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The Oceanographic Society of Japan has decided to cancel all the events (symposiums, oral/poster sessions, general meeting, and reception party) of the spring meeting scheduled on 22-26 March.

We apologize for the delay of the announce in English.

Dear　JOS members,

As announced on 1st Dec, the electronic Token to subscribe the electronic version of JO will be sent to the individual members soon (around the end of Dec.) by e-mail.

Tomorrow, in the morning of Thursday, December 9 at the Japan standard time, the JOS office will try to send you the test mail, including your name, ID No. and e-mail address (we are afraid that it is a Japanese-based message). If you won't be able to receive this mail by 5:00pm on Thursday (at JST), please let us know it by e-mail ( ). If you receive it successfully, please DO NOT reply.

Thank you very much for your cooperation.

This is the first announcement concerning the subscription to the electronic version of Journal of Oceanography (JO) from 2011. The individual member comes to be able to access to each account registered on SpringerLink beforehand by using an electronic Token (kind of password). Once this certification procedure is done, the member can subscribe the JO online by logging in each account. This electronic Token will be sent to the individual member soon by E-mail from the JOS office. So, it is necessary to register a correct E-mail address of the member. Please check your address in the Membership Directory 2010 which has been sent to you last September. If your address is not found there or incorrect, please send your name and the correct address to the JOS office ( ) by next Tuesday, December 7. In addition, the electronic Token won't be sent to the members who have not received hard copies of JO recently due to arrears of annual membership fees. Please pay the fee soon (by Dec.7) if you correspond to the case. Thank you very much for your cooperation.

September 1, 2010

Dear Colleagues:

We will carry out election for the President, Vice-President, auditors and councilors of the Oceanographic Society of Japan for the years of 2011 and 2012, as below.

1.      Deadline of candidacy and candidate recommendation for the election:

October 22, 2010

Address of delivery: JOS election administration committee

c/o Mainichi Academic Forum Inc. (MAF)

^9th floor Palaceside bldg,1-1-1 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku

Tokyo 100-0003, JAPAN

In recommending, please append the release form of the person who is recommended. Please note that limits of the term to stay at the same official position for President, Vice-President, and auditors will be two terms (four years).

2.      Date of sending out election bulletin and voting slip: November 12, 2010

3.      Poll closing: December 1, 2010

4.      Numbers of councilors（Overseas）: two

Sincerely yours,

Koji HAMASAKI

Toshiya NAKANO

JOS Officer for election

From 1st June our secretary office address will change slightly. Telephone/Fax number will change, too. E-mail address is same as present.

The Oceanographic Society of Japan
Mainichi Academic Forum Co. Ltd. (MAF)
Fl. 2 East, Palace-side Bld.
1-1-1 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda
Tokyo 100-0003, JAPAN
Tel: +81-3-6267-4550
Fax: +81-3-6267-4555
E-mail:

Announcement of nominations for research prizes
of the Oceanographic Society of Japan

　The Oceanographic Society of Japan (JOS) is receiving nominations for three prizes which will be awarded at the 2009 JOS spring meeting to recognize achievements in oceanographic research. Nominees and nominators must be members of JOS.

1. The JOS Prize
The JOS Prize, the Prize of the Oceanographic Society of Japan, is awarded to a member of the Society who has made outstanding contributions to the progress of oceanography. One prize is awarded annually.

2. The Okada Prize
Commemorating the late Professor Takematsu Okada, the Okada Prize is awarded to a young member of the Society who has made outstanding contributions to the progress of oceanography. Up to two prizes are awarded annually.
Eligibility: Members younger than 36 years old on the first of April of the award year (2008).

3. The Uda Prize
Commemorating the late Professor Michitaka Uda, the Uda Prize is awarded to a member of the Society who has contributed notably to the progress in oceanography, by showing remarkable leadership in a research group, or by playing outstanding roles in educational outreach or in technical supports. The prize is awarded annually.

Recommendations must be written in English or Japanese and should include the followings.
1. The nominee’s full name, birth date (for the Okada Prize only), and affiliation
2. The nominee’s research subject for the prize
3. Description of the nominee’s research achievement
4. List of the nominee’s key publications (not required for the Uda Prize)
5. The nominator’s full name, affiliation, and e-mail address (signed and dated)

Please mail the recommendation to
Awards Committee of the Oceanographic Society of Japan
Mainichi Academic Forum
Floor-2, Palace-side Building
1-1-1 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100-0003, Japan.

Deadline: 5 September 2008

Recommendation forms:

• JOS prize: MS Word, PDF
  
• Okada prize: MS Word, PDF
  
• Uda prize: MS Word, PDF
  

The winners in the past
JOS Prize Okada Prize
1964 Hideaki Kunishi
1965 Yoshio Sugiura
1966 Michitaka Uda Humitake Seki
1967 Yasuo Miyake Mizuki Tsuchiya
1968 Kozo Yoshida Seiya Uyeda, Masashi Yasui, Kiichi Horai
1969 Hiroshi Niino Yukio Sugimura
1970 Koji Hidaka Makoto Omori
1971 Shun-ei Ichimura Yoshio Iwabuchi
1972 Sigeru Motoda Sonosuke Maeda
1973 Sanae Unoki Eitaro Wada
1974 Ken Sugawara Kouichi Kawaguchi
1975 Kinjiro Kajiura Norio Ogura
1976 Jotaro Masuzawa Takashige Sugimoto
1977 Yatsuka Saijo Yoshiyuki Nozaki
1978 Daitaro Shoji Tsutomu Ikeda
1979 Ryuzo Marumo Masahiro Endoh
1980 Masamori Miyazaki Masachika Maeda
1981 Akihiko Hattori Toshio Yamagata
1982 Tomotoshi Okaichi Yoshimi Suzuki
1983 Akira Okubo Shin-Ichi Uye
1984 Shizuo Tsunogai Akira Masuda
1985 Toshiyuki Hirano Shinsuke Tanabe
1986 Yasushi Kitano Masaki Kawabe
1987 Hideo Kawai Mitsuo Uematsu
1988 T. R. Parsons Yoshihisa Shirayama
1989 Yoshiaki Toba Tamiji Yamamoto, Toshiyuki Hibiya
1990 Nobuhiko Handa Atsushi Kubokawa, Jota Kanda
1991 Takahisa Nemoto Kazunori Akitomo, Joji Ishizaka
1992 Masayuki Takahashi Satoshi Sakai, Tsuneo Odate
1993 Hisashi Mitsuyasu Hideshige Takada, Qiu Bo
1994 Yoshiaki Maita Naoto Ebuchi, Toshi Nagata
1995 Toshihiko Teramoto Humio Mitsudera, Takeshi Naganuma
1996 Humitake Seki Yutaka Watanabe, Keiichiro Ohshima
1997 Toshio Yamagata Toshio Suga, Takeshi Nakatsuka
1998 Yoshiyuki Nozaki Hiroaki Saito, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
1999 Isao Koike Riichi Suzuki, Yukio Masumoto
2000 Kimio Hanawa Akira Ishikawa, Shinzou Fujio
2001 Tsutomu Ikeda Kaoru Ichikawa, Jun Nishikawa
2002 Masaki Kawabe Hajime Obata, Yasuhiro Hasumi
2003 Eiichiro Tanoue Michio Kawamiya, Tsuneo Ono
2004. Motoyoshi Ikeda Yoshihiro Niwa, Masatoshi Moku
2005 Toshitaka Gamo Yugo Shimizu, Jun Nishioka
2006 Satoru Taguchi Tomoki Tozuka, Atsushi Yamaguchi
2007 Michio Kishi Tomohiro Nakamura, Ryuji Machida
2008 Toshiyuki Hibiya Michiyo Kawai, Hideyuki Nakano

Uda Prize
1999 Yutaka Nagata
2000 Masaki Takematsu
2001 Yoshio Horibe, Hiroshi Iwamiya
2002 Hiroyuki Tsubota
2003 Masaaki Aota
2004 Keisuke Taira
2005 Yoshiaki Toba, Akira Taniguchi
2006 James J.O’Brien, late Nakai Toshisuke
2007 Hisashi Mitsuyasu
2008 Shizuo Tsunogai, Masaaki Wakatsuchi

This is an announcement from Editor-in-Chief of JO concerning
the new information to contributors.
Kimio Hanawa, Editor-in-Chief of JO
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Information for Contributors
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The Journal of Oceanography is open to all oceanographers in the world. The Journal is devoted to the publication of original articles, short contributions, reviews, and correspondence in oceanography and related fields. Submission of a manuscript will imply that it has not been published or accepted for publication elsewhere. The editorial board of the Journal decides the acceptance of the manuscript on the basis of peer-reviews and is responsible for its final editing. Authors or authors' institutions are requested to pay a publication charge of 5,000 Japanese Yen (US$ 50) per page for members of the Oceanographic Society of Japan or 7,000 Yen (US$ 70) per page for nonmembers, which, if honored, entitles them to 50 free reprints. Authors can order additional reprints, using the order form provided with proofs*. The Society, TERRAPUB and Springer reserve the copyright of all papers in the Journal.

1.. Manuscripts should be written in English.
2.. The manuscripts should be sent to one of the editors. Authors are requested to send four sets of hardcopy of each manuscript by conventional mail, or to send the manuscript electronically through the Internet**. Final version of figures should be sent to the publisher after acceptance.
3.. Color illustrations may be included at an additional charge***.
4.. Proofs and reprints: Galley proofs will be sent to the corresponding author, who checks only for printer's errors. A reprint order form will be sent with the proofs.
5.. Preparation of the manuscript:
A. The manuscript should include the title, authors' full names and affiliations, running title (original articles and reviews only), abstract, text, keywords (up to 10 with priority order), references, tables, and figures together with their legends. All pages must be numbered in sequence.

B. The abstract should be one paragraph and less than 250 words for original articles or reviews and less than 100 words for short contributions.

C. The manuscript should also include the title, authors' full names and affiliations, and an abstract of less than 400 characters, all in Japanese. For non-Japanese speaking contributors, these will be supplied by the editors.

D. Manuscripts should be typed double spaced on one side of A4 or letter size white paper, including figure legends, table captions, footnotes, and references.

E. Mathematical formulae should be written with a wide space above and below each line. Systeme International (SI) units and symbols are preferred.

F. References to the published literature should be quoted in the text as follows: Richards (1965), (Richards, 1965; Richards and Broenkow, 1971). When there are more than two authors, the first author's name and et al. can be used. All references should be listed separately in alphabetical order according to the first author's last name. Citations must be complete according to the following examples:

Article:
Cox, R. A., M. J. McCartney and F. Culkin (1970): The specific gravity/salinity/ temperature relationship in natural sea water. Deep-Sea Res., 17, 679-689.

Book:
Sverdrup, H. U., M. W. Johnson and R. H. Fleming (1942): The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New York, 1087 pp.

Chapter:
Goldberg, E. D. (1965): Minor elements in sea water. p. 163-196. In Chemical Oceanography, Vol. 1, ed. by J. P. Riley and G. Skirrow, Academic Press, New York.

G. Each table caption should be typed above each table. Tables should be numbered in order of their appearance. Original figures should be A4 or letter size original drawings or glossy photographic prints. Figure numbers and authors' names should be marked on the original figures. Figure legends should be listed and typed on a separate sheet.

* Prices for additional reprints (per page) are 3,500 Japanese Yen (US$35) for 50 copies, 4,000 Yen ($40) for 100 copies, 5,000 Yen ($50) for 200 copies, and 1,000 Yen ($10) for additional 100 copies over 200 copies.

** Electronic submission should be done as follows. Authors should submit their manuscript electronically as pdf-files to the editor of their choice; Microsoft Word files are acceptable for the text of the manuscript. If the manuscript is transferred unsuccessfully through the Internet, the authors will be requested to send hardcopies to the editor in charge.

*** When color pages are limited to two, the author is required to pay 25,000 Japanese Yen (US$ 250) per color page in addition to normal page charge. But when color pages exceed two, the author is required to pay 55,000 Yen (US$ 550) per color page in addition to normal page charge, which corresponds to the processing cost.

Dear JOS members,

RE: Change of office address from April 2005

For the purpose of cutting running cost of the society, we decided to close our office in Nakano, Tokyo and to entrust management of the society office to Mainichi Business Support Co. Ltd. Our office has moved to the following address from 1st April.

Dear JOS members,

RE: Changes in membership dues effective from April 2005

For non-student members of the Oceanographic Society of Japan (JOS), including those who have overseas mailing addresses, the annual membership dues will increase to JPY1,1000, effective from the membership year 2005 (from April 2005 through March 2006). For student members, the dues are JPY6,000. These changes were approved by the members at the Annual Fall Meeting in Matsuyama on 25 September 2004. For members of an age of 65 or older, the membership dues will be JPY8,000 (subject to approval by members at the Annual Meeting in March 2005).

Membership dues of JOS have not been changed for the past 15 years. The executive officers of JOS had been coping with increasing costs of journal publication and society management. They did their best to curb society's expenses, but our financial state had not been improved significantly. In August 2004, the Business Center for Academic Societies Japan, or the former management contractor for the society, had been suddenly declared bankruptcy, and the task of reestablishing our financial robustness became an urgent one. We believe, on the other hand, that the scientific community is increasingly a global one and that JOS should make itself more open to the international community of oceanographers. We therefore decided to discontinue the separate membership category for overseas residents. Membership dues will be the same irrespective of their mailing addresses.

I do appreciate your understanding of the society's situation. Thank you for your continued support and membership in JOS.

Sincerely yours,

Shiro Imawaki
President, the Oceanographic Society of Japan