Earth Science and Climate Change

Epifanio Vaccaro has completed his MSc in Geological Sciences at Palermo University in 2005, Italy, and started working at The Natural History Museum in London from 2009 covering several roles including: Petrology Curator, Mineral Curator and Researcher. In 2017, obtained his PhD from The Open University on the Physical and Chemical Properties of Primitive Chondrites. He is the now the Petrology Curator at The Natural History Museum in London.

The Natural History Museum (NHM) in London is home to an estimated 80 million items dating back as far as 1753. The NHM is recognised as a world leading centre of natural history collections and research. Many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as The Ocean Bottom Deposit (OBD) collection. This includes the Sir John Murray, HMS Challenger expedition (1872-76) collections as well as samples from about 40,000 sea bed locations around the world. It is the most comprehensive British collection of seabed samples and cores but also includes approximately 65 per cent from the Atlantic Ocean, 20 per cent from the Pacific Ocean and 15 per cent from the Indian Ocean. The OBD collection is invaluable for studies of the ocean and ocean floor, including research looking at global change, climatic warming, ocean acidification and marine pollution. This historical collection has a large number of calcifying organisms that provide a benchmark for changes in carbonate production in marine ecosystems through time. A project led by museum researchers has compared the calcification capability of today’s plankton species with their counterparts from pre-and early-industrial time. This has been based on plankton tows collected during historical expeditions and has provided new insights into anthropogenic climate change. Recent work has also investigated the foraminiferal content of benthic samples from the collection and shown a method for selecting samples that show a late 19th Century baseline for the marine environment.

Remus Prăvălie is a teaching assistant and a researcher at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography. His interdisciplinary research is concerned with the field of global environmental issues such as climate change, impact of climate change on environmental systems or environmental pollution, but also with the solutions of these environmental issues, like renewable energies. He has completed his PhD at the age of 27 years at the University of Bucharest and is currently manager of a postdoctoral project at the same university. Remus Prăvălie has published more than 20 papers in prestigious journals in the field of environmental sciences. Georgeta Bandoc is a professor at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography. Her main scientific work is generally concerned with the field of renewable energy resources, climate change or environmental protection. She has a broad expertise in the field of environmental sciences and currently is a member of various professional associations and centers. Since 2016 is an Associate Member in the Academy of Romanian Scientists. Georgeta Bandoc has published more than 20 papers in prestigious journals in the field of environmental sciences.

Forests are probably the most important type of terrestrial ecosystem for ensuring the planet's health in an age of major environmental changes. These ecosystems are among the Earth's few biophysical systems that are able to substantially influence the climatic system on a global scale, especially by controlling and storing immense carbon amounts in their biomass, but also through energy exchanges with the atmosphere and by changing the terrestrial surface radiation balance. Also, these biotic systems are a vital support for the global terrestrial biodiversity and an essential pillar for the very existence of humanity, via large-scale delivery of ecosystem services they provide. However, forest ecosystems are currently being subjected to a wide range of negative transformations (natural and anthropic disturbances) that pose a real threat not only to forest health and the various benefits forests provide for human society, but also to the overall functioning of the Earth's climate system. This work is a review that aims to analyse the current main perturbations of the global forest ecosystems, both the obvious (e.g. deforestation) and discrete ones (e.g. defaunation) that have generally not yet been tackled strictly as ecological forest issues in the international scientific literature. Also, the paper aims to investigate the possible consequences caused by forest perturbations in the global climate changes (warming process), through carbon fluxes and biogeophysical feedbacks between these biotic systems and the atmosphere. Following a vast, current and representative scientific literature, it was found there currently are 12 major forest disturbances that can be grouped into three categories based on the importance of triggering causes, i.e. climatic (phenological shifts, range shifts, die-off events, insect infestations), anthropic (deforestation, fragmentation, air pollution) and mixed (defaunation, fires, composition shifts, net primary productivity shifts, biogeochemical shifts) perturbations. These forest perturbations have already significantly eroded the forests' capacity to mitigate climate change through key processes such as carbon sequestration and the evaporative cooling process. All these ecological disturbances can destabilize the Earth's climate system by accelerating global warming in various ways, including by means of many positive feedback mechanisms in the case of climatic perturbations. In this respect, this review paper finally proposes five major anthropogenic strategies to fight this multiple forest crisis (mitigate, adapt, repair, protect and research actions), which, if applied rapidly, on a large scale and in a mixed manner, can successfully mitigate forest ecological issues and climate change by the end of this century.

Kwangjin Park has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from Korea Advanced Institute of Scienece and Technology (KAIST). He has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

For developing the industrially feasible Ni-rich layered oxide cathode with extended cycle life, it is necessary to mitigate both the mechanical degradation due to intergranular cracking between primary particles and gas generation from the reaction between the electrolyte and residual Li in the cathode. To simultaneously resolve these two issues, we herein propose a simple but novel method to reinforce the primary particles in LiNi0.91Co0.06Mn0.03O2 by providing a Li-reactive material, whose spinel interphase is coherent with the surface of the cathode. The modified structure significantly outperforms analogous bare samples: they conserve more than 90% of the initial capacity after 50 cycles and also exhibit a greater rate capability. By tracking the same particle location during cycling, we confirmed that the current method significantly reduces crack generation because the provided coating material can penetrate inside the grain boundary of the secondary particle and help maintain the volume of the primary particle. Finally, first-principles calculations were implemented to determine the role of this spinel material, i.e., having intrinsically isotropic lattice parameters, superior mechanical properties, and only a small volume change during delithiation. We believe that the proposed method is straightforward and cost-effective; hence, it is directly applicable for the mass production of Ni-rich cathode material to enable its commercialization.

Shijian Ge has completed PhD from Beijing University of Science and Technology (China) and Cornell University (USA). Later he joined New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA) and Queen’s University (Canada) as the post-doctoral researcher for 4 years. He is now a professor at Nanjing University of Science Technology (China) with 46 paper publication, 10 patents (2 pending, 8 issued), 1 engineering project, h-index of 19, i-10 index of 27, citation of 1312. He is serving as a reviewer for over 20 international scientific journals, an Editorial Board Member of Biotechnology Letters and was a Guest Editor of Biomed Research International.

The effects of wastewater, with four different nutrient loadings, from synthetic centrate on biomass production of Chlorella vulgaris, nutrient removal, microalgal settling, and lipid production were investigated in photobioreactors under both batches and, subsequently, semi-continuous operations. At higher centrate concentration factors (17.2% and 36.2%), hydraulic retention time and pH adjustments could be employed to sustain acceptable microalgal growth rates and wastewater treatment. Similar nutrient removals efficiencies (>95%) and biomass production (0.42-0.51 g/L) were observed for the four centrate concentrations. Both the lipid productivity and lipid content decreased with increasing nutrient loading in the wastewater. The results also demonstrated that the mass ratio of carbohydrate to protein could provide a good indication of microalgal settling performance, rather than sole component composition or total extracellular polymeric substances.

Dr I.M. Nwaedozie has completed his Ph.D at the age of 54 years from Abubarka Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Nigeria and a Deputy Director and Special Assistant to the Director General/CEO of National Office for Technology Accquisition and Promotion (NOTAP), a Government Technology Regulatory Organisation. He as made presentations in morethan 20 national and international conferences /workshop and made four (4) publications in reputed international journals

Heavy Metal (HM) is defined as any relatively dense metal or metalloids noted for its potential toxicity in the environment. Most of these metals appear in the World Health Organization list of chemicals of public health concern. Long-term exposure to HMs have been linked to slowly progressing physical, muscular and neurological degenerative processes in human that mimic Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, liver and kidney failures as well as alterations in gene expressions. This study assessed the concentration of some HM in public water supply in Abuja Metropolis from 2015 to 2016 with the view to determining its overall percentage compliance with the WHO(2008) recommended limits for safe drinking water. The HMs includes aluminum, Iron, Copper, Zinc and Manganese. A representative water samples from the six locations within the study area were collected and analyzed according to the Standard Methods and Procedures. Sampling was conducted three (3) times in each month from which the annual mean values were obtained and analyzed statistically. The mean physico-chemical characteristics of public water supply within the period under review revealed Al(0.61±0.13mg/l),Fe(0.21±0.06mg/l),Cu(0.02±0.003mg/l),Zn(0.24±0.10mg/l),Cu(0.05±0.03mg/l).Overall average percentage compliance were found to be Al(45.60%, Fe(85%), Cu(84.20%),Zn(90%) & Mn(91%) respectively. The results within the study period revealed that aluminum appeared to be above the WHO recommended limit of 0.20mg/l for safe drinking water and recommended for a substitute of aluminum sulphate used as coagulant in the water treatment process. The study concluded that the selected heavy metals and its concentrations in the public water supply in Abuja Metropolis was in compliance with the WHO quality for safe drinking water and therefore safe for human consumption .However, concern is raised for its aluminum level and possible health implications on long-term exposure particularly amongst the aged.

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

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.

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

Jane Liu working as an professor in the University of Toronto.

Atmospheric chemistry-climate interactions, Remote sensing of the atmosphere and land, Public health-air quality relationship, Atmospheric environmental modeling, Atmosphere-biosphere interactions

Zhang obtained his Bachelor and Master degree from Nanjing University, China and Ph.D from York University, Canada. He is a Research Scientist in Environment Canada and has published more than 80 journal papers.

Air-quality modeling, air-surface exchange, atmospheric deposition, atmospheric aerosol properties, below-cloud scavenging, cloud microphysics, source-receptor studies.

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

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 Center of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (SB RAMS, Novosibirsk). From 1994 and now he is the Director of International Scientific-Research Institute of Cosmic Anthropoecology (Russia, Novosibirsk). He has 7 patents, published 5 monographs and more than 60 papers in reputed journals such as Arctic Medicine, Journal of Circumpolar Health and many others.

International Scientific Research Institute of Cosmic Anthropoecology
Russia
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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

Alberto Carpinteri is the Chair of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy). He was the President of different scientific Associations and Institutions, among which are the International Congress on Fracture (ICF) and the National Research Institute of Metrology in Italy (INRIM). He is the author of more than 700 publications, of which over 300 are in international peer-reviewed journals. He is presently the Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Meccanica”.

Solid and Structural Mechanics

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

Frank Yi Yang is working as an mining engineer in China 15MCC。China 15MCC is subsidiary copmany of China Nonferrous Metal Mining

Mining, Environmental Science

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

Gennaro D'Amato is Director of the Division of Pneumology and Allergology, Department of Chest Disease, at the High Speciality Hospital" A. Cardarelli in Naples (Italy). He is a professor of Respiratory Allergy at the School of Respiratory Allergy at the School of Respiratory Disease, University of Naples. He is the author of 9 books in the field of respiratory allergy and about 300 scientific publications, most of them in journals with impact factor. He serves as invited speaker and/or chairman in several meetings of societies such as World Health Organization; American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; World Allergy Organization; European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology; European Respiratory Society, Interasma, International Association of Aerobiology; and others. He has served in boards of several Journals such as Clinical and experimental Allergy, Allergy, Journal of Investigation Allergology Clinical Immunology and served as referee of journals such as Lancet, British Medical Journal, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, European Respiratory journal, Clinical and Experimental Allergy, Thorax, Allergy, and chest. He has served as chairman of committees on "Climate change, air pollution and respiratory diseases" of societies such as EAACI, WAO, and joint task force ERS-EAACI. He has served as general secretary of Italian society of respiratory diseases.

Professor of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases
Medical School of Specialization in Respiratory Diseases
University of Naples
Italy

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

Prof. Dr. Mukesh Singh Boori involve in USA and European Union Project as well as Visiting Professor at Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic Europe since 04/2013, funded by European Union. He joined JECRC University India since 01/2013. He was Scientist in Satellite Climate Studies Branch (NOAA), selected by National Research Council (NRC), Central Government of USA, Washington DC.At the same time he completed his Postdoc from University of Maryland USA (10/2012). He has done PhD (EIA & Management of Natural Resources) from Federal University – RN (UFRN), Natal –RN Brazil (08/2011), funded by Brazil-Italy Government fellowship.He has done Predoc (Earth & Environmental Science) form Katholieke University Leuven Belgium (08/2008), selected by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) New Delhi India, funded by Government of Belgium. He has done M.Sc (Remote sensing & GIS) from MDS University Ajmer (2004) and BSc (Bio-group) from Uni. of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India (2002). In early career he was scientist in JSAC/ISRO (2006-2007) and before that Lecturer at MDS University Ajmer (2005-2007Sessions). He has many international awards/fellowships from USA, Brazil, Italy, Indonesia, Belgium, Czech Republic and India. He known Six Language and visit four Continents for Awards, Meetings, Trainings, Field Trips and Conferences. He is an active Organizing Committee Member in Earth Science Conferences, Successfully Completed a Session as a Co-Chair and also gave Conference Opening Ceremony Speech at Chicago, USA. He is member of many International Scientific Societies, Committees and review many international articles. His prime research interest is “EIA and Management of Natural Resources through Remote Sensing and GIS Technology”. He has more than 25 International Publications including Books on Vulnerability, Risk Assessment and Climate Change. He enjoy Music, Games and Reading Books.

Remote Sensing & GIS,Vulnerability & Risk Assessment, Earth Science/Observation, Land Use/Cover Change, Geoscience/Geo-informatics, Bio-Geography, Biodiversity, Forest, Agriculture, Ecosystem, Ecology, Urban, Desert Study, Hydrology, Climate Change,Environmental Impact Assessment, Management of Natural Resources, Land Resources Management, Sustainable Development and Disaster Management.

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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

Joseph Harari is Physicist (B.Sc.) by the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo (1973), Master in Physical Oceanography by the Oceanographic Institute of USP (1977), Ph.D. in Meteorology by the Astronomical and Geophysical Institute of USP (1984) and Associate Professor in Physical Oceanography at the Oceanographic Institute of USP (1991). He acts as teacher of the Oceanographic Institute of USP since 1981, supplying disciplines on Foundations of Physical Oceanography, Hydrodynamic Numeric Modeling and Altimetry of Satellite. He is adviser teacher of masters’ degree, specialist in the areas of hydrodynamic numeric modeling, coastal processes, tides and satellite altimetry. He published several scientific works, with emphasis in studies of coastal areas of Brazil and of São Paulo State. He is partner - founder of the Brazilian Nucleus of Environmental Researches and Health and it exercises the presidency of the Nucleus of Santos now (NPABS). He was Vice Chair of CBPA'2001 and CBPA'2002 (Brazilian Congress of Environmental Researches), of CBPAS'2003, CBPAS'2004, CBPAS’2005 (Brazilian Congress of Environmental Researches and Health), EHWC’2006 (Environmental and Health World Congress), SHEWC’2007 (Safety. Health and Environmental World Congress), SHEWC’2008, SHEWC’2009 and SHEWC’2010.

Institute of Oceanography
University of Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo - SP - Brazil
Tel: 55-11-3091-6576

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

Hyo Choi is meteorologist, environmental scientist and physical oceanographer with over 40 years experiences in modeling researches. His research interests cover a variety of fields in Weather and climate change including Severe weather, Flood, Fog, Meso & synoptic scale meteorology, Extra-tropical and tropical cyclones, Health GIS, GIS and Modeling, Air quality modeling and analysis, and Coastal ocean circulation, Sea surface temperature & Chlorophyll variability in collaboration with Meteorology, Atmospheric environmental science and Physical oceanography groups at universities and government institutions in Korea, USA, England, Russia, Germany, Nigeria, Iran, Turkey, India, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Japan, Chile and Mexico, etc.. He has been President of Korean Environmental Sciences (Korea) and Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society (53 nations; AS section; Singapore), Deputy Director General of IBC (UK) and others. He has been also acting as Editor-in-Chief of 4 international journals (Singapore, India, Korea) and Editor of 11 International Journals (USA, England, Singapore, India, Nigeria, Malaysia, Korea, China).

Meteorology, Weather and climate change, Extra-tropical and tropical cyclones, Health GIS, GIS and Modeling, Atmospheric environmental science and Physical oceanography

Abel E. Navarro got his Ph.D. degree in Biomolecular Chemistry at New York University. His expertise includes protein chemistry and structure as part of his graduate studies. Now, as a junior faculty at BMCC, Prof. Navarro is developing new bioremediation alternatives for the elimination of pollutants from wastewaters. He has a publication record of more than 25 papers in specialized and peer-reviewed journals and has participated in several conferences. He also serves as reviewer in many journals across the world.

Environmental Science, Chemistry, Biotechnology, Bioremediation