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Tomoko Hasegawa
Development of estimation method for the Emission Accounting System of Global Agricultural activities
Atmospheric and Thermal Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Division of Environmental Systems Engineering, Department of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering
Place of stay: The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
Term: June 1 – August 31, 2009
I was in the research group called Integrated Modeling Environment (IME) led by Dr. Marek Makowski, and worked on developing a robust method to estimate the emission accounting system of global agricultural activities. The IME specializes in developing mathematical models for comoplex environmental economic issues. Almost every week, there were seminars held by research groups, and lectures by special guests. We therefore had valuable opportunities to obtain international and interdisciplinary knowledge. Most of us usually participated in question and answer sessions, in which I felt easy to join. When I presented my research, I felt it was hard to explain it to the members in other research groups, but I tried to share general information or methodology. I was in the place where a lot of the world’s leading researchers gathered. I made contact with some researchers in other groups as well as IME, had discussions with them, and tried to adopt their valueable advice and comments to my research. I had a very nice and valuable time. I struggled with English in every discussion; however I tried to improve my English communication skills.
