President’s Message
Atsuhiro Nishida

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) was founded to promote scientific research on the Earth and Planets in Asia and Oceania. The science of the Earth and Planets has important implications to protection of our environment and mitigation of natural disasters, so its research efforts involve not only the academics but also governments and industries all over Asia and Oceania.

Having hosted its Scientific Assemblies annually since 2004, AOGS Assembly has become an ideal forum for addressing to and interacting with geoscientists from all over Asia and Oceania as well as those from U.S. and Europe. The Exhibition is viewed by influential scientists from several tens of countries.

The fourth Assembly in Bangkok is going to highlight geoscience activities in Thailand with the support of the Local Advisory Committee chaired by Prof. Piamsak Menasveta, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University. We invite participation of scientists, government officers, and industries to lectures and exhibitions at this first AOGS assembly ever held outside Singapore.