Media coverage: 6/21 NHK Sakidori and 6/22 NHK Ohayo Nippon

Our research on super-rapid severe weather prediction was covered by NHK TV program "Sakidori" (サキどり↑) on June 21, 2015, and by NHK TV morning news program "Ohayo Nippon" (おはよう日本) on June 22, 2015.

The NHK "Sakidori" TV crew came to the monthly research meeting with teleconference.

The crew also went to see the K computer.

The "Ohayo Nippon" reporter Mr. Akamatsu came to my office.

The covered contents are posted by the program webpages:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/sakidori/backnumber/150621.html
http://www.nhk.or.jp/ohayou/marugoto/2015/06/0622.html

International Symposium on Data Assimilation 2015

International Symposium on Data Assimilation (ISDA) 2015 was held in RIKEN AICS, Kobe, Japan, on February 23-27, 2015. Total 116 participants include 42 from 10 countries overseas. The symposium was very successful with a lot of interesting talks and active discussions, thanks to all the participants!

The bottom photo includes local organizers from my team. Congratulations to Dr. Keiichi Kondo (front middle), who received the Best Poster Award! Ms. Yukie Komori (left) is greatly acknowledged for her dedicated work leading the symposium to a great success.

BTW, I should have posted this earlier!

Japan Geoscience Union Nishida Prize

It's been a while since the last post. A number of news happened, such as new team members, new research results and publications, and the big "International Symposium on Data Assimilation" in February, but I could not write posts here, which I would like to catch up sometime. Finally, I got motivated enough to share the news: the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Nishida Prize.

On May 27, 2015, the first JpGU Nishida Prize was presented to 10 awardees at the Annual Meeting in Makuhari, Japan. The Prize recognizes mid-career scientists (up to 45 years old) with internationally-recognized outstanding research achievements. The photo, courtesy of Professor M. Satoh, includes three awardees in the field of atmospheric science, Professors Takemura (right) and Watanabe (second from right), and myself (left). Professor Nishida (second from right) was very kind to be in the photo. After the hard work on data assimilation, I would be very grateful for such a renowned recognition as one of the 10 first awardees of the broad geoscience fields.