19 May 2017
CHIBA, JAPAN — Discover the latest in Earth and space science research at the JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017 taking place May 20-25 at the Makuhari Messe International Conference Hall in Chiba, Japan. The meeting will bring together researchers from the American Geophysical Union and the Japan Geoscience Union.
Included in this advisory:
- Research presentation highlights
- Keynote and special lectures
- Press registration information
- Press room information
The inaugural JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting includes more than 5,500 oral and poster presentations that span the Earth and space sciences. Topics include space and planetary sciences, atmospheric and hydrospheric sciences, human geosciences, solid Earth sciences, biogeosciences, education and outreach.
Highlights of research being presented at the meeting can be found below. A list of potentially newsworthy presentations submitted by presenters and selected by JpGU’s publicity committee can be found here. The full online program is available here.
Research highlights:
New technique provides earthquake risk for major cities worldwide
Scientists have developed snapshots of the likelihood of major earthquakes occurring in megacities around the world using a new statistical approach for estimating earthquake risk.
The new technique, called seismic nowcasting, estimates the progress of a defined seismically-active geographic region through its repetitive cycle of major earthquakes. Applied to cities, the method assigns an Earthquake Potential Score, or EPS. The EPS provides a snapshot of the current risk of a major earthquake occurring in a region, and gives scientists, city planners and others a thermometer to see where a city is in a major earthquake cycle.
Read more about this new research being presented Monday, May 22 at the JpGU-AGU joint meeting on AGU’s GeoSpace blog.
Contact information for the researchers:
John Rundle: +1 (530) 400-4970 (cell); [email protected]; Skype: jbrundle; Skype Number: (530) 554-2625; Twitter: @rundlejb.
Early Tanpopo mission results show microbes can survive in space
Clumps of microbes can survive in space for at least a year – and perhaps longer, according to Japanese researchers conducting an experiment on board the International Space Station (ISS).
The Japanese Tanpopo mission is designed to test the panspermia hypothesis – the idea that life can be transferred from one planet to another by way of rocky debris. The mission is also aimed at testing the hypothesis that compounds that are precursors for life might have rained down on early Earth from space.
Read more about the initial results from the first year of the mission being presented Wednesday, May 24 at the JpGU-AGU joint meeting on AGU’s GeoSpace blog.
Contact information for the researchers:
Akihiko Yamagishi: +81 90-2907-1161 (cell); [email protected].
High levels of radioactive material migrating down into soil around Fukushima
High levels of radioactive cesium remain in the soil near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and these radionuclides have migrated at least 5 centimeters down into the ground at several areas since the nuclear accident five years ago, according to preliminary results of a massive sampling project.
In 2016, a team of more than 170 researchers from the Japanese Geoscience Union and the Japan Society of Nuclear and Radiochemical Sciences conducted a large-scale soil sampling project to determine the contamination status and transition process of radioactive cesium five years after a major earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Read more about the preliminary results from the sampling project being presented Thursday, May 25 at the JpGU-AGU joint meeting on AGU’s GeoSpace blog.
Contact information for the researchers:
Kazuyuki Kita: +81 90-6491-8385; [email protected].
Other potentially newsworthy presentations:
English-language presentations
Saturday, 20 May:
- A Category ‘6’ Trio – Supertyphoons Meranti (2016), Haiyan (2013), and Hurricane Patricia (2015)
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM, Room IC (International Conference Hall 2F), Session A-CG46 - Evaluating climate severity for human comfort in a changing climate of the 21st century in Central Siberia
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM, Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL7), Session M-IS01 - Spatial and temporal distribution of Desmostylia (Mammalia) and implications on its evolution and extinction
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM, Room 201B (International Conference Hall 2F), Session B-PT06 - Intensification of landfalling typhoons over the northwest Pacific since the late 1970s
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM, Room 101 (International Conference Hall 1F), Session A-AS06
Sunday, 21 May:
- The Correlation of Urban Climate and Dengue: Metro Manila and Bandung Cases
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Room 101 (International Conference Hall 1F), Session U-05 - Changes in weathering environment due to clearance of trees in the Angkor temples, Cambodia
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM, Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL7), Session M-IS07 - Thermal regime of a subarctic deep lake and its response to climate change: the non-freezing effect on the ecosystem
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM, Room 01B (International Conference Hall 2F), Session A-HW32
Monday, 22 May:
- Effects of snow-darkening by absorbing aerosols on early spring snow melt and summer heat waves over Eurasia
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM, Room 101 (International Conference Hall 1F), Session A-AS07 - Investigation on past solar activities using historical documents from the East and the West
11:40 AM – 11:55 AM, Room A01 (Tokyo Bay Makuhari Hall), Session P-EM12 - A Study of Lightning Activities and Geomagnetic Storms during 1998-2014
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM, Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL7), Session P-EM17 - Ocean acidification trend in the Canada Basin since the 2000s
3:50 PM – 4:05 PM, Room 302 (International Conference Hall 3F) , Session A-OS16
Tuesday, 23 May:
- Dynamics and Exploration of Titan’s Seas
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM, Room 201B (International Conference Hall 2F), Session B-CG08 - Cross-disciplinary study of the possible link between space weather, geomagnetic storms and cetacean mass strandings
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM, Room A01 (Tokyo Bay Makuhari Hall), Session P-EM12 - The Future Response of Fisheries Production to Integrated Anthropogenic Forcing: Climate Change and Fishing Pressure
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM, Room 303 (International Conference Hall 3F), Session A-OS18 - High-Resolution Radiation Mapping to Evaluate Fukushima Derived Contamination Migration
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM, Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL7), Session A-OS13 - View of Saturn from Cassini Grand Finale Orbits
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM, Room 102 (International Conference Hall 1F), Session P-PS01 - The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) tracks 2-3 peta-gram increase in carbon release to the atmosphere during the 2014-2016 El Niño
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM, Room 301B (International Conference Hall 3F), Session A-AS04 - Five-million-year record of summer monsoon winds and continental aridity from The Maldives carbonate platform (IODP Site U1467)
2:55 PM – 3:15 PM, Room A09 (Tokyo Bay Makuhari Hall), Session M-IS06 - Occurrence probability and frequency of large (Mj ≥ 6.8) earthquakes on active faults in Japan
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM, Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL7), Session S-SS12
Wednesday, 24 May:
- Triggering of volcanic eruptions: stress transfer by large earthquakes
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM, Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL7), Session S-VC46 - New Climate Warmed, Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and their Effects on Extreme Events in North Atlantic
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM, Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL7), Session A-OS17
Thursday, 25 May:
- The world’s oldest pottery and stone arrowheads appeared in the coldest climate in the cold area in Japan
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM, Room 106 (International Conference Hall 1F), Session H-QR05 - Increasing wildfire emissions worsen air quality of U.S. megacities by the 2050s
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Room 301A (International Conference Hall 3F), Session A-AS05
Japanese-language presentations:
Saturday, 20 May:
- An estimate of the tsunami-debris quantity washed ashore on the US and Canadian beaches, based on a webcam monitoring and a particle tracking model experiment
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM, Room 303 (International Conference Hall 3F), SessionA-OS30 - Food functions and cooking recipes to several species as food material for habitation in space
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM, Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL7), Session H-CG34 - Moganite in lunar meteorite, Northwest Africa 773 clan: Trace of H2O Ice in the Moon’s Subsurface
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM, Room 102 (International Conference Hall 1F), Session P-PS08
Sunday, 21 May:
- Acoustic remote sensing of marine organisms
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM, Room 303 (International Conference Hall 3F), Session A-OS26
Monday, 22 May:
- Ocean acidification detected in coastal water around Japan
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM, Room 303 (International Conference Hall 3F), Session A-OS25 - Anticipated impacts of ocean acidification on local societies in Japan
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM, Room 303 (International Conference Hall 3F), Session A-OS25 - Microplastics: diffusion into ocean floors and methodology for age determination
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM, Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL7), Session S-CG64 - Environmental factors associated with snow algal bloom in the deciduous forest of Mt. Gassan, Yamagata prefecture, Japan
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM, Room A03 (Tokyo Bay Makuhari Hall), Session A-CC38 - Study of the influence of long-term ocean acidification on underwater sound wave propagation
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM, Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL7), Session A-OS25
Tuesday, 23 May:
- Scale and frequency of cooling-drought events by asteroid impact
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM, Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL7), Session M-IS23 - Occurrence probability and frequency of large (Mj ≥ 6.8) earthquakes on active faults in Japan
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM, Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL7), Session S-SS12 - Monitoring Inspection for Radiocesium in Agricultural, Livestock, Forestry and Fishery Products in Fukushima Prefecture
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM, Room 304 (International Conference Hall 3F), Session H-CG31
Wednesday, 24 May:
- Surface melting on ice surfaces visualized by advanced optical microscopy
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM, Room 301B (International Conference Hall 3F), Session A-AS11 - The big melt of the perennial snow patches and glaciers in the autumn of 2016 in the northern part of the northern Japanese Alps
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM, Convention Hall B (International Conference Hall 2F), Session M-IS13
Thursday, 25 May:
- Correlation between deep-sea fish sighting and earthquakes around Japan
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM, Room 103 (International Conference Hall 1F), Session M-IS12 - Evaluation of metal dissolution from fresh hydrothermal core samples collected at Izena Hole during CK16-05 and rapid detection of their toxicity on marine phytoplankton community
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM, Room A07 (Tokyo Bay Makuhari Hall), Session S-RD39
The keynote lecture will take place 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 21 in the Convention Hall of the International Conference Hall.
- Noted seismologist Lucy Jones, founder of the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society, research associate at the Seismological Laboratory of Caltech and USGS Scientist Emerita, will present “Disaster Resilience in the 21st Century: Improving the communication between science and society.”
- Nobel prize-winning physicist Takaaki Kajita, director of the Institute for Cosmic Radiation Research at the University of Tokyo, will present “Exploring the Universe with neutrinos, gravitational waves and gamma rays.”
World-class researchers will deliver lectures about the latest hot topics from 1:00 – 1:40 p.m. on Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of the meeting in Room 103, on the first floor of the International Conference Hall.
- Shawn McGlynn, of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, will present “Microbial Individuals and their roles in Biogeochemistry” on Saturday, May 20.
- Peter van-Keken, of the Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, will present “The water cycle in subduction zones” on Sunday, May 21.
- William Lau, of University of Maryland College Park, will present “The Asian Aerosol-Monsoon Climate System: A New Paradigm” on Tuesday, May 23
- Ralph Lorenz, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, will present “Exploring Titan: An Earth-Like Moon” on Wednesday, May 24.
- Eddie Bernard, of Survival Capsule, LLC, will present “New Frontier of Tsunami Science – Deep Ocean Observations” on Thursday, May 25.
Eligible members of the media should register for the meeting on-site at the help desk at the Makuhari Messe International Conference Hall. There is no pre-registration. Press registrants will need to present identification and valid press credentials. For more information about press registration, please email [email protected].
A press room will be available for reporters at the meeting, with workspace, power strips, telephone, Internet connections, and space to conduct interviews with attending scientists.
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