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***Japan Geoscience Union Mailnews October Issue
No.384 11 OCT 2023***
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| 1. Foreword by Yukihiro Takahashi, President of JpGU
| 2. Asking you to Vote for Representative Election
| 3. Call for Session Proposals for JpGU 2024 [closes on 01 Nov]
| 4. From Committees
| -> Japan Earth Science Olympiad Committee
| -> Educational Subcommittee for International Affairs
| 5. Information from PEPS
| -> Call for Papers: SPEPS
| -> Featured Articles
| -> Latest Articles
| 6. From Science Council of Japan
| 7. What’s New
| -> Event Information
| -> Research and Funding Calls
| -> Career Opportunity
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#1. Foreword by Yukihiro Takahashi, President of JpGU
Voting for the JpGU delegate election began on October 3, and the
deadline for voting is Thursday, November 2 at 17:00, so please don’t
forget to cast your ballot on the web page. Here, I would like to
give you a brief overview of the activities of Representatives and
Directors of JpGU.
Each section has a fixed number of representatives according to the
number of its members, bringing the total number of delegates to 150.
The most important role of the representatives is to attend the annual
general meeting of members and participate in its proceedings. Also,
20 members of the Board of Directors are elected from among the
representatives. Section presidents are selected by the incoming
representatives. Section activities are discussed and directed by a
Section Board (members are chosen differently for each section),
consisting primarily of representatives. Recently, the leadership of
the Section Board has been actively discussing and acting on issues
such as the consolidation of opinions on the promotion of the English
use at the meeting and the planning of lectures at the meeting by the
sections themselves.
Directors elected by the representatives, together with section
presidents and other observers, attend the bimonthly board meeting
(usually lasting about 2.5 hours) to deliberate and report on their
duties. In addition, the directors with particularly important
responsibilities, such as general affairs, finance, and meeting
management, participate in the expanded executive board meeting
(usually about 1.5 hours) held every Monday with the president and
vice presidents to share information and discuss particularly urgent
matters. In addition, the president, vice presidents, and former
president meet weekly for about 1.5 hours to share information on the
activities of their assigned committees and discuss major directions
and other issues.
Many of the representatives serve as chairs or members of various JpGU
committees and support the substantive activities of JpGU. For topics
that require intensive consideration, task forces and working groups
are established under the Board of Directors and other bodies, as
appropriate, with set deadlines for their activities. If you are
interested in contributing to the activities of JpGU, please contact
a committee chair or a board member. We would also appreciate it if
delegates would take the opinions and requests of the members close
to them and convey them to the section boards and directors.
Representative elections are an important opportunity to elect people
who will play an important role in the JpGU and determine the overall
direction of the organization. We would like to thank you again for
your vote in advance.
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#2. Asking you to Vote for Representative Election
Voting for Representative election and the by-election for Electoral
Zone “Space and Planetary Sciences.”
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.
[Recent schedule]
Voting starts: 9am on Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Voting ends: 5pm on Thursday 2nd November 2023
Announcement of results: Monday 13th November 2023
*All dates and times are in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).
[How to vote]
Logging-in to the JpGU Members Site( https://www.jpgu-member.org/jpgu/en/ ).
[List of Candidates]
https://www.jpgu-member.org/jpgu/en/election/list/
Election Administration Committee members
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#3. Call for Session Proposals for JpGU 2024 [closes on 01 Nov]
The call for session proposals for JpGU 2024 is now open.
JpGU Meeting 2024 will follow the format of the past two meetings
(2022 and 2023) and continue the hybrid format, mixing on-site (at
Makuhari Messe in Chiba City) and online.
[JpGU Meeting 2024 (Tentative Plan)]
Date: Sun, 26 – Fri, 31 May 2024 *for 6 days
Meeting format: Hybrid (on-site + online)
On-site venue: Makuhari Messe Chiba, Japan
Learn more about the meeting format at
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2024/news/news20231002_01.html
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Submission period: Mon, 02 Oct – Wed, 01 Nov 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_e2024/rule/conv.html
Please refer to the Convener Guidelines before proposing a session.
*INFORMATION FOR CONVENERS
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2024/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
[Key Dates (Subject to change)]
*Session proposal period:
Session proposal 14:00 Mon, 02 October – 17:00 Wed, 01 November [JST]
Session list Release Fri, 08 December
Session schedule-at-a-glance release Tue, 19 December
Abstract submission Thu, 11 January – 17:00 Thu, 15 February 2024
*Early-bird submission deadline 23:59 Thu, 01 February
We look forward to receiving many proposals from a wide range of
science fields.
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#4. From Committees
(1) Japan Earth Science Olympiad Committee
The call for applications for the 16th Earth Science Olympiad in Japan
began on 01 September 2023.
The deadline is Wednesday, 15 November.
Details are available at
https://jeso.jp
(2) Educational Subcommittee for International Affairs
Announcement of Earth Science Week Japan
Earth Science Week is held annually in the U.S. and other parts of
the world to promote understanding of earth science among the general
public.
Earth Science Week Japan (ESWJ), the Japanese version of this event,
will be held for the sixth time this year.
This year, ESWJ will be held in Nagano City, Fujinokuni Museum of
Global Environmental History, and Shizuoka Science Museum Ru-Ku-Ru
from October 8 (Sun.) to November 5 (Sun.), 2023.
Oct. 8 (Sun.) – Nov. 5 (Sun.), 2023
Science Tea House Experiments and Hands-on Practice, Garage Exhibition
(Shizuoka Science Museum Ru-Ku-Ru)
Oct.14 (Sat.)
Let’s go on a trip to learn about the history of the earth: Walking
through the shopping street to discover fossils (Shizuoka Gofukumachi
Meitengai)
Oct.15 (Sun)
Field Trip “Shinshu used to be a sea! -Disaster Prevention Knowledge
from Topography-“ (Characteristics of the Nagano Basin and disaster
prevention (floods and landslides): guides: Tomotaka Tanabe, former
director of the Togakushi Geology and Fossil Museum, and others)
Oct. 22 (Sun.)
SDGs New World with Waseda University Students “Fresh Water!”
(Fujinokuni Museum of Global Environmental History, Shizuoka City)
Nov. 3 (Fri.)
SDGs New World with Waseda University Students “Fresh Water!”
(Fujinokuni Museum of Global Environmental History, Shizuoka City)
1st：11:00-12:00 2nd：13:00-14:00
https://sites.google.com/jpgu.org/eswj2023/sdgs%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC
%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89?authuser=0
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#5. Information from PEPS
(1) Call for Papers: SPEPS
The following SPEPS special issues are welcoming your paper submissions.
– “Progress on science and instruments for Martian Moons eXploration
(MMX) mission” (Submission deadline: 31 January 2024)
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/MMXproject
– “Past variability of Asian monsoon and its influence on surrounding
regions on various timescales” (Submission deadline: 31 December 2023)
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/PvAm
– “Geophysical Properties and Transport Processes in the Deep Crust
and Mantle” (Submission deadline: 31 December 2023)
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/TPM
– “Water-carbon cycles and terrestrial changes in the Arctic and
subarctic regions” (Submission deadline: 29 February 2024)
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/PAWCs
(2) Featured Articles
We will introduce the featured articles selected by the editor-in-
chief from the papers published in the past.
@Yojiro Yamamoto et al.: Seismicity distribution in the Tonankai
and Nankai seismogenic zones and its spatiotemporal relationship
with interplate coupling and slow earthquakes.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-022-00493-4
A paper evaluating the spatiotemporal distribution of seismic wave
velocity structural inhomogeneity and interplate earthquakes by
conducting seismic tomography after detecting microearthquakes off
the Kii Peninsula using DONET data.
@Erick R. Velasco-Reyes et al.: Paleotsunami history of Hachinohe,
northern Japan: a multiproxy analysis and numerical modeling approach.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-022-00477-4
Paleo-tsunami traces in the Shimokita Peninsula may be related to
earthquakes in the Japan Trench along the Sanriku Coast and those in
the Kurushima Trench along the Pacific Coast of Hokkaido. This study
examined the paleotsunami history in Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture,
Japan. As a result, seven layers of paleo-tsunami deposits formed
between 5.5 and 2.7 ka were identified, suggesting that the average
tsunami interval in the area is 384 years. This result is significant
for clarifying the history of large earthquakes in the Japan Trench
and the Kuril Islands Trench.
(3) Latest Articles
The following articles were published.
@Toshiro Tanimoto, Aaron Anderson: Seismic noise between 0.003 Hz
and 1.0 Hz and its classification.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-023-00587-7
@Peter van Keken, Cian R. Wilson: An introductory review of the
thermal structure of subduction zones: III—Comparison between models
and observations.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-023-00589-5
@Bjorn Mysen: Rhenium solubility and speciation in aqueous fluids
at high temperature and pressure.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-023-00590-y
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#6. 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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#7. What’s New
(1) Event Information
*Events may be canceled or postponed due to COVID-19.
Please check the event website for the latest information.
International Symposium on the Centennial of 1923 Kanto Earthquake
Date: 23-24 Oct 2023
Format: Hybrid (Online & Tokyo, Japan)
https://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/YOTIKYO/H31-R5/R5/symposiumKanto2023.html
The 7th Neutron and Muon School
Date: 18-22 Dec 2023
Format: Hybrid (Online & Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan)
https://conference-indico.kek.jp/event/221/
International Symposium “Submarine caldera volcanoes”
Date: 6-10 Mar 2024
Place: Kobe University Centennial Hall, Kobe, Japan
http://www.k-obec.kobe-u.ac.jp/_symposium/
9TH GLOBAL ENERGY AND WATER EXCHANGES OPEN SCIENCE CONFERENCE
Date: 7-12 Jul 2024
Place: Keio Plaza Hotel, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
9th Global Energy and Water EXchangesOpen Science Conference
(2) Research and Funding Calls
[SACLA] Call for 2024A Proposals and Feasibility Study Programs
[Application deadline: 07 NOV 2023]
https://sacla.xfel.jp/?lang=en
(3) Career Opportunity
Associate Professor or Senior Lecturer position in Institute of
Natural and Environmental Sciences at University of Hyogo
[Application deadline: 30 OCT 2023]
http://www.hitohaku.jp/shizenken/news/2023/09/post-48.html
Recruitment of Researcher or Researcher (II) at The Marine Ecosystem
Research Group, Earth Surface System Research Center (ESS), JAMSTEC
[Application deadline: 07 NOV 2023]
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/details/ess20231107/
Hokkaido University Faculty of Environmental Earth Science
announcement of a professor position
[Application deadline: 15 NOV 2023]
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