Earth Science & Geology

Dr. V. Ramaswamy is the Director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/ NOAA, located in Princeton (New Jersey), USA. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, won prestigious awards, and has been a Coordinating Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group I reports, and has been a Vice-Chair of the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Program. He is also a Lecturer with the rank of Professor in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program at Princeton University (USA), and teaches a popular graduate course in Atmospheric Physics.

Climate Change, Atmospheric Sciences,

Prashant is working in Hydrological Sciences, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on SMAP satellite soil moisture retrieval algorithm development, instrumentation and simulation for various applications, and affiliated with IESD, Banaras Hindu University as a faculty. He received his PhD degree from Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, UK. The doctoral dissertation primarily focuses on the use of optical and microwave satellite (SMOS) synergy with Weather Research and Forecasting for hydrological applications. He is also a working group partner with NASA JPL on SMAP soil moisture calibration and validation over the globe. Prashant was the recipient of several awards such as NASA Fellowships; USA; University of Maryland Fellowship, USA; Commonwealth Fellowship, U.K.; and CSIR-UGC- JRF-NET (2005), CSIR-JRF-NET (2006), University Grant Commission (UGC)-NET (2006). Prashant made 100+ publications in peer-reviewed journals and published 04 books with reputed publishing house such as Springer, Taylor and Francis and Elsevier and several book chapters with citation index of 21.

Hydrological Sciences

Ganesh Bora received his PhD from Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA and is currently the Interim Director of Bio-Imaging and Sensing Center at North Dakota State University, USA. He is teaching courses on agricultural systems management and researching on mitigation of climate change through precision farming, development of precision planter, energy saving through auto-guidance systems, sensing techniques for variable rate technology, precision ammonia applicator using PWM, mechanical harvesting, UAS in PA, affordable technology. Ganesh is globally well known for his precision agricultural expertise and conducted workshops in Vietnam, Thailand, India and Bangladesh besides teaching every summer in Kazakhstan.

Agricultural systems management, Climate Change Mitigation

YUEI-AN LIOU received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, M.S.E. degree in electrical engineering (EE), M.S. degree in atmospheric and space sciences, and double Ph.D. degree in EE and atmospheric, oceanic, and space sciences from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He is currently President of Taiwan GIS Center, President of Taiwan Group on Earth Observations, and Distinguished Professor at Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University.

His current interests include GPS meteorology and ionosphere, remote sensing of the atmosphere, land surface, and polar ice, and land surface processes modeling. He is Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Engineering Sciences and Member, International Academy of Astronautics. He serves as editor of several prestigious journals and published more than 100 referral papers with H-Index 28.

Nils-Axel Mörner is a geologist & geophysicist, who has worked actively in science for 50 years. He has field experiences from 47 countries. He was the head of Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics at Stockholm University from 1991-2005. He has published more than 500 papers in reputed journals and about 20 books.

Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics

Alexander Trofimov has completed his MD (Doctor of Medicine) in 1998 from Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. During many years he was (until 2010) Chief of laboratory of Helio-climatopathology of Scientific Centre of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (SB RAMS, Novosibirsk). From 1994 and now he is the Director of International Scientific-Research Institute of Cosmic Anthrop ecology (Russia, Novosibirsk). He has 7 patents, published 6 monographs and more than 60 papers in reputed journals such as Arctic Medicine, Journal of Circumpolar Health, Journal of Earth Science and Climatic Change, Journal of US-China Medical Science, Clinical Medicine Research, Open Access Scientific Reports and many others. His biography was published by “WHO is WHO” in Russia at 2013 year.

Anthrop-ecology, Climate Change

Adichat Surinkum is Director of CCOP TS. He is also Member of Chaipattana Foundation on Landslide Mitigation Committee, Member of Thailand Environment Impact Assessment Committee on Infrastructure Development and Member of Thailand Research Institute on the Andaman Tsunami Mitigation Program. Previously he was Department spokesman/ Director, Bureau of Environment Geology and Geohazard and Expert Advisor on Geological Resources Management of the Department of Mineral Resources, Thailand, (2008–2012) and Director of Geotechnique Division and Director of Environmental Geology and Geoharzard Division, DMR, Thailand, (2003–2008). He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Chiang Mai University, Thailand in the year of 2002. He is having 32 years in geophysics, geothermal, geo-environment and mineral exploration and management.

Geology, Geophysics, Geothermal, Geo-environment and Mineral Exploration & management

Jaime Senabre (1966). Psychologist (UNED). He has extensive postgraduate training, achieving a total of five Masters, including: Master in Occupational Health, Safety and Workplace Risk by Camilo José Cela University of Madrid; Master of Psychopathology and Health, UNED; Master of Civil Protection and Emergency Management, University of Valencia. He is also a Diploma in Psychological Intervention in Emergencies and Disasters, Environmental Consultant, Expert in Human Resources and Criminology. Director and Chairman of the Scientific-Professional Committee of the National Symposium on Forest Fires -SINIF (2008-2015)- and creator of “SINIF Awards”, for Innovation and Technological Research, Prevention and Management Development on Forest Fires Member of: Spanish Society for the Study of Anxiety and Stress, Spanish Association for Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology.

Forest Fires, Climate Change, Emergency Management

WenJun Zhang is an ecologist. He graduated from Northwestern Agricultural University in 1984, and earned his PhD degree in 1993. Prof Zhang was a postdoctoral fellow of Sun Yat-sen University during 1994 to 1996, and postdoctoral fellow and project scientist of International Rice Research Institute during 1997 to 2000. He is the president of International Society of Network Biology and International Society of Computational Ecology. He is also the editor-in-chief of international journals, Proceedings of the International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Network Biology, Selforganizology, Computational Ecology and Software, Environmental Skeptics and Critics, and Arthropods

Ecology, Environmental Sciences

Mukesh Singh Boori is Senior Scientist in Samara State Aerospace University Russia (03/2015–Present) and Adjunct Professor in American Sentinel University Colorado USA (07/2015–Present). He was involved in European Union Project as well as Visiting Assistant Professor in Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic (04/2013–06/2015), Ruhr University Bochum Germany (09/2014–12/2014) and University of Leicester, UK (Honorary Fellow 2014) funded by European Union; at the same time he was Assistant Professor in JECRC University India (01/2013–06/2015). He was Scientist in Satellite Climate Studies Branch (NOAA/NASA) selected by National Research Council (NRC) Central Govt. of USA Washington DC. His prime research interest is “EIA and Management of Natural Resources through Remote Sensing & GIS Technology”. He has more than 50 International Publications including Books as a first author on Vulnerability, Risk Assessment and Climate Change.

Remote Sensing & GIS, Risk Assessment, Geoscience/Geo-informatics and Climate Change

A. K. Srivastava is a young and dynamic researcher working in the field of Atmospheric Sciences. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Physics, Pune University, Pune, India in the year 2008. After that he joined as a Scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (Branch), New Delhi, India. His main research interests are to understand and quantify various aerosol characteristics and their direct and indirect impacts on climate change through measurements and modeling. Recently, he received the prestigious Humboldt Fellowship (under CONNECT follow-up program) for working visit at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig, Germany during June 2015. He has published more than 50 research papers in refereed International Journals with total Citation >670 (as per Google Scholar).

Atmospheric Sciences, climate change, Tropospheric Research

Suren Kulshreshtha is currently a Professor in the Department of Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon over the past 45 years. His main interest has been in various issues related to climate change, including adaptation, drought impacts, and greenhouse gas mitigation. He has been a Visiting Scientist at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, at Laxenburg, Austria, in addition to Visiting Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, and at the McGill University (Macdonald Campus) in St. Anne de Bellevue. He has also participated in several oversees projects in Indonesia, Zambia and India through the Canadian International Development Agency, and has been an invited participant at several FAO and United Nations Environmental Program activities.

His main interest has been in various issues related to climate change, including adaptation, drought impacts, and greenhouse gas mitigation.

Zuxin Xu is a professor in College of Environmental Science and Engineering at Tongji University, China and also Vice chairman of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipal People’s Government. She has completed her Ph.D in the field of Hydrodynamics and river dynamics from Hohai University, China. Her main research interests are integrated catchment management and rehabilitation, urban drainage pollution control, ecological wastewater treatment, hydrodynamics and water quality modelling. She was the director of Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau from 2003 to 2007. She has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences.

Integrated catchment management and rehabilitation, urban drainage pollution control, ecological wastewater treatment, hydrodynamics and water quality modeling

Guoyu Ren is a climatologist and physical geographer. His research has been focused on detection and attribution of climate change and variability, covering Holocene climate and environmental change, multi-decadal variability and long-term trend of key climatic variables, extreme climate change and urban climate change.Guoyu Ren is a principle investigator of three sub-projects of national key R&D projects, an author or coauthor of more than 200 articles, an editor of 7 books and 3 special issues of academic journals. He is also one of the leading experts of the first China National Assessment Report on Climate Change, and a member of editorial committees of 8 international and Chinese journals.

Climate Change and Paleo-climatology

Suganth Kannan is the President of MathforUS LLC, a small business dedicated to applied research by building higher-level mathematical models to find solutions to pressing global problems. He has organized and moderated a bed bug symposium for Florida Entomological Society in 2011. He has presented at the Fifth International Conference on Engineering Failure Analysis, 2012 held at The Hague, Netherlands. He has published a scientific paper in Elsevier’s Journal of Engineering Failure Analysis.

Earthquake Prediction, Mathematical model building, Working with large data and deducing to understandable level, Helping medical professionals identify markers using mathematical model, Building mathematical model to help guidance counselors identify best teacher-student combinations

Xi Chen is Vice Director of Center for Global Change and Water Cycle and Chair Professor of State Key Lab. of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering at Hohai University, China. His research expertise are; Groundwater Modeling , Watershed Hydrological Modeling, Surface Water, Groundwater Interactions, Impacts of Climate Change and Regional Land and GIS Applications in Water Resources Research. He has completed his PhD in Hydrology and Water Resources from Hohai University, China in the year of 1999.

Groundwater Modeling , Watershed Hydrological Modeling, Surface Water, Groundwater Interactions, Impacts of Climate Change and Regional Land and GIS Applications in Water Resources Research

Pezzoli is Assistant Professor with tenure in Meteo-Hydrology and Weather Risk Management at Turin Polytechnic and University of Turin. He holds several degrees: BEng in Civil Engineering in Turin Polytechnic, MEng in Hydraulic Engineering in Turin Polytechnic, MSc in Port Operations in the Italian Naval Academy, PhD in Meteorology and Oceanography in Toulon University (FRANCE). Before to serve as Assistant Professor with tenure in Turin Polytechnic he worked as Voluntary assistant at the Institute of Cosmo-geophysics of the C.N.R., Turin. After that he served as Officer (Lieutenant) in the Italian Navy in the Coast Guard Corps, serving at the Harbor Office of the port of Imperia. In April 1991, following the Haven oil tanker disaster in the Gulf of Liguria, seconded to the Crisis Unit of the Imperia's Prefecture (Meteorologist), also acting as Liaison Officer with the French Anti-pollution force. He was Visiting Professor in “Meteorology” for MEng course in “Marine Engineering” at Institut des Sciences de l’Ingenieur de Toulon et du Var - University of Toulon and Var (France) and Visiting Professor in “Meteorology and Oceanography” for PhD course in “Marine Engineering” at Escola Politecnica – Universidade de Sao Paolo (Brazil). Actually he is Scientific Adviser of a very innovative Research Unit in Meteorology applied to the Sport founded in the Department of Sport Psychology - Research Centre Sport Science - University of Turin. He is Author of more than 70 paper in International Journal and Conference. He also serves as reviewer in many journals across the world. He is Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Climatology & Weather Forecasting edited by OMICS. He is Managing Editor of the Versita-De Gruyter Open Access Book for the Environmental Studies.

Meteorology, Climatology, Weather Risk Management, Marine Engineering and Marine Meteorology, Meteo-Hydrology

LIU Gaohuan was graduated from Wuhan University in 1983 majored in photogrammetry and remote sensing. He got his full time professor in 1997 in the Institute of Geography of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the director of the Department of GIS, National Remote Sensing Center of China (2007-) and vice board chairman of China Society of Environment, Resources and Ecological Protection (2014-) . He has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and 12 books. He has been studying ecological monitoring and assessment in the coastal and delta regions.

Ecology, Environmental Science

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He is an Associate Professor in Ecosystem Management at UNE where he teachs Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing subjects at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The main subjects he is involved in are Geomatics, Introduction to GIS and Spatial Analysis & Modelling.

Remote Sensing Image Analysis, Spatial Analysis and Modelling

Daxiong Ji has completed his PhD at the age of 27 years from The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is an associate professor at Ocean College of Zhejiang University now. Before He worked at The State Key Lab of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences from July 2008 to March 2015. He is the director of ocean observing robot system project. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as reviewer of repute.

Marine Vehicle, Acoustics theory application in underwater vehicle, Position and Navigation

Chavalit Ratanatamskul is The Director of Research Unit on Waste Treatment, Faculty of Engineering and The Vice Director of Technopreneurship and Innovation Management Program, Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. He received Ph.D. and Master degree of Engineering in environmental engineering from The University of Tokyo, Japan in 1996 and 1993, respectively, and B.Eng. degree in environmental engineering from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand in 1991. His major research interests are focused on anaerobic digestion, waste management and water reuse. He has published research works in international journals and proceedings more than 80 publications. Moreover, he is presently The Chairman of Project Committee and The Vice Chairman of Environmental Engineering Committee at The Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) under the King’s Patronage.

Water Environment and Anaerobic Digestion

Herdies got his Ph.D. from University of São Paulo, Brazil, in Atmospheric Science and his postdoctoral studies from NCEP and NASA. He is author of more than 150 publications in International Journals and Conference. He is the Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator of several national and international projects over La Plata Basin and Amazon Basin. Visiting research at NASA, NCEP and University of Maryland. He is presently the coordinator of the graduate course (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) in Meteorology at National Institute for Space Research.

Data Assimilation, Numerical Modeling, Climate and Weather Forecast.

Lei Yan has completed his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University and postdoctoral studies from Peking University School of Earth and Space Science. He is the Director of Beijing Key Lab of Spatial Information Integration & Its Applications. In the past 10 years, more than 240 articles are published, about 30 of them are indexed by SCI and 80 are indexed by EI. He is one of the "Hundred Talents" of Changchun Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics. His research on PRS was awarded as the first Award for Natural Science of Beijing in 2012.

Remote sensing imaging and information integration, Satellite navigation and intelligent transportation

Guangxin Zhang, Research Fellow at the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology (NEIGAE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); the adjunct professor in CAS and the guest professor in Heilongjiang University. Zhang completed his PhD in 2004 at NEIGAE, CAS. Between Nov 2004 and Nov 2005, he went to Queen's University Belfast in UK as a senior visiting scholar. At present, he is the Director of Hydrology & Water Resources Research Group at NEIGAE, CAS. His major research fields are in regards to water cycle and water resources management, wetland eco-hydrology, and water environment. Zhang is the member of China Society of Natural Resources, as well as the committee member of Chinese Water Resources Council. He serves as an editorial board member for several Chinese journals, such as SCIENTIA GEOGRAPHCA SINICA, Arid Land Geography, and Wetland Science. So far, Zhang has published more than 130 journal papers and one book “Wetland Eco-hydrology and Water Resources Management”.

Water Resources and Environment