Marino Morikawa is a Peruvian-Japanese environmental scientist (b. 1977). He is known for environmental work in Peru.

Early life and education

Born in

Chancay Chancay is a small city located north of Lima. Its population is 63,378. The Chancay culture was a pre-Columbian archaeological culture, later part of the Inca Empire. History It was founded in 1562 under the name of Villa de Arnedo. The ma ...

in Peru, Morikawa has a master's degree in Interdisciplinary Biodiplomacy and a doctorate in

Environmental Sciences Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geo ...

from

Tsukuba University is a public research university located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. It is a top 10 Designated National University, and was ranked Type A by the Japanese government as part of the Top Global University Project. The university has 28 college c ...

in Japan.

Career

His work became well-known when featured in a ''

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'' news report. The report covered his work on the restoration of Lake El Cascajo in Chancay,

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, his home town. Morikawa also founded his own company, Nanoplus 7, which is dedicated to the decontamination of bodies of water. Morikawa has worked on up to 30 habitats around the world. Currently, Morikawa is working on the decontamination effort of

Chira River Chira River or Rio Chira is the name of a river (as well as valley) in northern Peru whose mouth is 100 km north west of the provincial capital of Piura and 25 km north of the port of Paita. Its source is in the Ecuadorian Andes near th ...

in the Ecuadorian Andes, and lakes

Titicaca Lake Titicaca (; es, Lago Titicaca ; qu, Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It is often called the highest navigable lake in the world. By volume of water and by surface area, i ...

Huacachina Huacachina is a village built around a small oasis and surrounded by sand dunes in southwestern Peru. It is about five kilometers from the city of Ica in the Ica District of Ica Province. The oasis was introduced as a feature on the back of the 5 ...

and

Alalay Alalay is a location in the Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. It is the seat of the Alalay Municipality, the third municipal section of the Mizque Province Mizque (from Quechua: ''misk'i'', meaning "sweet") is a province in the Cochaba ...

in Peru.

References

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