Dr. Reona Hiramine of the Cataclysmic Disasters and Dating Group received the Young Researcher and Student Presentation Award (Young Researcher Poster Category) at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for Quaternary Research, held in Tsukuba on August 20–22, 2026, for the poster presentation entitled “Dendrochronological Study of Buried Trees from Yakushima Island toward More Precise Dating of the Kikai-Akahoya Eruption.”　Click here

Professor Mitsuru Okuno (Osaka Metropolitan University), a member of the Cataclysmic Disasters and Dating Group, has received the ISEE Joint Usage/Research Contribution Award.
The award recognizes his outstanding and long-standing contributions to ISEE joint use/research activities, research support, and education and outreach through radiocarbon dating using accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) at Nagoya University.