The 32nd Saruhashi Prize(第３２回猿橋賞)

Ayako Abe associate professor of Tokyo size atmosphere Ocean Research Institute was chosen as the 32nd Saruhashi Prize given the woman researcher who achieved superior achievements in the field of natural science. "Future をの society (Chairperson Fumiko Yonezawa) which was well acquainted with a woman scientist" announced 7th.
The receiving a prize theme "the past study of the change mechanism of the future climate and ice sheet." I succeeded in reproducing the change of the lump "ice sheet" of the ice which covered the land of the pole area that repeated solidification and fusion in a cycle for 100,000 years by numerical computation for the first time in the world I analyzed a climate change of the earth, and to make use in a warming prediction.
Abe is from Tokyo. I acquire a science doctorate with a Swiss Confederation engineering department size after graduation in Tokyo University department of science. Through Tokyo University climate system research center assistant, incumbent from 2004. Even if I reproduced the movement of the glacier through the model calculation that made full use of a super computer, I think that the calculation while various elements are included was serious. Women who are going to advance to the physical science are good; should be stimulated.



自然科学分野で優れた業績を上げた女性研究者に贈られる第３２回猿橋賞に、東京大大気海洋研究所の阿部彩子准教授が選ばれた。「女性科学者に明るい未来をの会」（米沢富美子会長）が７日発表した。
　受賞テーマは「過去から将来の気候と氷床の変動メカニズムの研究」。地球の気候変動を解析し、温暖化予測に生かすため、１０万年サイクルで固化と融解を繰り返す極域の陸地を覆う氷の塊「氷床」の変動を、数値計算で再現することに世界で初めて成功した。
　阿部さんは東京都出身。東大理学部を卒業後、スイス連邦工科大で理学博士号を取得。東大気候システム研究センター助手を経て、０４年から現職。スーパーコンピュータを駆使したモデル計算を通じて氷河の動きを再現したのでしょうが、様々な要素が含まれる中での計算は大変だったと思います。理系に進もうとする女性たちの良き刺激になるといいですね。