Dr. Morimaru Kida (Google Scholar)
Morimaru Kida is an Assistant Professor for Soil Science at the Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, and a tenure-track faculty at Kobe University Institute for Advanced Research.
While centered on Aquatic Organic Geochemistry and Soil Science, he is keen to apply various analytical and statistical tools from different fields such as Limnology, Marine Geochemistry, and Ecology.
He is broadly interested in the cycling and fate of natural organic matter in terrestrial and aquatic environments. His favourite site is mangrove forests because (obviously) he can collect both soil and water samples.
Review experience (in alphabetical order): ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, Biogeosciences, Communications Earth & Environment, Environmental Science & Technology, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Frontiers in*, Geochemical Journal, Limnology, Limnology & Oceanography, Marine Chemistry, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Organic Geochemistry, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Scientific Reports, Science of the Total Environment
Recipient of the following prestigious awards:
- 2023 Young Researcher Award (Taguchi Award) from The Japanese Association of Organic Geochemists
- 2023 Outstanding Young Researcher Award from Kobe University
- And several best oral/poster presentation awards and travel awards at conferences
M1 students
Yuta Watanabe
Theme: Characterizing soil organic matter evolution along the chronosequence of a mangrove plantation, Bang Pu (Thailand).
Ryu Sumioka
Theme: Characterizing porewater dissolved organic matter evolution along the chronosequence of a mangrove plantation, Bang Pu (Thailand).
Research apprentices
Coming soon…
B4 students
Misato Hashi
Theme: Elucidating co-variation of dissolved organic matter and bacteria in Lake Biwa, Japan.
Ayaka Nishikawa
Theme: Efficient characterization of mangrove soil organic matter by high-throughput 1H NMR spectroscopy.
Masahiro Shimotani
Theme: Evaluation of early-stage soil genesis under moss colonies in the Yukidori Valley, East Antarctica.
Past students
2021-2024
Ayuri Ohira
Theme: Elucidating the molecular heterogeneity of dissolved organic matter that governs its long-term persistence.
Best oral presentation at the 40th symposium of The Japanese Association of Organic Geochemists
Maho Oshimoda
Theme: Investigating black carbon dynamics in soils after biochar amendment in a temperate secondary forest.
Kota Hamada
Theme: Identifying mechanisms of soil organic matter stabilization in mangrove soils.
Published the following papers:
Functional organic matter components in mangrove soils revealed by density fractionation
2023-2024
Miho Yamashita
Theme: Quantitative assessment of black carbon contribution to aromaticity of soil humic acids with different molecular weight and extraction pH conditions
2022-2023
Yuki Konishi
Theme: Environmental and mineralogical drivers of mineral-associated organic matter abundance in soils collected all over Japan.