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***Japan Geoscience Union Mailnews October Issue No.397 10 OCT 2024***
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| 1. Foreword by Simon Wallis, President of JpGU
| 2. Call for Session Proposals for JpGU 2025 [closes on 29 OCT]
| 3. From Committees
| -> Publicity and Outreach Committee
| -> Educational Affairs Committee
| 4. Information from PEPS
| -> An announcement of PEPS new General-Chief-Editor and Section-Chief-Editor
| -> Featured Articles
| -> Latest Articles
| 5. From Science Council of Japan
| 6. What’s New
| -> Event Information (Meetings, Symposia, Public Openings, etc.)
| -> Research and Funding Calls
| -> Career Opportunity
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#1. Foreword by Simon Wallis, President of JpGU (2024-2026)
Proposals for JpGU 2025 sessions are now being accepted. Be sure not to miss the deadline: 17:00, 29 October.
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2025/for_conv.php-session_proposal
And don’t forget there are special provisions for joint sessions with partner societies!
In the post pandemic world many academic societies are returning to face-to-face meetings but at JpGU 2025 we will continue to offer both online and onsite participation. A hybrid menu of options at an internationally competitive price is one of the distinguishing features of our JpGU meeting.
The first online JpGU meeting was in 2020, the time of the Covid pandemic and a Cambrian-type explosion in the evolution of online connectivity. Before 2020 running a major academic meeting with thousands of participants was more the concern of science fiction than academic societies. The transition for this evolutionary jump from onsite to online was short and sudden. I clearly remember how in February 2020 three months before our meeting, the Covid pandemic filled the news. The schools in Japan were closed and large gatherings effectively banned. What could and should we do with our plans for the meeting? With President Kawahata taking the lead, we checked the graphs of infections, the rise of the disease in other countries, and considered the long-term costs of cancelling, and of failing. This was a time when most people were still discovering Zoom for the first time—could we really hold a full meeting entirely online? An additional complication was that 2020 was our second full joint meeting with AGU. We needed to consider how to facilitate a large number of presentations for participants from overseas.
We made our decision based on the following policy statement for our Union during the pandemic. “Since its inception, JpGU has not flinched in taking on new challenges. If JpGU takes the lead in organizing an online conference, the JpGU member societies will be able to build on this experience to prepare their own conferences later in 2020 and the Earth and planetary science community can continue to progress even during the Covid-19 pandemic.”
Delaying the start until July bought us some time. With just 100 days to prepare and no similar examples to learn from we dived into the largely unknown and untested world of organizing a large-scale online conference. It was a choice with risks and not everything went according to plan. But around 6,000 participants joined, gave presentations and discussed. We learnt from the things that didn’t work and took satisfaction in the things that did. We can now look back on this 2020 JpGU meeting with some pride as the first major geoscience meeting in the world to go fully online and which laid the foundations for the success of our modern hybrid meeting.
Your feedback is important to us as we continue to look at ways in which we can develop our meeting to cement its place as a major venue in the international calendar of geoscience events.
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#2. Call for Session Proposals for JpGU 2025 [closes on 29 OCT]
The call for session proposals for JpGU 2025 is now open.
JpGU Meeting 2025 will follow the format of the past meetings and continue the hybrid format, mixing on-site (at Makuhari Messe in Chiba City) and online.
[JpGU Meeting 2025 (Tentative Plan)]
Date: Sun, 25 – Fri, 30 May 2025 *for 6 days
Meeting format: Hybrid (on-site + online)
On-site venue: Makuhari Messe Chiba, Japan
[Major Changes from Last Year]
– Flash Talks by poster presenters in the oral session will not be held. The maximum number of oral presentations allowed in one 90-minute slot is six.
– On-site poster core time will be extended by 30 minutes, and PM3 will be from 17:15-19:15.
Please see the following link for details．
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2025/news/news20241001_01.html
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Submission period: Tue. 01 Oct – Tue. 29 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_e2025/rule/conv.html
Please refer to the Convener Guidelines before proposing a session.
*INFORMATION FOR CONVENERS
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2025/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 (AGU, 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 at the JpGU annual meetings.
♦Joint Sessions with Partner Unions (AGU, AOGS, EGU, and/or TCGU)
Joint Sessions are co-organized with overseas Partner Unions (AGU/EGU/AOGS/TCGU) that have MOU with JpGU.
Application period: Tue. 01 – Thu. 31 October [JST]
How to apply: From the designated form
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_j2025/rule/joint.html#joint_partner_union
*At JpGU 2025, we will provide subsidies of the registration fee for the joint session with AGU to promote participation in the following year’s JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting. For details, please refer to the following link
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2025/for_conv.php#joint_support
♦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.
How to apply: After the session proposal is completed, contact the representatives of each society member of your wish to co-sponsor the session.
Deadline for application: It depends on each society.
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2025/rule/joint.html#joint_cosponsoring_society
♦International Cooperative Sessions
International Collaboration Sessions are co-organized with overseas societies with which JpGU has an Agreement as an activity to extend our collaborative networking.
Application period: Tue. 01 October – Sun. 10 November
How to apply: From the designated form
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2025/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: Tue. 01 October – Sun. 10 November
How to apply: From the designated form
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2025/rule/joint.html#other_societies
[Key Dates (Subject to change)]
Session proposal 14:00 Tue. 01 – 17:00 Tue. 29 October [JST]
Session list Release Fri. 06 December
Session schedule-at-a-glance release Wed. 18 December
Abstract submission Thu. 16 January – 17:00 Tue. 18 February 2025
*Early-bird submission deadline 23:59 Thu. 06 February
We look forward to receiving many proposals from a wide range of science fields.
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#3. From Committees
(1) Publicity and Outreach Committee
[Available in Japanese]
(2) Educational Affairs Committee
[Earth Science Week Japan (ESWJ) 2024]
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 seventh time this year. This year, ESWJ will be held in Nagano City, Museum of Global Environmental History, and Shizuoka Science Museum Ru-Ku-Ru and some other places in Shizuoka and Gamagori city Sea of Life Science Museum in Aichi from October 12 SAT to November 10 SUN, 2024.
OCT 15 SUN
“Omachi Seminar” in Shizuoka City
OCT 19 SAT
“Thinking about Food Loss with University students” at Museum of Global Environmental History in Shizuoka city
OCT 20 SUN
Mysterious Forms in the Microscopic World! ~Radiolarians~ at Shizuoka Science Museum, Ru-Ku-Ruxxxxx
OCT 27 SUN
Field Trip “The secret of Mt. Togakushi and Mt. Iizuna. Oil was once found in Nagano! Looking at the geology and people’s lives: Guides: Tomotaka Tanabe, former
director of the Togakushi Geology and Fossil Museum, and others)
NOV 9 SAT
Closing Lecture “The Cambrian Explosion and the Cambrian Monster Afterward”
Special Exhibition “Anomalocaris, the Cambrian Sea” commemorating the 70th anniversary of Gamagori City and the 25th anniversary of the Sea of Life Science Museum (JULY 20-NOV10)
NOV10 SUN
“Walking around the town while listening to the sound of water & Maarui-Shizuoka, Emona Talk Special Edition ”
Near the Jujisuogawa River, Shizuoka City, Japan Guide: Kazuyoshi Yamada, Professor, Waseda University
Please see the following URL for further information.
https://sites.google.com/jpgu.org/earthscienceweekjapan2024
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#4. Information from PEPS
(1) An announcement of PEPS new General-Chief-Editor and Section-Chief-Editor
Dr. Hodaka KAWAHATA (Waseda University, The University of Tokyo) became new General-Chief-Editor of PEPS, and Dr. Yoshinori TAKANO (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology) became new Section-Chief-Editor of Biogeosciences from 1st October. For the papers submitted by 30th September, former General-Chief-Editor Dr.Tada and former Section-Chief-Editor Dr. Kawahata (Biogeosciences) will continue to handle them.
(2) Featured Articles
We will introduce the featured articles selected by the editor-in-chief from the papers published in the past.
@Masaya Kuramochi, Hiroaki Ueda, Tomoshige Inoue, Meiji Honda & Koutarou Takaya;
“Coherent amplification of the Okhotsk high, Korean trough, and northwestern Pacific subtropical high during heavy rainfall over Japan in August 2021.”
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-023-00598-4
This paper analyzes the characteristics of the atmospheric field behind the torrential rains across Japan in August 2021. It was found that the heavy rain in Japan was caused by a combination of tripolar anomalies – the Okhotsk High, the pressure trough over the Korean Peninsula, and the North-West Pacific Subtropical High – and a modulation of convective activities in the tropics. This study provides a nice example of an analysis of the background to the increase in heavy rainfall in Japan in recent years.
@ Ken Ikehara, Kazuko Usami & Toshiya Kanamatsu;
“How large peak ground acceleration by large earthquakes could generate turbidity currents along the slope of northern Japan Trench”.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-023-00540-8
This paper relates the formation of turbidites to the occurrence of earthquakes in the Japan Trench by analyzing isotopic ratios in sediment cores collected from the landward slope of the Japan Trench. This constrains the conditions for seismic motions to form turbidites.
(3) Latest Articles
The following articles were published.
@ Shingo Takeuchi, Kosuke Ishige, Shimpei Uesawa, Yukiko Suwa;
Unsinkable, long-drifting, millimeter-sized pumice of the 2021 eruption of Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba submarine volcano.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00652-9
@ Akira Nagano, Minoru Kitamura, Kensuke Watari, Iwao Ueki;
Kuroshio Extension cold-core ring and wind drop-off observed in 2021–2022 winter.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00649-4
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/wnp
@ Yuyan Zhang, Mina Ma, Yujia Hu, Yiliang Han, Yanhui Zhang;
Electrical conductivity of mantle minerals beneath East Asia revealed by geomagnetic observatory data.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00653-8
@ Naoko Shinmoto, Toshitaka Baba;
A methodology for appropriate withdrawal of tsunami warnings based on numerical simulations.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00647-6
@ Hidetaka Nomaki, Shigeaki Kojima, Yosuke Miyairi, Yusuke Yokoyama, Chong Chen;
Natural 14C abundances and stable isotopes suggest discrete uptake routes for carbon and nitrogen in cold seep animals.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00648-5
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/eio
@ Tomohisa Okazaki, Kazuro Hirahara, Naonori Ueda;
Fault geometry invariance and dislocation potential in antiplane crustal deformation: physics-informed simultaneous solutions.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00654-7
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#5. 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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#6. What’s New (Please confirm contents from the associated official website)
(1) Event Information
*Please check the event website for the latest information.
Sixth World Climate Research Programme International Conference on Reanalysis
Date: 28 OCT – 01 NOV 2024,
Place: Ito International Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
https://icr6.climcore.org
Japanese Geomorphological Union Annual Meeting and International Symposium 2024
Date: 02 – 04 NOV 2024
Place: International Platform for Dryland Research and Education, Tottori University
https://sites.google.com/japangeomorphology.org/jgu2024/symposium
The 2024 Kyoto Prize Commemorative Lecture by Dr. Paul F. Hoffman
Date: 14 NOV 2024
Place: Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXnioDBhDdeZ-xEowYe0GcaTxpvM7urIR_CidpIPzBSmETkw/viewform
(2) Research and Funding Calls
Notification of Call for 2025A Proposal at SACLA
[Application deadline: 06 NOV 2024]
(3) Career Opportunity
Recruitment of Researcher or Researcher (II) at Institute for Extra-cutting-edge Science and Technology Avant-garde Research (X-star), JAMSTEC
[Application deadline: 21 OCT 2024]
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/details/sugar20241021/
Associate Professor Position in the Research Section of Earth Observation Systems, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
[Application deadline: 18 NOV 2024]
https://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_en/21887/
Associate Professor Position in the Research Section of Prediction of Volcanic Eruptions, DPRI-KU
[Application deadline: 02 DEC 2024]
https://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/news_en/21888/
R&D Researcher – Modelling and Statistics
[Application deadline: 31 DEC 2024]
https://hrmos.co/pages/sagri/jobs/0000044
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