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Shigeki Murakami’ web site

	Updated on September 6, 2024       To Japanese page
	Shigeki Murakami Ph.D. Researcher (rehired), Environmental Conservation Group Kyushu Research Center Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) E-mail: smura< at >affrc.go.jp            Please replace "< a >" with "@" Comet hunter, Shigeki Murakami My private web-page

Born as a son of forester family, Koka City, Shiga Prefecture

Detailed career

Major committee memberships
    Trustee of Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources, served three terms
    Editor-in-Chief of Hydrological Research Letters

Areas of interest:

    Forest hydrology, Snow science concerned with forest

        • Canopy interception

        • Snowmelt processes

Affiliating academic societies
The Japanese Society of Snow and Ice

Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources

The Japanese Forest Society

Japan Geoscience Union

Publications

Reviewer of journal manuscripts

Major awards and honor
    For the comet discoveries: C/2002 E2 Snyder-Murakami, and P/2010 V1 Ikeya-Murakami
The Edgar Wilson Award (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
       The New Objects Discovery Award (Oriental Astronomical Association)
       The ASJ Award for the Independent Discovery of New Objects, (Astronomical Society of Japan)