KATO Tasuku

Professional Career

1998/04/01-2005/06/30 : Assistant, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University
2005/07/01-2008/03/31 : Lecturer, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University
2008/04/01-2011/05/31 : Associate Professor, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University
2011/06/01-present : Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and TechonologyAssociate Professor
2018/11/01-present : Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and TechnologyProfessor

Academic Degrees

1995/03 Ms.C., Agriculture, The University of Tokyo
1998/03 Ph.D., Agriculture, The University of Tokyo

Research Interests

My research field is Water quality issues in irrigation & drainage and Watershed management in agricultural area. Monitoring, simulation model, and scenario analysis were conducted in Kasumigaura basin, Japan and several watersheds in south east Asia.

Publications

• Sao, D., Saito, H., Kato, T., Šimůnek, J., Numerical Analysis of Soil Water Dynamics during Spinach Cultivation in a Soil Column with an Artificial Capillary Barrier under Different Irrigation Managements, Water, 13(16), 2176, 2021.
• Akoko G.,, Le T.H., Gomi T., Kato, T. A Review of SWAT Model Application in Africa. Water 13(9): 1313. 2021.
• Otieno, G.A., Kato, T., Tu, L. H., Evaluation of Irrigation Water Resources Availability and Climate Change Impacts-A Case Study of Mwea Irrigation Scheme, Kenya, Water, 12(9), 2330, 2020
• Sao.D., Kato,T., Tu,L.H., Thouk, P., Fitriyah, A., and Oeurng,C., Evaluation of Different Objective Functions Used in the SUFI-2 Calibration Process of SWAT-CUP on Water Balance Analysis: A Case Study of the Pursat River Basin, Cambodia, Water, 12(10), 2901. 2020