Visiting Principal Researcher Toshiyuki Hibiya among IUGG Elected Fellows 2023
January 25, 2023
Visiting Principal Researcher Toshiyuki Hibiya (Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo, Visiting Professor of Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology) was awarded the Elected Fellowship of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) at the opening ceremony of the 28th IUGG General Assembly held in Berlin, Germany, on July 13, 2023.
The IUGG consists of eight Associations (IACS: Cryospheric Sciences, IAG: Geodesy, IAGA: Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, IAHS: Hydrological Sciences, IAMAS: Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, IAPSO: Physical Sciences of the Oceans, IASPEI: Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior, IAVCEI: Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior). The IUGG Elected Fellowship is awarded to researchers "who have made exceptional contributions to international cooperation in geodesy or geophysics and attained eminence in the field of Earth and space sciences." Dr. Hibiya was selected for "being a global leader in the production of ocean turbulence by the internal tide and the parameterization of mixing in ocean and climate models." He is the first Japanese national to become an IUGG Elected Fellow.
- IUGG
https://iugg.org/ - IUGG Elected Fellows 2023
- https://iugg.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/News_Release_Fellows_2023.pdf
- IUGG Opening Ceremony (July 13, 2023)
- https://www.picdrop.com/janpaulsfotografie/ZV5y9jD49j
Dr. Toshiyuki Hibiya with IUGG President Prof. Kathryn Whaler