If any of the following resonates with you:

• You are curious about nature-related phenomena involving plants (e.g., plants getting wet in rain, swaying in wind, being damaged by storms/tsunami, etc.).
• You want to do field measurements and on-site surveys.
• You like rain and/or wind (yes, really).
• You want to understand how forests reduce sediment disasters and contribute to soil conservation.
• You want to understand how forests contribute to water resource functions.
• You want to study disaster-mitigation functions of forests (e.g., avalanche control, windbreak, snowbreak, coastal protection).
• You like data.
• You are interested in data analysis using machine learning.
• You are interested in IoT and want to try electronics and programming (no prior experience required).
• You like making things and want to design (3D) and fabricate tools using a 3D printer for field research.
• You are in agriculture/forestry but also interested in engineering-oriented research.
• You want more opportunities to communicate in English and improve your skills.
• You want to help build the early history of a new lab.

• You mainly want wet-lab chemical experiments and laboratory analyses.
• You mainly want to run large-scale Earth system simulations.
• You never want to speak English.