"Fieldwork trips in geoscience" Research associate, University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Life and Environment Sciences support office $B!!(B $B!!(B

$B!!(B Because I was interested in environmental issues at high school, I chose the College of Natural Sciences to learn more. We choose our field of major in mathematics, physics, chemistry, or geosciences at the end of the first year. This system is different from other universities, and allows us to take classes in different areas before deciding our major. When I first started, I thought of specializing in climatology and meteorology in the Geoscience Major, but after attending lectures I began to be strongly attracted to hydrology, which focuses on the hydrological cycle in the natural environment. Now, I am continuing hydrology research in graduate school.
$B!!(BThere are many fieldwork trips in geoscience. I hope that you have the opportunity take part in them and obtain some essential knowledge that textbooks can't provide.

"The words that opened my world" Japan Weather Association weather information section; 1991 graduate $B!!(B

$B!!(BI do the weather report on TV. When I was starting my graduation thesis project, my advisor said, "if you're good students, I don't mind how many join my laboratory." "A good student." I was surprised at this unexpected response. It meant a positive-minded student who would take a question and go ahead on her own, a student "hungry" for information asking questions to the advisor and not letting go until she understood, and someone who wouldn't come asking the same thing twice. It's all common sense, but it's whether you keep that in mind and act on it. Those words made me look at things differently. They were my mental support as I struggled with my thesis, and a strong source of energy even today.

"Tsukuba University is full of surprise moments" Postgraduate student, University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences; 2003 graduate $B!!(B

$B!!(B At Tsukuba University, students go into their field of major and start the many specialized courses including experiments, fieldwork, and seminars. The one course that I remember most is the one-week outdoor training, with experiments and surveys. This week allowed us to feel geological phenomena up close. All the knowledge we had accumulated through lectures connected to what we saw on the land in front of us, and I will never forget that moment. At the University of Tsukuba, advisors and senior students are always willing to give guidance for research, colleagues are stimulating, and the research facilities are quite impressive. There is an environment for research that can't be found anywhere else.