Research Interests

• Research interests in the area of remote sensing and ecosystem modeling to analyze the physical cycle (carbon, water and nitrogen) in nature.

• Ph. D, Agriculture, Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Tokyo. Awarded in March 2005.
• M.S., Agriculture, Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Tokyo. Awarded in March 2002. Major: Global Agricultural Sciences, Minor: Forestry.
• B.S., Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo. Awarded in March 2000.

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Doctoral Fellowship, April, 2002 - March, 2005.

Publications
Hashimoto , H., Nemani, R.R., White, W.A., Jolly, W.M., Piper, S.C., Keeling, C.D., Myneni, R.B., and Running, S.W., ENSO induced variability in terrestrial carbon cycling, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D23110,doi:10.1029/2004JD004959, 2004

Ichii, K., Hashimoto, H., Nemani, R. R. and White, M., Modeling the interannual variability and trends in gross and net primary productivity of tropical forests from 1982 to 1999. Global and Planetary Change, (in press).

Milesi, C., Hashimoto, H., Running, S. W. and Nemani, R. R., Population, net primary production and people at risk. Global and Planetary Change, (in press).

Nemani, R.R., Keeling, C.D., Hashimoto, H., Jolly, W.M., Piper, S.C., Tucker, C.D., Myneni, R.B., and Running, S.W., Climate-driven increases in global terrestrial net primary production from 1982 to 1999, Science, 300, pp. 1560-1563, 2003.

Running, S.W., Nemani, R.R., Heinsch, F.A., Zhao, M., Reeves, M., and Hashimoto, H., A continental satellite-derived measure of global terrestrial primary production, Bioscience, 54(6), pp. 547-560, 2004.