Kei Nakagawa

Professor, Nagasaki University

Born: 12 September 1971

Education

1999: Doctor of Engineering (PhD) in groundwater engineering at Kyushu University.

Macroscopic dispersion process of non-reactive tracer in heterogeneous porous media

1996: Master of Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan.

Employment

2011-present: Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, Nagasaki University.

2002-2011: Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Technology, Kagoshima University.

2009-2011: Major Advisory Professor, The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University.

1999-2002: Assistant Professor, Division of Bioresources and Environmental Sciences, Kyushu University.

Research stay

2004-2005: guest researcher, Department of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University, Sweden.

Research interests

Reactive transport in groundwater

Physical and chemical hydrogeology and heterogeneity

Saltwater Intrusion and subsurface dam

Groundwater modeling

Remediation of contaminated soils and groundwater

Administrative and organizational skills

2013-2013, Editor, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

2013-present, Editor, Journal of Japanese Society of Soil Physics

2009-present, Editor, Journal of Groundwater Hydrology

2007-2009, Member of the international comittee, Japanese association of groundwater hydrology

2006-present, Editor, Journal of Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources

2006-2009, Member of the working group of in-situ tracer test, Japanese association of groundwater hydrology

2003-present, Member of the Hydrology Division, Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers

Referee for

(International)

See Web of Science

(Domestic)

Journal of Groundwater Hydrology

Journal of Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources,

Annual Journal of Hydraulic Engineering JSCE (Japan Society of Civil Engineers)

Transactions of JSIDRE (The Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering)

Journal of JSCE, Ser.C(Geosphere Engineering)

Journal of JSCE, Ser.B1(Hydraulic Engineering)

Journal of JSCE, Ser.G(Environmental Research)

Publications

See ORCID; google scholar; research map

A total of 163 peer reviewed scientific contributions, of these 80 peer reviewed international articles (68 Scopus / 59 web of science (WOS) indexed articles).

Some recent contributions (2024-2023):

Relationship between nitrate, heavy metal, and sterols contents in Japanese agricultural soils with risk of groundwater pollution, (Kei Nakagawa; M. Shahidul Islam; Syed Shabbar Hussain Shah; Zhuolin Li; Yuji Takao; Ronny Berndtsson), Chemosphere 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142335

Heavy metal immobilization and radish growth improvement using Ca(OH)2-treated cypress biochar in contaminated soil, (Syed Shabbar Hussain Shah; Kei Nakagawa; Riei Yokoyama; Ronny Berndtsson), Chemosphere 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142385

Groundwater Resource Assessment by Applying Long-Term Trend Analysis of Spring Discharge, Water Level, and Hydroclimatic Parameters, (Zhi-Qiang Yu; Takahiro Hosono; Hiroki Amano; Ronny Berndtsson; Kei Nakagawa), Water Resources Management 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s11269-024-03857-1

Hydrogeochemical factors controlling the fluoride concentration in spring/groundwater in Aso caldera in the volcanic region, Japan, (Hiroki Amano; Tsutomu Ichikawa; Kuniaki Fujimoto; Kei NakagawaK Nakagawa, H Amano, M Persson, R Berndtsson), Environmental Earth Sciences 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s12665-023-10923-1

Coprostanol adsorption behavior in agricultural soil, riverbed sediment, and sand, (M. Shahidul Islam; Kei Nakagawa; Zhi-Qiang Yu; Yuji Takao; Ronny Berndtsson), Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2023.110029

Toxicity and source identification of pollutants in an urban river in Bangladesh, (M. Shahidul Islam; Kei Nakagawa; M. Abdullah-Al-Mamun; Md. Abu Bakar Siddique; Ronny Berndtsson), Environmental Earth Sciences 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s12665-023-10812-7