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***Japan Geoscience Union Mailnews October Issue No.409 OCT 2025***
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| 1. Foreword by Simon Wallis, President of JpGU
| 2. Voting for Representative Election of Japan Geoscience Union started
| 3. Less Than One Week Left to the JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2026 Session Proposal Deadline [closes at 17:00 15 OCT(JST)]
| 4. Call for Nominations: 2026 JpGU Fellowship Program
| 5. Call for Nominations: 2026 Japan Geoscience Union Scientific Award “Miyake Prize”
| 6. Call for Nominations: 2026 Japan Geoscience Union International Contribution Award
| 7. Call for Nominations: 2026 Japan Geoscience Union President’s Award
| 8. Call for Nominations: 2026 Wadati Award (Solid Earth Sciences Section Award) Japan Geoscience Union
| 9. From Committees
| -> NPO Japan Earth Science Olympiad Committee
| -> Educational Affairs Committee
| 10. Information from PEPS
| -> SPEPS article collections Call for papers:
| -> Featured Articles
| -> Latest Articles
| 11. From Science Council of Japan
| 12. What’s New
| -> Event Information
| -> Research and Funding Calls
| -> Career Opportunity
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#1. Foreword by Simon Wallis, President of JpGU (2025-2026)
There are just a few days left to propose a session for the JpGU-AGU 2026 Joint Meeting. The deadline is October 15, 17:00 JST, so don’t miss it! To encourage a more inclusive makeup of the conveners we have expanded the number of convener slots to up to six people. We hope this new flexibility will encourage greater diversity in the convener makeup including early-career scientists and those whose host institutions are outside of Japan. Graduate students are welcome to be conveners! It is also the time to nominate candidates for academic awards. Recognizing achievement is a key activity of academic societies. Awards are markers of achievement for the recipients and can be an important boost to their careers. But awards also have a broader significance — they help shape our community’s values, highlight directions of research, and set examples for all of us, in particular younger generations, to emulate. Finally, they also empower the recipients to advocate for geosciences within their institutions and so help contribute to the prosperity of our field. This year the awards open for nominations are: the Miyake Prize, the inaugural Wadati Award of the Solid Earth Section, the Presidential Award, the International Contribution Award and JpGU Fellows. The Nishida Prizes for mid-career scientists are only awarded once every two years and the next
opportunity to nominate someone will be in autumn 2026. So, cast a look around you and consider if one of your mentors, colleagues, contemporaries or students deserves recognition. If you have a suitable candidate, consider which of our awards this person is most suited to and prepare your nomination package. Writing supporting letters can be time consuming but also makes an important contribution to our community. We are a scientific society and the main focus of our awards is research achievement. But JpGU also recognizes the significance of activities such as nurturing the next generation, outreach, and international collaboration. The Presidential and International Contribution Awards were established with the aim of celebrating the wide range of contributions outside of research that are essential to keeping our society vibrant. Let’s celebrate great work, help foster the next generation, and work together to ensure that great candidates from all backgrounds receive the recognition they deserve.
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#2. Voting for Representative Election of Japan Geoscience Union started
Voting for Representative election has started on October 1st, 2025.
Representatives elected by JpGU members can be candidates of section presidents and candidates of the referential election for directors, and are entitled to vote on it.
Anyone who is approved as JpGU member until the day before the official announcement of representative election is eligible to vote.
Each electoral zone will choose a fixed number of representatives.
Voters can cast votes for one or more candidates in their electoral zone, the maximum number of votes per voter being half of the number of representatives to be chosen for their electoral zone.
Please be active to vote for the sake of fair management of JpGU.
[How to vote]
Logging-in to the JpGU Members Site( https://www.jpgu-member.org/jpgu/en/ ).
[Schedule]
Voting starts: 9am on Wednesday October 1st 2025
Voting ends: 5pm on Friday October 31st 2025
Announcement of results: Monday November 10th 2025
*All dates and times are in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
[List of Candidates]
https://www.jpgu-member.org/jpgu/en/election/list/
[Public Announcement of the 2026 JpGU Representative Election]
Public Announcement of the 2026 JpGU Representative Election
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#3. Less Than One Week Left to the JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2026 Session Proposal Deadline [closes at 17:00 15 OCT(JST)]
The call for session proposals for the JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2026 will close in just five days.
The theme of this year’s joint meeting with AGU is “Transformative Science for Life & Earth.” This theme carries the message of transcending existing concepts to transform science for the future of life and the Earth.
Building on the five traditional science sections of JpGU—Space and Planetary Sciences, Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences, Human Geosciences, Solid Earth Sciences, and Biogeosciences—we welcome proposals that incorporate interdisciplinary perspectives and new approaches. We sincerely look forward to receiving your active session proposals.
[JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2026 (Tentative Plan)]
Date: Sun. 24 – Fri. 29 May 2026 *for 6 days
Meeting format: Hybrid (on-site + online)
On-site venue: Makuhari Messe Chiba, Japan
[Main Updates Related to the Program]
・The main language of the meeting is English. Some sessions, such as Public Sessions may be convened in Japanese as J sessions, in which case please provide the explanation of the J session choice.
・For J sessions, all presentation materials (slides, posters, etc.) must include English. (Japanese text may be accompanied.)
・Each session may have up to six conveners.
・Public Sessions will be limited to one oral slot each, regardless of the number of slots allocated in previous years.
Please see the following link for details．
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2026/news/news20250917_01.html
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Submission period: Wed. 17 Sept – Wed. 15 Oct at 17:00 (JST)
Proposals should be submitted from the following site.
https://www.jpgu-member.org/proposal/
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[Resources]
*CONVENER GUIDELINES
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2026/rule/conv.html
Please refer to the Convener Guidelines before proposing a session.
*INFORMATION FOR CONVENERS
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2026/for_conv.php
*CONVENER’S INQUIRIES
Please contact us using the following form if you have any inquiries on session proposals.
https://business.form-mailer.jp/fms/49cba62c153195
[About co-sponsorship]
Joint sessions with Partner Unions (AOGS, EGU, and/or TCGU), Co-Sponsored Session with JpGU Society Members, International Cooperative Sessions, and co-sponsoring with organizations other than JpGU Society Members are available.
The procedures vary depending on the co-sponsoring organization. Please refer to the website for details.
♦Joint Sessions with Partner Unions
Joint Sessions are co-organized with overseas Partner Unions (EGU/AOGS/TCGU) that have MOU with JpGU.
Partner Unions: AOGS, EGU, and/or TCGU
Application period: Wed. 17 September – Thu. 16 October [JST]
How to apply: From the designated form
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2026/rule/joint.html#joint_partner_union
*At JpGU-AGU 2026, all sessions are regarded as JpGU-AGU joint sessions.
♦Co-Sponsored Session with JpGU Society Members
Sessions co-sponsored or co-organized with our society members are designated as “Co-sponsored Sessions” at JpGU Meetings.
JpGU Society Members: https://www.jpgu.org/en/organization/societies/
How to apply: After the session proposal is completed, contact the Program Committee member representing the Member Society you propose to co-sponsor the session.
Deadline for application: Contact the Program Committee member representing the Member Society for society-specific deadlines.
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2026/rule/joint.html#joint_cosponsoring_society
♦International Cooperative Sessions
International Cooperative Sessions are co-organized with overseas societies with which JpGU has an Agreement as an activity to extend our collaborative networking.
International Cooperative Organizations/societies: PMS (Philippine Meteorological Society), IGRSM (Institution of Geospatial and Remote Sensing Malaysia), PESA (Philippine Environmental Science Association), GSP (Geological Society of the Philippines), IAGI (Indonesian Association of Geologists), GSM (Geological Society of Malaysia), PhilGRSS (Philippine Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society), IABI (Indonesia Disaster Expert Association), MPS (Mongolia Physical Society), MGS (Mongolia Geophysical Society)
Application period: Wed. 17 September – Fri. 31 October [JST]
How to apply: From the designated form
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2026/rule/joint.html#other_societies
♦Co-sponsoring with Organizations other than JpGU Society Members
If you wish to co-host a session with an organization that does not belong to JpGU Society Members, co-sponsorship is possible if you have the approval of the Board of Directors.
Application period: Wed. 17 September – Fri. 31 October [JST]
How to apply: From the designated form
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2026/rule/joint.html#other_societies
[JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2026 Key dates (Tentative plan)]
Session proposal closes 17:00 Wed. 15 OCT 2025
Session list release Wed. 26 NOV 2025
Session schedule-at-a-glance release Wed. 10 DEC 2025
Abstract submission 14:00 Thu. 15 JAN – 17:00 Tue. 17 FEB 2026
*Early-bird submission deadline 23:59 Thu. 05 FEB 2026
We look forward to receiving many proposals from a wide range of science fields.
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#4. Call for Nominations: 2026 JpGU Fellowship Program
Fellowship Program confers fellowship honors upon individuals who have made contributions to the field of geoscience research in Japan by making significant discoveries breakthroughs or paradigm shift, or contributing to the development of Japanese geoscience and the dissemination of geoscientific knowledge. individuals who have contributed to the field of geoscience by making significant discoveries or breakthroughs, instigating a paradigm shift in our understanding, or making other significant contributions to the development and dissemination of geoscientific knowledge in Japan.
Please see the details shown below and send the documents necessary for the nomination by the deadline.
Acceptance Period:
From noon on Wednesday, 1 October to noon on Sunday, 30 November 2025 (JST)
Detail: https://www.jpgu.org/en/2026fellow/
Reference: JpGU Fellowship Recipients List
https://www.jpgu.org/en/jpgufellow/
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#5. Call for Nominations: 2026 Japan Geoscience Union Scientific Award “Miyake Prize”
JpGU is now accepting nominations of candidates for the recipient of Japan Geoscience Union Scientific Award “Miyake Prize.”
JpGU has established the Miyake Prize to honor researchers who have provided an exceptional level of research in the broad field of Materials Sciences related to Geoscience using a new approach, attaining international recognition.
The prize is named after Prof. Yasuo Miyake who proposed this Prize and offered a donation for support.
Acceptance Period:
From noon on Wednesday, 1 October to noon on Sunday, 30 November 2025 (JST)
Detail: https://www.jpgu.org/en/2026miyake-prize/
Reference: Introduction of Recipients
https://www.jpgu.org/en/miyakeprize/
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#6. Call for Nominations: 2026 Japan Geoscience Union International Contribution Award
JpGU is now accepting nominations of candidates for the recipient of Japan Geoscience Union International Contribution Award.
JpGU has established JpGU International Contribution Award to honor individuals and groups recognized for international activities that have made significant contributions to the development of the field of Earth and planetary sciences in Japan including for JpGU, through the awarding of the International Contribution Award.
Acceptance Period:
From noon on Wednesday, 1 October to noon on Sunday, 30 November 2025 (JST)
Detail: https://www.jpgu.org/en/2026international-award/
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#7. Call for Nominations: 2026 Japan Geoscience Union President’s Award
The Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) is now accepting nominations of candidates for the recipient of 2026 JpGU President’s Award.
JpGU has established JpGU President’s Award to honor individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to the activities of JpGU.
Acceptance Period:
From noon on Wednesday, 1 October to noon on Sunday, 30 November 2025 (JST)
Detail: https://www.jpgu.org/en/2026president-award/
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#8. Call for Nominations: 2026 Wadati Award
(Solid Earth Sciences Section Award) Japan Geoscience Union
The Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the “Wadati Award.” This award is newly established to honor outstanding researchers, particularly in the field of solid earth sciences, who are internationally recognized in various related fields of Solid Earth Sciences and currently active at the forefront of the field.
Acceptance Period:
From noon on Wednesday, 1 October to noon on Tuesday, 6 January 2026 (JST)
Detail: https://www.jpgu.org/en/2026wadati-award/
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#9. From Committees
(1) NPO Japan Earth Science Olympiad Committee
[Call for Participants: The 18th Japan Earth Science Olympiad]
Applications for the 18th Japan Earth Science Olympiad opened on 01 September 2025.
The deadline for applications is Saturday, 15 November.
For more details, please visit the official website of the Japan Earth Science Olympiad Committee.
https://jeso.jp
(Available in Japanese)
(2) Educational Affairs Committee
[Announcement of Earth Science Week Japan 2025]
Earth Science Week is held annually in the United States and around the world with the aim of promoting geoscience among the general public. Earth Science Week Japan (ESWJ), the Japanese version of this event, will celebrate its 8th anniversary this year.
This year, the event will be held from Saturday, October 4th, 2025 to Monday, November 3rd, 2025 (national holiday) at venues in Nagano City, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Science Museum Ru-Ku-Ru, and the Gamagori Museum of Life and the Sea.
For more details, please visit the following website:
https://sites.google.com/jpgu.org/earthscienceweekjapan2025
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#10. Information from PEPS
(1) SPEPS article collections Call for papers:
The new SPEPS special issue is now open for submissions.
Predictability of the Variable Solar-Terrestrial Coupling – PRESTO: Five-Year Overview.
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/PRESTO
Submission Deadline: 28 February 2026
We are also welcoming submissions for the following SPEPS special issues.
Carbonates: their precipitation, sedimentation, reef/platform formation, and diagenesis.
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/carbonates
Submission Deadline: 31 March 2026
Integrated Biospheric Science for Managing Global Climate.
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/DigitalBiosphere
Submission Deadline: 31 March 2026
Research contributing to the estimation of the area of the so-called “”Black Rain”” caused by the atomic bombs.
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/Black-Rain
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2025
Please submit your paper to one of our SPEPS article collections.
(2) Featured Articles
We will introduce the featured articles selected by the editor-in-chief from the papers published in the past.
@ Harufumi Tsuchiya, Kinya Hibino, Kazumasa Kawata, Munehiro Ohnishi, Masato Takita, Kazuoki Munakata, Chihiro Kato, Susumu Shimoda, Quanqi Shi, Shuo Wang, Chenyao Han, Liuming Zhai;
Characteristics of temporal variability of long-duration bursts of high-energy radiation associated with thunderclouds on the Tibetan plateau.
The mechanism by which lightning first is generated is one of the major outstanding problems in geophysics. Long bursts are thought to play an important role. This study analyzed 127 long bursts detected by a neutron monitor installed on the Tibetan Plateau. Intriguing results are obtained, including periodicity in the annual variation of burst frequency.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00625-y
(3) Latest Articles
The following articles were published.
@ Takuma Miyakawa, Takeshi Kinase, Minako Kurisu, Kyoko Taniguchi, Masaki Katsumata, Hisahiro Takashima, Fumikazu Taketani, Yugo Kanaya;
Natural and continental influence on aerosol distributions over the northwestern Pacific Ocean in the late winter and early spring of 2021.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-025-00752-0
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/WNP
@ G. Marras, Y. Lu, V. Stopponi, R. Tao, Y. Lin, Vincenzo Stagno;
High-pressure and temperature investigation of silicic acid ± water with implications for the ice polymorphism, lunar moganite and diamonds growth media.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-025-00756-w
@ Ken Yamaoka, Tokiyuki Morohoshi, Daisuke Sato, Kazuto Mikuni;
Ignimbrite flare-up in Late Cretaceous–Paleocene Japan empowered by hot mantle inflow.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-025-00755-x
@ Ryozo Kitajima, Motoharu Nowada, Ryotaro Kamimura;
Dependence of the solar wind plasma density on moderate- and extremely high-geomagnetic activity elucidated by potential learning.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-025-00749-9
@ Takahito Ikenoue, Nanako O. Ogawa, Hidetaka Nomaki, Katsunori Kimoto, Makio C. Honda, Naohiko Ohkouchi, Tetsuichi Fujiki;
New evaluation of vertical particulate organic carbon fluxes of submillimeter-sized phaeodarians in the mesopelagic twilight zone of the western North Pacific Ocean.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-025-00753-z
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/WNP
@ Kishan Tiwari, Sujoy Ghosh, Masaaki Miyahara, Dwijesh Ray:
Olivine–ringwoodite transformation in Katol meteorite: implications for localized superheating of chondritic melt and seismic attenuation.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-025-00721-7
@ Riko Nagao, Tadashi Yokoyama, Shingo Takeuchi;
Pumice flotation time: how does the infiltration of water progress inside pumice?
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-025-00750-2
@ Thomas M. Blattmann, Yuchen Sun, Nanako O. Ogawa, Yoshinori Takano, Negar Haghipour, Naoto F. Ishikawa, Timothy I. Eglinton, Naohiko Ohkouchi;
Chromatographic isolation for performing enantiomer-specific radiocarbon analysis (ESRA): first method development for individual L- and D-amino acidshttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-025-00764-w
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/EIO
@ Yoshiki Fukutomi, Hironari Kanamori, Tetsuya Hiyama;
Climatological characteristics of atmospheric rivers over Northern Eurasia during summer.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-025-00745-z
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/PvAm
@ Takashi Sambuichi, Urumu Tsunogai, Fumiko Nakagawa;
Reconstructing the body temperature of extinct marine reptiles.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-025-00757-9
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/EIO
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#11. From Science Council of Japan
JpGU acts as liaison with the Science Council of Japan.
Below is the archive of the distributed newsletters from the Science Council of Japan.
(Available in Japanese)
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#12. What’s New (Please confirm contents from the associated official website)
(1) Event Information
*Please check the event website for the latest information.
International Data Week 2025 (IDW2025)
Dates: 13-16 October 2025
Location: Brisbane, Australia (Hybrid format underway)
Content: 3 international organizations discussing research data management (RDM) and open science—the International Science Council (ISC) WDS and CODATA, and the Research Data Alliance (RDA)—will host the conference IDW, for research presentations and WG discussions. Please refer to the following website for registration and session/presentation (deadlines: mid-April and mid-May). Online registration is scheduled for around August.
https://idw2025.org/
ICDP-PRTEA workshop
Dates: 16-17 October 2025
Location: Klerksdorp, South Africa
https://www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-continent/africa/protea-south-africa/
Unlocking the full potential of subaqueous paleoseismology at active plate boundaries
Dates: 21-24 October 2025
Location: National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
https://sites.google.com/view/land2sea-workshop/home
International Symposium for Warm-period Climate Change Research Center (WarmCCR)
Dates: 22-24 October 2025
Location: Kochi, Japan
https://sites.google.com/view/kochi-jsps-core2core/2025symposium/
Symposium on the Advancement of Marine Biological Big Data Utilization Technologies
Dates: 31 October 2025
Location: U Thant International Conference Hall, the 3rd floor, The United Nations University (UNU), Tokyo
https://pco-prime.com/form/ml-mext-2025/program.html
(2) Research and Funding Calls
Goldschmidt 2026 – Call for session and workshop proposals is now open
[Application deadline: 15 OCT 2025]
http://2026.goldschmidt.info/
(3) Career Opportunity
Associate Professor Position Call (Open to Women Only) in Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University
[Application deadline: 14 OCT 2025]
https://www.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/?p=9587&lang=en
Physics departments, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Education advancement program faculty (professor or associate professor)
[Application deadline: 30 OCT 2025]
https://www.gp.tohoku.ac.jp/information/images/Koubo_202509_TU-Phys_eng.pdf
Green Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar
[Application deadline: 09 NOV 2025]
https://igpp.ucsd.edu/about/green-foundation/postdoctoral-scholarships
Postdoctoral Researcher at Research and Development Center for Earthquake and Tsunami Forecasting (FEAT), JAMSTEC
[Application deadline: 18 NOV 2025]
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/details/feat20251118/
Graduate Students (paid) at San Diego State University, USA
[Application deadline: 01 DEC 2025]
Assistant Professor Position in the Research Section of Prediction of Volcanic Eruptions, DPRI-KU
[Application deadline: 04 DEC 2025]
https://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_en/23718/
Researcher or Researcher (II) at Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC) or Research Institute for Marine Resources Utilization (MRU), JAMSTEC
[Application deadline: 04 DEC 2025]
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/details/rigcmru20251130/
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