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International symposium for Moonshot Goal 8: Weather Controllability 2024

Can we reduce the loss and damage due to extreme weather with innovative ideas and technologies?

Meeting Announcement

Japan Science and Technology Agency

International Symposium for Moonshot Goal 8

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The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) will hold the International Symposium focusing on weather controllability from October 6 to 7 on-site and online.

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Credit: Japan Science and Technology Agency

The Moonshot Research and Development Program launched by the Cabinet Office of Japan promotes high-risk, high-impact R&D aiming to achieve ambitious Moonshot Goals and solve issues facing future society such as super-aging populations and global warming. The theme of Moonshot Goal 8 is “Realization of a society safe from the threat of extreme winds and rains by controlling and modifying the weather by 2050.”

This symposium will explore the potential of weather control to reduce disaster risk, which is becoming more severe due to climate change. To advance research and development of weather control technologies, researchers from diverse fields such as meteorology, weather engineering, mathematical sciences, and sociology will discuss the prospects of weather control based on their expertise.

Date & Time: (Japan Standard Time(JST), UTC+9)

October 6, 2024  1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

October 7, 2024  9:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Venue: Hitotsubashi University Hitotsubashi Hall, Tokyo

Online (Zoom Webinar, YouTube Live)

Participation fee: Free

Language: English

Registration: Please click here for registration

https://form2.jst.go.jp/s/ms8-intl-symp2024

Details of the symposium are available on the official website.

Official website: https://www.jst.go.jp/moonshot/sympo/20241006/index.html#ja

Program

October 6

1:00 p.m.  Opening Remarks  JST, CAO           

1:10 p.m.  MS8 Overview MIYOSHI Takemasa (Team Leader, RIKEN)

1:30 p.m.  Keynote Speech 1

                 Seon Ki Park (Professor, Ewha Womans Univ., Korea)

2:30 p.m.  MS8 Core Research Presentation

4:35 p.m.  ELSI (Ethical, Legal and Social Issues) for Weather Control

5:00 p.m.  Keynote Speech 2

                 Sarah Tessendorf (Project Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA)

October 7

9:30 a.m.  Special Talk

                  Thao Linh Tran (Research Fellow, Australian National Univ., Australia)

10:30 a.m.  MS8 Feasibility Study Presentation

12:30 p.m.  Panel Discussion on Science and Technology

1:45 p.m.  Panel Discussion on Social Responsibility

2:55 p.m.  Closing Remarks

 

 

 


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