March 18, 2024

SHIOKAWA, Kazuo,  Ph.D, Professor

 

CURRENT ADDRESS

Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research

Nagoya University

Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8601, Japan

tel: +81-52-747-6419   fax: +81-52-747-6323

e-mail: shiokawa at nagoya-u.jp

https://stdb2.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/member/shiokawa/index-e.html

 

ACADEMIC CREDENCIALS:

High School: Kibogaoka High School (Yokohama, Kanagawa Pref.), graduated on March 1984

B.Sc.: Geophysics (Tohoku University, Faculty of Science), March 1988

M.Sc.: Geophysics (Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science), March 1990

Ph.D (Science)Nagoya University, July 1994

 

APPOINTMENTS:

·       Research Associate, Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University:

April 1990 – December 1998

·       Visiting Scientist, Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Germany:

July 1996 – June 1997

·       Associate Professor, Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University:

January 1999 – August 2008

·       Professor, Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University:

September 2008 – September 2015

·        Professor, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University:

October 2015 – present

·       Vice-Director, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University:

April 2017 – March 2023

·       Director, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University:

April 2023 – present

 

TOPICS IN STUDY:

·       Space Science and Aeronomy in general, particularly for dynamical coupling of the solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere, and mesosphere

·       Ground-based optical and electromagnetic measurements related to aurora and airglow

 

AWARDS:

·       First Place Winner, AGU Geophysical Images Contest (photography section), May 1993

·       Obayashi Early Career Scientist Award, Society of Geomagnetism, and Earth, Planetary, and Space Physics, November, 1999

·       Tanakadate Award: Society of Geomagnetism, and Earth, Planetary, and Space Physics, May, 2009

·       2010 Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for JGR-Space Physics, American Geophysical Union, 2011

 

MEMBERSHIP OF ACADEMIC SOCIETIES:

        Society of Geomagnetism, and Earth, Planetary, and Space Physics, Japan: 1987 – present

        American Geophysical Union: 1989 - present

       Meteorological Society of Japan: 2000-present

 

PAST THESIS ADVISOR (PH.D MAIN SUPERVISION ONLY):

Mitsumu K. Ejiri: 2002, Shin Suzuki: 2007, Akimitsu Nakajima: 2009, Kaori Sakaguchi: 2009, Reiko Nomura: 2012, Sungeun Lee: 2012, Hiroyo Ohya: 2012, Daisuke Fukushima: 2015, Claudia Martinez-Calderon: 2016, Chae-Woo Jun: 2016, Heqiucen Xu: 2020

 

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS:  

See https://stdb2.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/member/shiokawa/ref.html for detailed list of publications

 

MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:  

IAGA (International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy)

Ÿ   Member of the IAGA young scientist committee (2004-2005)

COSPAR (Committee on Space Research)

Ÿ   Vice-chair of the COSPAR subcommission C1 (The Earth's Upper Atmosphere and Ionosphere) (2004-2012)

Ÿ   Chair of the COSPAR subcommission C1 (The Earth's Upper Atmosphere and Ionosphere) (2012-2020)

SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics)

Ÿ   Co-Leader of the SCOSTEP CAWSES-II (2009-2013) Task Group 4 "What is the geospace response to variable waves from the lower atmosphere?" (with J. Overheide)

Ÿ   Co-chair of the Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact (VarSITI, 2014-2018) by SCOSTEP (with Katya Georgieva)

Ÿ   SCOSTEP President (July 2019 - present)

 

HOBBY:

play tennis, futsal, and table tennis, and sing with acoustic guitar (examples of playing artists: Miyuki Nakajima, Hitomi Yaida, Yui, Aimyon, Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, Masashi Sada, Naotaro Moriyama, Spitz, Rebecca, Simon & Garfunkel, Beatles, etc),