The Institute of Nature and Environmental Technology at Kanazawa University was established in 2002 as a joint research and education facility with the purpose of streamlining existing facilities such as the Low Level Radioactive Laboratory, the Marine Laboratory, the Botanical Garden as well as the Electromagnetic Field Control Laboratory. In 2007, the institute was further integrated with the Japan Sea Research Institute at Kanazawa University in order to promote the 21^st Center of Excellence program by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Environmental Monitoring and Prediction of Long- & Short-Term Dynamics of the Pan-Japan Sea Area. The institute was further reorganized in 2015 to promote environmental research and education in the pursuit of creating sustainable environmental management programs.