The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 2026 was held in Fukuoka, Japan, and Feng JIANG, Assistant Professor (Associate Researcher) in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), won the 2026 AOGS Kamide Lecture Award.

Feng JIANG is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at SUSTech and a Visiting Researcher at the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo. His main research focuses on magnetotelluric sounding, with interests covering both marine and land magnetotelluric instruments, data processing, inversion, and interpretation applications.

The Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), founded in 2003, is one of the largest and most influential geoscience academic organizations in the Asia-Oceania region. Its annual meetings attract thousands of scholars from around 50 countries and regions each year. The Kamide Lecture Award is named after Professor Yohsuke Kamide, one of the three main founders of the AOGS. The award is selected by the AOGS and its divisional committees, and each division awards no more than two young (under 35 years old) scientists annually, recognizing young scholars who have made outstanding scientific contributions in their respective fields.

On August 5th, Feng JIANG gave an invited talk at the Interdisciplinary Geosciences (IG) division titled “The Role of Fluids in Seismic Gaps and Slow Slip Events: Insights from Magnetotelluric Imaging and Monitoring.” The talk explicitly proposes that continuous onshore–offshore magnetotelluric monitoring in key regions can provide information on short-term fluid migration at seismogenic depths, making it one of the most promising pathways toward the forecasting of catastrophic great earthquakes.