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An exciting week is slowly coming to an end here at the Japan Geosciences Union Meeting 2023 in #Chiba, #Japan! 🗾
It is my first time attending #JpGU in person and an opportunity to learn a lot - about great scientific progress and efforts, about our planet and even our solar system neighbours!
Big thanks to the organizers of session M-IS01 on Northern #Eurasia for inviting my talk and having me co-chair parts of their session.

#geoscience #jpgu2023 #siberia #wildfires #paleofire

View into a large hall with exhibition booths and poster walls.

A Japanese researcher at #JpGU2023 has just asked a US researcher for their card. The request has been greeted with confusion 🤣

(Outside Japan, academics do not usually use business cards, unless they are senior management. I also admit to regularly forgetting to bring mine... such as now! As with chargers, I need to start secreting pods of cards into the pockets of my most likely bags.)

Third event today on the hyperwall at #JpGU2023… is this… a referendum? 🧐

Photograph of a print out of talks that will be held at the giant display (hyperwall) at the JpGU conference. Under events listed as “space weather” and “JAXA’s Explorations on Heliospheric System Science” is an event simply entitled “NASA or JAXA”.

Surprisingly fun in-person and on-line poster session, where people tried out my #VR experience of walking on asteroid Ryugu just from their smart phones! VR has the potential to go beyond in-person to allow shared experiences that can only be virtual for education, outreach, research and just a scream load of fun. #JpGU2023

A conference poster pinned to a poster board. The poster title is “Virtually real: using virtual reality (VR) to bring people together for meetings and outreach”. The background shows a scene from the surface of asteroid Ryugu and there is a QR code to allow you to try the virtual scene on your smart phone. The text talks about how VR platforms are often accessible from headsets, computers and phones and how VR allows you to have multiple conversations amongst groups of people in the same space, as in real life. There’s also a discussion about tips for organising meetings in VR, that include noting that many VR social platforms are free to use and it’s important to allow time for people to explore and interact.

Let’s go fly a balloon 🎈

Up where the air is…

Roughly Earth temperature and pressure and OK rather acidic but we can make balloon material super resilient and shaped like a peanut with another balloon inside it that can help adjust altitude and we can last like one Venus day which is 117 Earth days and feed off sunlight and even float in the 70 hours of darkness and balloon are Venus rovers, baby!

#JpGU2023: Venus session

OK, personal favourite… Murakami Go presented at #JpGU2023 a proposal for an ultraviolet space telescope. And…

EXOPLANETS, BABY!

LAPYUTA will spot transiting planets and distinguish Earth/Venus-like atmospheres. The heaven n’ hell pair have similar sizes & look the same in visible transits, but in the UV, the Earth’s exosphere is like a massive hair-do, and blocks way more light.

LAPYUTA has passed the first (of… a lot) selection at JAXA & will also do Solar System & astrophysics eyeballing.

Kasahara Satoshi presented on Comet Interceptor at #JpGU2023. This ESA-JAXA escapade aims to fly-by a rare long period comet (from somewhere faintly unbelievable like the Oort Cloud) or interstellar object. These rocks move too fast through the inner Solar System for a spacecraft to launch in time, so Comet Interceptor will lie in wait in space for up to four years. Then, when a target appears… ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOM SURPRISE!

At #JpGU2023, Kurokawa Hiro presented a proposed mission to return a sample from a comet! 💫 The plan (naturally more daring that any gone before) is to use a detachable probe to collect samples from the comet surface, which avoids risking the spacecraft during the ludicrously dangerous touchdowns, especially when collecting multiple samples. As it’s hard to bottle volatiles without cryogenics, the mission will bring back the solids but analyse volatiles in-situ with an onboard mass spectrometer.

Abstract submitted for #JpGU2023 (Japan Geosciences Union Meeting)!

I've proposed a talk entitled, "Virtually real: using virtual reality to bring people together for meetings & outreach"

on the work we've been doing at #TFOM @futuremeetings on using virtual reality to develop a better online experience for meeting with people easily from all over the world.

#jpgu2023

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