H-RISE Northern Advancement Center for Science & Technology Horonobe Research Institute for the Subsurface Environment

Northern Advancement Center for Science & Technology
H-RISE
5-3 Sakaemachi, Horonobe-cho, Teshio-gun, Hokkaido, 098-3221, Japan.
TEL+81-1632-9-4112
FAX +81-1632-9-4113

We aim to create new resources for the future using subsurface microorganisms.

We conduct natural science and engineering research for developing energy resources from subsurface organic matters.

We survey sedimentary soft rocks such as the silicic rocks in Horonobe for basic research on utilization of underground space.

What's New

2022/10/08【Journal Article】A paper on "Research results leading to the acceleration and mass production of biomethane using lignite, an unused resource" has been published.
2021/02/16【Journal Article】A paper on a novel sulfate-reducing bacterium has been published online in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM).
2019/11/29【Poster presentation】Presentation in the 42nd MBSJ, Fukuoka, Japan.
2019/09/04JHSS35 is held in Wakkanai, Hokkaido, Japan.
2019/03/30【Journal Article】Our recent paper has been published online in Geomicrobiology Journal.
2018/12/27Google search function has been added.