Building a sustainable future requires the responsible development and efficient use of Earth’s natural resources, including metals, minerals, and energy resources. Achieving this goal depends on advancing our geological understanding of rare-metal and base-metal deposits, while also revealing the mineralogical characteristics of ore and alteration minerals that control resource formation, recovery, and utilization.

Resource development and utilization inevitably generates waste materials, including mine tailings, waste rock, excavation materials, and radioactive waste. Minimizing their impacts on ecosystems and human society requires a quantitative understanding of how potentially hazardous elements are released, transported, transformed, and retained in near-surface environments.

Our laboratory investigates a broad range of topics in environmental geology, with a central focus on water–rock interactions in natural and engineered systems. We apply fundamental geochemical and mineralogical knowledge to practical challenges in resource exploration, mine-waste management, environmental remediation, groundwater protection, and the sustainable use of geological materials.

Through internationally connected and interdisciplinary research and education, we aim to develop scientists and engineers who can address complex resource and environmental challenges across regions and cultures. Our goal is to contribute both scientific knowledge and practical solutions for the sustainable development, responsible use, and effective management of Earth’s resources.