Session outline

Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary(M) Session Sub Category Technology & Techniques(TT) Session ID M-TT43 Title Social media and earth and planetary sciences Short title social media Convener Name Kazuo Amano Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences,Ibaraki University Email kazuo@mx.ibaraki.ac.jp Co-convener 1. Name Takashi Oguchi Affiliation Center for Spatial Information Sciences, The University of Tokyo Email oguchi@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp Co-convener 2. Name Masaki Ito Affiliation Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Email mito@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp International Symposium No request Language Japanese Scope The utilization of social media like Twitter, Facebook, Ustream and Blog for earth and planetary sciences has been developed rapidly in recent years. We would like to call for the paperes on case studies, development of methods, reviews and ideas for the social media application. Type of presentation Oral and Poster presentation Invited papers