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FOLENS E-News No.10/ 15 January 201
Education Program for Field-Oriented Leaders in Environmental Sectors in Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Contents
- 1.SCHEDULE
- 2.Report
-International Symposium
-Presentation Skill Training
-Green Technology Practice
-Overseas Field Training with the supervisor (Thematic research type)
-Post-Field Reporting Seminar and Case-Study Workshop
-FOLENS Seminar November
-FOLENS Seminar December
-FOLENS Farm Activities
- Internship
- 3.New Year's Greetings from Prof.Takada
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1.SCHEDULE
-January
9,16,23,30 Green Technology Practice
15 FOLENS Seminar
30: Post Field Reporting Seminar and Case Study Workshop
-February
TBD: FOLENS Seminar
TBD:Post-Field Reporting Seminar
-March
TBD: FOLENS Seminar
TBD: FOLENS Graduation Ceremony
For the Annual Schedule,
click the link→http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/outline/schedule_e.html
2.Report
T- International Symposium
The 4th FOLENS international symposium was held at Fuchu campus on
November 29, 2012. The objective of the symposium was to explore the
way to develop field oriented mind and skill sets at university
education by clarifying the requirement and expectation towards global
environmental human resource who can actually contribute to the field.
Read More⇒http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/report2012_nov_e.html
-Presentation Skill Training
Presentation Skill Training was held as one of the regular event in
the series of The 4th International Symposium of FOLENS, on the next
day of the symposium (Nov. 30, 2012). The posters were displayed at
the 1st floor hall in building No.2 in Fuchu. And 19 was by Master
Program students and 10 was by Doctoral Program students. An active
discussion was made. We thank Professors from E＆R bases and other
participants for their kind and great suggestion to us. (HO)
Read More⇒http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/presentation_2012nov_e.html
-Green Technology Practice
Kenichi YONEDA, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of FOLENS
We are practicing improvement of waste management in Asian countries
in the 2nd term domestic training“Green Technology Practice”as
follows,
1.I explained the situation of waste management in Asia.
2.I took the students to the CESS (Center of Environmental Science
in Saitama) to discuss with their staff about the improvement of
Asian countries landfill.
3.I took the students to the Yorii landfill, Saitama and PRB (Permeable
Reactive Barrier) test facility and there we sampled soil and leachate
for the test in TUAT.
4.We will practice COD and heavy metal removal column test, the students
will check their countries waste management and we will discuss about
the future waste management in Asia.
-Overseas Field Training with the supervisor (Thematic research type)
Overseas Field Training of thematic research type; 3 trips were conducted
in Malaysia, Thailand and South Africa. Reports from participants are
shown.
・Piyanuch Jaikaew:
Investigation of herbicide usage and consequent contamination in upland
soil and surface water in Petchaburi Province of Thailand.This study
investigates an environmental impact which is influenced by herbicide
used in agricultural land. The major focus is on the increase of
herbicide usage and consequent contamination in surface water and soil
in Petchaburi Province of Thailand.
Read More⇒http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/2012_oft_j_piyanuch.html
・Gen Masao:
Assembly of a particle collection system with high mobility to understand
atmospheric particles in Malaysia. I visited Universiti Putra Malaysia
(UPM) in Malaysia for 39 days. The purpose of this field training was
to assemble a particle collection system and collect particle suspended
in the gas phase. The assembled collectors (totally 3 collectors) were
placed in UPM campus for long-term experiments (more than 30 days) and
near highway for short-term experiments (1 day).
Read More⇒http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/2012_oft_j_gen.html
・Ito Maki :
Sediment core sampling in South Arica
The objective of this training was to collect sediment cores in Durban,
South Africa, to investigate marine pollution by persistent organic
pollutants (POPs). We worked in scientific collaborations with the
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Durban,
South Africa. Sediment core samples were collected successfully with
the CSIR members.
Read More⇒http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/2012_oft_j_ito.html
-Post-Field Reporting Seminar and Case-Study Workshop
Contents and achievements of overseas field training and internship
were presented and discussions were made on 13th and 20th, December 2012.
Presenters are expected to speak carefully because audiences are from
variety of specialty. Therefore the talk could partially differ from
Bachelor thesis or Master thesis presentation, which generally stands
on specific view. That is this seminar aims; to develop skill sets to be
significant players in environmental sectors; i.e., Field-Oriented Leaders
in Environmental Sectors.
Read More⇒http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/report_post_dec2012_e.html
-FOLENS Seminar November:
ife and Agriculture after Tohoku Earthquake and
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster In the seminar on 19 November, information on
the radiation contamination and its impact on local communities and
agriculture was shared as preparation for the Fukushima visit in December.
Read More⇒http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/f_s_nov2012_e.html
-FOLENS Seminar December:Fukushima Visit - Life and Agriculture after
Tohoku Earthquake and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
We visited Fukushima on 17-18 December, aiming to 1) learn from the
current situation of people’s lives and agriculture, and the various
actions being taken in local communities; and 2) deepen thoughts on
how issues in Fukushima, students' own communities, and the world,
are connected, how such issues and their own specialty fields can be
connected, and what action they can actually take.
Read More⇒http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/f_s_dec2012fukushima_e.html
- FOLENS Farm Activities - Sustainable Community Development and Urban Agriculture
FOLENS has launched farming activities for its students and
faculty in March 2012. At the "FOLENS Farm", we have grown vegetables,
flowers, buckwheat without no chemical fertilizers or pesticides.
Read More⇒http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/f_s_jan2013folensfarm_e.html
-Internship
Kazuhiro Aoi: Bach Ma National Park and Hue University of Agriculture
and Forestry - The strategy of saving farming resources in rice cultivation
in small-scale (Central Vietnam) and large-scale field (Mekong Delta)
Read More⇒http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/intern_2012feb_aoi_e.html
3.New Year's Greetings from Prof. Hideshige Takada, Director, FOLENS
“A rolling stone gathers no moss”
I hope that you’ve made smooth start in 2013 after pleasant New Year
holidays. During the holidays, I went to several shrines and temples to
take ”five” written oracles, as usual, though I do not believe them.I
always take five oracles and take median to get representative value, as
our protocol of International Pellet Watch (http://www.pelletwatch.org/).
First four oracles were two of extreme happiness, moderate happiness,
and happiness. These four trials mean that median would be moderate
happiness or more. I did not have to take the last oracle. However, on
Jan. 6th (Sun), I went to Jindai temple to take the fifth written oracle.
It was “unluckiness”. In any way, the median is“moderate happiness”
and I do not have to consider “unluckiness”. However, the point is
writing on the unlucky oracle. They said that my situation is something
like degraded conditions in stagnant waters and I should work actively
to utilize my talent. This means that a rolling stone gathers no moss.
Our FOLENS program has been establishing various activities during last
4 years and we know the routine protocols. However, to grow our program
more fruitfully and to connect ourselves to future related program, we
should always develop new activities. I hope that we should be rolling
stones which gather no moss in 2013.
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