Prof. Takahiro Tagami, a cooperative researcher, was awarded the Laslett Prize at the 19th International Conference on Thermochronology.

This prize is awarded by the international thermochronology community by the International Standing Committee on Thermochronology to a person who is deemed to have made an extraordinary contribution to the field of fission track thermochronology. The prize is named after, and was conceived to honor of Geoff Laslett, a pioneer of quantitative fission track analysis and an outstanding scientist and statistician.