Project Report

Overseas Fellowship Program Participant：FY2024 Short-Term Program
Saaya Hamamoto (Nagoya University)

I attended the European Geoscience Union General Assembly 2024 (EGU) held at the Vienna International Centre in Austria from April 14-19, 2024. EGU is a large scale international academic geoscience conference attended by about 20,000 researchers from around the world. I mainly attended to the session on ice cores, which is my area of research, and learned about the latest trends in ice core research. I was also able to learn not only about ice core, but also about a wide range of other research arears, such as climate modeling.

In the poster session, I presented my research on the dating of ice cores drilled in south-east Greenland. It was my first time presenting in a poster session and in English, so I struggled a lot, but I was able to get feedback from different researchers.

There was a meeting of young ice-core researchers during the conference, and I was able to construct network with others of my age. Lunch meetings were also held in certain communities to provide opportunities for socializing.

I received a lot of stimulation during this trip and had a very meaningful time. In my future research, I will improve my study through the insights gained from others’ presentations and the suggestions given in my poster presentation. Finally, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to everyone involved in the ArCS II Overseas Fellowship Program for giving me this opportunity and to all those who were involved in this research.