{"id":3172,"date":"2026-11-13T13:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T04:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2026-11-13T13:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T04:58:21","slug":"%e7%a6%8f%e5%8e%9f%e3%81%95%e3%81%8f%e3%82%89%e3%81%95%e3%82%93%e7%94%9f%e5%91%bd%e7%92%b0%e5%a2%83%e3%83%bb%e9%a3%9f%e6%96%99%e7%a7%91%e5%ad%a6%e3%83%97%e3%83%ad%e3%82%b0%e3%83%a9%e3%83%a0%e3%80%81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/en\/n_information\/3172\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakura Fukuhara (1st year Master&#039;s student, Life and Environmental Sciences Program) received the Excellent Student Presentation Award (Oral Presentation Category) at the Snow and Ice Research Conference (2026, Kitami)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Snow and Ice Research Conference (2026 Kitami) held in Kitami City, Hokkaido from September 13th to 16th, 2026 (organized by the Japanese Society of Snow and Ice and the Japanese Society of Snow Engineering), Sakura Fukuhara, a first-year master&#039;s student in the Life and Environmental Sciences and Food Sciences Program of the Graduate School of Integrated Sciences, received the Excellent Student Presentation Award (Oral Presentation Division).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This award is given to student members of the Japanese Society of Snow and Ice and the Japanese Society of Snow Engineering who give outstanding presentations in the Student Outstanding Presentation Award Session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Fukuhara gave an oral presentation titled &quot;The Formation Process of &#039;Cup-Shaped Depressions&#039; - Depressions Formed and Controlled by Dirt -,&quot; in which she researched the formation process of cup-shaped depressions (cup-shaped depressions) that appear in the final stages of snowmelt in heavy snowfall areas. She revealed for the first time that these depressions are formed when dirt concentrates along with meltwater in the water channels of snow dimples formed in thick fresh snow layers, and that their development and decline are controlled by dirt after formation. The formation and development of cup-shaped depressions affect the snow surface albedo (reflectance of solar radiation), making them important for evaluating the heat balance of the snow surface and the amount of snowmelt, and further research is expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supervisor: Professor Katsuhisa Kawashima, Disaster and Reconstruction Science Research Institute<br \/>Related academic societies and research content URLs<br \/>The Japanese Society of Snow and Ice (https:\/\/www.seppyo.org\/)<br \/>Snow and Ice Research Conference (2026, Kitami) https:\/\/pub.confit.atlas.jp\/ja\/event\/jcsir2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/seppyo_shozyo-1-1000x1333.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/seppyo_shozyo-1-1000x1333.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/seppyo_shozyo-1-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/seppyo_shozyo-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/seppyo_shozyo-1-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/seppyo_shozyo-1.jpg 1108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u4ee4\u548c8\u5e749\u670813\u65e5\u304b\u30899\u670816\u65e5\u306b\u304b\u3051\u3066\u5317\u6d77\u9053\u5317\u898b\u5e02\u306b\u3066\u958b\u50ac\u3055\u308c\u305f\u96ea\u6c37\u7814\u7a76\u5927\u4f1a\uff082026\u30fb\u5317\u898b\uff09\uff08\u4e3b\u50ac\uff1a\u65e5\u672c\u96ea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n_information"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-21 10:06:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3173,"href":"https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/3173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ias.niigata-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}