The Oceanographic Society of Japan (JOS) is receiving nominations for the JOS Environmental Science Prize which will be awarded at the 2021 JOS spring meeting to recognize achievements in oceanographic research. Nominees and nominators must be members of JOS.
The JOS Environmental Science Prize is awarded to a member of the Society who has made outstanding contributions to the progress of oceanography and/or educational outreach in the identification, analysis and/or solution of marine environmental problems. The prize will be awarded up to 1 person annually.

Recommendations must be written in English or Japanese and should include the followings.
1. The nominee’s full name and affiliation
2. The nominee’s research subject for the prize
3. Description of the nominee’s achievements for the prize
4. The nominator’s full name, affiliation and email address (signed and dated)
5. List of nominee’s key publications (if available)

Please send the recommendation by mail or e-mail to
Award Committee of JOS Environmental Science Prize
Mainichi Academic Forum, Floor-9, Palace-side Building
1-1-1 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0003, Japan
jos@mynavi.jp [Subject: the Environmental Science Prize of JOS]

Deadline: September 10th, 2020

The winners in the past
2010 Satoko Seino／2011 Yu Umezawa／2012 Yuichi Hayami／2013 Haruko Kurihara／2014 Jyota Kanda／2015 Hideaki Nomura／2016 Naoki Fujii／2017 Kazuhiko Ichimi／2018 Jing Zhang／2019 Hideki Fukuda／2020 Michio Kawamiya