ANN37001 Lecture and Field Work In Natural Environment

Hiroshima University Syllabus

Japanese

Academic Year 2025Year School/Graduate School School of Integrated Arts and Sciences Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences

Lecture Code ANN37001 Subject Classification Specialized Education

Subject Name 自然環境野外実習・同講義

Subject Name
（Katakana）シゼンカンキョウヤガイジッシュウ・ドウコウギ

Subject Name in
English Lecture and Field Work In Natural Environment

Instructor TSUCHIYA AKIO,TODA MOTOMU,KAWAGUCHI KENTA,ISHIDA TAKUYA

Instructor
(Katakana) ツチヤ　アキオ,トダ　モトム,カワグチ　ケンタ,イシダ　タクヤ

Campus 　 Semester/Term 2nd-Year,  First Semester,  Intensive

Days, Periods, and Classrooms (Int) Inte：Follow the instruction by the class instructor.,IAS H206

Lesson Style Lecture/Practical Lesson Style
(More Details) Face-to-face

Field Work, Discussion, Report

Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week 　 Language of Instruction B : Japanese／English

Course Level 2 : Undergraduate Low-Intermediate

Course Area（Area） 25 : Science and Technology

Course Area（Discipline） 03 : Natural Environment

Eligible Students Undergraduate 2nd-3rd anos

Keywords Fieldwork (climatology, ecology, geology and pedology), Small climate, forest structure, rock-weathering, soil genesis processes.

Special Subject for Teacher Education 　 Special Subject 　

Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) Integrated Arts and Sciences
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・Knowledge and understanding of the importance and characteristics of each discipline and basic theoretical framework.
・The knowledge and understanding  to fully recognize the mutual relations and their importance among individual academic diciplines.
（Abilities and Skills）
・The ability and skills to collect and analyze necessary literature or data among various sources of information on individual academic disciplines.
・The ability and skills to specify necessary theories and methods for consideration of issues.

Class Objectives
/Class Outline The objectives of this class are to learn basic skills on environmental sciences through fieldworks. Let's think about radiation fog in a topographically closed basin in the first fieldtrip. On the second day, let's learn the weathering of granite and techniques of forest structure measurements. On the final fieldtrip, we will observe rhyolite rocks and the soil genesis at a mountainous site near the Seto Inland Sea.

Class Schedule Day 1: August 5 (Tues.), 9:00-11:00, Surface temperature measurements at around the Yamanaka pond. 13:00-15:00, Move to the Higashi-hiroshima Astronomical Observatory for a bird's eye view of Saijo Basin.
Day 2: Augst 6, 9:00, Leave for Ujina coast (Hiroshima), 10:00-12:00, Observation of granite weathering, and thinking about how the Seto Inland Sea was formed. 13:00-15:00, Point cloud data measurements of three-dimensional spatial structure of secondary forests at the coast.
Day 3: August 7, 9:00, Leave for Mt. Haigamine (Kure). 10:00-12:00, Observation and lecture on Rhyolite. 13:00-15:00, Fieldwork about weathering and soil genesis, and preliminary measurements of the chemical properties.
Details will be found out at a guidance, probably in early June. If you miss it, you will lose your seat in a bus which is hired in August. This class is not an hiking (piquenique) but a fieldwork.

Submit a report until the end of August.

Text/Reference
Books,etc. Hiroshima Histroy Walks, Yamakawa Shuppansha, 2009, 336 pages
Natures and Wildlives in Hiroshima, RDB Hiroshima, Chugoku News Service, 1996, 204 pages

PC or AV used in
Class,etc. Handouts, Visual Materials

(More Details)

Learning techniques to be incorporated Discussions, Fieldwork / Survey, Post-class Report

Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review Handouts have all stuffs necessary for writing your report. If you have any question, ask to instructor in charge.

Requirements A guidance is indispendsable for obtianing credit before participating in the field trip.

Grading Method Grading is based on a prior learning, field observations and experiments, and the final report.

Practical Experience

Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it

Message Os professores que acompanham com voces sao: Akio Tsuchiya (Climatology), Motomu Toda (Ecology, carbon cycle), Kenta Kawaguchi (Applied Geology, IGS), Takuya Ishida (Pedology, soil science, hydrology).

Other

Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

Academic Year	2025Year	School/Graduate School	School of Integrated Arts and Sciences Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences
Lecture Code	ANN37001	Subject Classification	Specialized Education
Subject Name	自然環境野外実習・同講義
Subject Name （Katakana）	シゼンカンキョウヤガイジッシュウ・ドウコウギ
Subject Name in English	Lecture and Field Work In Natural Environment
Instructor	TSUCHIYA AKIO,TODA MOTOMU,KAWAGUCHI KENTA,ISHIDA TAKUYA
Instructor (Katakana)	ツチヤ　アキオ,トダ　モトム,カワグチ　ケンタ,イシダ　タクヤ
Campus		Semester/Term	2nd-Year, First Semester, Intensive
Days, Periods, and Classrooms	(Int) Inte：Follow the instruction by the class instructor.,IAS H206
Lesson Style	Lecture/Practical	Lesson Style (More Details)	Face-to-face
Field Work, Discussion, Report
Credits	2.0	Class Hours/Week		Language of Instruction	B : Japanese／English
Course Level	2 : Undergraduate Low-Intermediate
Course Area（Area）	25 : Science and Technology
Course Area（Discipline）	03 : Natural Environment
Eligible Students	Undergraduate 2nd-3rd anos
Keywords	Fieldwork (climatology, ecology, geology and pedology), Small climate, forest structure, rock-weathering, soil genesis processes.
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	Integrated Arts and Sciences （Knowledge and Understanding）・Knowledge and understanding of the importance and characteristics of each discipline and basic theoretical framework. ・The knowledge and understanding to fully recognize the mutual relations and their importance among individual academic diciplines. （Abilities and Skills）・The ability and skills to collect and analyze necessary literature or data among various sources of information on individual academic disciplines. ・The ability and skills to specify necessary theories and methods for consideration of issues.
Class Objectives /Class Outline	The objectives of this class are to learn basic skills on environmental sciences through fieldworks. Let's think about radiation fog in a topographically closed basin in the first fieldtrip. On the second day, let's learn the weathering of granite and techniques of forest structure measurements. On the final fieldtrip, we will observe rhyolite rocks and the soil genesis at a mountainous site near the Seto Inland Sea.
Class Schedule	Day 1: August 5 (Tues.), 9:00-11:00, Surface temperature measurements at around the Yamanaka pond. 13:00-15:00, Move to the Higashi-hiroshima Astronomical Observatory for a bird's eye view of Saijo Basin. Day 2: Augst 6, 9:00, Leave for Ujina coast (Hiroshima), 10:00-12:00, Observation of granite weathering, and thinking about how the Seto Inland Sea was formed. 13:00-15:00, Point cloud data measurements of three-dimensional spatial structure of secondary forests at the coast. Day 3: August 7, 9:00, Leave for Mt. Haigamine (Kure). 10:00-12:00, Observation and lecture on Rhyolite. 13:00-15:00, Fieldwork about weathering and soil genesis, and preliminary measurements of the chemical properties. Details will be found out at a guidance, probably in early June. If you miss it, you will lose your seat in a bus which is hired in August. This class is not an hiking (piquenique) but a fieldwork. Submit a report until the end of August.
Text/Reference Books,etc.	Hiroshima Histroy Walks, Yamakawa Shuppansha, 2009, 336 pages Natures and Wildlives in Hiroshima, RDB Hiroshima, Chugoku News Service, 1996, 204 pages
PC or AV used in Class,etc.	Handouts, Visual Materials
(More Details)
Learning techniques to be incorporated	Discussions, Fieldwork / Survey, Post-class Report
Suggestions on Preparation and Review	Handouts have all stuffs necessary for writing your report. If you have any question, ask to instructor in charge.
Requirements	A guidance is indispendsable for obtianing credit before participating in the field trip.
Grading Method	Grading is based on a prior learning, field observations and experiments, and the final report.
Practical Experience
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it
Message	Os professores que acompanham com voces sao: Akio Tsuchiya (Climatology), Motomu Toda (Ecology, carbon cycle), Kenta Kawaguchi (Applied Geology, IGS), Takuya Ishida (Pedology, soil science, hydrology).
Other
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes. Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

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