Announcement of nominations for research prizes
of the Oceanographic Society of Japan
 The Oceanographic Society of Japan (JOS) is receiving nominations for three prizes which will be awarded at the 2009 JOS spring meeting to recognize achievements in oceanographic research. Nominees and nominators must be members of JOS.
1. The JOS Prize
The JOS Prize, the Prize of the Oceanographic Society of Japan, is awarded to a member of the Society who has made outstanding contributions to the progress of oceanography. One prize is awarded annually.
2. The Okada Prize
Commemorating the late Professor Takematsu Okada, the Okada Prize is awarded to a young member of the Society who has made outstanding contributions to the progress of oceanography. Up to two prizes are awarded annually.
Eligibility: Members younger than 36 years old on the first of April of the award year (2008).
3. The Uda Prize
Commemorating the late Professor Michitaka Uda, the Uda Prize is awarded to a member of the Society who has contributed notably to the progress in oceanography, by showing remarkable leadership in a research group, or by playing outstanding roles in educational outreach or in technical supports. The prize is awarded annually.
Recommendations must be written in English or Japanese and should include the followings.
1. The nominee’s full name, birth date (for the Okada Prize only), and affiliation
2. The nominee’s research subject for the prize
3. Description of the nominee’s research achievement
4. List of the nominee’s key publications (not required for the Uda Prize)
5. The nominator’s full name, affiliation, and e-mail address (signed and dated)
Please mail the recommendation to
Awards Committee of the Oceanographic Society of Japan
Mainichi Academic Forum
Floor-2, Palace-side Building
1-1-1 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100-0003, Japan.
Deadline: 5 September 2008
Recommendation forms:

The winners in the past
JOS Prize Okada Prize
1964 Hideaki Kunishi
1965 Yoshio Sugiura
1966 Michitaka Uda Humitake Seki
1967 Yasuo Miyake Mizuki Tsuchiya
1968 Kozo Yoshida Seiya Uyeda, Masashi Yasui, Kiichi Horai
1969 Hiroshi Niino Yukio Sugimura
1970 Koji Hidaka Makoto Omori
1971 Shun-ei Ichimura Yoshio Iwabuchi
1972 Sigeru Motoda Sonosuke Maeda
1973 Sanae Unoki Eitaro Wada
1974 Ken Sugawara Kouichi Kawaguchi
1975 Kinjiro Kajiura Norio Ogura
1976 Jotaro Masuzawa Takashige Sugimoto
1977 Yatsuka Saijo Yoshiyuki Nozaki
1978 Daitaro Shoji Tsutomu Ikeda
1979 Ryuzo Marumo Masahiro Endoh
1980 Masamori Miyazaki Masachika Maeda
1981 Akihiko Hattori Toshio Yamagata
1982 Tomotoshi Okaichi Yoshimi Suzuki
1983 Akira Okubo Shin-Ichi Uye
1984 Shizuo Tsunogai Akira Masuda
1985 Toshiyuki Hirano Shinsuke Tanabe
1986 Yasushi Kitano Masaki Kawabe
1987 Hideo Kawai Mitsuo Uematsu
1988 T. R. Parsons Yoshihisa Shirayama
1989 Yoshiaki Toba Tamiji Yamamoto, Toshiyuki Hibiya
1990 Nobuhiko Handa Atsushi Kubokawa, Jota Kanda
1991 Takahisa Nemoto Kazunori Akitomo, Joji Ishizaka
1992 Masayuki Takahashi Satoshi Sakai, Tsuneo Odate
1993 Hisashi Mitsuyasu Hideshige Takada, Qiu Bo
1994 Yoshiaki Maita Naoto Ebuchi, Toshi Nagata
1995 Toshihiko Teramoto Humio Mitsudera, Takeshi Naganuma
1996 Humitake Seki Yutaka Watanabe, Keiichiro Ohshima
1997 Toshio Yamagata Toshio Suga, Takeshi Nakatsuka
1998 Yoshiyuki Nozaki Hiroaki Saito, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
1999 Isao Koike Riichi Suzuki, Yukio Masumoto
2000 Kimio Hanawa Akira Ishikawa, Shinzou Fujio
2001 Tsutomu Ikeda Kaoru Ichikawa, Jun Nishikawa
2002 Masaki Kawabe Hajime Obata, Yasuhiro Hasumi
2003 Eiichiro Tanoue Michio Kawamiya, Tsuneo Ono
2004. Motoyoshi Ikeda Yoshihiro Niwa, Masatoshi Moku
2005 Toshitaka Gamo Yugo Shimizu, Jun Nishioka
2006 Satoru Taguchi Tomoki Tozuka, Atsushi Yamaguchi
2007 Michio Kishi Tomohiro Nakamura, Ryuji Machida
2008 Toshiyuki Hibiya Michiyo Kawai, Hideyuki Nakano
Uda Prize
1999 Yutaka Nagata
2000 Masaki Takematsu
2001 Yoshio Horibe, Hiroshi Iwamiya
2002 Hiroyuki Tsubota
2003 Masaaki Aota
2004 Keisuke Taira
2005 Yoshiaki Toba, Akira Taniguchi
2006 James J.O’Brien, late Nakai Toshisuke
2007 Hisashi Mitsuyasu
2008 Shizuo Tsunogai, Masaaki Wakatsuchi