Kumiko Goto-Azuma

Kumiko Goto-Azuma
Nationality Japanese
Fields Palaeoclimatology
Glaciology
Institutions Director of the Ice Core Research Center, National Institute of Polar Research
Alma mater Hokkaido University
Notable awards Hirata Prize (1998)
Website
Kumiko Goto-Azuma at the National Institute of Polar Research

Kumiko Goto-Azuma is an Antarctic palaeoclimatologist and glaciologist and Director of the Ice Core Research Center at the National Institute of Polar Research, Japan.[1]

Early life and education

Goto-Azuma obtained her D. Eng in March 1986 from Hokkaido University.[2]

Career and impact

Goto-Azuma has analysed ice cores from both polar regions[3] and participated in Antarctic research expeditions to study the deep ice cores drilled at Dome Fuji.[4] She analyses Arctic and Antarctic deep ice cores, with the goal of shedding light on the mechanism of glacial-interglacial cycles and the mechanisms behind the millennial-scale changes in global climate and environment.[5][6]

Goto-Azuma has served as a Vice-President of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences and on the Council of the International Glaciological Society.[7] She is on the steering committees of the Japan Consoritum for Arctic Environmental Research,[8] International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS),[9] the committee of the East Greenland Ice-core Project,[10] the Dome Fuji Ice Core Consortium[11] and the Japan Consortium for Arctic Environmental Research.[12] She has been appointed as a Science Adviser of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan as of April 2016.

Awards and honours

Goto-Azuma was awarded the Hirata Prize of the Japanese Society of Snow and Ice in 1998.[13] She also received a European Commission Marie Curie Fellowship Supporting international mobility and training in Bizkaia (B-MOB).

References

  1. ↑ "Research Staff". www.nipr.ac.jp. National Institute of Polar Research. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  2. ↑ "Academic supervisors". www.nipr.ac.jp. National Institute of Polar Research. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  3. ↑ "ArCS Arctic Challenge for Sustainability Project". ArCS Arctic Challenge for Sustainability Project. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  4. ↑ "Strong Evidence Points to Earth’s Proximity to Sun as Ice Age Trigger". ucsdnews.ucsd.edu. University of California. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  5. ↑ Steffensen, Jørgen Peder; Andersen, Katrine K.; Bigler, Matthias; Clausen, Henrik B.; Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe; Fischer, Hubertus; Goto-Azuma, Kumiko; Hansson, Margareta; Johnsen, Sigfús J. (2008-08-01). "High-Resolution Greenland Ice Core Data Show Abrupt Climate Change Happens in Few Years". Science. 321 (5889): 680–684. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 18566247. doi:10.1126/science.1157707.
  6. ↑ Members, NEEM community (2013-01-24). "Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core". Nature. 493 (7433): 489–494. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 23344358. doi:10.1038/nature11789.
  7. ↑ "Dr. Kumiko Goto-Azuma". injapan.no. Norway-Japan Business & Technology Forum. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  8. ↑ "Japan Consortium for Arctic Environmental Research". www.jcar.org. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  9. ↑ "Steering committee". International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.
  10. ↑ "Partners". eastgrip.org. East Greenland Ice-core Project. 2016-04-14. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  11. ↑ NetCommons. "運営委員会 - アイスコアコンソ－シアム". polaris.nipr.ac.jp. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  12. ↑ "Japan Consortium for Arctic Environmental Research". www.jcar.org. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  13. ↑ "学会賞受賞者 — 日本雪氷学会" [Society Award Winners]. www.seppyo.org. Japan snow and ice Society. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
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