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└■ Japan Geoscience Union mail news August Edition, No.210 August 11, 2014
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┃1.Prefatory note
┃2.Taira Award
┃3.Session proposal for JpGU Meeting 2015
┃4.PEPS Information
┃ ・Newly released articles
┃ ・Providing our PEPS abstracts in Japanese
┃5.Poster design for JpGU Meeting 2015 is wanted
┃6.From committees
┃ ・Japan Earth Science Olympiad Committee
┃7.What’s new
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└■ 1.Prefatory note
 

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└■ 2.Taira Award

New AGU Prize (Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize) is established
and the award ceremony will alternate between AGU and JpGU Annual Meetings from 2015.
        Kiyoshi Suyehiro, Ex-president & CEO, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program / JpGU Global Strategy Committee member

For further details, see the following URL.
http://news.agu.org/press-release/new-award-recognizes-exemplary-research-made-possible-by-ocean-drilling/

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└■ 3.Session proposal for JpGU Meeting 2015

Session proposal for JpGU 2015 starts on September 1st.
We’re waiting for your proposals.

★Schedule for JpGU Meeting 2015 (planned)
JpGU Meeting 2015 website opens: September 1st, Monday, 2014
Session proposal: September 1st, Monday ~October 23rd, Thursday, 2014
Session release on the web: December 19th, Friday, 2014
Abstract submission: January 8th, Thursday ~ February 18th, Thursday, 2015
Program release on the web: March 30th, Monday, 2015

★JpGU Meeting 2015
May 24th, Sunday ~28th, Thursday 5days, International Conference Hall, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan

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└■ 4.Information from PEPS

(1)Newly released articles

Articles newly released from July 10th to August 11th are follows.

1) Research [Space and planetary sciences]
Observations of GPS scintillation during an isolated auroral substorm
Keisuke Hosokawa, Yuichi Otsuka, Yasunobu Ogawa and Takuya Tsugawa

(2) Providing our PEPS abstracts in Japanese!
Our PEPS editorial office is promoting the publication of articles
that provide an opportunity for scientists to read organized
descriptions. To encourage the students or young
scientists in Japan to read the latest articles in PEPS, we provide
 a highlight written in Japanese for each article. These
highlights are available in our PEPS website.
http://progearthplanetsci.org/highlight_j.html

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└■ 5.Poster design for JpGU Meeting 2015 is wanted

Poster design for JpGU Meeting 2015 is wanted.
Deadline is August 19th.
http://jpgu.org/news/2015poster.html(Only in Japanese)

Free membership registration for Lancers is required.
(http://www.lancers.jp/)

★http://www.lancers.jp/work/detail/385637

We’re waiting for your application.
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└■ 6.From committees

(1)Japan Earth Science Olympiad Committee

・Free reseraches for” Chikyu-ni-Waku Waku Contest” are wanted from August 1st to
October 31st.

・Mascot character design for International Earth Science Olympiad 2016
 held in Mie prefecture is wanted.
Only junior and senior high school students are applicable.
Deadline is October 31st.

★For further details see the following URL.
 http://jeso.jp/

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