The 11th Matsuno Environmental Science Award recipients

We are happy to announce that the following 4 individuals have been selected as the 11th Matsuno Science Award recipients. Congratulations! The award ceremony will be held along with the degree conferment ceremony in September.

B. M. Refat Faisal (Division of Environmental Science Development)

Geomorphometric characterization and sediment connectivity of the middle Brahmaputra River basin, B.M. Refat Faisal, Yuichi S. Hayakawa, Geomorphology 429 (2023)

Reasons for Selection (PDF in Japanese) 　Selected Paper (External link)

Mariko Honda (Division of Earth System Science)

Sea ice-melt amount estimated from spring hydrography in the Sea of Okhotsk: spatial and interannual variabilities, Mariko Honda, Kay I. Ohshima, Vigan Mensah, Jun Nishioka, Masatoshi Sato, Stephen C. Riser, Journal of Oceanography, 273–290 (2024)

Reasons for Selection (PDF in Japanese) 　Selected Paper (External link)

Tomoki Ishiguro (Division of Biosphere Science)

Urban spatial heterogeneity shapes the evolution of an antiherbivore defense trait and its genes in white clover, Tomoki Ishiguro, Marc T. J. Johnson, Shunsuke Utsumi, Oikos 2024(2) e10210 (2023)

Reasons for Selection (PDF in Japanese) 　Selected Paper (External link)

Hyuga Okumura (Division of Environmental Materials Science)

Chemoselective Preparation of Alkynes from Vicinal and Geminal Dibromoalkenes, Hyuga Okumura, Nurcahyo Iman Prakoso, Tatsuya Morozumi, Taiki Umezawa, Organic Letters 26(46), 9817–9821 (2024)

Reasons for Selection (PDF in Japanese) 　Selected Paper (PDF)

What is Matsuno Environmental Science Award?

The award is funded by a donation from Taro Matsuno, an emeritus professor of Hokkaido University who is one of the 2013 Blue Planet Prize laureates, and it is intended to honor students who have conducted outstanding research at the Graduate School of Environmental Science.

Candidates eligible for this award are current or former students at the Graduate School of Environmental Science, whose research papers as lead authors were published in peer-reviewed academic journals concerning research conducted at the Graduate School within the two years prior to the award year. Each year, the selection committee chooses up to four papers, and recipients receive a certificate, a medal, and a monetary prize.

The selection of candidates is based on recommendations from the division chiefs, and there is no open application process.