タベリン カーリット

Carlito Baltazar Tabelin (born 1983) is the Assistant Professor of the Laboratory of Soil Environment Engineering, one of the research groups in the Division of Sustainable Resources Engineering of Hokkaido University (Japan). His research is mainly focused on the fate and transport of inorganic contaminants, such as arsenic, boron, selenium and heavy metals, in naturally-contaminated rock, soil and groundwater systems. Specifically, he is conducting studies to understand the speciation of arsenic, selenium and boron in natural systems speciation, sorption-desorption processes of trace inorganic contaminants, and reactive transport modeling in natural and simulated systems. He finished his undergraduate degree in metallurgical engineering from Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology (Philippines) and holds graduate degrees in environmental engineering and geochemistry (Ph.D. and M.Eng.) from Hokkaido University.

He was part of the team that developed the "adsorption-layer" system, an ingenious method of disposing large quantities of hazardous rocks excavated from tunnel construction, now used in Japan as an alternative to special landfills as well as in the recycling of hazardous rocks as road embankment material. He has authored/co-authored numerous academic papers published in prestigious international journals as well as in the proceedings of academic meetings and conferences.

He is interested in collaborative works with companies, consultancies and research institutions for the better management of wastes containing inorganic contaminants that could have potentially disastrous effects on people and the environment.

Specialties: Mineral-water interactions, Geochemistry, Hydrology, Environmental Engineering