2 students

Mr. Asano successfully presented his work entitled “A 1D hydrodynamic model for sediment transport analysis around the Ba Lai sluice gate in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam” in PAWEES2021.  Great work!!! 

Three undergraduate students and two master course students have graduated from our laboratory. I always feel a bit sad on graduation day every year, but it’s the beginning of their new career. Wishing all the best for their bright future!!!

Great works by the three students in our laboratory. 

We had a joint seminar with other nearby universities working on water and irrigation sciences. It was a great opportunity for us to communicate with other students and professors. There were impressive presentations reporting current problems in rural environment. Thank you very much for the organizer!

Soil-water and vegetation dynamics in an abandoned farmland

Modelling flow-fish relationship and species migration in Yagawa

Effects of aquatic vegetation on instream fish habitat uses in the Fuchu Yosui irrigation system

Participants

The 12th International Symposium on Ecohydraulics (ISE2018; Aug 18-24, 2018) was a great opportunity to meet many people working in the field of ecohydraulics. I could have a clear direction in my research through many discussions with the participants. 
Kurita Ecohydraulics Workshop-ECoENet was a great start of the ISE2018, opening with keynote talks, group discussion, and finalized by synthesis talks. Students and early career researchers might have benefited from the contents in which they could have chances to communicate with keynote speakers and experienced researchers.  
Main part of the ISE2018 was successful; keynote talks were all great and motivated me for future research. I do look forward to the ISE2020 to be held in Lyon, France.

After closing ceremony

Thom Hardy awarded for his contribution to ecohydraulics 

Herve introduced ISE2020 in Lyon, France  

ISE2018 banquet 

Eva as a keynote speaker of the workshop 

Fiona as a keynote speaker of the workshop 

Greg as a keynote speaker of the workshop   

Mike as a keynote speaker of the Workshop 

Atle, Thom and Paco for synthesis keynotes in the workshop 

Workshop participants

ECoENet Meeting  

Ecohydraulics Community meeting 

Seiya successfully presented his research 

Paul introduced how important small streams are!!! 

Mitsuru presented his research in Fuchu Yosui Irrigation System 

Marina presented her work in Yagawa

Paco presented our joint work with Rafael Munoz-Mas

Tour 5 explored Tama river (and Japanese sake!)

Isanuma is a swamp used as an agricultural reservoir which has a complex channel network for rice production.  As a part of new research activity, we joined the fireworks festival there.  Fireworks were all fantastic and we enjoyed beers and Japanese sakes produced in the region. 

Beautiful fireworks

Fish sampling

Result