Professional Development Activities

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Panels & Workshops | Public Lectures | Scientist Led Field Trips | Mentoring Program

Panels & Workshops

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Program uses Korean standard time and is 9 hours ahead of GMT (GMT+9)

Public Lectures

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Program uses Korean standard time and is 9 hours ahead of GMT (GMT+9)

Program uses Korean standard time and is 9 hours ahead of GMT (GMT+9)

The Meaning of Life and Our Place in The Universe
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm | Daegwallyeong II, Alpensia Convention Center

Prof Sang-Mook Lee

Marine Geoscientist
Seoul National University

Abstract
Life has unexpected twists and turns. I became quadriplegic, completely paralyzed neck down, during a geological field trip when the van that I was driving rolled over. We seldom think about it but our existence on this planet is finite in time. The finiteness is said but good because, as Nicholas Humphrey said in his book, if we cannot travel through the sea of eternity, the more significant is this small island that we stand on. Being an earth scientist is a blessing because we understand the vastness of time and space and appreciate what it took for life to begin some 4 billion years ago on this barren planet and for such life to advance into a universal civilization. At the same time, we are constantly reminded that the advanced civilization that we built can be wiped out suddenly by Mother Nature. I became a big-picture person after my accident 18 years ago. In this talk, I would like to share my thoughts and emphasize the values we must uphold as global citizens.

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Program uses Korean standard time and is 9 hours ahead of GMT (GMT+9)

Jupiter's North Polar Mid-IR Hotspot: The 44-Year Mystery May Now Be Solved (CANCELLED)
Thursday, 27 June 2024 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm | Emerald, Tower Condominium, YongPyong Resort

Prof Sang Joon Kim

Planetary Scientist
Kyung Hee University

Abstract
Jupiter's mid-infrared north polar hot spot, ~20 K warmer than the surrounding polar stratosphere, has been observed for over four decades. Its unusual appearance and longevity have not been fully understood, although several mechanisms have been proposed to explain its existence. We utilized the Gemini Near-Infrared Spectrograph at Gemini/North telescope to spectrally map Jupiter in the 3-micron emission lines of CH4 (methane) and C2H6 (ethane) across Jupiter's northernmost latitudes where its mysterious north polar hotspot is located. These lines are emitted high above the stratosphere and are excellent monitors of auroral energy being deposited downward into the stratosphere. By comparing the emission from CH4 with that from C2H6, we demonstrate that the transient heating and bright line emissions from these molecular species are caused by increased precipitation of high-speed auroral particles, which are produced in Jupiter's turbulent magnetosphere and ionosphere near its poles. The heating extends down into the stratosphere where the hotspot is located. At that depth, heating up and cooling off is much more gradual than at higher altitudes. Additionally, the free flow of warm gas in the hot spot to the surrounding polar regions is resisted by recently detected polar stratospheric jets associated with polar fronts. Other heating mechanisms proposed in the literature, such as Joule heating, polar haze heated by sunlight, etc., seem only the secondary mechanisms that follow atmospheric ionization caused by the energetic particle bombardment.

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Scientist Led Field Trips

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Program uses Korean standard time and is 9 hours ahead of GMT (GMT+9)

Information

• Participants must be AOGS2024 attendees and be at least eighteen years old. Please complete your conference registration early.
• Full payment is needed to secure your reservation. After making your payment, you will receive an email confirmation within a day or two.
• If registrants cancel or withdraw, there won’t be a refund. However, AOGS will refund payment if the field trip is cancelled owing to low participation.
• Please know that participants are responsible for obtaining their own insurance and that field trips do not include insurance.
• Participants on field trips agree to hold AOGS harmless from any claims resulting from losses or injuries they may have experienced while on the excursions.

Program uses Korean standard time and is 9 hours ahead of GMT (GMT+9)

PD01 Yeongyeon Cave and Seong-Ryu Cave Monitoring
Tuesday, 25 June 2024 (All Day)

Description

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Program uses Korean standard time and is 9 hours ahead of GMT (GMT+9)

PD02: Baeng-nyong Cave
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 (Half Day – PM)

Description

Baeng-nyong Cave is located in Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do in South Korea. It is precisely located at the boundary of three counties (Pyeongchang-gun, Yeongwol-gun, and Jeongseon-gun). This is the only tourist cave for wild caving tour in South Korea, even though tourists walk over the horizontal passage with a little crawl at narrow passages.

It is situated along Dong River surrounded by beautiful limestone karst area (Figs. 1 & 2). The Cave has been open to public past 8 years since 2010, and it has about 15,000 visitors annually. It is the cave that is still actively forming with beautifully decorated stalactites, stalagmites, flowstones, anthodites and many kinds of other speleothems. During rainy season, the floor can be submerged by water from the Dong River through the collapsed hole connected to the river.

Most of the passages show domal in cross section showing the typical shape of vadose passage, even though other shapes are also observed. This cave has been mostly developed along joint planes, whereas some parts of the passages were influenced by strike directions of bedding planes. Cave sediments are mostly composed of muddy sediments with minor contributions of sands and gravels where cave streams are present. Mineralogically, quartz, calcite and illite are dominant minerals in cave sediments.

Various speleothems such as soda straws, stalactites, stalagmites, columns, flowstones, rimstones, cave pearls, curtains (and bacon sheets), helictites, anthodites, cave corals, cave shields, and calcite rafts, etc., are present. Especially, some stalactites and stalagmites with erratic shapes as well as fried-egg stalagmites are the most peculiar speleothems in this cave (Figs. 3-8).

All the distribution of the speleothems are described separately on the floor and on the wall and ceiling. Mineralogy and texture of the speleothems are shown only for the speleothems collected (already broken speleothems). Among the speleothems studied, soda straws, stalactites, stalagmites, rimstones, curtains and rafts are only composed of calcite, whereas cave corals and cave shields are either composed of calcite or of both calcite and aragonite.

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Program uses Korean standard time and is 9 hours ahead of GMT (GMT+9)

PD03: Hantangang River UNESCO Global Geopark
Thursday, 27 June 2024 (All day)

Description

The Hantangang River UGGp was designated as a UNESCO Global Geopark in 2020. The Hantangang River Geopark is located between two tectonic segments - the Imjingang Belt and the Gyeonggi Massif - at the center of the Korean peninsula, giving way to the geodiversity of the Precambrian, Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks which contrasts with other UNESCO Global Geoparks. The most important feature of the Hantangang River Geopark is the Quaternary lava plateau distributed both in South and North Korea through the DMZ. The Hantangang River is a linearly developed stream system along the Chugaryeong Fault System. It shows a unique topography formed by the combination of geological structures, volcanic topography, and river terrain formed by basalt lava flowing along the paleo-channel, which is very rare. This also shows us the linkage of ecological, archaeological, historical, and cultural values with the geological value of the Hantangang River Geopark.

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Mentoring Program

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AOGS has a Mentoring Program for students and is considering expanding it to post-docs and Early Career Researchers (ECRs). It was formerly called Meet-the-Experts. This program attempts to link Undergraduate and Post-graduate students (MS and PhD) with more senior researchers in their field. Other activities will be held throughout the year outside of the AOGS conference.

For Mentees (Students)

Undergraduate and Post-graduate students (MS and PhD) are invited to meet experts in their section as part of the Meet-the-Experts (MTE) program. “Your” Expert will contact you before the meeting to set up a date and time to meet during the conference. To participate, please sign up during registration and provide the following information: your name, AOGS section, year, university, country and abstract number (if you are presenting). We will match you up with a mentor, as much as possible. This is an opportunity to meet people in your field and get contacts for future research, post-graduate study, or post-doctoral positions. Don’t worry about your English skills. We believe that participating will greatly enhance your experience at and involvement in the meeting.

For Mentors

For the Mentoring Program to work, we need Mentors to volunteer. Student(s) will be associated with Mentors based on their expertise. The email addresses of the students will be given to the Mentor(s) in order for the Mentor(s) Experts to arrange a date and time to meet those who fits with their schedule. To participate, please sign up during registration and provide the following information in details: your name, AOGS section, year, university, country, abstract number (if you are presenting). We will match you up with student(s), as much as possible. The contact will be sent ahead of time.

If you are looking for post-docs, you can look at this as the potential for an informal interview. You can make this as involved as you like. As a minimum, please meet the student sometime during the week and see their poster or presentation. You might want to go to lunch with them so you can have an extended chat on their research and interests. You might ask them for one of their paper(s). It is up to you to decide how involved you want to be. As for the time investment, it might save you time in the future to find out about a future collaborator or post-doc. You can get a lot more information on them this way than from a CV and/or a Skype, Zoom, Teams interview.

Please volunteer and participate.