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Japan Geoscience Union delivers this mail news to JpGU ID holders.
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***Japan Geoscience Union Mailnews February Issue No.401 14 FEB 2025***
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| 1. Foreword by Simon Wallis, President of JpGU
| 2. JpGU Meeting 2025 Information
| -> Only FOUR Days Left for the Final Abstract Deadline [17:00, 18 Feb JST]
| -> Fees and Meeting Registration
| -> Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA): Entry Deadline Approaching! [by 20 FEB]
| -> Key Dates
| 3. Student Travel Support
| 4. Call for High School Presentation Participants
| 5. Announcement of JpGU Excursion Courses
| 6. Exhibition at JpGU Meeting
| 7. The Latest Issue of JGL (February 2025) Published
| 8. From Committees
| -> Committee for Diversity Management and Talent Pool
| 9. Information from PEPS
| -> SPEPS special issue open for submissions
| -> Latest Articles
| 10. From Science Council of Japan
| 11. 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)
To all those of you thinking of giving a presentation at JpGU2025, I’d like to remind you that there are now just a few days left until the deadline for abstract submissions. We look forward to an exciting meeting and value each contribution.
Today I’d like to highlight the outstanding student presentation awards or OSPA. These awards were first made in 2011, originally with just two sections joining. We now have awards for all of the JpGU sections and at JpGU 2024 there were more than 700 entries. The number of awardees is limited to the top 10%, and unfortunately this means there are many excellent presentations that just miss out. The JpGU OSPA has an important role in celebrating excellence and encouraging the next generation of researchers. If I look back on past recipients, I can see the names of many young researchers who now have their own research groups and are moving our science forwards. With so many good presentations to evaluate, organizing the judging and selection is no simple task. Each presentation has to be judged by multiple reviewers, and to minimize variation due to individual bias we examine the scoring of each reviewer. The final lists are then reviewed by section boards. No matter how senior researchers become, I think all will still remember their first presentation at a major meeting, their first published paper. Small words of encouragement mean a lot especially (but not only!) for students taking their first steps on the path to becoming a research scientist. A prize is a great morale boost and helping make that happen is a great service to our field. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all those involved who make this possible.
Finally, I would also like to mention the session for high school students on Sunday, the first day of the meeting. This was given a role in the recent NHK drama ‘A classroom in the sky’ Last year there were about 100 entries and there are also awards for this session. Among these students there will be some geoscientists of the future. Whatever path they may choose I hope their experience of presenting at JpGU will be a boost for their confidence and something to look back on with fondness. If you have time, please take a moment to visit this session—an investment in the future!
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#2. JpGU Meeting 2025 Information
(1) Only FOUR Days Left for the Final Abstract Deadline [17:00, 18 Feb JST]
The abstract submission for JpGU 2025 closes in 4 days at 17:00 on Tuesday, 18 February 2025.
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.
In 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 Tue. 18 Feb 2025 [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 18 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/
[Abstract Submission Details]
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2025/sebmission.php
[2025 Session Information]
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2025/sessionlist_en/
[Schedule-at-a-glance]
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2025/files/session_schedule_e.pdf
[Meeting Website]
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2025/
(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_e2025/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 2025.
[About Registration]
– We will start accepting the meeting registration on Thursday, 06 March.
– The early registration deadline (scheduled on 17 April) will be set for presenters to allow enough time to upload their presentation materials such as e-posters to the Meeting participation portal “Confit.” Presenters are asked to take notice of this.
More information on registration is available at
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2025/registration.php
(3) Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA): Entry Deadline Approaching! [by 20 FEB]
The entry for the Outstanding Student Presentation Award is approaching.
Application deadline: 23:59 Thu. 20 February 2025 [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_e2025/submission.php#ospa_entry
[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 let us know your intention when you register for the meeting (registration opens at 14:00 on 06 Mar). If you do so, you will be automatically registered in the student award judge system (to be open later).
(4) Key Dates
Final abstract Submission deadline -> 17:00 Tue. 18 Feb
Meeting registration opens —> 14:00 Thu. 06 Mar
Acceptance notification —-> Thu. 27 Mar
Final program release —-–> Fri. 28 Mar
Presenters registration deadline -> 23:59 Tue. 17 Apr
e-poster and / on-demand video uploads start -> Tue. 22 Apr
Abstract PDF release —–> Fri. 16 May
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#3. Student Travel Support
We will provide travel support for the students who will participate in JpGU 2025.
We plan to start accepting applications soon.
Details will be posted on the meeting website.
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#4. Call for High School Presentation Participants
We have started accepting applications for participation on Tuesday 04 February.
Details are available at
https://www.jpgu.org/highschool_session/2025/
(Available in Japanese)
Application closes on Monday, 07 April
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#5. Announcement of JpGU Excursion Courses
The JpGU has expanded the JpGU Excursion Program to include the following six courses, which will be held during and after the JpGU 2025 Meeting. We especially welcome the participation of early career
or foreign researchers visiting Japan for the first time.
Held during the meeting
Stone viewing in the heart of Tokyo! (May 26)
Visit to JAXA/ISAS (Inst. of Space and Astronautical Science) (May 29)
The metamorphic rocks and the Neogene strata of the birthplace of Japanese geology (May 29)
To be held after the meeting
Subduction zone: shallow to bit deep: Boso Peninsula, central Japan (May 31 to Jun 1)
Hakone and Fuji: Geological and volcanological background of Japan’s largest tourist destinations (May 31 to June 1)
Sedimentary facies and igneous rocks in the Paleo-Kuril Arc: The Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene distributed in Eastern Hokkaido, northern Japan (May 31 to June 2)
Please have a look at the following web page for details.
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2025/fieldtrip.php
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#6. Exhibition at JpGU Meeting
The exhibition will be held as a hybrid of on-site and online.
The application period is scheduled to start in late February or March.
https://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2025/exhibition/
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#7. The Latest Issue of JGL (February 2025) Published
The latest issue (Vol.21, No.1) of the Newsletter of the Japan Geoscience Union (JGL) has been published. 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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#8. From Committees
(1) Committee for Diversity Management and Talent Pool
[Childcare support during the JpGU 2025 Meeting]
At the JpGU 2025 Meeting, as in the previous year, an on-site childcare room will be set up throughout the meeting. As in previous years, we also plan to support the use of off-site childcare facilities and services.
In addition, as a new initiative this year, we plan to provide a room and events for primary school children to spend time on the first day of the meeting (Sunday).
Please answer the survey below if you’re interested in using childcare facilities and services and/or joining a mailing list for the latest information about childcare.
https://forms.gle/NXvRLRYavX7NBe2ZA
Further information on childcare support will be provided in the e-newsletter and on the website.
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#9. Information from PEPS
(1) SPEPS special issue open for submissions
The following 5 SPEPS (Special call for excellent papers on hot topics) are welcoming your submissions.
– “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: 30 June 2025
– “Earth, Isotopes and Organics”
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/eio
Submission deadline: 28 February 2025
– “Biogeochemical Studies on Atmosphere, Ocean, and their Interaction in the western North Pacific region”
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/WNP
Submission deadline: 30 April 2025
– “Past variability of Asian monsoon and its influence on surrounding regions on various timescales”
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/PvAm
Submission deadline: 31 March 2025
– “Water-carbon cycles and terrestrial changes in the Arctic and subarctic regions”
https://www.springeropen.com/collections/PAWCs
Submission deadline: 31 March 2025
(2) Latest Articles
The following articles were published.
@ Munseon Beak, Kazuhito Ichii, Yuhei Yamamoto, Ruci Wang, Beichen Zhang, Ram C. Sharma, Tetsuya Hiyama;
Land cover classification for Siberia leveraging diverse global land cover datasets.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00672-5
SPEPS : https://www.springeropen.com/collections/PAWCs
@ Wei-Cheng Hsiung, Yuan-Pin Chang, Horng-Sheng Mii, Ken Ikehara, Toshiya Kanamatsu, Hui-Ling Lin;
Reconstruction of bottom water ventilation changes in the West Philippine Sea during the last glacial-interglacial period.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00675-2
SPEPS : https://www.springeropen.com/collections/PvAm
@ Dai Koshin, Kaoru Sato, Shingo Watanabe, Kazuyuki Miyazaki;
The JAGUAR-DAS whole neutral atmosphere reanalysis: JAWARA.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00674-3
@ Daisuke Ishimura, Reona Hiramine;
Dispersion, fragmentation, abrasion, and organism attachment of drift pumice from the 2021 Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba eruption in Japan.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00678-z
@ Hidetaka Nomaki, Yoshito Chikaraishi, Nanako O. Ogawa, Koh Maki, Motohiro Shimanaga, Hisami Suga, Masashi Tsuchiya, Toshi Nagata, Naohiko Ohkouchi;
Differential use of multiple food sources at a bathyal benthic ecosystem in the central Sagami Bay revealed by amino acid nitrogen isotopic compositions.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-025-00682-x
SPEPS : https://www.springeropen.com/collections/eio
@ Sayaka Yasunaka, Haruko Kurihara, Takeshi Doi;
Spatiotemporal variation of high-temperature events and its relation to coral bleaching in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00673-4
SPEPS : https://www.springeropen.com/collections/WNP
@ Hiroshi Tanimoto, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Yu Someya, Tamaki Fujinawa, Hirofumi Ohyama, Isamu Morino, Hisashi Yashiro, Takafumi Sugita et al.;
The greenhouse gas observation mission with Global Observing SATellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle (GOSAT-GW): objectives, conceptual framework and scientific contributions.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-025-00684-9
@ Emi A. Hasegawa, Jun Matsubayashi, Ichiro Tayasu, Tatsuhiko Goto, Haruka Inoue, Axel G. Rossberg, Chikage Yoshimizu, Masaru Hasegawa, Takumi Akasaka;
Isotope analysis of birds’ eye lens provides early-life information.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00677-0
SPEPS : https://www.springeropen.com/collections/eio
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#10. 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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#11. What’s New (Please confirm contents from the associated official website)
(1) Event Information
*Please check the event website for the latest information.
PERC International symposium on Dust & Parent bodies (IDP2025)
Date: 25-27 FEB 2025
Place: Tokyo Skytree Town Campus of CIT, Tokyo
https://www.perc.it-chiba.ac.jp/meetings/IDP2025/
Geology Ski Tour 2025 for High School Students
Date: 23 MAR 2025
Place：Ishiuchi-Maruyama ski resort in Echigo-Yuzawa, Niigata
https://www.geokatz.com/e/2025ski/index.html
(2) Research and Funding Calls
The annual Misasa International Student Internship Program (MISIP)
[Application deadline: 24 MAR 2025]
https://www.misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp/MISIP/
(3) Career Opportunity
Researcher at Center for Earth Information Science and Technology (CEIST), Research Institute for Value-Added-Information Generation (VAiG), JAMSTEC
[Application deadline: 09 MAR 2025]
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/details/ceist20250311/
Recruitment of Engineers at Research Institute for Value-Added Information Generation (VAiG) or Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC), JAMSTEC
[Application deadline: 13 APR 2025]
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/details/ceist-rigc20250413/
The University of Tokyo Faculty Position in Space and Planetary Science Group, Department of Earth and Planetary Science
[Application deadline: 07 MAY 2025]
https://www.eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/job20250129en/
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