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***Japan Geoscience Union Mailnews June Issue
No.393 14 JUN 2024***
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<< Contents >>
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| 1. Foreword by Simon Wallis, President of JpGU
| 2. Farewell Address by Yukihiro Takahashi, Former President of JpGU
| 3. JpGU Meeting 2024 Report
| -> Meeting Overview
| -> Please give us your feedback of JpGU 2024
| -> Contents we provide after the 2024 meeting
| -> To attendees who joined the Exhibitors Quiz Rally
| -> Certificates
| -> Lost and Found at the Local Venue
| -> Announcement and survey request from Union Session
| 4. From Committees
| -> Educational Affairs Committee
| -> Committee for Diversity Management and Talent Pool
| 5. Information from PEPS
| -> PEPS Awarded Papers 2024
| -> Latest Articles
| 6. From Science Council of Japan
| 7. What’s New
| -> Event Information (Meetings, Symposia, Public Openings, etc.)
| -> Career Opportunity
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#1. Foreword by Simon Wallis, President of JpGU (2024-2026)
It is a great honor to be elected as the new President of the Japan Geoscience Union or JpGU. I also feel a great sense of responsibility to be chosen to lead JpGU; a society that not only brings together the full range of Earth and planetary sciences in Japan but also has an important role in promoting international cooperation.
Thanks to the leadership of my predecessor, President Takahashi and all those who support the activities of JpGU, I am in the fortunate position of taking over the reins the organization with JpGU flourishing. Building the expertise needed to run a successful full hybrid meeting has been one of the great successes of the last few years. Our annual meeting continues to develop: the number of participants at our annual meeting is now back in line with the numbers we expected before the Covid-19 pandemic and we have started new activities such as offering field trips to different parts of Japan. JpGU is also developing as an organization; this year was the first time for the president to outline their goals in a manifesto and to be elected by a vote rather than recommendation by a committee.
JpGU carries out a wide range of different activities. Two areas where JpGU can take full advantage of its particular strengths as an organization and contribute to the scientific community are interdisciplinary research and international collaboration. Humankind now faces a host of environmental challenges posed by global warming. A carbon natural society is necessary to ameliorate the effects and achieving this requires expertise of Earth and planetary sciences and cooperation between traditionally distinct disciplines. As the only organization to represent the broad spectrum of earth and planetary science in Japan, JpGU is ideally placed to promote and nurture such cross disciplinary research.
JpGU has invested many years in establishing good links to similar academic societies around the world. International exchange in Japan is one of the areas that has still not yet recovered to the levels of activity before the Covid-19 pandemic. In my manifesto I highlighted the importance of international connections. The opportunity to interact with researchers throughout the world is important for all scientists but in particular those early in their careers. Such interaction greatly contributes to building a network and promoting their research results.
As part of the ongoing international activities of JpGU we have recently agreed with American Geophysical Union, the largest organization in the world dedicated to promoting earth and space science, to hold a joint meeting in 2026 in Japan. With the help of our members, I am sure this will be a highly successful event, where the attendees can get excited about their science and enjoy their surroundings and community. I realize that our very successful 2024 JpGU meeting has only just finished, but now is the time to start planning for 2025. There’s still a lot to do and I welcome ideas and proposals from you all to continue developing our meeting and society.
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#2. Farewell Address by Yukihiro Takahashi, Former President of JpGU
Two years have already passed since I wrote my first preface, and as of 30 May I have fulfilled my stipulated term of office as president of JpGU and have stepped down. I would like to take this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to the board of directors, the committees, the members and the Secretariat for their great support. I am grateful for the invaluable time they have given me. During this period, I have chaired about 90 meetings of the president and vice-Presidents, about 40 meetings of the executive board and about 10 meetings of the board of directors, and in addition to the continued development of the meetings and the journal, I have been able to work on the priority objectives we set at the beginning of our term: expansion and development of the secretariat, promotion of diversity and geoethics, financial stability and international cooperation including developing countries. The organization has worked on building international partnership, including with developing countries, and has also responded to new challenges that have arisen. Specifically, together with the vice-presidents, directors and committee executives in charge, I promoted the following activities: increasing the number of secretariat staff and reviewing their treatment, supporting diversity-related activities and their international appeal, establishing a mechanism for financial support from companies, and concluding partnership agreements with societies in developing countries. I feel that we have been able to sow the seeds of all of these activities to a certain extent, but the sprouting and subsequent growth is still to come. From now on, I would like to support the leadership of the new president Prof. Simon Wallis, watch over their growth and contribute as a member of the board of directors if there are occasions when I can be useful.
It has been 34 years since the joint geoscience meeting, the forerunner of JpGU, started when I was a master’s student. At that time, Japan was at the peak of its bubble economy, and I felt great hope that the field of earth and planetary sciences would also start a collaboration = joint geoscience meeting like the AGU. However, after peaking around 2000, both the economy and science have continued to decline, albeit with some ups and downs, until now. In this context, I am happy that JpGU has continued to develop, albeit slowly, but many of the individual geoscience societies have seen their membership decline, making it difficult to foresee the future. The past 30 years and the next 30 years will be completely different, and I imagine that it will not be a smooth ride for JpGU, and that we will enter a more difficult period in a turbulent world situation. We are now busy every day with immediate budgets and issues, without even thinking about the next five years, but I think it is important to at least imagine what the world and academia will be like when today’s graduate students reach our age, and to draw a big picture. Many developing and emerging countries will have reached the economic scale of advanced countries, AI will have broken down language barriers, and the shape and relationship between academic disciplines, as well as the nature of academic conferences and papers, will have changed dramatically. Academic societies are a ‘container’ and a frame, but what is important is not the survival of the societies as an organization, but the lively academic activities of individual researchers and the activation of the community in a broad sense. In this context, I would like to continue thinking about how to make the most of the JpGU as a tool.
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#3. JpGU Meeting 2024 Report
(1) Meeting Overview
We’d like to thank all attendees for participating in JpGU Meeting 2024.
Here is the flash report of this year’s meeting.
Period: Sun, 26 – Fri, 31 May 2024 * Late-Breaking Public Session was held on Sat, 25 May.
Meeting format: Hybrid (in-person and online)
Local venue: International Conference Hall and Exhibition Hall 6, Makuhari Messe, Chiba
Meeting chair: Hirokazu TATANO (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University / Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science)
Program committee chair: Hitoshi SAITO (Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University）
Host: Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU)
Sponsorship: 30 organizations
Co-sponsors:
The Astronomical Society of Japan, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering, The Japanese Geotechnical Society, Japan Society of Erosion Control Engineering, The Japan Society of High Pressure Science and Technology, The Japanese Coral Reef Society
Supporting Members:
Japan Local Convention Association Office, FORTE Science Communication, ASO UNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK, Crimson Interactive Japan, World Creations Inc, Japan Geopark Network, American Journal Experts, CACTUS COMMUNICATIONS K.K., Chiba Convention Bureau and International Center, Reseablic Inc., TECH OCEAN, Edanz Inc.
♦ Sessions
* Total Number of convened sessions: 227 (228 in 2023, 224 in 2022, 220 in 2021, 275 in 2020)
U: Union 15 (E: 8, J: 7)
O: Public 9 (E: 0, J: 9)
P: Space and Planetary Sciences 21 (E: 14, J: 7)
A: Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences 46 (E: 24, J: 22)
H: Human Geosciences 26 (E: 5, J: 21)
S: Solid Earth Sciences 54 (E: 14, J: 40)
B: Biogeosciences 7 (E: 4, J: 3)
G: General (Education and Outreach) 4 (E: 0, J: 4)
M: Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary 45 (E: 14, J: 31)
Number of Abstracts: 4665 (4395 in 2023, 3808 in 2022, 3679 in 2021, 5419 in 2020)
Oral: 2169 (2060 in 2023, 2083 in 2022, 2009 in 2021, 2742 in 2020)
Poster*: 2496 (2335 in 2023, 1725 in 2022, 1670 in 2021, 2677 in 2020)
*Including 107 poster presentations by high school students
♦ Number of Participants
[Total Number of Registered Participants: 8372]
Itemized breakdown:
Regular: 3779, K-12 teachers: 59, Graduate students: 1719, Senior: 121, Undergraduate students: 1202,
Public session attendees (including High school session presenters): 976,
Press: 110, Guests/ Exhibitors/ Staff: 406
*Total Number of On-site Participants: 7095
Itemized breakdown:
Regular: 3346, K-12 teachers: 45, Graduate students: 1612, Senior: 87, Undergraduate students: 775,
Public session attendees (including High school session presenters): 794
Press: 70, Guests/ Exhibitors/ Staff: 366
(2) Please give us your feedback of JpGU 2024
We would like to hear your opinions on JpGU 2024 to improve our future meetings. We would also like to hear from those who did not attend the meeting. Please send your feedback by 23:59 (JST) on Monday, 17 June.
[Post-meeting survey]
https://forms.gle/4Yo89HH6tAH6mCFd8
(3) Contents we provide after the 2024 meeting
[About Meeting participation site (Confit)]
*Meeting Participation Site (Confit)
https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/event/jpgu2024/participant_login?redirectUrl=https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/event/jpgu2024/top&lang=en
You will be able to log in to Confit until 31 March 2025 and view the presentation materials (abstract PDF, e-posters, and additional materials). On-demand videos will be posted until 01 September.
Please note that we will delete all the presentation materials except for abstract PDF when we remove the login function after 01 April 2025.
[On-demand webcast of Union sessions & events]
On-demand webcast of some Union sessions and events will be available on the meeting participation site (Confit) for a limited time. The contents will be available sequentially from the sessions/ events that are ready. Look for “on demand webcasts” page in Confit.
♦ Now available contents
– Lunchtime Special Lectures
– Miyake Prize Lecture
– JpGU Award Ceremony
– Union Sessions:
U-01 [E] Geosciences helping to work towards a carbon neutral society
U-08 [E] What is the true value of Knowledge Creation? Science and Society, Collaboration and Evaluation
(4) To attendees who joined the Exhibitors Quiz Rally
Thank you for the many entries.
After scoring and drawing, the winners will receive the prize later.
Please look forward to it!
(5) Certificates
Certificates are issued for those who request them from the designated form. Please see the following link for details.
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2024/for_researcher.php#about_certificates
Application deadline: Sat, 31 August
(6) Lost and Found at the Local Venue
JpGU is keeping belongings left in the local venue.
If you have lost your belonging, please contact office@jpgu.org along with the detailed information (item, color, date and place of loss, etc.,) of the item.
We’ll send it to you by cash on delivery once we have confirmed that it is your belonging.
Items are to be disposed of after Wednesday, 31 July 2024.
(7) Announcement and survey request from Union Session
Thank you for your attendance for JpGU2024 U-08 session and the Request from Conveners
Union Session U-08 “What is the true value of Knowledge Creation? Science and Society, Collaboration and Evaluation” (Conveners: Michiyo Shimamura, Yuko Onishi, Kiyoshi Suyehiro and Mark Mocettini Shimamoto), conducted orals and poster sessions on Wednesday, 29 May as scheduled.
We, conveners appreciate for your attendance!
The streaming of U-08 oral session is now available! Please watch the video, if you missed it. Along with the streaming of U-08 session, we extended the deadline of the questionnaire survey related to the session as follows.
Please give us 10 minutes of your time! We would appreciate your cooperation in filling out the questionnaire.
Background: There is a wide range of research, from “research that responds to the mandate of society” to “research that responds to the intellectual curiosity of humankind.
In the survey conducted during the U-04 session at the JpGU Meeting 2022, it was found that the members of this community believe that it is necessary to connect science and society, and that researchers are the main actors in this connection, but that the lack of time and funding to carry out this connection and the lack of recognition of scientific achievements are issues that need to be addressed.
Therefore, in the U-07 session of the JpGU Meeting 2023, we discussed “Establishment of a system with stakeholders, lack of resources, and lack of evaluation of scientific performance, which are important in connecting science and society,” and conducted a questionnaire survey. As a result, it was found that (1) science communicators, universities/research institutes, and elementary/junior high schools are major stakeholders, (2) financial support and establishment of support organizations focused to activities “linking science and society,” and (3) clarification of activity evaluation (parameters and quantification) are considered to solve the issues.
Purpose of this survey: To investigate effective collaboration for “connecting science and society” by type of research and specific proposals for performance evaluation to promote social collaboration.
Closing date of this survey [extended]: Friday, 02 August 2024
U08 questionnaire in Japanese：
https://forms.office.com/r/iuVeDprEKm
U08 questionnaire in English：
https://forms.office.com/r/jHcCrzm0PE
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#4. From Committees
(1) Educational Affairs Committee
Available in Japanese
(2) Committee for Diversity Management and Talent Pool
If you would like to receive assistance with the usage fees of the on-site childcare room or an outside childcare facility, please request an application form file from the secretariat.
Then, please send the completed application form and receipts or other certifying documents to the secretariat.
Please refer to the following guidelines.
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2024/files/childcare_guideline.pdf
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#5. Information from PEPS
(1) PEPS Awarded Papers 2024
We are pleased to announce that the papers published on PEPS have qualified for the PEPS Award 2024.
Please check below for more details.:
https://progearthplanetsci.org/awards.html
# PEPS Most downloaded Paper Award 2024
@ Tomoaki Nishikawa et al.: A review on slow earthquakes in the Japan Trench.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-022-00528-w
https://progearthplanetsci.org/speps/015.html
*Winning Paper of the Seismological Society of Japan Paper Award for 2023
@ Yu Morishita: Nationwide urban ground deformation monitoring in Japan using Sentinel-1 LiCSAR products and LiCSBAS.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-020-00402-7
*Winning Paper of the PEPS Most Cited Paper Award for 2023
＠ Mohammed Magdy Hamed,Mohamed Salem Nashwan,Shamsuddin Shahid: Climatic zonation of Egypt based on high-resolution dataset using image clustering technique.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-022-00494-3
# The PEPS Most Cited Paper Award 2024
@ Jie Zhang, Manuela Temmer, Nat Gopalswamy et al.: Earth-affecting Solar Transients: A Review of Progresses in Solar Cycle 24.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-021-00426-7
https://progearthplanetsci.org/speps/012.html
@ Chiaki T. Oguchi et al.: A review of theoretical salt weathering studies for stone heritage.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-021-00414-x
https://progearthplanetsci.org/speps/009.html
(2) Latest Articles
The following articles were published.
@ Koki Nakata et al.: New source model for the 1771 Meiwa tsunami along the southern Ryukyu Trench inferred from high-resolution tsunami calculation.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00631-0
@ Kaiwen Ye, Hidenori Aiki: Wind stress curl as a driving force of annual waves in the upper ocean for interpreting energetics at all latitudes.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00630-1
@ Boo-Keun KHIM et al: Climate-induced shift of deep-sea benthic foraminifera at the onset of the mid-Brunhes dissolution interval in the northeast tropical Indian Ocean.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00633-y
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/pvam
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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 (Please confirm contents from the associated official website)
(1) Event Information
*Please check the event website for the latest information.
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
GPM 10th Anniversary Symposium Unraveling precipitation from satellites
Date: 19 Jul 2024, 13:00-17:30
Place: 7th Floor, Marunouchi Hall & Conference & Online
https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/GPM/event/gpm10th/index_e.html
(2) Career Opportunity
Recruitment of Postdoctoral Researcher at Research and Development Center for Earthquake and Tsunami Forecasting (FEAT), JAMSTEC
[Application deadline: 17 JUN 2024]
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/details/feat20240617/
Recruitment of Researcher at Earthquake and Tsunami Monitoring Group, Research and Development Center for Earthquake and Tsunami Forecasting, JAMSTEC
[Application deadline: 25 JUN 2024]
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/details/feat20240625/
Freelance Japanese to English Translator- Earth Sciences
[Application deadline: 30 JUN 2024]
https://jobs.cactusglobal.com/jobs/1559?lang=en-us
Associate Professor Position in the Field Research Section for Fluvial and Coastal Hazards, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
[Application deadline: 08 JUL 2024]
https://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_en/21016/
JAMSTEC Restart Support Recruitment
[Application deadline: 15 JUL 2024]
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/details/restart20240715/
Recruitment of Senior Researcher, Researcher or Researcher (II) at Volcanoes and Earth’s Interior Research Center (VERC), JAMSTEC
[Application deadline: 16 JUL 2024]
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/details/verc20240716/
Recruitment of AIMEC Researcher at Advanced Institute for Marine Ecosystem Change (WPI-AIMEC)
[Application deadline: 01 AUG 2024]
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/details/wpi20240607/
Call for Associate Professor or Lecturer (Division of Atmospheric Sciences), Okayama University
Life, Natural Science and Technology
[Application deadline: 05 AUG 2024]
https://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/eng/researchers_staff/Employment.html
Call for applications for a postdoctoral fellowship
[Application deadline: 09 AUG 2024]
R&D Researcher – Modelling and Statistics
[Application deadline: 31 DEC 2024]
https://hrmos.co/pages/sagri/jobs/0000044
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