Activities

2025

• 2025/11/23–11/26 Poster Presentation at SGEPSS Fall Meeting
  • Title: Prototype development of a drone-borne electromagnetic exploration system
• 2025/11/12–11/22 Field Survey
  • Electromagnetic survey around Gokase Town, Miyazaki Prefecture.
• 2025/09/30–10/03 Poster Presentation at the Volcanological Society of Japan (VSJ) Fall Meeting (Matsumoto)
  • Title: Development of a frequency-domain drone-borne electromagnetic exploration system
• 2025/09/12–09/15 Field Survey
  • Drone survey at Mt. Shinmoedake.
• 2025/08/04–08/09 Field Survey
  • Drone electromagnetic survey at the former Ishizu Mine site, Gunma Prefecture.
• 2025/07/30 Field Survey
  • Field survey for electromagnetic exploration.
• 2025/06/26–06/27 Presentation
  • Research presentation at GEOINFORUM 2025.
• 2025/05/26–05/28 Presentation
  • Research presentation at the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting 2025.
• 2025/03/06 Presentation at the FY2024 Results Reporting Symposium of the Earthquake and Volcano Hazards Observation and Research Program
  • Title: Detection of spatio-temporal changes in subsurface resistivity at Mt. Kusatsu-Shirane
• 2025/02/28 Seminar Presentation
  • Seminar presentation at the Geomechanics Laboratory, Kyoto University.
  • Title: Electromagnetic exploration for earth resources
• 2025/02/26 Presentation
  • Presentation at the Results Reporting Meeting at the headquarters of Physical Measurement Consultant Co., Ltd.
  • Topic: Research activities at the Energy Resources Laboratory, Kyushu University.
• 2025/02/18 Presentation
  • Presentation at the Joint Results Reporting Meeting of the Volcanology Section and the Comprehensive Research Group on High-Risk Small-Scale Volcanic Eruptions.
  • Title: Detection of spatio-temporal changes in subsurface resistivity at Mt. Kusatsu-Shirane
• 2025/01/10 Presentation at the Symposium for Young Researchers in Resources Engineering 2025
  • Title: Resource exploration using electrical and electromagnetic methods

2024

• 2024/09/07–09/13 Presentation at the 26th EMIW (Beppu)
  • Presented research results on Mt. Kusatsu-Shirane and seafloor hydrothermal areas at the Electromagnetic Induction Workshop (EMIW).
• 2024/08/26–08/29 Field Survey
  • Participated in a field survey at Mt. Kusatsu-Shirane, Gunma Prefecture. Conducted prototype flight experiments for drone-borne electromagnetic exploration.
• 2024/08/23 Presentation
  • Participated in the FY2024 River Fund Research Results Presentation. Presented the results of the funded research project.
• 2024/07/28–08/01 Field Survey
  • Participated in a field survey at Mt. Kusatsu-Shirane, Gunma Prefecture. Installed 8 electromagnetic monitoring stations.
• 2024/05/20–05/29 Marine Survey
  • Participated in a marine electromagnetic survey cruise off the coast of Sanriku onboard the JAMSTEC R/V Shinsei Maru (Cruise KS-24-8).
• 2024/03/20–03/22 Drone EM Experiment
  • Conducted flight experiments with an EM sensor attached to a drone in Kinokawa City, Wakayama Prefecture.
• 2024/02/06–02/08 Drone EM Experiment
  • Conducted flight experiments with an EM sensor attached to a drone in Kinokawa City, Wakayama Prefecture.

2023

• 2023/12/04–12/08 Field Survey
  • Conducted an AMT survey at the Futagawa Fault Zone, Kumamoto Prefecture.
• 2023/11/19–11/26 Field Survey
  • Field survey for CSEM monitoring at Inferno Crater Lake, Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley, New Zealand.
• 2023/11/13–11/15 Oral Presentation at the 3DEM-7 Symposium
  • Presented at the international conference held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
• 2023/08/17 Oral Presentation at Water-Rock Interaction (WRI-17)
  • Presented at the international conference in Sendai. Title: “Three-dimensional resistivity imaging of supercritical geothermal reservoir in Onikobe area, Japan”
• 2023/05/23 Oral Presentation at the JpGU Meeting 2023
  • Title: “Application of EM-ACROSS to investigate underground structures of the Kusatsu-Shirane Volcano, Japan”
• 2023/04/15–04/24 Field Survey
  • Business trip to New Zealand to implement CSEM monitoring at Inferno Crater Lake, Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley.
• 2023/01/25–02/03 Marine Survey
  • Participated in the exploration of seafloor metallic mineral resources east of Aogashima onboard the research vessel Kaimei.

2022

• 2022/11/08 Presentation at the Geothermal Research Society of Japan 2022 Annual Meeting (Tokyo)
  • Keiichi Ishizu, Yasuo Ogawa, Hiromi Fukino, Masahiro Ichiki, “Investigation of supercritical geothermal reservoir in Onikobe area by MT method” (URL: https://grsj.gr.jp/event/conference/top/)
• 2022/06/23 Oral Presentation at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Geoinformatics
  • Title: “Improvement of resistivity imaging of seafloor massive sulfides by joint inversion of CSEM data measured by towed and seafloor receivers” (URL: http://www.jsgi-map.org/geoinforum2022/02.pdf)
• 2022/06/27 Presentation at The International Workshop on Offshore Freshened Groundwater Research
  • Presented online on electromagnetic imaging of offshore freshened groundwater at the hybrid conference (Malta & Online).
• 2022/05/24 Oral Presentation at the JpGU Meeting 2022 (SVC33-01)
  • Presented on the supercritical geothermal reservoir published in JGR in the volcanic hydrothermal session.