At the “36th Organic Geochemistry Symposium” held from August 30–31 at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Soka University student Ms. Keiko Takehara of the Graduate School of Engineering (master’s program, first year) received the “Students’ Outstanding Presentation Award.”

The sponsoring association is a place where researchers, educators, and students, who are researching organic substances (carbon compounds) distributed in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and space, can gather and exchange information related to organic geochemistry and conduct activities such as research presentations.

Together with Professor Shuichi Yamamoto and Assistant Professor Masatoshi Nakakuni of the Faculty of Engineering, under the theme, “Climate Change and the Inflow of Organic Substances into Lake Baikal in the Latter Half of the 4th Century,” Ms. Takehara conducted analysis on the organic substances included in deposits in Lake Baikal and gave a poster presentation on how climate change, etc., has occurred from approximately 3,300–18,000 years ago to the present.

Commenting on the award, Ms. Takehara said: “I am so delighted to receive the Students’ Outstanding Presentation Award. I was able to receive this honor because of the guidance given by my supervisor, Professor Shuichi Yamamoto, and Assistant Professor Masatoshi Nakakuni, as well as because of everyone at the Organic Geochemistry Research Office. I am deeply appreciative, and I am determined to exert myself even more in my research.”