Nobuhito Ohte

Date of Birth:

18 February 1964

Current Position:

Professor

Biosphere Informatics Laboratory

Department of Social Informatics

Graduate School of Informatics

Kyoto University
Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

Tel. +81-75-753-3134 Fax +81-75-753-3133

E-mail: nobu@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Education:
1987 B.Agr. Forestry, Kyoto University, Kyoto
1989 M.Agr. Forest Hydrology, Kyoto University, Kyoto
1992 Dr.Agr. Forest Hydrology, Kyoto University, Kyoto

History of Position:

1991-1995 Instructor, Department of Forestry, Kyoto University

1993-1994 Research associate, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, The University of

Arizona

1995-1997 Lecturer, Division of Environmental Science and Technology, Kyoto University

1997-2006 Associate Professor, Division of Environmental Science and Technology, Kyoto

University

2003 Visiting Scientist, Division of Water Resources, United States Geological Survey, Menlo

Park, California

2006-2014 Associate Professor, Department of Forest Science, The University of Tokyo

Since 2014 Professor, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University

Executive Positions:

1998-2007, Member of the editorial board, “Journal of Japan Society of Hydrology and Water

Resources”

2002-2014, Member of the editorial board, “Journal of Forest Research”, Japanese Forestry

Society

2006-2012, Chair of the Information Management Committee of the Japan Long-term Ecological

Research (JaLTER) Network

2007-2012, Member of the editorial board, “Hydrological Research Letters”, Japan Society of

Hydrology and Water Resources

2012-2015, Representative member of Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU)

Since 2006, Member of the committee for large-scale and long−term ecological study of the

Ecological Society of Japan

Since 2010, Associate Editor in Chief of “Ecological Research”

Since 2012, Editorial Board member of “Biogeosciences” of EGU

Since 2013, Editorial Board member of “Progress in Earth and Planetary Science” of JpGU

Since 2014, Board member of the Ecological Society of Japan

Since 2018, Vice president of Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources

International Conferences:

1998 Session Chair, Western Pacific Geophysics (WPGM) Meeting held by AGU (American

Geophysical Union), Taipei, Taiwan

2003 Chair, IUGG/IAHS 2003 Workshop, Sapporo

2004 Session Chair, WPGM held by AGU, Honolulu

2005 Session Chair, Acid Rain Conference, Prague, Czech Rep. Invited.

2005 Session Chair, AGU fall meeting at San Francisco

2006 Session Chair, Joint Assembly of AGU at Baltimore

2008 Session Chair, 7th International Symposium for Subsurface Microbiology, Shizuoka.

2010 Co-convener/Chair, International Symposium on Isotope Applications in ecosystem ecology

Ecological Society of Japan (The 56th Annual Meeting),, Morioka, Japan.

2010 Session Chair, International Symposium on Isotope Ecology 2010 in Kyoto, Japan.

2013 Convener, Leading organizer, US-Japan Joint Seminar on Responses of Catchment Hydrology and Forest Biogeochemistry to Climatic and Environmental Change, Honolulu, Hawai’I, USA.

2013 Session Convener, AGU, Fall Meeting at San Francisco.

Research Experience and Working Fields:

Since 1987 Studies on the hydrological cycle of forest watersheds, Japan

1987-1992 Studies on the pore structure and hydraulic properties of forest soils, Japan

Since 1990 Hydrobiogeochemical studies on temperate forest ecosystems, Japan

1993-1994 Development and utilization of hydrochemical model for a seasonally snow-covered

alpine watershed, as a part of EOS project. Sierra Nevada, CA.

Since 1996 Hydrological and Ecophysiological studies on semi-arid ecosystems in Inner Mongolia,

China

1996-2001 GEWEX/GAME-tropics project, Energy, water and CO2 flux observation at tropical

monsoon region, Thailand

1997-2001 Carbon cycle through the terrestrial ecosystems in temperate forests, streams and lakes

project, related IGBP/GCTE/TEMA project. Japan

2001-2003 Carbon budget estimation project, funded by the Ministry of Environment of Japan.

Since 2004 Isotope applications for environmental evaluations of the river basin, funded by the

Japan Science and Technology Agency.

Since 2006 Development of the ecological database for the Long-term Ecological Research

Network in Japan, funded by the Ministry of Environment of Japan.

Reviewer Experiences:

Journals

Journal of Geophysical Research, Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrological Processes, Hydrology and Earth System Science, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Limnology and Oceanography, Hydrobiologia, Biogeochemistry, Biogeoscience, Aquatic Geochemistry, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Isotopes in Environmental & Health Studies, Environmental Science and Technology, Environmental Pollution, Water Air and Soil Pollution, Journal of Environmental Quality, Forest ecology and Management, Ecological Research, Journal of Forest Research

Report

US Geological Survey, Water Resources Investigation Report

Proposal

National Science Foundation (USA), Proposal reviewer (2012)

Czech Science Foundation, Proposal reviewer (2012)

Invited Participations, Lectures:

1998/4 Ohte, N., Tokuchi, N. and Asano, Y. “Spatial variations in the acid buffering processes in forest catchments”. Keynote lecture, International Inter- disciplinary Conference on Headwater Control, HeadWater ’98, Merano, Italy.

2003/3 Ohte, N. “Biogeochemical and hydrologic controls on nitrogen dynamics at the Kiryu Experimental Watershed, Japan”. Invited Lecture, US Geological Survey, Water Resources Division Seminar, Menlo Park, Carifornia.

2005/5 Ohte, N. et al., “Hydro-biogeochemical response to forest defoliation by pine wilt disease in a headwater forested catchment in central Japan” Cary Conference on Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of disease on ecosystems and of ecosystems on disease, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY Invited.

2007/10 Ohte, N. and Nagata, T. “Simultaneous measurement of nitrogen and oxygen isotopes of nitrate to survey the sources and transformation of nitrogen loads in rivers”. Invited Lecture, Technical Meeting on the application of isotope techniques for nutrient cycling and management in rivers, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria.

2008/11 ISSM 2008 7th International Symposium for Subsurface Microbiology, Shizuoka. Chairing the session on “Interaction between surface and subsurface in terrestrial and marine systems”. Lecture: “In situ isotope signals of nitrate show how high the gross nitrification is in the surface soils in a humid temperate forest in Japan”.

2009/3 Ecological Society of Japan (The 56th Annual Meeting, Morioka) International Symposium on Isotope Applications in ecosystem ecology (Chairing). Lecture: “Isotope application in catchment hydrology and biogeochemistry”.

2009/7 International Workshop on Networking Biodiversity Observation Activities in Asia Pacific Region (AP-BON Workshop), Nagoya. Lecture: “The JaLTER database: towards comprehensive ecological data utilization in Japan”

2010/11 International Symposium on Isotope Ecology 2010 in Kyoto: Relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function, Kyoto

Lecture: “Multi scale survey of river nitrate sources: nitrogen and oxygen isotope values as promise information for detecting the controlling factors”

2011/12 American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, Biogeoscience session 68: Seasonality of Forest Hydrology and Biogeochemistry

Lecture: “Seasonal variations of nitrate discharge from forested catchments: Information Derived from Japanese Case Studies”

2012/3 Symposium on Sustaining Forest Resources in a Changing Climate, Taipei, Taiwan

Lecture: “Controlling Factors of Seasonal Variations in Nitrate Export from Forested Catchments: Hydrological or Biological?”

2013/3 US-Japan Joint Seminar on Responses of Catchment Hydrology and Forest Biogeochemistry to Climatic and Environmental Change, Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA

Lecture: “Spatial distribution of nitrate sources of rivers in the Lake Biwa watershed, Japan: Controlling factors revealed by nitrogen and oxygen isotopes of nitrate”

2013/11 2013 International Conference on Open Data in Biodiversity and Ecological Research, Taipei, Taiwan

Lecture: “Functions and benefits of Data papers in Ecological Research: Pathway to the open data”

2013/12 Plymouth State University, Center for the Environment Seminar, Plymouth, New Hampshir, USA

Lecture: “Diffusion and export dynamics of 137Cs deposited on the forested area in Fukushima after the nuclear power plant accident in March 2011: Catchment observations”

2014/3 Ecological Society of Japan (The 61th Annual Meeting, Hiroshima) International Symposium on Use of various isotope tools in watershed ecology

Lecture: “How does anthropogenic nitrogen input affect the nutrient dynamics and food web structures?: revealed by transect surveys of nitrate isotopes”.

Awards and fellowships:

1.1995-1996, The encouraging fellowship, the Nissan Science Foundation, “Development of hydrobiogeochemical model of forested catchments for water quality predictions”.
2.Aug. 1998, The encouraging prize, the Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources
3.2002-2003 Fellowship for long-term oversea study, The Kyoto University Foundation
4.The 2nd East Asian Federation of Ecological Societies International Congress, Poster Prize, March 2006. Title: Does the larch uptake atmospheric nitrogen oxide from leaves in the East Siberian taiga? : Suggestions from nitrate isotope signatures in tissue waters
5.Sep. 2010, The prize of the Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources

6.Mar. 2011, The Ohsima Prize, the Ecological Society of Japan

7.Jul. 2013, The Biwako Prize for Ecology, the Ecological Society of Japan, Shiga Prefecture

Professional societies:

American Geophysical Union

Ecological Society of America

Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography

International Association of Hydrological Sciences

Ecological Society of Japan

The Japanese Society of Limnology

Japanese Society of Hydrology and Water Resources

Japan Geoscience Union