Awards 2009

The Geological Society of Japan Prize

1
Mitsuhiro Toriumi (Univ. Tokyo)
Research title: Studies of orogenic belts and the mantle in dynamic aspects

2
Akira Ishiwatari (Tohoku Univ.)
Research title: Geological study of ophiolites and Northeast Asia

The Geological Society of Japan International Prize

Yoshihide Ota (Polar Research Institute, Norway)
Research title: Geology of Polar Regions

The Geological Society of Japan Island Arc Award

Valerio Bortolotti (Univ. Firenze, Italy)
Awarded paper: Bortolotti, V. and Principi, G. (2005) Tethyan ophiolites and Pangea break-up. Island Arc, 14, 442-470.

The Geological Society of Japan Ozawa Yoshiaki Award

1
Tsuyoshi Komiya (Tokyo Inst. Tech.)
Research title: Precambrian tectonics and elucidation of geohistory

2
Itsuki Sudo (Nagoya Univ.)
Research title: Geological and paleo-oceanographic studies using biostratigraphy of diatom fossils

The Geological Society of Japan Masanori Sakuyama Award

Tomoyuki Mizukami (Kanazawa Univ.)
Research title: Structural petrology of the mantle

The Geological Society of Japan Best Paper Award

1
Masaki Takahashi (Geological Survey of Japan, AIST)
Awarded paper: Takahashi, M. (2006) Tectonic boundary between Northeast and Southwest Japan Arc during Japan Sea opening. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 112(1), 14-32. (in Japanese with English abstract)

2

Toshiharu Moriya (Japan Petroleum Exploration), Kiyotaka Chinzei (Kyoto Univ.), Takeshi Nakajima (Geol. Surv. Japan AIST) and Toru Danhara (Kyoto Fission-track Co. Ltd.)
Awarded paper: Moriya, T., Chinzei, K., Nakajima, T. and Danhara, T. (2008) Uplift of the Dewa Hills recorded in the Pliocene paleogeographic change of the western Shinjo Basin, Yamagata Prefecture. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 114(8), 389-404. (in Japanese with English abstract)

The Geological Society of Japan Koto Award

Chieko Shimada, Tokiyuki Sato, Miyuki Kudo and Makoto Yamasaki (Akita Univ.)
Awarded short paper: Shimada, C., Sato, T., Kudo, M., Yamasaki, M. (2008) Significance of Neodenticula kamtschatica, and extinct planktonic diatom species from the middle Quaternary submarine deposit, IODP Exp. 303, North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 114(1), 47-50. (in Japanese with English abstract)

The Geological Society of Japan Young Scientist Award

1
Eiichi Ishii (Hokkaido Univ. (Japan Atomic Energy Agency))
Awarded paper: Ishii, M., Nakagawa, M., Saito, H., Yamamoto, A. (2008) The Pleistocene Tokachimitsumata caldera and associated pyroclastic flow deposits in central Hokkaido, Japan: Correlation of large pyroclastic flow deposits with source calderas. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 114(7), 348-365. (in Japanese with English abstract)

2
Masumi Sakaguchi (Kochi Univ.)
Awarded paper: Sakaguchi, M. and Ishizuka, H. (2008) Subdivision of the Sanbagawa pumpellyite-actinolite facies region in central Shikoku, southwest Japan. Island Arc, 17(3), 305-321.

The Geological Society of Japan Commendation

Awardee: Akiyoshi-dai Museum of Natural History (Director: Yoshifumi Ikeda)
Commended contribution: Research, investigation, education and outreach activities related to the Akiyoshi-dai limestone plateau