6^th International Conference on Earth Science and Climate Change September 18-19, 2017 Hong Kong

Venkatachalam (“Ram”) Ramaswamy is Director of NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) since 2008. He is also a Lecturer with the rank of Professor in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program and the Princeton Environmental Institute at Princeton University. Ram got his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Physics from Delhi University, Ph. D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the State University of New York at Albany in 1982, and was a Fellow in the Advanced Study Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado) prior to joining NOAA/ GFDL in 1985. He held the Senior Scientist “ST” rank (highest scientific position in the US Federal system) at GFDL (2000-2008) before becoming its Director (Senior Executive Service in the US Federal system). His primary interests are the numerical modeling of the global climate system based on fundamental scientific principles, advancing the understanding of atmospheric physics and chemistry and related processes in climate, and investigating the climatic variations and changes due to natural and human-influenced factors. At GFDL, which was established in 1955, he directs one of the world’s premier climate research and modeling centers, with the mission to develop and apply advanced numerical models for understanding global and regional climate, and for making predictions and projections of climate. This research is providing state-of-the-art science inputs for decision-making concerning climate impacts, vulnerabilities, adaptation and mitigation. He has published over 160 papers on atmospheric sciences and climate in refereed journals. He has been a lead author on several international and national scientific assessments e.g., Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), World Meteorological Organization Ozone, and US Global Change Research Program assessments, and National Research Council reports related to global warming, ozone depletion, aerosol climate forcing, and climate sensitivity. He was coordinating lead author of chapters in the IPCC Second, Third and Fourth Assessments (1996; 2001; 2007), a review editor on the IPCC Fifth Assessment (2013), and was co-author of the IPCC Summary for Policymakers on the 2001, 2007 and 2013 reports. He has served on the Joint Scientific Committee, including being Vice-Chair, of the World Climate Research Program (2003-2010). He teaches a course on atmospheric physics which he initiated 20 years ago, and mentors graduate students and postdoctoral scientists, in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program at Princeton University. His honors include: Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society’s Houghton Award and Walter Orr Roberts Lectureship; WMO Norbert-Gerbier International Award for best scientific paper (3-time recipient, the only such scientist); Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Senior Professional; Bert Bolin Lecture (Stockholm University); Ogura Lecture (University of Illinois); Distinguished Lecturer (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Sir Gilbert Walker Chair Professorship (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi); Joseph Priestley Lecture (Chemical Heritage Foundation); several Department of Commerce and NOAA awards for outstanding papers and accomplishments; and member of the IPCC team that was a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

numerical modeling of the global climate system based on fundamental scientific principles, Advancing the understanding of atmospheric physics and chemistry and related processes in climate, and investigating the climatic variations and changes due to natural and human-influenced factors

Dr. Arun Kumar is currently the Chief, Operational Monitoring Branch, Climate Prediction Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). He joined NCEP in 1990 as part of the Coupled Model Project responsible for the development of a dynamical prediction system for seasonal outlooks. He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from Florida State University. His professional interests include seasonal climate predictions and understanding of seasonal and decadal climate variability; global influence of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO); ENSO variability, tropical air-sea interactions, tropical Pacific ocean observing system; analysis of oceanic and atmospheric interannual variability in the coupled general circulation models.

Seasonal climate predictions and understanding of seasonal and decadal climate variability; global influence of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO); ENSO variability, tropical air-sea interactions, tropical Pacific ocean observing system; analysis of oceanic and atmospheric interannual variability in the coupled general circulation models.

ATHENA COUSTENIS is director of research with the National Centre for Scientific Research of France, based at Paris Observatory in Meudon. She earned her Ph.D. in astrophysics and space techniques from the University of Paris. She works in the field of planetology. Her research focuses on the use of ground and space-based observatories to study solar system bodies. Her current interests include planetary atmospheres and surfaces, with particular emphasis on the satellites of the giant planets. Her research focuses on astrobiological aspects and search for habitable worlds in the Solar System and beyond. Her studies in comparative planetology touch on the subject of climate changes that could help understand the long-term evolution on our own planet. She is also interested in the characterization of the atmospheres of extrasolar planets. In recent years she has been leading efforts to define and select future space missions to be undertaken by the European Space Agency (ESA) and its international partners. She was the President of the IUGG International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences. She is currently the Chair of the European Science Foundation’s Space Science Committee.

Astronomy (Planetary) and Space Sciences

Michel RICARD has a doctorate in Sciences and is an University professor in ecology and biology. Actually Head of the UNESCO chair "Education, training and research on sustainable development", he is also the president of the French digital university for environment and sustainable development (UVED) and a member of the UNECE steering committee on education for sustainable development (ESD). Previously, after 15 years at the French Museum of Natural History in Paris where he supervised several scientific programs on marine biology and ecology, he was the president of two French universities, then the director of a higher Institute on natural resources. From 2002, Michel RICARD's activities focused on sustainable development as the chair of two bodies attached to the French Prime minister, the French council on sustainable development and the French committee of the UN Decade for ESD. Michel RICARD published about a hundred of scientific papers and several books on ecology and biology and organized several national and international scientific events. He is holder of several French awards.

Sustainable Development

Nils-Axel (”Nikas”) Mörner took his Ph.D. in Quaternary Geology at Stockholm University in 1969. He was head of the institute of Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics (P&G) at Stockholm University and the Swedish National Council on from 1991 up to his retirement in 2005. He has written many hundreds of research papers and several books. He has presented more than 500 papers ar major international conferences. He is a global traveller and has undertaking field studies in 59 different countries. Several students have taken their doctoral degree at the P&G institute, which became an international centre for global sea level change, paleoclimate, paleoseismics, neotectonics, paleomagnetism, Earth rotation, planetary-solar-terrestrial interaction, etc. He was president of the INQUA Neotectonics Commission (1981-1989) and president of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Dynamics (1999-2003). In 2008, he was awarded the Golden Condrite of Merit (from Algarve University) “for his irreverence and contribution to our understanding of sea level change”. Among his books one may note; Earth Rheology, Isostasy and Eystasy (Wiley, 1984), Climate Change on a Yearly to Millennial Basis (Reidel, 1984), Paleoseismicity of Sweden: a noval paradigm (P&G-print, 2003), The Greatest Lie Ever Told (P&G-print, 2007), The Tsunami Threat: Research & Technology (InTech, 2011), Geochronology: Methods and Case Studies (InTech, 2014), Planetary Influence on the Sun and the Earth, and a Modern Book-Burning (Nova, 2015), New Dawn of Truth; London Climate Change Conference Volume (ResearchGate, 2016).

Geophysics, Climate Change, Sea-level Rise

Ganesh Bora received his PhD from Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA. He has taught 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 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.

I received my Ph.D. degree in atmospheric science from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1993), and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle (1997-99) and the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis (2000-03). I have been a Research Scientist at the Climate Research Division of Environment Canada since 2004. My research interests involve climate variability and climate change, climate sensitivity and feedback, atmospheric circulation and teleconnection, and tropical meteorology. My research contributes to understanding of climate processes, climate variability, and climate change.

Research interests include climate variability and climate change, climate sensitivity and feedback, atmospheric circulation and teleconnection, and monsoon meteorology. Research contributes to understanding of climate processes, climate variability, and climate change.

Prof. Yang received his B.S. and M.S. from the Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), one of the major universities in China, and Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University, USA, all in meteorology. Before joining SYSUas a Distinguished Professor in 2013, he was a scientist at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center. He was with the Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center prior to his career at NOAA. He also served as a co-Chief Editor for SCI journal “Advances in Atmospheric Sciences”, President of the Chinese-American Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, and Vice President of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology in USA. Prof. Yang has published about 160 papers, with nearly 7000 citations, in the areas of monsoons, ocean-atmosphere-land coupled system, global and regional climate change, and climate variability and predictability. He was one of the Most Cited Chinese Scholars in 2014 and 2015 (statistics by the Elsevier), and is currently a principal scientist of the China Key Scientific Research Plan project.Prof. Yang holds the following positions atthe SYSU:Member of the Academic Committee and Member of the Academic Degree Evaluation and Conferment Committee of the University, and Associated Dean of the School of Atmospheric Sciences. He is a State Specially Recruited Expert of China, and serves as the Vice Chair of the Subtropical Meteorology Committee of the Chinese Meteorology Society, Associate Editor of “Journal of Climate”, and Editor of “Journal of Meteorological Research”.

Climate Change, Meteorology

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.

Geosciences

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 Honorary President of Taiwan Group on Earth Observations, and Distinguished Professor & Laboratory Head 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.