Key Lectures
Medal Lectures | Axford Lectures | Section Lectures
Medal Lectures
⮟ 28 Jun (Fri) 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Level 2, Forest Hall, Alpensia Convention Center
Jian LIN
Director and Professor
Advanced Institute for Ocean Research,
Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
Axford Medal Lecture
Critical Roles of International Geoscience Cooperation in Addressing Pressing Global Issues
Chih-Pei CHANG
Distinguished Chair Professor,
National Taiwan University
Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
Naval Postgraduate School
Wing-Ip Medal Lecture
Maritime Continent Monsoon: Topographic Effects and Mesoscale – Large Scale Interactions
Axford Lectures
⮟ 24 Jun (Mon) 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Music Tent, Alpensia Resort
Axel TIMMERMANN
Director and Professor
IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP), Pusan National University
Axford Lecture
Past Climate Impacts on Human Evolution
William McKINNON
Professor
Department of Earth, Environmental, and
Planetary Sciences, and McDonnell Center
for the Space Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis
Axford Lecture
Exploration of Kuiper Belt in the 21st Century, What Have We Learned and What is to Come?
Section Lectures
Section Lectures: AS | BG | HS | IG | OS | PS | ST | SE
⮟ Atmospheric Sciences (AS) | 24 Jun (Mon) 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Auditorium, Alpensia Convention Center
Masahiro (Masa) WATANABE
Professor, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI)
Deputy Director, UTokyo Center for Climate Solutions (UTCCS)
The University of Tokyo
AS Distinguished Lecture
Value of Climate Models in Attributing and Projecting Large-Scale Climate Changes
Min-Seop AHN
Assistant Research Scientist
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of Maryland
AS Kamide Lecture
Madden-Julian Oscillation: Physical Mechanism and Model Simulation
⮟ Biogeosciences (BG) | 24 Jun (Mon) 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Pyeongchang Hall III, Alpensia Convention Center
Forrest HOFFMAN
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
BG Distinguished Lecture
Systematic Assessment of Terrestrial and Marine Biogeochemistry in Earth System Models
Satish C.B. MYNENI
Princeton University
BG Distinguished Lecture
Rises in Sea Levels and Changes in the Coastal Biogeochemical Processes
⮟ Hydrological Sciences (HS) | 25 Jun (Tue) 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Pyeongchang Hall II, Alpensia Convention Center
Eiichi NAKAKITA
Director and Professor,
Disaster Prevention Research Institute
Deputy Executive Director, Kyoto University
HS Distinguished Lecture
Early Detection of Baby-Rain-Cell Aloft in a Severe Storm and Risk Projection for Urban Flash Flood -Advanced Utilization of Weather Radar-
Soohyun YANG
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Seoul National University
HS Kamide Lecture
The Role of River Networks in the Renaissance Era of Hydrology
⮟ Interdisciplinary Geosciences (IG) | 25 Jun (Tue) 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Pyeongchang Hall III, Alpensia Convention Center
Shunichi KOSHIMURA
Deputy Director, Professor,
International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
Co-founder & CTO, RTi-cast, Inc.
IG Distinguished Lecture
Catastrophic Tsunami Disaster – Its Impact, Disaster Response, and Mitigation
Daran ZHENG
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (NIGPAS)
Chinese Academy of Sciences
IG Kamide Lecture
The Spatiotemporal Evolution of The Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota in East Asia
⮟ Ocean Sciences (OS) | 27 Jun (Thu) 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Pyeongchang Hall II, Alpensia Convention Center
Jing ZHANG
Advisor to the President
Faculty of Science
University of Toyama
OS Distinguished Lecture
Understanding the Water and Nutrient Transport Between Land and Ocean: Toward the Healthy, Productive, and Sustainable Asian Marginal Seas
Changming DONG
Dean, School of Marine Sciences,
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
OS Distinguished Lecture
AI Applications in Oceanography
⮟ Planetary Sciences (PS) | 26 Jun (Wed) 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Pyeongchang Hall III, Alpensia Convention Center
Philippe LOGNONNÉ
Professor in Geophysics, University Paris Cité
Planetary Seismologist, Institut de physique du globe de Paris
PS Distinguished Lecture
Planetary Seismology on Mars, The Moon and Beyond
Honglei LIN
Associate Research Professor
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
PS Kamide Lecture
From Apollo to Chang’e-5, What Have We Learned About the Water on The Moon?
⮟ Solar & Terrestrial Sciences (ST) | 26 Jun (Wed) 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Pyeongchang Hall II, Alpensia Convention Center
Jongchul CHAE
Professor in Astronomy Program
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Seoul National University
ST Distinguished Lecture
Toward Understanding the Habitability of an Exoplanet Orbiting a Magnetically-active Star from Our Current Understanding of the Sun-Earth Connection in the Heliosphere
Shan WANG
Assistant Professor
Peking University
ST Kamide Lecture
An Introduction of Magnetic Reconnection: Particle Dynamics and Waves
⮟ Solid Earth Sciences (SE) | 27 Jun (Thu) 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Pyeongchang Hall III, Alpensia Convention Center
J. Bruce H. SHYU
Professor
Department of Geosciences
National Taiwan University
SE Distinguished Lecture
Upper-Plate Structures Along Major Convergent Plate Boundaries: Structural Characteristics and Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards
Shengji WEI
Principal Investigator, Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS)
Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Asian School of the Environment (ASE)
Nanyang Technological University
SE Distinguished Lecture
Recent Earthquake Rupture Imaging and New Insights to Fundamental Earthquake Physics