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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Shiro Tsuyuzaki, Dr. Sci. (Hokkaido Univ.)
Curriculum vitae

(Update on December 2 2010)


Aug 30 2010

Born at July 16 1961 at Takahagi City on Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan
Doctor of Science, Hokkaido University (March 1990)

Present address:
Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University
Sapporo 060 0810 Japan

Tel: +81 11 (706) 2283, FAX: +81 11 (706) 4954
E-mail:

Family: Yosimi, Mirei (daughter), and Tatsuru (son)

Apr 1980-Mar 1984 Undergraduate, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
Apr 1984-Mar 1986 Master Course in Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University
Apr 1986-Mar 1987 Research fellow, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University
Apr 1987-Mar 1990 Doctoral Course in Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University
Apr 1990-Jul 1990 Postdoctoral fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Japanese Junior Scientists
Jul 1990-Dec 1995 Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University
Jan 1996-Nov 2010 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University
Apr 1996-present Lecturer (Additional position), Hakodate College, University of Hokkaido of Education
Apr 1999-Mar 2008 Lecturer (Additional position), Kushiro College, University of Hokkaido of Education
May 1999-Jan 2000 Visiting Scholar, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Canada
Apr 2002-Mar 2003 Lecturer (Additional position), Sapporo University
Sept 2003-Aug 2004 Visiting Scholar, School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Australia
Dec 2010-present Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University

Thesis for degree of Doctor of Science, Hokkaido University

Revegetation dynamics in early successional stages of the volcano Usu, northern Japan, after the 1977-78 eruptions

Supervisor: YOSHIDA, Shizuo


Overseas Survey

Period (YY/MM) Study sites Purposes
88/6-7
89/09-10
Sichuan Prov, China
Jiling Prov, China
Formation process of wetlands
92/09-94/01 WA, USA Comparison of volcanic vegetation
95/07, 96/07-08 Sakha Republic, Russia Effects of climate change on arctic tundra
96/12-97/02 New Zealand Vegetation dynamics on volcanoes in NZ
97/07-08 Indonesia Vegetation structure in tropical wetlands
97/12-98/01 Philippines Forest structure and agroforestry on Mt Makiling Forest Reserve
99/05-00/01 Canada Conservation on vegetation structure in volcanic areas
03/09-04/08, 05/12 Western Australia Plant community recovery on post-mining areas
05/05 & 07-08
06/05 & 07-08, 07/05 & 07-08, 08/08, 09/08, 10/08
AK, USA Revegetation after large-scaled wildfire in Alaska

Symposium committee

July 9-July 15, 2001, Kamchatka, Russia. Scientific committee.

Field symposium: Plants and volcanoes


Professional societies

Botanical Society of Japan

Recipient, Botanical Society Award of Young Scientists, 1994
Member in editorial board (Journal of Plant Research), 2007-2014

Ecological Society of Japan

Responsible editor of Ecological Research, 1997-2000
Responsible editor of Japanese Journal of Ecology, 2001-2004

Botanical Society of America
Ecological Society of America (Asian Ecology Section, Long-term Studies Section)
British Ecological Society
International Association for Vegetation Science

* Publications [ English | Japanese ]

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