Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2015

Convener:*Kazuyo Sakanoi(Komazawa University), Naomi Harada(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Chiaki T. Oguchi(Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University), Takeshi Sakanoi(Planetary Plasma and Atmospheric Research Center, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University), Yoshiko Ogawa(The University of Aizu), Sachi Wakasa(Graduate School of Engineering of Resource Science, Akita University), Chair:Kazuyo Sakanoi(Komazawa University)

Employment of fixed-term researcher has been diversified. However, young researchers are still facing severe situation. For this reason, students do not want to go to the doctoral program, and thus, prospective postgraduate students have been declining in the near future. The JpGU Career Support Committee and the JpGU Gender Equality Committee co-organize this session in order to consider problems of fixed-term researcher system and better careers for young scientists.