Dr Takenobu Toyota

Hokkaido University, Japan

My original study field was meteorology, and I was working for Japan Meteorological Agency for eight years after having finished the master course. Twelve years ago, I started sea ice research at the Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University. I got a doctoral degree on the subject of properties of sea ice and surface heat flux in the Sea of Okhotsk in 1998, and am still continuing the research at the same institute.

My present interest is to understand the growth and melting process of sea ice in seasonal ice zone and then to apply it to parameterization of numerical sea ice model. For this purpose, I am now involved in the analysis of ice thickness, floe size, and physical properties of sea ice.

I will belong to the physical sea ice research group and be involved in track observation, ice thickness monitoring with a video camera, surface heat flux observation, ice core analysis in the cold room, and ice floe size observation using a helicopter.