From May 25 to 30, 2025, second-year doctoral student Kido attended the JpGU Meeting 2025 held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba.

JpGU (Japan Geoscience Union) is a large-scale academic organization comprising over 50 member societies related to Earth and planetary sciences, along with more than 10,000 individual members. This year’s meeting featured a wide range of oral and poster presentations across many disciplines. With its large number of sessions and exhibition booths, the atmosphere was reminiscent of AGU meetings, and she felt that this was the most extensive academic conference she had attended in Japan.

She gave an oral presentation on the afternoon of May 27 in the English session titled “Water and Sediment Dynamics from Land to Oceans.” In the morning, she also attended a Japanese session on the same topic, titled 「陸域から沿岸域における水・土砂動態」. Both sessions focused on the transport of water and sediment from terrestrial to coastal environments.

In her presentation, she introduced her research on predicting sediment outflows from mountainous areas under future climate change scenarios. She received many insightful questions and comments, particularly about real-world phenomena that are not yet accounted for in current models—perhaps because many of the participants had hands-on field experience. Although it is difficult to incorporate all aspects of natural phenomena into a model, she realized the importance of deepening her own understanding so she can better respond to such perspectives in the future.

Even within the same session, there were diverse presentations covering topics such as urban flooding, sediment transport in coastal areas, methods for measuring flow velocity and water temperature, and sediment dynamics across entire river basins. In other sessions, she also learned about topics like landslides triggered by earthquakes and sediment movement over bedrock. These broadened her understanding and made the conference a very educational experience overall.