我々人間の居住する陸域と海域との接点となる海岸は、波のエネルギーを散逸させる防災上重要な機能を有しているほか、多様な生物にとって重要な生息地となっています。しかし、我々の日々の社会活動や気候変動にともなう自然環境の変化によって、世界中の海岸はその本来の姿を失いつつあります。

松葉研究室では海岸環境工学を主な専門分野とし、豊かな自然環境と社会に必要な防災機能の双方を有する海岸の実現を目指して研究を行っています。最新の観測技術を用いた沿岸過程の観測や、波・流れの数値シミュレーションを用いたより詳細な現象の解明などを進めています。

Coasts, the interface between the land where we live and sea, are buffers reducing damage by waves on our society and are also important habitats for a wide variety of organisms. However, due to our social activities and changes in the natural environment caused by climate change, coasts around the world are losing their original shape.

Our research goal is to realize coasts that provide both a rich natural environment and the disaster-prevention functions. We are developing coastal monitoring methods using latest observation devices and are aiming to understand the complicated nearshore process. In addition, we are also working on numerical simulations of waves and currents using numerical models to elucidate various phenomena on the coasts that are difficult to observe by field observation alone.