The fifth Geology & Geophysics joint seminar will be held on Friday, July 26, from 5:15 PM. The speaker will be Shukei Ohyanagi (PhD student, DPRI). For details, please see the link (campus access only).

Check the interview with Ms. Ketzallina Flores Ibarra, 3rd year PhD student in the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)!

In this department, we hold joint seminars between the Geophysics and Geology & Mineralogy departments on an irregular basis. The fourth seminar will be held on Friday, June 14th from 5:00 PM. The speaker will be Prof. Francesco Grigoli (University of Pisa, Italy). For details, please see the link (campus access only).

Check the interview with Ms. Samriddhi Prakash Mishra, 2nd year Master student in the Department of Geophysics!

Check the interview with Mr. Han Jiao, 2nd year Ph.D. student, Atmospheric Sciences, Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)!

Check the interview with Mr. Admore Phindani Mpuang, 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)!

Check the interview with Ms. Yi Zheng, former Master student (October 2018 - September 2020) in the Department of Geophysics, now working at an IT company in Tokyo!

At the online open campus for international high school students, Mr. Yan Chandda (3rd year Ph.D. student) gave a talk about his life at Kyoto University. Please take a look!

[For those who would like to study Earth and Planetary Sciences at Kyoto University] Notice of Kyoto iUP (Kyoto University International Undergraduate Program) online information session for the 2022 enrollment

Check the interview with Ms. Christina Shears Ozeki, 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Department of Geology and Mineralogy!

Check the interview with Ms. Tha Zin Htet Tin, 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)!

Check the interview with Mr. Gabriel Theophilus Vinalay Valera, 3rd year Ph.D.student in the Department of Geology and Mineralogy!

Check the interview with Ms. Tong Ling, 2nd year Ph.D. student in the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)!

There is a new English webpage, reflecting foreign students' life in Japan, research at Kyoto University, views and opinions. Check our first interview with Ms. Rimali Mitra, 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Department of Geology and Mineralogy!

We created the official Twitter account. We'll tweet the information associated with our division, such as research results, events, and exams. Please follow @kyotoeps if you have your own Twitter account.

Kyoto University invites applications for a visiting Professor or Associate Professor in volcanology, geothermal sciences and related disciplines. The application deadline is March 1, 2017, and please read the detail in the web page below if you are interested in this invitation.

We created an English web page about scholarships which are offered to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. Please read this page if you plan to study/research Earth and planetary sciences in our division.

The workshop "Properties of active fault damage zones and fault dating" will be held on 4-6 July. Please contact Prof. Horst Zwingmann [zwingmann.horst.4a@kyoto-u.ac.jp] if you would like to attend the workshop.

We have renewed the website of Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences!