2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
[U10-04] JpGU and Global Trends in Earth and Planetary Science
Keywords:Earth and planetary Science, Science Council of Japan, Japan Geoscience Union
Joint meeting, the forerunner of the JpGU, was held in 1990, and as a contact organisation to unite the fragmented and decentralised Earth and planetary science-related scientific societies in response to the reform of the Science Council of Japan in autumn 2005, JpGU was started. JpGU has a close relationship with the Science Council of Japan since its establishment.
Due to the nature of earth and planetary science, international collaboration is more important in earth and planetary science than in most of other research fields, and there are a number of committees within the Science Council of Japan that deal with international affairs. In addition, the research areas covered by 'Earth and Planetary Science' have expanded globally in recent years, with JpGU's US and European counterparts, AGU and EGU, seeing a significant increase in sessions on natural hazards, ecosystems and agriculture, education and social relations beyond the traditional scope of high school 'geology'. In this way, the boundaries of scientific research fields change dynamically with the times, and Japan must not only respond flexibly to such global trends, but also be a generator of the trends themselves. The Science Council of Japan has an important role to play as a leader of inter-disciplinary academic exchange by encompassing all scientific disciplines and as a contact point of Japanese science to the world.
Due to the nature of earth and planetary science, international collaboration is more important in earth and planetary science than in most of other research fields, and there are a number of committees within the Science Council of Japan that deal with international affairs. In addition, the research areas covered by 'Earth and Planetary Science' have expanded globally in recent years, with JpGU's US and European counterparts, AGU and EGU, seeing a significant increase in sessions on natural hazards, ecosystems and agriculture, education and social relations beyond the traditional scope of high school 'geology'. In this way, the boundaries of scientific research fields change dynamically with the times, and Japan must not only respond flexibly to such global trends, but also be a generator of the trends themselves. The Science Council of Japan has an important role to play as a leader of inter-disciplinary academic exchange by encompassing all scientific disciplines and as a contact point of Japanese science to the world.