Geomorphology of Lake-Catchment Systems

Kenji Kashiwaya is a professor emeritus and researcher at the Institute of Nature and Environmental Technology of Kanazawa University, Japan. He has been engaged intensively in the geomorphology of lake-catchment systems in East Eurasia, including Russia (Siberia), Mongolia, northeast China, Korea, southeast and southwest China (Tibet and Yunnan), and Taiwan. Major results about Lake Baikal in Siberia were published in his book Long Continental Records from Lake Baikal in 2003. Comparatively short-term environmental studies of East Asia were published in his book Earth Surface Processes and Environmental Changes in East Asia in 2015. He was visiting professor at National Taiwan University in 2014 and held a short-term visiting position in the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada, in 2003. He was the chair of the Japanese Committee for the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG) (2007–2014), the Science Council of Japan, and is currently the co-chair of the committee (since 2014). Trained in the Department of Geophysics, Kyoto University, he holds a DSc and MSc from the University.