Departments and Faculties

•Introduction of Department of Earth and Planetary Systems, Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University

•Introduction to the Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University

Online Open Campus

•Overview of the Department of Earth and Planetary Systems

•Online Lab Tour

•Exploring the Earth’s interior – Ultrahigh-pressure and high-temperature experiments

•Tracing back the history of the solar system using meteorites and cosmic dust

•Online Campus Tour

Online Lectures

•Yume Navi Lecture Video “Was Mars once blue? Exploring Planetary History through Meteorites”

•Yume Navi Lecture Video “The History of the Earth and Life Explored through Microbial Fossils

•Yume Navi Lecture Video “Meteorites Tell the History of the Solar System and Collisions”

•Yume Navi Lecture Video “Life on Mars? To Search for Extraterrestrial Life, First Know the Earth!

•Yume Navi Lecture Video “From a Small Piece of Stone to the Magnificent Movement of the Earth”

•Yume Navi Lecture Video “Exploring the Earth’s Internal Structure and Evolutionary Processes with High-Pressure Experiments” (Japanese only)

•How the oldest stone in Japan was discovered in the town of Tsuwano, one of the 100 most famous lectures in the world.

Department Introduction Book

This book introduces research conducted by faculty members of the Department of Earth and Planetary Systems and provides easy-to-understand explanations of various Earth phenomena and their mechanisms.

For more information or to purchase, please contactthe Office of the Earth and Planetary Systems Program, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University.

The printed version is in black and white, but a color version of the diagram can be downloaded here.