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Scientific Program

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Special session

Regarding the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, which occurred in April 14th and 16th, 2016, we will have a special session during the JpGU Meeting 2016. Here we welcome participants from various fields. We are waiting for your participation on this session.

  • Oral : May 25th (WED) AM1/AM2
  • Poster: May 25th (WED) 5:15pm- / May 26th (THU) 3:30pm-
  • Abstract submission: From 28th April through 12th May at 18:00 JST

M-IS34 The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake and related crustal activities Poster(PDF)

Union Session List

Union sessions are the ones to make earth planetary science frontier and its challenges as a whole known to researchers of this community.

U-01 Geoscience and society (Tadao Nishiyama) Only invited lectures
U-02 Earth and Planetary satellite observation projects Part I: Science Landscape of Japan with NASA Space Missions (Teruyuki Nakajima) Only invited lectures
U-03 JPGU and enhancement of scientific transmission capacity by scientific journals (Hodaka Kawahata) Only invited lectures / Only in Japanese
U-04 JHow JpGU will manage environment and disaster? (Kenji Tanaka) Accept normal submission only for Posters / Only in Japanese
U-05 Future Earth - The Integrated Research for Sustainable Future? (Yukio Himiyama) Accept normal submission / Only in Japanese
U-06 Large-scale Research Projects: Master Plan 2017 and its beyond? (Shuhei Okubo) Only invited lectures / Only in Japanese

Public Session

Public sessions are the ones to make the ordinary people know the fruits of earth planetary science researches, planned by Japan Geoscience Union.  They are all free of charge.

O-01 For the achievement of qualities and abilities required at the next Course of Study (Satoshi Miyajima)
O-02 Poster presentations by senior high school students (Tatsuhiko Hara)
O-03 Recent Advances in Earth and Planetary Science (Tatsuhiko Hara)
O-04 Geoparks in Japan (Mahito Watanabe)
O-05 Relationship between earth science community and nuclear power plants - Hamaoka nuclear plant as an example (Satoshi Kaneshima)
O-06 What is "diversity promotion" for students and researchers in JpGU? (Kazuyo Sakanoi)

JpGU-AGU Joint sessions


U-01 Geoscience and society
U-02 Earth and Planetary satellite observation projects Part I
P-PS01 Outer Solar System Exploration Today, and Tomorrow
P-PS02 Mars
P-EM03 Mesosphere-Thermosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Earth's Atmosphere
P-EM04 Space Weather, Space Climate, and VarSITI
P-EM06 Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) mission -- A new age of magnetospheric physics
P-EM08 Inner magnetosphere: Latest results and new perspectives
A-AS02 High performance computing of next generation weather, climate, and environmental sciences using K
A-OS03 Marine ecosystem and biogeochemical cycles: theory, observation and modeling
A-OS04 Ocean Mixing Frontiers
A-GE05 Subsurface Mass Transport and Environmental Assessment
A-CG06 Multi-scale ocean-atmosphere interaction in the tropics
A-CG07 Asia-Pacific climate variations on diurnal to secular time scales
A-CG08 Continental-Oceanic Mutual Interaction: Global-scale Material Circulation through River Runoff
A-CG09 Development and application of land and ocean biogeochemistry components of Earth system models
A-CG10 Earth and Planetary satellite observation project Part II
H-SC02 Coupled Human-Water Dynamics across Scales: Observations, Understanding, Modeling, and Management
H-SC04 Implementing Geoscience Research for the Earth's Future
H-DS05 Landslides and related phenomena
H-TT08 Geoscientific applications of high-definition topography and geophysical measurements
H-CG11 DELTAS: multidisciplinary analyses of complex systems
S-SS01 Earthquake early warning developments around the world
S-SS02 Frontier studies on subduction zone megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis
S-SS04 Rethinking Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis
S-EM05 Full vector geomagnetic and paleomagnetic secular variation: direction, intensity and dynamo simulations
S-IT07 Structure and dynamics of Earth and Planetary deep interiors
S-IT08 Structure and Dynamics of Suboceanic Mantle
S-IT09 Hard-Rock Drilling: Oceanic Lithosphere to Continental Crust Formation
S-IT10 Do plumes exist?
S-IT11 Geodynamic evolution of northeast Asia and western Pacific
S-IT12 Tectonic processes on the incoming plate seaward of the trench: Inputs to subduction zones
S-PM13 Oceanic and Continental Subduction Processes-I, from petrologic-geochemical perspective
S-PM14 Supercontinents and Crustal Evolution
S-PM15 Oceanic and Continental Subduction Processes-II, from structural-petrologic perspective
S-GC16 Volatile Cycles in the Deep Earth - from Subduction Zones to the Mantle and Core
S-TT18 Stress geomechanics: observations, modelings and implications
S-CG19 Hydrogen in the Earth's interior from the crust to the core
S-CG20 Intermediate-depth and deep earthquakes
S-CG21 Recent advances and future directions in slow earthquake science
B-AO01 Astrobiology: Origins, Evolution, Distribution of Life
B-BG02 Fate and transport of radionuclides in atmospheric, marine, aquatic, and pedospheric environments
B-PT03 Biomineralization and the Geochemistry of Proxies -Field ecology, Laboratory culture and Paleo
B-CG04 Earth and Planetary Science Frontiers for Life and Global Environment
M-IS01 Environmental, socio-economic and climatic changes in Northern Eurasia and their feedbacks to the Earth System
M-IS02 IGGP of the future
M-IS03 Interdisciplinary studies on pre-earthquake processes
M-GI04 Open Research Data and Interoperable Science Infrastructures for Earth & Planetary Sciences
M-TT05 Cryoseismology - a new proxy for detecting surface environmental variations of the Earth -

Special Lecture

Lunch time special lectures.
Details are informed as soon as fixed.