Archive 2008

08/12/27 The 30th Steering Committee was held on December 15, 2008.

Discussions were had on the organization of NPO, the board meeting, financial problems, etc.

Call for research proposals for the 2009 summer campaign

We are now, accepting your research proposals for the summer campaign, 2009 no later than Jan. 15, 2009 ( by e-mail to dokiya@edogawa-u.ac.jp using the form attached)
form

The 29th Steering Committee was held on September 29, 2008.

Discussions were had on the organization of NPO, etc.

The 12th Academic Committee (with the summit crews) was held on September 5, 2008.

Animated discussions were had on the activities during the summer campaign 2008, between researchers and summit crews.

11th academic committee was held on August, 13, 2008

Discussions were had on the new support from Watanabe found, etc.

28th steering committee was held on Aug. 12, 2008

Discussions were had on the apology to JMA, activities on 2008, etc.

The 27th Steering Committee was held on July 7, 2008.

At the beginning of 2008 Summer Campaign, the success of the electric power connection was announced, followed by discussions of detailed research schedule. Press release including a TV was performed.

2008 Summer Campaign will start soon

The summer campaign will start on July 10, 2008. Two additional buildings will be used. 19 teams of selected research project on atmospheric chemistry, high altitude medical research, ecology, cosmic ray research, communication will be performed in addition to the research on safe climbing.

The broken electric poles are recovered!

12 electric poles were found to be broken and injured by snow and wind in May, but now they are all recovered on July 2, 2008.

The 26th Steering Committee was held on June 24, 2008.

Heated discussions were had on the decided rent of the weather station(including new rooms), on the report of the “Committee　on　Safe　Climbing　of　Mt.　Fuji”, on the details of the summer campaign 2008, etc.

The first board meeting for 2008 and the third general meeting were held at Gakushikaikan on June 7, 2008.

Report of the settlement of last fiscal year and the proposal of the budget of the coming year, as well as the recommendation of new committee members (all of the old members except Mr. Kazuaki Itoh and Mr. Zenkichi Hirayama) were submitted and approved.

Mr. Miura, one of the vice chair of the NPO, successfully reached the summit of Mt. Everest.

Mr. Yuichiro Miura, one of the vice chairs of the board member, has successfully reached the summit of Mt. Everest on May 26, 2008. He is already 75 years old, the oldest summitter in Japan.

The 25th Steering Committee (urgent) was held on June 3, 2008.

Discussions were had on the broken electric poles by snow and/or wind, on the details of the summer campaign 2008, etc.

24th steering committee was held on May 13, 2008

Discussions were had on the public announcement of JMA (including other buildings), on the preparation for 2008 summer campaign, etc.

The 23rd Steering Committee was held on April 15, 2008.

Discussions were had on the logistics of the summer campaign 2008, on the selection of applied research proposals, on the negotiations with JMA, etc.

10th academic committee was held on March 11, 2008

Discussions were had on the selection policy of research proposals on 2008 summer campaign, etc.

22nd steering committee was held as well as 9th academic committee on Feb. 22, 2008

Discussions were had on the meeting with JMA, activities on 2008, etc.

Call for research proposals for the 2008 summer campaign

We are now, accepting your research proposals for the summer campaign, 2008 (July ? August) no later than Feb. 29, 2008. (Forms)
research proposal(PDF)
Research Proposal for　the summer, 2008(WORD)

On January 27, 2008, a Symposium was held on the results on the researches during 2007-Summer Campaign, at Koshiba Hall, the University of Tokyo

Having 75 attendants, 9 research papers were reported followed by a panel discussion on the coming 2008-Summer Campaign and other future plans.

Symposium on the reports of 2007 summer campaign will be held on Jan. 27, 2008

21th Steering Committee was held on Jan. 9, 2008.

Animated discussions were had on the reports, the press release on Dec. 21, 2007, on the Symposium(Jan.27, 2008) on the 2007 summer results, etc.

New Year　Greetings

Prof. Katsumi Asano　　　　　　
Chair of NPO “Valid Utilization of Mt. Fuji Weather Station”　　　　　　　

I wish you all a Happy New Year for 2008 !


On July 21, 2007, we, the NPO members were able to contract with Japan Meteorological Agency to utilize a part of Mt. Fuji Weather Station, as the first unique case in Japan． According　to the contract，we could　officially maintain the facility for 2 months from 2007 to 2009. Thus, from July 10 to Sept. 5, 2007, we could safely maintain the station and support 9 research projects (4 projects in high altitude medical science, 2 in atmospheric chemistry, one in cosmic ray research, one in ecology and one in safety system research), having 3 staff at the station..

On Nov. 21, we had a press conference at the Tokyo Press Center, the content of which appeared in the TV news of the day and in the news papers of the next day.

This year is the year of the Hokkaido Toyako Summit which will be focused on the global environmental problems such as global warming and trans-boundary air pollution. We would like to take this chance to show our activities in monitoring at the Mt. Fuji weather station, continuing the research in the summer to serve the national health problems.

We sincerely ask for your warm understanding and cooperation to our activities.