Recent Awards Received by FRSGC Participants We should like to introduce our recent news for the award recipients. Hajime Akimoto received Haagen-Smit Award H Atmospheric Composition Research Program, has received the 2002 Haagen-Smit Award. The Award was newly founded in 2001 being named after the discoverer of photochemical smog in Los Angeles. The nominees are selected from articles appeared in Atmospheric Environment journal in the past, and two papers are selected each year. The awarded article is; N. Kato and H. Akimoto, "Anthropogenic Emissions of SO2 and NOx in Asia: Emission Inventories", Atmospheric Environment, 26A, 2997-3017, 1992. In this paper, anthropogenic emissions of SO2 and NOx were estimated for 1975-1987 on country-bases in whole area of Asia. The paper, a pioneering work of this kind, has been cited more than 150 times, and widely used in atmospheric chemistry research using chemical-transport models. The study has been taken over in the Emission Inventory Sub-Group in Atmospheric Composition Research Group of FRSGC. Emission inventories for 1995 has been completed, and the study is now directed to estimate future emissions up to 2020.
		Dennis Dye receiving Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award Dennis Dye, Group Leader of the Ecosystem Geographical Distribution Model Group, Ecosystem Change Research Program, was selected to receive a Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award for 2002. The Takeda Foundation presents the awards annually to individuals or groups whose research proposals show the greatest promise of contribution to human well-being. His research project is designed to develop an improved satellite-based methodology to account for the solar radiation available for photosynthesis by global vegetation. The results are expected to contribute toward improving the accuracy of models of the global terrestrial carbon cycle. Professor Julian McCreary, director of the International Pacific Research Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, was among 34 international scientists selected as new Fellows by the American Meteorological Society (AMS). Professor McCreary received the honor for his outstanding research contributions toward understanding the dynamics of the upper ocean and its influence on atmospheric circulation and climate. Among other topics, his research work has considered ocean dynamics of El Niño, the Equatorial Undercurrent, and eastern-boundary currents, for which he was awarded the Sverdrup Medal by the AMS in 1996. McCreary has also been active in the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the worldwide scientific organization for advancement of understanding of Earth and space. In 1999, he was awarded the title Fellow by AGU.