{"id":2006,"date":"2023-09-07T09:12:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T00:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/?page_id=2006"},"modified":"2026-02-10T16:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:13:53","slug":"dc-chikyu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/dc-chikyu\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fostering human resources who creatively explore knowledge and truth in their major field of study in science, engineering, or agriculture and contribute to the deepening and systematization of such knowledge and truth and who work to resolve social issues through a cross-disciplinary approach that gathers and integrates academic knowledge from different fields.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon_pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/up_load_files\/outline\/outline2025_DCchikyu_EN.pdf\">OUTLINE<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Course of Biological Sciences<\/h4>\n<table style=\"width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas01_biosci\/\">Molecular Genetics<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas02_biosci\/\">Plant Ecology and Evolution<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas04_biosci\/\">Neural Control of Behavior<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas05_biosci\/\">Environmental Biology and Chronobiology<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas06_biosci\/\">Chemical Correlation and Control<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas07_biosci\/\">Developmental Biology<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4>Course of Earth Science<\/h4>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;height: 48px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas01_earth\/\">Petrology<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas02_earth\/\">Seismology<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas03_earth\/\">Geoinformatics<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas04_earth\/\">Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas05_earth\/\">Geochemistry<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas06_earth\/\">Atmospheric Sciences<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 24px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas07_earth\/\">Planetary Sciences<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4>Course of Planetary Materials Science<\/h4>\n<table style=\"width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas01_planet%20\/\">Analytical Planetary Chemistry<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas02_planet\/\">Experimental Planetary Physics<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4>Course of Rural and Environmental Sciences<\/h4>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;height: 240px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 72px\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.4535%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas02_nou\/\">Applied Ecology<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 24.5465%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas03_nou\/\">Environmental Biogeochemistry<\/a>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas04_nou\/\">Environmental Conservation<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas06_nou\/\">Water Resources Management<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 96px\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.4535%;height: 96px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas07_nou\/\">Environmental Hydrology<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 24.5465%;height: 96px\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas08_nou\/\">Design and Management of Environmental Infrastructures<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 96px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas01_jun\/\">Material Cycles and Waste Management<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 96px\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas04_jun\/\">Science for Sound Material-Cycle Sustainable&nbsp; Society System<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 72px\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.4535%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas01_nou\/\">Environmental Data Science<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 24.5465%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas10_nou\/\">Field Data Analysis<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 72px\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4>Course of Environmental Ecology<\/h4>\n<table style=\"width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas01_kankyo\/\">Plant Ecology<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas02_kankyo\/\">Environmental Soil Science<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas03_kankyo\/\">Forest Ecology<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas04_kankyo\/\">Conservation of Aquatic Biodiversity<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas05_kankyo\/\">Insect Ecology<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas06_kankyo\/\">Evolutionary Ecology<\/a><\/td>\n<td 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href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas02_biochem\/\">Chemistry of Bioactive Compounds<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas05_biochem\/\">Food Biochemistry<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas06_biochem\/\">Chemistry of Bio-signalling<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas07_biochem\/\">Microbiological Chemistry<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas04_biochem\/\">Cellular Systems Chemistry<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4>Course of Plant Stress Science<\/h4>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;height: 264px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 72px\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas11_pstress\/\">Plant Genetics and Physiology<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas12_pstress\/\">Signaling Mechanisms<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas02_pstress\/\">Plant Cytomolecular Biochemistry<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas07_pstress\/\">Plant Stress Responses<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 72px\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas09_pstress\/\">Plant Molecular Physiology<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas13_pstress\/\">Molecular Virology<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas14_pstress\/\">Plant-Insect Interactions<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas21_pstress\/\">Plant-Pathogen Interactions<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 72px\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas20_pstress\/\">Plant-Environmental Microbiology<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas04_pstress\/\">Plant Diversity Analysis<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 72px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elst.okayama-u.ac.jp\/en\/education\/mc-chikyu\/areas03_pstress\/\">Plant Functional Genomics<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;height: 72px\"><a 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