- Ph.D. student,
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources ,
Purdue University - aota@purdue.edu
EDUCATION
- 2018 – MS, Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, IN, advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Dukes,
Thesis: Potential of biochar to mitigate the effects of extreme precipitation on soil greenhouse gas emissions and soybean growth - 2016 – BS, Bioenvironmental Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan, advisor: Dr. Kazuhiro Harada
Specialization: Social Science and Environmental International Cooperation in Southeast Asia - 2014 – Exchange Program, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL
RESEARCH INTERESTS
To broaden understanding of bird diversity patterns
and drives in big scale using statistical and machine-learning techniques as
well as to estimate the impacts of climate change.
MEETINGS
- 2019 – Midwestern Association of Graduate
Schools 75th Annual Meeting, MO: Representative of Purdue University
to the Midwest Three Minute Thesis competition
- 2018 – Ecological Society of America Annual
Meeting, LA: Oral Presentation
- 2018 – Purdue University Department of Forestry
and Natural Resources Research Symposium, IN: Poster Presentation
- 2018 – Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference,
MI: Oral Presentation
- 2017 – Drought-Net Inter-Institutional Meeting
at Colorado State University, CO: Student Participant
- 2016 – The Japanese Forest Society 127th
Annual Meeting, Kanagawa, Japan
- 2015 – The 11th Conference of Youth
Paris 2015 in Tokyo, Japan: Student Participant
- 2015 – The 6th Academic Consortium
21 Student World Forum 2015, Strasbourg, France and Freiburg, Germany, Student
Representative of Nagoya University
AWARDS
- 2018 – Purdue Climate Change Research Center
Travel Grant
- 2018 – Three Minute Thesis Competition, Second
Place, Purdue University
- 2016 – Takenaka Foundation Scholarship
- 2016 – Best Senior Presentation Award, Nagoya
University
- 2013 – Japan Student Services Organization,
Exchange Student Scholarship