INTERDISCIPLINARYGEOSCIENCE (IG)SECTION
Section President
Ping-Yu Chang

Introduction of Interdisciplinary Geosciences (IG)■ IG includes all geoscience themes that cross disciplinaryboundaries.
For example: natural hazards, energy, resources, geoscience education & outreach, earth-atmosphereinteraction, global environmental change, coastal processes, catchment processes, geoarchaeology,
remote sensing, polar research……
U.S.

Section committees (1 president, 1 VP, and 6 secretaries
Ping-Yu Chang (President, Male)
Professor (Environmental and engineering geophysics)
Department of Earth Sciences, National Central University, Taiwan.
Email: pingyuc@gmail.com / pingyuc@ncu.edu.tw

Fiona Clare Williamson (Vice-President, Female)
Assistant Professor of Science(Environmental History/Climate Change), School ofSocial Science
Singapore Management University, Singapore
Email: F.Williamson@uea.ac.uk

Vena Pearl Bongolan (Secretary, Female)
Associate Professor (Applied mathematics)
Systems Modelling and Simulation Laboratory, Department of Computer Sciences
University of Philippines Diliman, Philippine.
Email: vabongolan@up.edu.phJames Terry (Secretary, Male)
Professor (Physical Geography/Natural Hazards)
College of Natural and Health Sciences
Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
Email: James.Terry@zu.ac.aeSection committees
Anawat Suppasri (Secretary, Male)
Associate Professor (Geohazard/Tsunami Risk Assessment)
Tohoku University, Japan
Email: suppasri@irides.tohoku.ac.jp

Kano Yasuyuki (Secretary, Male)
Associate Professor (Earthquake Disaster/Disaster History)
Earthquake Research Institute, Earthquake Prediction ResearchCenterTokyo University, Japan
Email: ykano@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Deqiang Mao (Secretary, Male)
Professor (Hydrogeophysics/Hydrogeology)
School of Civil Engineering, Shandong University, China
maodeqiang@sdu.edu.cn

Hui-Fen Chen (Secretary, Female)
Professor (Paleoclimatology/Geochemistry), Institute of EarthSciences
National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
TEL: +886-2-2462-2192
Email: diopside0412@yahoo.com.tw

IG Section Distinguished Lectures■ Distinguished Lecture:
Sustained (for at least 10 years) outstanding performance inacademic records (e.g., publications) in interdisciplinary
geosciences, and better to be born or work in Asia.

■ Kamide Lecture:<35 years old (or <7 years after doctoral level degree), and has
good performance in his/her academic records.

Section Distinguished Lectures of 2020-2021
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE – IGTian-Chyi Jim YEH
University of Arizona■ Lecture title:"Principle of Parsimony, Scales, andFake Sciences"

KAMIDE LECTURE – IG

Jeong-Hyun LEEChungnam National University■ Lecture title:"Linking the early development of Paleozoic
reefs to marine oxygenation"

Interdisciplinary Geosciences(IG) sessions accepted ofAOGS2021-(I)IDTitlePrimary convenor
Category
IG01

Geohazard

IG14

Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk
Dr Vena Pearl Bongolan
Near Surface Investigation and Modeling for Groundwater
Prof Chuen-Fa Ni
Resources Assessment
Interdisciplinary Research on Water-related Disasters and PracticalDr Anawat Suppasri
Applications for Disaster Risk Reduction
General Relativity Theory and Earthquakes
Mr Bakhram Nurtaev
Identification, Mapping, Monitoring and Forecasting of LandslideProf Chih-Chung Chungand Erosion Processes
Data-driven Modeling in Geoscience
Dr Shunichi Nomura
Geoscientific Model Evaluation and Multi-model Probabilistic
Prof Roman Olson
Projections
The 2020 Australian and United States Wildfires: Impacts andDr Jean-François LamarqueRelevance to Future Conditions
Sea Level Change: Past, Present, And Future
Dr Timothy Shaw
Meteorological and Climatological Extreme Events and Related
Prof Gregor C. LeckebuschImpacts
Data Science and Machine Learning for Geohazards
Prof Kejie Chen
Life Cycle of Mountain Hazards: Initiation, Warning, Migration,
Dr Hui Tangand Beyond
Evolution and Impacts of the Asian Summer Monsoon
Prof Peter Clift

IG15

Earthquakes Related Cascading Hazards Over Multiple Timescales Dr Shanshan LiGeohazard

IG16

Processes and Results of Interaction Between Fluids and Rocks
from the Surface to Deep Inside the Earth - View from Resources
to Hazards

Georesources

IG02
IG03
IG04
IG05
IG06
IG08
IG09
IG10
IG11
IG12
IG13

Prof Fuqiong Huang

Georesources
Geohazard
Geohazard
Geohazard
GeostatisticsClimate change
Geohazard
Climate change
Climate change
Geostatistics
Geohazard
Climate change

Interdisciplinary Geosciences(IG) sessions accepted ofAOGS2021-(II)IDTitlePrimary convenor

Category

IG17

Novel Approaches to Constructing Multidisciplinary Geoscientific
Dr Mark Lindsay
Models and Understanding Their Uncertainty

Geostatistics

IG18

Data-driven Approaches for Studying the Monsoon Phenomenon

Dr Balaji Devaraju

Climate change

IG19

Regional Climate Risk Assessment: Inter-/multi-disciplinary
Approaches

Dr Serena Lee

Climate change

IG20

Tropical Hydroclimate Changes in the Past and Insights for Future Dr Xianfeng Wang

Climate changeIG21

Virtual - Active Geodynamics, Deformation, Growth andPalaeoclimatic Reconstructions from the Himalayan Region

Dr Debasis D. Mohanty

New technology

IG22

Geo-science Education in the 21st Century

Mr Hoe Teck TanEducation

IG23

Regional Collaborative Research on Air Pollution Sensing and
Health in Asia

Prof Shih-Chun Candice Lung

Science policy

IG24

General Session - Interdisciplinary Geosciences

Dr Ping-Yu Chang

General session

IG25

Earth Observations from a New Generation of Geostationary
Satellites

Dr Ramakrishna Nemani

New technology

Interdisciplinary Geosciences(IG) sessions
accepted of AOGS2021-(III)Future research challenges for Interdisciplinary geoscience(From: A Vision for US NSF Earth Sciences 2020-2030: Earth in Time(2020■ How is Earth’s internal magnetic field generated? .
■ When, why, and how did plate tectonics start?
■ How are critical elements distributed and cycled in the Earth?
■ What is an earthquake?
■ What drives volcanism?
■ What are the causes and consequences of topographic change?
■ How does the critical zone influence climate?
■ What does Earth’s past reveal about the dynamics of the climate system?
■ How is Earth’s water cycle changing?
■ How do biogeochemical cycles evolve?
■ How do geological processes influence biodiversity?
■ How can Earth science research reduce the risk and toll of geohazards?

Interdisciplinary geoscience A.P. (After the Pandemic)■ Open Access publications
With effect from 2021, all scholarly publications on the results from research
funded by public or private grants provided by national, regional and international
research councils and funding bodies, must be published in Open Access
Journals, on Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available throughOpen Access Repositories without embargo.

■ Open data/paper/scientific-code repositories
Ex. European Space Agency(https://www.esa.int/); NOAA(https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/satellite-data/satellite-data-accessdatasets); Ever-est(https://ever-est.eu/); Researchgate ( https://www.researchgate.net /) ; Github.......etc.

■ Virtual workshops/meetings (for limited interestmembers)
Ex. Zoom; Webex; Google Meet; Skype; Microsoft teams; VooV meeting()……

■ On-line conferences
Ex. Gather.town ; (or Nitando Switch “Animal Crossing”!)

International funding/cooperation
opportunities for Interdisciplinary
Geosciences
https://futureearth.org/

https://www.belmontforum.org

How do we prepare for the Interdisciplinary geoscience A.P.?
■ Submit your paper to Open Access journals(ex. “Geoscience letters” by AOGS)■ Use the SNS media (e.g., FB, Tweeter, Weibo….) to promote your research &papers■ Attend the virtual workshop to reach the interest professional groups■ Take advantage of the open data/codes repositories■ Keep good research records on the social networking sites, such as ResearchGateor Academia.edu….
■ Try to locate the regional issues that are concerned by the local society■ Reachout to the stakeholders, fellow scientists, or funding institutions■ Try to serve for the academic organization management or to organize a regionalevent■ Do good and honest science!

Important Notice and Deadlines■ Award Nomination Closes 19 Jan 2021 (extended for another week)
Recognize Contribution, Nominate Someone for an AOGS Award
Axford Medal➢
Honorary Member➢
Wing IP Medal➢■ Submit Abstracts Closes 23 Feb 2021 (right after the Chinese new year!)■ AOGS Constitution Quiz starts from 20 Feb 2021
■ Submit news/ job vacancy/ meeting event to the IG newsletter (We hopeto initiate after the CNY)

And……….Questions?