Local Organizing Committee

IWAIS 2026 will be organized by

       Japanese Society of Snow and Ice (JSSI)

       Japan Society for Snow Engineering (JSSE)

             and supported by

       Hokkaido University of Science (HUS)

       Japan Association for Wind Engineering (JAWE) 

       The Meteorological Society of Japan (MSJ) 

      The Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan (SHASE) 

      Architectural　Institute of　Japan (AIJ) 

      The Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ) 

      Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) 

      The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) 

      Japan Wind Energy Association (JWEA) 

LOC member

  Local organizing committee (LOC) of IWAIS 2026 will comprise 16 members of the JSSI and JSSE.

Chair:

Toshihiro Ozeki, IWAIS IAC member, Hokkaido University of Education

Vice-chair:

Takahiro Chiba, Hokkaido University of Science

Member:

Teruo Aso, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI)

Satoshi Omiya, Hokkaido Development Engineering Center

Yasushi Kamata, Railway Technical Research Institute

Tetsuya Kojima, Meteorological Research Institute for Technology Co., Ltd. (MeRIT)

Toshimitsu Sakurai, Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region, PWRI

Kengo Sato, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED)

Takahiro Tanabe, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED)

Yusuke Harada, Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region, PWRI

Yuji Hirai, Chitose Institute of Science and Technology

Takashi Machida, Machida Construction Co., Ltd.

Hiroki Matsushita, Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region, PWRI

Hisato Matsumiya, Kyoto University

Hiroshi Morikawa, Meteorological Research Institute for Technology Co., Ltd. (MeRIT)

Katsuaki Morita, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

Advisor:

Atsushi Sato, Meteorological Research Institute for Technology Co., Ltd. (MeRIT)