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[U10-05] Collaboration between the Earth and Planetary Science Committee of the Science Council of Japan and Japan Geoscience Union
Keywords:Science Council of Japan, Earth and Planetary Science Committee, Japan Geoscience Union, Large-scale Research Projects, Roadmap in Earth and Planetary Science
Committee on Earth and Planetary Sciences of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) and Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) play an important role in the activities and development of Earth and planetary science community in Japan, and have maintained close working relationship.
Earth and planetary science is a multidisciplinary science comprising a wide variety of disciplines with different origins, and two major changes occurred in 2005 in the process leading to its present form: the reform of SCJ and the establishment of JpGU.
In the reform of SCJ, more than 200 research liaison committees, known as “Kenren”, were abolished and integrated into 30 discipline-specific committees. At this time, the field of Earth and planetary sciences, which had previously been divided into more than ten research liaison committees, was consolidated into the Committee on Earth and Planetary Sciences. Since then, Council Members and Associate Members of SCJ related to the field of Earth and planetary sciences belong to the Committee on Earth and Planetary Sciences, and work beyond their individual specializations.
On the other hand, in line with the reform of SCJ, the academic societies were requested to unify their contact organization in order to be able to respond to the Earth and Planetary Science Committee. After a series of discussions among the related academic societies, JpGU was established in 2005 as an independent society with an individual membership system, covering all fields of Earth and planetary sciences, based on the achievements of the Joint Meeting of Earth and Planetary Science Societies that has been held continuously every year since 1990. The primary reason for the establishment of the present JpGU was therefore to serve as a counterpart to the Committee on Earth and Planetary Sciences of SCJ. Since then, JpGU has strongly promoted internationalization and international collaboration, including MOUs with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the European Geosciences Union (EGU), and has grown into one of the leading academic societies in Japan with more than 10,000 individual members and 50 academic society members.
Since then, Union Sessions including the "The Way Forward for Earth and Planetary Science" series have been held every year at the JpGU Meeting, sharing information about the Earth and Planetary Science Committee and its activities through "Science Council News" in the JpGU Newsletter (JGL), as well as JpGU website and Email News, etc. The Earth and Planetary Science Committee has also collaborated with JpGU in various ways, such as sharing information at the JpGU Union Science Board Meeting and at the meeting of presidents of 50 academic societies of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Among them, the formulation of SCJ's "Large-scale Research Projects (Master Plan)" and the medium- to long-term strategies in Earth and planetary sciences ("Roadmap"), have been conducted in collaboration with JpGU, in a manner open to the community. The sharing and brushing up of projects through hearings on about a dozen large-scale research projects related to the Earth and planetary science field, and the formulation of a medium- to long-term roadmap that includes the Large-scale Research Projects and sharing it among researchers are considered to have functioned very effectively to date and to have made an important contribution to the academic activities of the Earth and planetary science community.
The Committee on Earth and Planetary Science of SCJ and JpGU have played a very important role in leading the Earth and planetary science community in Japan, and we believe that close collaboration between the two will become increasingly important in the future. In order to further develop Earth and planetary science in the 21st century, it is essential to clarify the roles of academic societies and SCJ, and to proactively identify and address important issues where synergistic effects can be expected through collaboration between SCJ and JpGU.
Earth and planetary science is a multidisciplinary science comprising a wide variety of disciplines with different origins, and two major changes occurred in 2005 in the process leading to its present form: the reform of SCJ and the establishment of JpGU.
In the reform of SCJ, more than 200 research liaison committees, known as “Kenren”, were abolished and integrated into 30 discipline-specific committees. At this time, the field of Earth and planetary sciences, which had previously been divided into more than ten research liaison committees, was consolidated into the Committee on Earth and Planetary Sciences. Since then, Council Members and Associate Members of SCJ related to the field of Earth and planetary sciences belong to the Committee on Earth and Planetary Sciences, and work beyond their individual specializations.
On the other hand, in line with the reform of SCJ, the academic societies were requested to unify their contact organization in order to be able to respond to the Earth and Planetary Science Committee. After a series of discussions among the related academic societies, JpGU was established in 2005 as an independent society with an individual membership system, covering all fields of Earth and planetary sciences, based on the achievements of the Joint Meeting of Earth and Planetary Science Societies that has been held continuously every year since 1990. The primary reason for the establishment of the present JpGU was therefore to serve as a counterpart to the Committee on Earth and Planetary Sciences of SCJ. Since then, JpGU has strongly promoted internationalization and international collaboration, including MOUs with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the European Geosciences Union (EGU), and has grown into one of the leading academic societies in Japan with more than 10,000 individual members and 50 academic society members.
Since then, Union Sessions including the "The Way Forward for Earth and Planetary Science" series have been held every year at the JpGU Meeting, sharing information about the Earth and Planetary Science Committee and its activities through "Science Council News" in the JpGU Newsletter (JGL), as well as JpGU website and Email News, etc. The Earth and Planetary Science Committee has also collaborated with JpGU in various ways, such as sharing information at the JpGU Union Science Board Meeting and at the meeting of presidents of 50 academic societies of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Among them, the formulation of SCJ's "Large-scale Research Projects (Master Plan)" and the medium- to long-term strategies in Earth and planetary sciences ("Roadmap"), have been conducted in collaboration with JpGU, in a manner open to the community. The sharing and brushing up of projects through hearings on about a dozen large-scale research projects related to the Earth and planetary science field, and the formulation of a medium- to long-term roadmap that includes the Large-scale Research Projects and sharing it among researchers are considered to have functioned very effectively to date and to have made an important contribution to the academic activities of the Earth and planetary science community.
The Committee on Earth and Planetary Science of SCJ and JpGU have played a very important role in leading the Earth and planetary science community in Japan, and we believe that close collaboration between the two will become increasingly important in the future. In order to further develop Earth and planetary science in the 21st century, it is essential to clarify the roles of academic societies and SCJ, and to proactively identify and address important issues where synergistic effects can be expected through collaboration between SCJ and JpGU.