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***Japan Geoscience Union Mailnews February Issue
No.388 13 FEB 2024***
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<< Contents >>
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| 1. Foreword by Yukihiro Takahashi, President of JpGU
| 2. 2024 Meeting Information
| -> Only TWO Days Left for the Final Abstract Deadline [17:00, 15 Feb JST]
| -> Fees and Meeting Registration
| -> Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA): Entry Deadline Approaching! [by 15 FEB]
| -> Meeting Registration
| -> Student Travel Support
| -> Call for High School Presentation Participants
| -> Key Dates
| 3. Notice from Election Administration Committee (for Delegates)
| 4. The Latest Issue of JGL (February 2024)
| 5. Exhibition at JpGU 2024
| 6. From Committees
| -> Working Group for the JSAI Competition
| 7. Information from PEPS
| -> About APC (Article Publication Charge) Payment
| -> Featured Articles
| -> Latest Articles
| 8. From Science Council of Japan
| 9. What’s New
| -> Event Information
| -> Career Opportunity
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#1. Foreword by Yukihiro Takahashi, President of JpGU
The Goto Islands have beaches with water and sand as clear as Okinawa’s,
but some of the beaches are littered with marine debris. The main
types of litter are fishing gear such as fishnets and buoys, plastic
bottles and driftwood, including a several-metre-long freezer that
appears to have been used on a fishing boat. Plastics that are less
than 5 mm in size are called microplastics and are increasingly
recognised worldwide as a social problem. Many of the plastics we see
on beaches are classified as macroplastics, which are larger than that,
but it is thought that these larger plastics are crushed more
efficiently in the surf than at sea, and transformed into micro
plastics. Not only in the Goto Islands, but also in other parts of
Japan, marine debris drifts ashore and is repeatedly kidnapped by
waves, creating microplastics in the process. If you pick up plastic
bottles and other items scattered on the beaches of the Goto Islands
and Amami-Oshima Islans, you will notice that they are labelled in
Chinese and Korean. However, it is premature to conclude directly
from this that there is little waste flow out of Japan. Japan has
been exporting large quantities of plastic to Southeast Asia under
the guise of a resource, and the debris that departs from Japanese
rivers can sink to the seabed or travel far out into the Pacific Ocean.
In the East Pacific Ocean, there is an area four times the size of
Japan, known as The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where marine debris
floats in abundance. Its location is thought to be determined by ocean
currents and winds, but studies of its shape and size variations are
very limited. Perhaps because most of it is located in the high seas,
I get the impression that it is not well recognized, but it is a
phenomenon that humanity should not meditate on. Research into the
biological effects of microplastics is still in its infancy, but this
fearless landscape implies that they have a significant impact on the
ecosystem. Understanding and solving the problem of marine plastics
requires the cooperation of a wide range of experts, including not
only ocean physics, which calculates ocean currents, but also
meteorology, which deals with wind systems, biology, which examines
the effects on living organisms, engineering, which is responsible
for improving measurement methods, and sociology and international
relations if the problem is extended to waste disposal and export.
The Ministry of the Environment seems to be aiming for Japan to make
a major contribution in this field, and the earth and planetary
science community needs a framework to support this foundation.
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#2. 2024 Meeting Information
(1) Only TWO Days Left for the Final Abstract Deadline [17:00, 15 Feb JST]
The abstract submission for JpGU 2024 closes in 2 days at 17:00
on Thursday, 15 February 2024.
The abstract submissions tend to concentrate in the last few days to
the deadline. Please complete your abstract submission well ahead of
the deadline avoiding network connection problems.
AlsoIn addition, graduate students who are obtaining a new ID must be noted that
the approval from their supervisors is required for the ID to be issued.
Without a JpGU ID, you will not be able to submit your abstract.
We advise that you act as soon as possible.
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Final deadline: 17:00 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 [JST]
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[How to submit]
https://www.jpgu-member.org/jpgu/en/
Log in with your JpGU credentials > open the “Abstract Submission”
tab on the left side menu > click “Abstract Submission” and proceed.
[Important Notes]
*Payments must be processed by the deadline as well. Abstracts not
paid by the final deadline on 15 Feb (17:00 JST) are automatically
canceled.
*If you experience technical difficulties with payments, please
contact us using the designated form before the submission deadline.
Payment Support Form:
https://business.form-mailer.jp/fms/72c8c10b92726
*All attendees including invited authors should submit their abstracts
and complete the payment of the abstract fee by the submission deadline.
*Tentative list of authors invited by the conveners is available at
https://www.jpgu-member.org/proposal/session/invited/author/en/
*We are planning to hold a Late-Breaking session on the Noto
Peninsula Earthquake that occurred on 01 January 2024 [JST].
Abstract submissions for this session will be accepted after the
current submission period. If you are interested in submitting a
paper for the Noto Peninsula Earthquake session, please wait until
the call for submissions opens.
More information on the session such as the session description will be
announced as soon as it is determined at the following webpage.
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2024/presentation.php#late-breaking_session
[Abstract Submission Details]
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2024/presentation.php
[2024 Session Information]
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2024/sessionlist_en/
[Schedule-at-a-glance]
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2024/files/session_schedule_e.pdf
[Meeting Website]
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2024/
(2) Fees and Meeting Registration
[About Fees]
Please see the following link to check the fees associated with meeting
participation and presentation.
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2024/about.php#fee_table
*The registration fee will be the same for both on-site and online
registration. (There is no one-day ticket.)
*In addition to the abstract fee, your registration fee payment is
required separately to attend the JpGU 2024.
[About Registration]
– We will start accepting the meeting registration on Thursday, 07
March.
-The early registration deadline (scheduled on 18 April) will be set
for presenters to upload their presentation materials such as e-posters
to the Meeting portal “Confit.”
More information on registration is available at
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2024/registration.php
(3) Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA): Entry Deadline
Approaching! [by 15 FEB]
The entry for the Outstanding Student Presentation Award is
approaching in TWO days.
Application deadline: 23:59 Thu, 15 February 2024 [JST]
How to apply: Entries are accepted at the JpGU Members System
Eligibility:
– The applicant must be a student AT THE TIME OF PRESENTATION.
– The applicant must be the contributor (the first author and the
presenter) of the abstract.
*Please note that this is different from Abstract Submission Regulations.
Details are available at
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2024/rule/ospa.html
[Request for Volunteer Judges]
Each year we have a high number of entries for Outstanding Student
Presentation Award (OSPA), therefore your cooperation as judges
is a very important part of it.
If you would contribute to the judging, please checkmark “Yes” to the
“Judges for the Outstanding Student Presentation Award” question when
you submit your abstract. This can be done until 17:00, 15 February.
If you do so, you will be automatically registered in the student
award judge system (to be open later.)
(4) Student Travel Support
We will provide travel support for the students who will participate
in JpGU 2024.
We plan to start accepting applications on Wednesday, 14 February 14.
Details will be posted on the meeting website.
(5) Call for High School Presentation Participants
We have started accepting applications for participation on 06
February.
Details are available at
https://www.jpgu.org/highschool_session/2024/
(Available in Japanese)
Application closes on Monday, 08 April.
(6) Key Dates
Final abstract Submission deadline -> 17:00 Thu, 15 Feb
Meeting registration opens ———> 14:00 Thu, 07 Mar
Acceptance notification ————> Wed, 27 Mar
Final program release ————–> Fri, 29 Mar
Presenters registration deadline —> 23:59 Tue, 18 Apr
e-poster and / on-demand video uploads start -> Tue, 23 Apr
Abstract PDF release —————> Fri, 17 May
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#3. Notice from Election Administration Committee (for Delegates)
Notice from Election Administration Committee (for Delegates)
Voting for the election of candidates for the Board of Directors by
the Delegates is now open.
We have sent an e-mail to the e-mail address registered with JpGU
to all delegates, in whichwith instructions on how to vote (February 5th).
If you are a delegate and have not received the e-mail, please contact
the JpGU immediately.
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#4. The Latest Issue of JGL (February 2024)
The latest issue (Vol.20, No.1) of the Newsletter of the Japan
Geoscience Union (JGL) will be published on February 14.
The electronic version can be viewed at the following URL.
https://www.jpgu.org/en/publications/jgl/
The printing and mailing of JGL has been suspended due to the austerity
measures since the spread of the COVID-19. We apologize for the
inconvenience this may cause.
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#5. Exhibition at JpGU 2024
The exhibition will be held as a hybrid of on-site and online.
The application period is scheduled to start in Early March.
<2024 Exhibition: Exhibitors' Guide>
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2024/exhibition/
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#6. From Committees
(1) Working Group for the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
(JSAI) Competition
GeoSciAI2024 ~Challenge for deep learning model development in the
earth and planetary science~
The Japan Geoscience Union and the Japanese Society for Artificial
Intelligence will jointly host a model development competition in
Geoscience! In recent years, AI technology has developed remarkably,
which affects the vast research fields. Geoscience is a research
field where various physical, chemical, and biological phenomena
are intricately intertwined, and the information is vast and diverse
in terms of both quantity and quality. Therefore, the contribution of
AI technology is becoming extremely significant in recent geoscience.
This competition aims to promote the integration of the geoscience
and information science through a model competition event.
There will be one proposal each from the earthquake, the meteorology,
and the space weather field.
Participants are required to register through the web page and submit
a technical paper summarizing the model development and results.
Anyone can participate in the competition
#You do not need to be a member of JpGU or JSAI
February 2024: Open of web page and each task
April 2024: Release of evaluation data, Technical paper instruction
Early May 2024: Deadline for submission
Late May 2024: Notification of results, Award Ceremony @ JpGU 2024
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#6. Information from PEPS
(1) About APC (Article Publication Charge) Payment
Thank you for your continued understanding and support of PEPS.
Due to the delay in the renewal of the publication agreement with
SpringerNature, it has taken some time to process the APC payment
for PEPS. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and
thank you for your continued support of PEPS.
(2) Featured Articles
We will introduce the featured articles selected by the editor-in-chief
from the papers published in the past.
@ Hong Che, Jing Zhang, Qian Liu, Huijun He & Zhi-Qi Zhao:
Refining the contribution of riverine particulate release to the global
marine Nd budget.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-022-00479-2
Releasing neodymium (Nd) from particles along continental margins
may contribute to losses in the global Nd budget. This study provides
direct evidence for exploring the Nd cycle process in the estuaries.
The result suggests that the release of dissolved Nd from riverine
particles should be considered a “missing source” constraint on the
Nd mass balance in ocean waters. Moreover, particulate–seawater
interactions appear to be a crucial geochemical control and should
thus be considered in coastal environments when assessing the cycle
of trace elements.
(3) Latest Articles
The following articles were published.
@ Jun Yoneda, Kiyofumi Suzuki, Motoi Oshima, Michihiro Muraoka,
Yusuke Jin:
Empirical evaluation of the strength and deformation characteristics
of natural and synthetic gas hydrate-bearing sediments with different
ranges of porosity, hydrate saturation, effective stress, and strain
rate.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00606-1
@ Kiwamu Nishida, Ryota Takagi, Akiko Takeo:
Ambient noise multimode surface wave tomography.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-023-00605-8
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#8. 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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#9. What’s New (Please confirm contents from the associated official website)
(1) Event Information
*Events may be canceled or postponed due to COVID-19.
Please check the event website for the latest information.
PERC International symposium on Dust & Parent bodies (IDP2024)
Date: 26-28 Feb 2024
Place: Tokyo Skytree Town Campus of Chiba Institute of Technology
(CIT), Tokyo
https://www.perc.it-chiba.ac.jp/meetings/IDP2024/
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/
WPI-AIMEC Kick-Off Symposium “Unlocking the Future of the Ocean and its Ecosystems”
Date: 08 Mar 2024
Format: Hybrid
On-site Venue: Sendai Kokusai Hotel, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
https://www.sci.tohoku.ac.jp/wpi_aimec/kick_off.html
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) Career Opportunity
Recruitment of Researcher or Researcher (II) in Earth Surface System
Research Center (ESS), JAMSTEC
[Application deadline: 22 MAR 2024]
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/details/ess20240322/
Call for Applications for Assistant Professor Position
[Application deadline: 26 APR 2024]
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/content/400231601.pdf
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