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***Japan Geoscience Union Mailnews August Issue
No.344 August 18, 2020***
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<< Contents >>
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| 1. Preface by Eiichi Tajika, President of JpGU
| 2. JpGU-AGU 2020: Virtual Meeting Quick Report
| -> Overview
| -> Results of Post-Meeting Survey
| -> iPoster Gallery Re-opened
| -> Zoom Live Content On-Demand Webcasting
| -> Poster presentations by High School Students
| -> Meeting Certificate
| -> JpGU Meeting 2021
| 3. From Committees
| -> Japan Earth Science Olympiad Committee
| 4. Information from PEPS
| -> SPEPS (Special call for excellent papers on hot topics) article collections
| -> Latest Articles
| 5. What’s new
| -> Career Opportunity
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#1. Preface by Eiichi Tajika, President of JpGU
The JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2020: Virtual was the 30th anniversary
since the 1st Joint Meeting of Earth and Planetary Science Societies
of Japan held in 1990 and the 2nd Joint Meeting with the American
Geophysical Union (AGU). As you will be aware, the meeting had to be
postponed by 7 weeks due to Covid-19, and was held from July 12 to 19
and was held entirely online. This was an unprecedented challenge for
us and many aspects we were trying for the first time. Our primary
concern was to provide an opportunity for researchers, in particular
students to present the results of their research and with this in
mind decided to hold a virtual meeting rather than cancelation.
We apologize for all the inconvenience caused to the participants
due to the system trouble with the aMuze iPoster system both before
and on the first day of the meeting. We are also deeply sorry for
difficulties experienced by some participants caused by the large
number of people accessing the portal site on the first day.
After these initial problems, we were able to complete the planned
program without any further serious trouble. Despite being a virtual
conference, the total number of participants is about 6,000, making
it the largest virtual international conference in the world to date,
at least, in the field of Earth and planetary sciences. I would like to
express my sincere gratitude to the meeting organizing committee,
the online hosting core group, the JpGU office, the faculty and
students who operated Zoom host, and all the other people including
participants who have contributed to the success of this virtual
meeting.
The 2020 Annual Meeting of JpGU Representatives was held shortly
after the meeting and 20 members were appointed as Directors for the
8th term. At the following new Directors meeting, I was chosen as the
new President of JpGU. It is a great honor to serve as president of
such a large organization with over 11,000 members. At the same time,
I keenly feel the weight of this responsibility.
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world, and academic communities
and academic activities are no exception. This is now a time of flux
as we reach out to find new ways of conducting academic activities.
At such a time, it was only with great trepidation that I agreed to
take on the challenge of becoming the next president of JpGU. With
the support of the strong team of New Directors their experience and
insight I would like to accept this role and do my best to manage JpGU
for the next two years. On behalf of the new team, I also ask you,
the members, for your support and cooperation as we move forward in
these difficult times.
JpGU is an organization established with the aim of promoting the
development of Earth and planetary sciences throughout the world and
to bring together the wide range of associated activities and academic
societies in Japan. Your insights and wisdom are of great importance
to us as we develop JpGU. We gladly receive proposals that have the
potential to contribute to the development of the Earth and planetary
science community as a whole. If you have constructive ideas or wish
to contribute to committee activities of JpGU, please feel free to
contact the JpGU office.
We greatly appreciate your support and cooperation.
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#2. JpGU-AGU 2020: Virtual Quick Report
(1) Overview
We’d like to thank all attendees for attending JpGU-AGU 2020: Virtual.
Please see below the quick report of this year’s meeting.
Period: July 12 (SUN) – 19 (SUN), 2020
Host: Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU), American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Supporting Members:
Japan Local Convention Association Office, Forte, Aso UNESCO Global
Geopark, Crimson Interactive Japan, World Creations Inc., Japan Geoparks
Network (JGN), American Journal Experts, Cactus Communications,
Chiba Convention Bureau
(a) Sessions
+Total Number of Sessions: 275 (240 in 2019, 230 in 2018, 253 in 2017)
U: Union 18 (E: 16, J: 2)
*Late-Breaking Session 4
O: Public 5 (E: 0, J: 5)
P: Space and Planetary Sciences 27 (E: 23, J:4 )
A: Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences 60 (E:43, J: 17)
H: Human Geosciences 31 (E:13, J:18)
S: Solid Earth Sciences 60 (E: 20, J: 40)
B: Biogeociences 6 (E: 5, J: 1)
G: General and Outreach 4 (E: 1, J: 3)
M: Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary 54 (E: 31, J: 23)
+iPoster Statistic
Users created posters 3601 (High school: 58, Exhibitors: 64)
Published posters 4121
+Zoom Lives 202
DFS: 186
Live Union & Public sessions 16
(b) Number of Participants
+Total Number of Registered Participants: 5993
+Registered Participants of Scientific Session: 5182
Regular: 3104, School Teacher: 28, Graduate Student: 1305, Senior: 77,
Undergraduate Student: 640, High School Student: 28
+Outreach and Education / Public
Public Attendees: 308
High School Session: 239
Geopark: 91
Exhibitor: 53
Guest: 84
Press: 36
(c) Daily Login
7/12 3380
7/13 3737
7/14 3447
7/15 3091
7/16 2784
7/17 865
7/18 381
7/19 779
(2) Results of Post-Meeting Survey
Thank you very much for your cooperation and valuable opinions.
We will use your feedback to improve our future meetings.
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_j2020v/files/questionnaire_results_0817.pdf
(3) iPoster Gallery Re-opened
The iPoster Gallery is re-opened and viewable until Monday, 24 August
at 5PM JST.
Please access to the JpGU-AGU 2020: Virtual portal to see the iPosters.
https://www.jpgu-member.org/onlineMeeting/login#
(4) Zoom Live Content On-Demand Webcasting
Discussion Forum Sessions (DFS) and Live Union & Public sessions are
viewable until Monday, 24 August at 5PM JST from the meeting portal
site.
Please note that only sessions with the consent of the conveners are
streamed.
https://www.jpgu-member.org/onlineMeeting/login#
(5) Poster presentations by High School Students
This year, poster presentations by high school students were held in
online format and 61 iPoster presentations were delivered.
The Publicity and Outreach Committee members took the lead to evaluate
the presentations, however, considering the iPoster technical troubles
happened during the meeting mainly on 12 July, JpGU decided to partially change the prize.
Instead of the Outstanding Presentation Award, the Outstanding Research
Award and Excellence in Research Award are given. In addition to this,
we have established a new prize, the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award this year.
Congratulations to all presenters for your great achievement.
+Outstanding Research Award（10）
Hyogo Prefectural Kakogawa Higashi High School
Sakaehigashi Senior High School
TOSA HIGH SCHOOL
Shizuoka Prefectural Iwata Minami High School
Tokyo Metropolitan Toyama High School
Tokyo Metropolitan Toyama High School
Furukawa Reimei Junior High School / High School
Shizuoka Senior High School
Tokyo Metropolitan Tachikawa High School
Chuo University Junior and Senior High School
*The duplicated names mean different presentations from the same
school.
+ Excellence in Research Award (9)
+ Outstanding Poster Presentation Award (11)
Details are available from the following webpage (in Japanese)
https://www.jpgu.org/highschool_session/2020v/images/2020v_hsposter_sokuhou.pdf
(6) Meeting Certificates
JpGU issues certificate of attendance and certificate of presentation to
those who request them. The certificate will be sent in PDF via email.
**Application Deadline: August 31 (Mon)
Details & Application
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2020v/certificate.php
(7) JpGU Meeting 2021
Please see below for information on the upcoming JpGU meeting.
[JpGU Meeting 2021 (Tentative Plan)]
Date: May 30 (SUN) to June 3 (THU), 2021
Place: Pacifico Yokohama North, Yokohama, Japan
* The meeting format may be able to change into virtual meeting
depending on the situation. We will inform you as soon as possible in
such case.
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#3. From Committees
(1) Japan Earth Science Olympiad Committee
The online lecture, “Special Top Lecture,” was held on 26 July.
This event is one of the activities for the olympiad candidates.
It was originally scheduled in March but was postponed due to the
corona virus spread.
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#4. Information from PEPS
(1) SPEPS (Special call for excellent papers on hot topics) article collections
We publish an open-type special issue (SPEPS) focusing on session themes
of international conferences and achievements of projects. SPEPS is
effectively used as a place to disseminate research results to the world.
We welcome the proposal of a new SPEPS special issue from your session
of JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2020.
Please contact peps_edit@jpgu.org for SPEPS proposal.
https://progearthplanetsci.springeropen.com/articles/collections
(2) Latest Articles
The following articles were published.
You can download and read interesting articles from the PEPS web site
at: https://progearthplanetsci.springeropen.com/
@ Shengfa Liu et al.: Reconstruction of monsoon evolution in southernmost
Sumatra over the past 35 kyr and its response to northern hemisphere
climate changes.
@ Kazuyuki Saito et al.: Mapping simulated circum-Arctic organic carbon,
ground ice, and vulnerability of ice-rich permafrost to degradation.
@ Zhiyong Xiao et al.: Compositional variations along the route of
Chang’e-3 Yutu rover revealed by the lunar penetrating radar.
@ Teruyuki Nakajima et al.: A development of reduction scenarios of
the short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) for mitigating global warming
and environmental problems.
@ Sophal Try et al.: Assessing the effects of climate change on flood
inundation in the lower Mekong Basin using high-resolution AGCM outputs.
@Makoto Okada et al.: A paleomagnetic record of the early Matuyama chron
including the Réunion subchron and the onset Olduvai boundary:
High-resolution magnetostratigraphy and insights from transitional
geomagnetic fields.
@Koji Kameo et al.: Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the
Lower–Middle Pleistocene boundary of the GSSP, Chiba composite section
in the Kokumoto Formation, Kazusa Group, central Japan, and implications
for sea-surface environmental changes.
@Makoto Ito et al.: Spatial and temporal variations in depositional systems
in the Kazusa Group: insights into the origins of deep-water massive
sandstones in a Pleistocene forearc basin on the Boso Peninsula, Japan.
@Naga Oshima et al.: Global and Arctic effective radiative forcing of
anthropogenic gases and aerosols in MRI-ESM2.0.
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#5. What’s New
(1) Career Opportunity
Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Earth System
Sciences, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology,
Okayama University
https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?fn=4&ln=1&id=D120061669&ln_jor=1
Position announcement(An Associate Professor),
Institution of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
http://www.lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp/koubo/c30e.pdf
Department of Earth and Space Science, Assistant Professor,
Osaka University
https://www.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp/sci_table/e/upfile/pdf/20200001/Department%20of%20Earth%20and%20Space%20Science%20Assistant%20Professor.pdf.pdf
Position Open: Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Earth
Science, Hokkaido University
https://www.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/modules/bulletin/index.php?page=article&storyid=449&easiestml_lang=en
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