Assoc. Prof. Shigeru Aoki, the new leader of the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition!

Assoc. Prof. Shigeru Aoki, Assist. Prof. Yoshihiro Nakayama, and Kaihei Yamazaki, a Ph.D student of our graduate school (Division of Earth System Science), departed for Antarctica to lead the 61th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition. Assoc. Prof. Aoki is the first HU researcher selected as a leader of the expedition. The members of the expedition party will set out from Australia aboard the Japanese icebreaker “Shirase” and will return to Japan next March.

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HU News (in Japanese)

HU News 2 (in Japanese)