Session Category

Sessions in JpGU meetings are categorized into 7 JpGU Categories and subcategories.
Union and Public Sessions are special sessions outside of these 7 regular categories.

See the list below for category descriptions.

Union		U	Sessions to present up-to-date frontier topics related to all Earth and planetary sciences communities.
Public		O	Sessions open to the public to promote scientists' outreach activities, and to communicate with the society on understandings of research fields of our Union.
Section Leading		L	Sessions proposed by Section leadership for Section-wide participation and discussion.
1	Space and Planetary Sciences	P	Planetary Science, Solar Terrestrial Physics, Space Physics, Space Electromagnetism Exoplanetology... etc.
2	Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences	A	Atmospheric Science, Meteorology, Atmospheric Environment, Ocean Sciences, Hydrology, Limnology, Ground Water Hydrology, Cryospheric Sciences, Geoenvironmental Science, Climate Change Research...etc.
3	Human Geosciences	H	Geography, Geomorphology, Engineering Geology, Sedimentology, Natural Disaster, Disaster Prevention, Resources, Energy...etc.
4	Solid Earth Sciences	S	Geodesy, Seismology, Geomagnetism, Science of the Earth's Interior, Earth and Planetary Tectonics Dynamics, Geology, Quaternary Research, Lithology and Mineralogy, Volcanology, Geochemistry...etc.
5	Biogeosciences	B	Biogeosciences, Space Biology, Origin of Life, Geosphere-Biosphere Interactions, Palaeontology, Paleoecology...etc
6	Education & Outreach	G	Earth Science Education, School Education, Relation to the society...etc.
7	Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary	M	Sessions outside the above 6 categories or cross multiple categories, Joint Symposium with other scientific societies...etc.

About Sessions of JpGU-AGU 2026 & Session Details

289 sessions will be convened at the JpGU-AGU 2026.
Session description, conveners and other details are available from the link below.

About Scientific Program of JpGU-AGU 2026

The scientific program will be released on Friday, 26 March 2026.

【Upcoming release schedule】
●Session descriptions : Wed. 26 Nov 2025
●Session schedule-at-a-glance : Wed. 10 Dec 2025
●Scientific program : Fri. 26 Mar 2026
●Abstract PDF: Fri. 15 May 2026

Abstract PDF Download

Abstract PDF will be published on Friday, 15 May 2026.

Contact between Conveners and Presenters

We will provide mailing lists for communication between session conveners and presenters after scientific sessions are finalized in late-March. Please make use of this tool for organizing your session.

List of Invited Authors

Provisional list of tentative invited authors will be published after the session is accepted and updated sequentially.

Union Sessions

Union sessions focus on topics with a broad interest that are outside of a single section.
The following 19 Union sessions will be held at JpGU-AGU 2026.

Union Sessions may be held as oral sessions only. Also, some of them may have restrictions on submissions.

U-01 [E] Great Debate: International Perspectives on the Future Geosciences-Funding Policies and Research Directions
U-02 [E] Applied Math Perspectives on Modeling, Analyzing, and Predicting Complex Geophysical Systems
U-03 [E] Scholarly Publishing in Generative AI Age: Challenges of Transparenc y, Reliability, and Ethics
U-04 [E] Advancing Open and FAIR Sciences: strategies, infrastructures, practices, and communities
U-05 [E] Natural Hydrogen, Understanding its Subsurface System and Production Engineering
U-06 [E] Satellites, Societies, and Sustainability
U-07 [E] Ecosystem fluctuations in the Northwest Pacific and their linkages to global environmental change
U-08 [E] Advances in Legacy and Emerging Contaminant Biogeosciences
U-09 [E] The Future of Urban Engineering Geology
U-10 [E] New Horizon for Diversity, Equity/Equality and Inclusion in the Geoscience
U-11 [E] Climate change during the Quaternary and Anthropocene
U-12 [E] Safeguarding Science in a Changing Global Landscape
U-13 [E] Reimagining Science-Society Relations: Diversity, Trust and Co-creation in Earth&Planetary Sciences
U-14 [E] Geoscience across research and education: National priorities and international collaborations
U-15 [E] Utilization of diverse disaster information: integration and deployment toward disaster mitigation
U-16 [J] Earth Observing Satellites for Earth Science and Global Environmental Issues
U-17 [J] Biogeochemistry of CO world
U-18 [J] Future of Earth and Planetary Sciences Boosted by Artificial Intelligence
U-19 [J] Revision of Roadmap for Earth and Planetary Science in Japan

Public Sessions

Public sessions are open to general public attendees who are interested in geoscientific progress and contents to hear from an interact directly with researchers. Registration is free of charge to attend these sessions.

The following 13 Public sessions will be held at JpGU-AGU 2026.
*Public sessions will receive abstract submissions only from invited authors.
*Public Sessions may be held as orals-only.

O-01 [J] Earth and Planetary Science Top Seminar
O-02 [J] Climate change and the challenges of using renewable energy
O-03 [J] A Predicted Ocean! -Challenge by the UN Decade of Ocean Science
O-04 [J] Geoparks and Sustainability
O-05 [J] Geology and Culture - earth scientific studies of myths, legends and folk cultures (Geomythology)
O-06 [J] Learning, Opening, Connecting on Climate Change - Let's Talk with Young People and Researchers -
O-07 [J] Let's talk about environmental education
O-08 [J] Food Cultures Nurtured by the Earth: Geoparks, Gastronomy and the Future of Food Culture
O-09 [J] Kitchen Earth Science: its potential for producing diverse goals by hands-on experiments
O-10 [J] Visualization and Representation: Earth Science and Art Exploring the Invisible World
O-11 [J] Overview of the recent activity of Nishinoshima and volcanoes in Ogasawara Islands
O-12 [J] Senior high school student poster presentations
O-13 [E] International Poster Session for high school students

Section Leading Sessions

Section Leading sessions are the sessions organized by the five scientific sections of JpGU.
The following 2 Section Leading sessions will be held at JpGU-AGU 2026.

*Section Leading sessions may be held as orals-only. Also, some of them may have restrictions on submissions.

L-01 [E] Space and Planetary Sciences Section Lecture
L-02 [E] Frontiers in Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Science 3: Recent extreme heat events in global and Japan

Joint Session with Partner Unions

At JpGU-AGU 2026, all sessions are regarded as JpGU-AGU joint sessions.
Joint sessions with AOGS, EGU, and TCGU will continue to be organized as in the previous year.
The 2026 joint sessions are scheduled to be released on Wednesday, 26 November 10 December.

Co-Sponsored Sessions with JpGU Society Members

Each year, sessions co-sponsored or co-organized with Society Members are also convened at the annual meetings.
The 2026 Co-Sponsored Sessions with JpGU Society Members are scheduled to be released on Wednesday, 26 November 10 December.

International Cooperative Sessions

These sessions are held to extend our collaborative networking with overseas societies.
The 2026 International Cooperative Sessions are scheduled to be released on Wednesday, 10 December.

Co-sponsoring Sessions with Organizations Other Than JpGU Society Members

The 2026 co-sponsoring sessions with organizations other than JpGU Society Members are scheduled to be released on Wednesday, 10 December.