Japanese Government awards honour to former Vice-chair of Commission

Professor Emeritus Kazuki Mori has been presented with The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon by the Government of Japan for his many years of distinguished public service both nationally and internationally. He had the honour of receiving an audience with His Majesty the Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace. Professor Mori played an active part in the Commission, especially serving as Vice-Chair of the Commission from 2007 until 2015. I particularly valued his sound advice and organisational skills when I was chair.

His association with the IGU began at the IGC in Tokyo in 1980 when he led the field excursion on groundwater problems in Mie Prefecture. In 1991, he was appointed to the Steering Committee of the IGU Working Group on Regional Hydrological Response to Climate Change, which presented its report in 1996. In 1998, I invited him to join a new Study Group on Climate Change and Extreme Hydrological Events, which reported in a Special Issue of Hydrological Processes in 2002. That same year, I asked him to become a member of the Steering Committee of the current Commission.

His wider service included President of the Japanese Society of Hydrological Sciences (2004-7), Secretary-General of the Japanese Society of Limnology (2000-3) and a Member of the Correspondent Committee of IAHS (1994-7). He was awarded the Honorary Badge of Warsaw University of Life Sciences (2005) and held a Fulbright Award as Visiting Professor at Michigan State University (1984). He was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Hydrology (1998-2001) and has published over 300 papers and monographs in Japanese and international journals.

Professor Emeritus Kazuki Mori

On behalf of our Steering Committee, we truly congratulate a friend and colleague on his very well deserved honour and wish him, his wife and family a prosperous and healthy period of retirement.

Tony Jones

Emeritus Professor J A A Jones ScD

Ex officio member of the Steering Committee and founding chair of the Commission