Kumiko Goto-Azuma

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]

Kumiko Goto-Azuma
NationalityJapanese
Alma materHokkaido University
AwardsHirata Prize (1998)
Scientific career
FieldsPalaeoclimatology
Glaciology
InstitutionsDirector of the Ice Core Research Center, National Institute of Polar Research
WebsiteKumiko Goto-Azuma at the National Institute of Polar Research

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
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  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. Archived from the original on 2016-08-21. 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" (PDF). Science. 321 (5889): 680–684. Bibcode:2008Sci...321..680S. doi:10.1126/science.1157707. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 18566247. S2CID 5289369.
  6. Members, NEEM community (2013-01-24). "Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core" (PDF). Nature. 493 (7433): 489–494. Bibcode:2013Natur.493..489N. doi:10.1038/nature11789. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 23344358. S2CID 4420908.
  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. Archived from the original on 2020-11-28. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  9. "Steering committee". International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. Archived from the original on 2016-10-01.
  10. "Partners". eastgrip.org. East Greenland Ice-core Project. 2016-04-14. Archived from the original on 2017-06-28. 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. Archived from the original on 2020-11-28. 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. Archived from the original on 2016-08-08. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
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