NAOJ ALMA has exhibited a booth at the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting every year. This year’s event was held from May 26 through 31. The booth was shared with the NAOJ TMT project office which is an international project like ALMA to construct a 30-m optical telescope. At the booth, the ALMA staff presented the following three major scientific results over the past decade: new insights into the formation of planetary systems, detection of various complex organic molecules around young stars, and discovery of a signal of oxygen in a galaxy located 13.28 billion light-years away from us. The importance of significant enhancements of the telescope capabilities (ALMA2 project started in 2023) was also highlighted. This enhancements will make it possible for ALMA to continue to lead the world’s astronomy.
There were also some sessions for high school students in the JpGU Meeting and many students visited the NAOJ ALMA/TMT booth and gave good questions to the staff. They seemed to be interested in joining scientific research activities by using telescope systems like ALMA in the future.
The booth exhibition provided a good opportunity to promote the use of ALMA to geoscientists and to invite high school students and undergraduate students to utilize the ALMA observation system and conduct leading-edge research with ALMA in the near future.

ALMA and TMT exhibition booth at the JpGU Meeting 2024 Credit: NAOJ