Dr. Easterbrook is Emeritus Professor of Geology at Western Washington University. He has conducted climate research in North America, New Zealand, and Argentina, has written a dozen books, 185 professional papers, and has presented 30 papers at international meetings in 12 countries. He was chairman of the 1977 national meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA), president of the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of GSA, U.S. representative to the UN International Geological Correlation Program, and Director of Field Excursions for the 2003 International Quaternary Congress. He has received awards for ‘Distinguished service to the Geological Society of America,’ ‘Lifetime Achievement Award,’ and Honorable mention by the American Men of Science as one of “The Most Influential Scientists in North America.” He has been featured in the NY Times and has appeared on national TV network shows at MSNBC, CNN, CBS and FOX.

Geology

Abdussamatov Habibullo Ismailovich: born October 27, 1940 in Samarkand, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan). Education: Samarkand State University (1962), faculty of physics and mathematics; graduate courses in Leningrad State University (1965-1967), faculty of mathematics and mechanics; postgraduate course in Pulkovo Observatory (1966-1969). Works in Pulkovo Observatory since 1964: researcher trainee (1964-1966), postgraduate (1966-1969), junior researcher (1969-1982), senior researcher (1982-1999), leading researcher (1999-2004), head of the Space Research Sector (2004-2006), head of the Space Research laboratory (2006-2010). At the present time — head of the Space Research Sector of the Sun at Pulkovo Observatory (since 2010) and the head of the Lunar Optical Observatory project. He is an expert in the area of solar physics and of the solar-terrestrial physics as well as the climate. He is independent scientist on climate change issues. He is the author of some180 scientific publications, including four scientific monographs, and seven scientific inventions

physics and mathematics

Dr. Carlos Eduardo is an associate professor at the Soil Science Department at the University of Sao Paulo, where he teaches three courses for undergraduate students and four disciplines for master and PhD students. His main lines of research are related to soil organic matter dynamics in tropical regions, mathematical modeling applied to soil science, soil properties spatial variability and global climate change. He published more than 140 scientific articles, 1 book and 35 book chapters. Finally, the academic is member of the Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, International Humic Substances Society, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy e Crop Science Society of America. He is also an affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Soil carbon,greenhouse

Professor Phil Haygarth leads the Sustainable Catchments Research Challenge Area for Lancaster University, and conducts personal research on the interface between soils and freshwaters, with a focus on diffuse (particularly phosphorus) pollution and runoff control. Phil’s research studies the way in which soils can be encouraged to hold phosphorus at an optimal level to supply plants for food production, whist defining conditions that prevent the unwanted leakage to fresh-waterways. The practical impact of his research has been to help the UK government, and others around the world, develop policies that help farmers and catchment managers optimize plant uptake of nutrients but minimize losses to water. Often this involves efforts to reduce runoff energy, which can have dual benefits for both diffuse pollution and flood contro under climate change scenarios.

soils and freshwaters

Nils-Axel (”Niklas”) Mörner took his Ph.D. in Quaternary Geology at Stockholm University in 1969. Head of the institute of Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics (P&G) at Stockholm University 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 at major international conferences. He has undertaking field studies in 59 different countries. The P&G institute became an international center for global sea level change, paleoclimate, paleoseismics, neotectonics, paleomagnetism, Earth rotation, planetary -solar-terrestrial interaction, etc. Among his books; Earth Rheology, Isostasy and Eustasy (Wiley, 1984), Climate Change on a Yearly to Millennial Basis (Reidel, 1984), Paleoseismicity of Sweden: a novel 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).

global sea level change, paleoclimate, planetary-solar-terrestrial interaction, ocean circulation, earth rotation, geomagnetism

Doctoral degree of Moscow State university. He worked as Senior researcher Armenian Institute of Agriculture and Technological Institute of Amino Acids of USSR, director of Armenian Institute of Biotechnology, director of Yerevan Vitamin plant and deputy director of Nairit Chloroprene Rubber plant. Sole founder of Research & Industry Centre of Photosynthesizing Organisms, Feed Additives & Physiologically Active Compounds; Expert of EU Horizon 2020, ERA.NET and International Cooperation programs and Council of Chemistry and Petrochemistry of CIS countries. Academic Member of the Greece ATINER Academia, Member of American Chemical Society and Society of Chemical Industry (USA), Member of Editorial Boards of journals: “Journal of Chemical, Environmental and Biological Engineering" (USA), SM Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering" (USA) and Modern Management Forum (Singapore). Laureate of “The International Presidents Award for Iconic Achievement” and “Top 100 Professionals” (IBC, England), "The Albert Einstein Award for Excellence" (Top 50 Geniuses of World, ABI, USA), Marquis Who's Who “2017 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award” (USA), awards of the Armenia and former USSR.

System biology, Global Sustainable development and Microalgae

Psychologist and Environmental Consultant. He completed doctoral studies in the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the UNED. Chief of Brigade in a Forest Fire Service with more than 20 years of experience. He collaborates with several companies and institutions in the area of training in Psychology in Emergencies and Human Resources. He is Professor at the University of Valencia in the Master in "Intervention and operational coordination in emergencies and catastrophes" and other postgraduate courses on emergencies. Director and President of the International Scientific-Professional Committee of the National Symposium on Forest Fires (SINIF). He has lectured internationally and has been part of the Organizing Committee of several International Congresses on Earth Sciences and Climate Change. He has published articles on forest fires, stress, psychosocial risks and emotional trauma, mainly in relation to emergency services and natural disasters. Currently, he is assigned to the Research Group on "Climate and Territorial Planning" (University of Alicante), where he researches on the social perception of forest fire risk and behavior in the event of possible disasters.

Forest fires, risk perception, natural hazards, environmental psychology and human behavior in emergency situations. Currently, he is assigned to the Research Group on "Climate and Territorial Planning" (University of Alicante), where he researches on the social perception of forest fire risk and behavior in the event of possible disasters.

Dr Abbas Amini is an assistant professor at the Australian College of ACK and Western Sydney University, and the member of graduate supervisory board. After obtaining PhD, he conducted research with other Australian universities, as a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash and Deakin Universities, and as a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. His fine outcomes have been presented in high impact factor journals, e.g., Nature publication group, and a recent published book in 2016. Abbas is the editor of ten reputed journals, and the committee member of 20 international conferences.

Bionanotech

Olusola Olutayo-David is the Chairman/ Chief Executive Officer of the Africa Regional Centre for Clean Technology and Energy Efficiency, is an NGO with primary focus on Global Climate Change, Clean Technology and Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Developments and Green Economy with Headquarters in Nigeria. Olusola Olutayo-David is the designated representative of the Africa Regional Centre for Clean Technology and Energy Efficiency on the CSO membership of the Climate Investment Funds World Bank, Washington D.C., USA and also a Climate Reality Leader of the Climate Reality Project, Washington D.C., USA . He attended various conferences and training both locally and internationally on climate change and also done some courses on climate change in recent past namely: • Certificate in Investment Planning Toward Low Emissions Development by World Bank Institute, Washington D.C. USA- November, 2014- December 2014. • Certificate in Innovative Finance for the Climate Change Challenge by World Bank Institute, Washington D.C. USA- January, 2015- February, 2015. • Certificate of Completion of Training by Climate Reality Project, Washington D.C. USA- May 5, 2015-May 7, 2015. • Green Jobs for Sustainable Development: ILO Green Jobs Learning @ ITCILO Turin, Italy- April, 2016 –June, 2016.

Clean Technology(Renewable Energy) and Energy Efficiency

Joy Manglani is an Environment Scientist & Inventor. He holds the prestigious B. Tech. degree from the premier IIT Delhi in Chemical Engineering. He is a founder (since 1983) and President of NGO - Only Nature Endures (ONE) also called OneNature where he trains interns and seniors. He invents and promotes Sustainable Technologies for Joyful Life and Healthy Environment. Has experience of successfully inventing and applying technologies in various fields. His breakthrough invention of waste treatment (EWT) can help in solving the problems of Water and Sanitation, it can clean the water, air and land. It can green our land and make it more fertile. It can reduce global warming and climate change. He was an Advisor to Government of Maharashtra (India) and Government of India on Water, Sanitation and Safe Technologies. His ancestors and current family are social workers.

Nature, Environment (Water, Air, Land), Climate Change, Sustainable.

Dr. (Ms) T.Theivasanthi of Kalasalingam University doing research in nanomaterials / nanotechnology; has 15 years of teaching experience; published many research articles/ books and h-index 10; life member of Indian Science Congress Association and Magnetics Society of India; member of International Association of Advanced Materials; serving as Editorial Board Member/ reviewer for some scientific journals; lead editor in JNNN special issue (SAGE Publications, UK); achieved many awards/ honours/ recognitions including - Madurai Women Achievers Award - 2013, Motivational Award - 2015 and 2015 Women’s Day Award of St.Annes College; achieved World Record in LIMCA Book of Records-2015 for nanotechnology invention “World’s first superparamagnetic plants materials” – named “Santhi Particles”, World Record– 2016 for innovative products "The World’s lowest priced graphene" & "World’s Smallest Particles of Vegetables" and World Record– 2017 for the invention "The World’s Smallest Anti-Viral Plant Particles". Other innovative products- Superparamagnetic lead nanoparticles, semiconducting lead Nanoparticles, Low cost-mass production of graphene, agricultural nanofertilisers, vegetable powder for diabetes, plants materials for diabetes & psoriasis and nanoparticles for treatment of EBOLA, DENGUE, HIV & H1N1 virus infection. Govt. of India shows interests to develop her inventions for the benefits of public; since Dec-2014, she has delivered lectures (more than 105) in International / National scientific conferences, foreign countries and renowned institutes like National Institute of Technology, Anna University, Central University of all over India; she delivered Motivational Lectures for women, students and staff of institutes / Multi-national corporate companies (Cognizant Technologies); Artha Nyana Academy (Malaysia), Intelligent Society of Malaysia etc. NanoDigest, Economic Times and Telegraph have published news about her research; Thanthi TV, All India Radio, Minnal FM (Malaysia) and Bernama TV (Malaysia) have broadcasted her interviews.

nanomaterials / nanotechnology

Quang Nguyen obtained his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science from the University of Mississippi in the United States. He earned his M.S. degree from Hiroshima University in Japan. He has 13 years of experience in both academia and industry in the field of environmental science and engineering, emphasis in climate change, coastal hazards, and coastal floods. He has worked for 13 projects funded by prestigious sources such as the U.S. Department of Transportation, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and MacArthur Foundation. He has published numerous papers in journals and international conferences.

environmental science

Olusola Olutayo-David is the Chairman/ Chief Executive Officer of the Africa Regional Centre for Clean Technology and Energy Efficiency, is an NGO with primary focus on Global Climate Change, Clean Technology and Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Developments and Green Economy with Headquarters in Nigeria. Olusola Olutayo-David is the designated representative of the Africa Regional Centre for Clean Technology and Energy Efficiency on the CSO membership of the Climate Investment Funds World Bank, Washington D.C., USA and also a Climate Reality Leader of the Climate Reality Project, Washington D.C., USA . He attended various conferences and training both locally and internationally on climate change and also done some courses on climate change in recent past namely: • Certificate in Investment Planning Toward Low Emissions Development by World Bank Institute, Washington D.C. USA- November, 2014- December 2014. • Certificate in Innovative Finance for the Climate Change Challenge by World Bank Institute, Washington D.C. USA- January, 2015- February, 2015. • Certificate of Completion of Training by Climate Reality Project, Washington D.C. USA- May 5, 2015-May 7, 2015. • Green Jobs for Sustainable Development: ILO Green Jobs Learning @ ITCILO Turin, Italy- April, 2016 –June, 2016.

Clean Technology(Renewable Energy) and Energy Efficiency

Dr.Hector M. Guevara is the founder, chairman of the board, and President of various corporations, including NuEnergy Group, Inc., previously a Public Company, trading on the OTC, and now being held inactive (operations/trading stopped). Dr. Guevara has devoted the past 35 years to the research and development of renewable energy systems. Dr. Guevara’s companies designed and or produced many of the most notable solar, wind, and hydroelectric systems deployed throughout the world. The results of his research and development have been assigned to his new Florida Corporation; NuEnergy Technologies Corp. Dr. Guevara is a patent and co-patent holder in various sustainable energy and propulsion technologies. Dr. Guevara has also been the recipient of various grants from Federal Govt. Agencies, e.g., NASA/SATOP, DOE (SBIR), United Nation’s UNICEF, and others.

NuEnergy Technologies Corp

Baghdad OUDDANE has obtained a PhD in Environmental Chemistry in 1990 and a HDR (Higher Degree by Research) in 1997 at Lille 1 University. Lecturer (1992-2003) and Full Professor at Lille University since 2003. He is the Head of the Master "Water Treatment" in Lille1 University. He has published more than 110 papers in reputed Environmental Journals and more than 120 communications in national and international conferences and co-authors of four books (two popular sciences); he is a referee in several international journals in the field of environment.

Environmental Chemistry; Water Treatment;

Syed Abdul Rehman Khan, CSCP is a professor of Supply Chain and Logistic Management. Prof. Khan achieved his CSCP—Certified Supply Chain Professional certificate and successfully completed his Doctorate Degree. Since 2014 and 2015, Prof. Khan is affiliated with Chang’an University, China and Brasi School of Supply Chain Management, USA respectively. Dr. Khan has more than seven years’ core experience of supply chain and logistics at industry and academic levels. Prof. Khan has attended several international conferences in Dubai, Pakistan, Taiwan, and China, US, Netherland and has also been invited as guest speaker, Keynote speaker and conference committee member. He has published 2 books on “Global Sourcing” and “Strategic Supply Chain Management” respectively and published more than 22 research papers including 6 SCI indexed Research Papers, 13 EI indexed Research Papers in different well renowned international journals and conferences. He is a regular contributor to conferences and workshops around the world. Dr. Khan also holds Editorial Membership of two international journals. In addition, Prof. Khan holds memberships in the following well renowned institutions and supply chain bodies/associations: APCIS-U.S.; Supply Chain Council U.S.; Supply Chain Association of Pakistan; USA Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals; and Global Supply Chain Council China

Chain and Logistic Management

Ph.D. In Mechanical Engineering. London University, Imperial College of Science and Technology, UK. FEB., 1977. DIC, Diploma of Imperial College, London University, March 1977.  Postdoctoral Fellowship at Imperial College, London with United Kingdom Atomic Energy Research Establishment ,Harwell, 1977. MSc. Mech. Engineering from Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering– December 1973. B.Sc. Mech. Engineering from Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering- July 1971, Distinction ,1st Class Honors,1st Position.

Flow Regimes in an Open-Roof Air Conditioned Stadium

Mr. Sokeland qualified for his PhD at the age of 33 years from the University of Florida and returned to participate in the Skylab project at McDonald Douglas. He retired at age 50 and enjoys internet research concerning the impact of supernova and nova debris streams on the planet earth. He is offering numerous papers for publication and since currently no one believes supernova and nova debris streams impact our planet, he is the sole source of his chosen topic. His Supernova and Nova Impact Theory, SNIT, predicts current actions of debris streams that have significant impact on the theories of heating and cooling for our planet. The question, “Where is the energy coming from that causes Global Warming?” has been answered by the SNIT.

Supernova and Nova effects due to impact of their focused debris streams.

Melvin L. Myers is an engineer who served as a US Public Health Service Officer in the Environmental Protection Agency at its creation and for 10 years thereafter and at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 20 years. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Emory University where he taught Environmental and Occupational Health Policy for 25 years. The class covered occupational safety and health, US environmental health statutes, and international environmental regimes. During 2006-2014, he held the position of Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health as a research engineer at the University of Kentucky where he was a Principle Investigator for an aquacultural safety and health project. He currently holds a courtesy appointment at the University of Florida and is engaged on a seafood worker safety and health project

Medicine and Environmental Health

Baghdad OUDDANE has obtained a PhD in Environmental Chemistry in 1990 and a HDR (Higher Degree by Research) in 1997 at Lille 1 University. Lecturer (1992-2003) and Full Professor at Lille University since 2003. He is the Head of the Master "Water Treatment" in Lille1 University. He has published more than 110 papers in reputed Environmental Journals and more than 120 communications in national and international conferences and co-authors of four books (two popular sciences); he is a referee in several international journals in the field of environment.

Environmental Chemistry; Water Treatment;

Pedro Vega-Marcote is a full Professor in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Coruña. Currently his research interests focus on the field of: Teacher training in Environmental Education and Sustainable Development, the Ecological Footprint and reduction of emissions of Greenhouse Gases, the implementation of Agenda 21 at the University and Municipalities (A21L) and in Experimental Science Teaching.

Environmental Education and Sustainable Development, the Ecological Footprint and reduction of emissions of Greenhouse Gases

Meltem SARIOGLU CEBECİ has completed her PhD at the age of 28 years from Leeds University Faculty of Engineering Department of. Public Health Eng., England. She is the director of Environmental Engineering Department in Cumhuriyet Unıversity Sivas-TURKEY. She has published more than 20 papers in international journals and has been working as a lecturer at Cumhuriyet University.

Water pollution and control, Chemical and biological methods of wastewater treatment, Industrial Wastewater Treatment

Emine MALKOC was born in Trabzon, Turkey. Between the years 1995-2010, she worked an expert in Environmental Problems Research Center, Ataturk University. She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering at the Ataturk University where he has been a faculty member since 2010. Malkoc completed her master and Ph.D. studies at Ataturk University. Her research interests lie in the area of wastewater treatment, adsorption method in removing heavy metals and dyestuffs, advanced oxidation methods in removing in textile wastewater. In related topics, she has published more than 18 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as scientific referee of a lot repute journals. Moreover, the Malkoc's scientific works has taken more than 1500 cited.

Wastewater treatment, adsorption method in removing heavy metals and dyestuffs, advanced oxidation methods in removing in textile wastewater

Prof. Tapas Kumar Mallick received his M.Tech and PhD in solar energy engineering from Jadavpur University, India (1998) and University of Ulster, UK (2003) respectively. He has over seventeen years of research experience in solar energy technologies. He is currently the Chair in Clean Technologies (Renewables) within the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) and Academic Lead, Renewable Energy, University of Exeter, UK. He has published over 150 research articles and holds two patents on solar technology and has been serving Editorial board of Advances of Solar Thermal Technology Journal. Recently his group has demonstrated biomimicry of white periodic butterfly wings into concentrating solar photovoltaics. Prof. Mallick successfully supervised six PhD candidates to completion and currently primary supervisor of fourteen PhD students.

Renewable energy, Concentrating solar photovoltaics, Heat transfer, optics and electrical modelling

Dr. S. Jithender Kumar Naik, is currently working as Professor of Zoology at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He did his Master Degree in Zoology from Osmania University in 1992, M. Phil in Animal Sciences from University of Hyderabad in 1994 and awarded Ph.D in Zoology from Osmania University in 2000. He has 20 years of research and 17 years of teaching experience in the fields of Toxicology and Occupational health; Reproductive Biology; Environmental Biology; Fisheries and Limnology.

Toxicology and Occupational health; Reproductive Biology; Environmental Biology; Fisheries and Limnology

: Dr Rao Ph.D worked as Professor of Micro biology, Parasitology, immunology and Epidemiology in many Universities in India, China, Nepal, Libya, and Philippines. Currently he is working at Avalon University School of Medicine, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. He has more than 40 years of teaching and research experience.

Micro biology, Parasitology & Immunology

Bernard Foing is a senior scientist and exploration officer at the European Space Agency (ESA), Executive Director of the International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG) and Professor of Space Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences. He has been the father and Principal Project Scientist for SMART-1, the first European mission to the Moon. He serves as elected President of ESTEC Staff Association Committee since 2012 (representing 1400 ESTEC colleagues). He has worked on studies and projects of Earth and planetary missions. He conducted a number of field campaigns in Earth extreme desert environments. He is also an expert in spectroscopy conducted from ground based observatories around the world. He obtained a PhD in Astrophysics and Space Techniques using a sounding rocket experiment (France CNRS and US New Mexico, Boulder CU, Harvard Observatory).

Space Monitoring of Essential Climate Variables

Vladimir Babeshko has completed his HD (Doctor of Mechanics) in 1974 from Russian Academy of Sciences. During many years he is a chief of Scientific-Research Center for Forecasting and Preventing Geo Ecological and Technologic Disasters Kuban State University and Southern Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences. He has 20 patents, published 7 monographs and more than 500 papers in reputed journals such as Russian Academy of Sciences and many others. He is the author of the Theory of the Block Element Method, has discovered the “Starting Earthquake”, and has gotten the mathematical explanations of the some Weather and Climate Change.

Mathematics, Mechanics and Seismology

Christopher Bryant completed his PhD at the age of 24 years at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was Professor in Geography, University of Waterloo, from 1970-1990 and then in Géographie, Université de Montréal,from 1990-2014. He is currently Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Montréal and Guelph. He has published almost 100 articles in peer-reviewd journals, over 30 books and over 150 chapters in books and has made several hundred presentations at conferences. See his Research Gate profile.

Territorial dynamics, Peri-urban agriculture, Urban Agriculture, Conservation of agricultural land, Local and community development, Development, Adapting to change and climate variability

Gualtiero A.N. Valeri borned in Padua, year 1960. Live in Switzerland and in Ecuador. Studied industrial chemistry and chemical engineering in Padua. Consultant in the applied sciences, R&D. Professor of Industrial Chemistry at St. Rita University of Rome. Member of Tiberina Pontificial Academy. Vicepresident of scientific committeè of Meditarranean Parliament. President of Montevenda Engineering International Association. “J. Benveniste” award for the Biophysic, year 2011. Special award for the diffusion of scientific culture from Center “Culturambiente” of Rome and the from “Centre for Peace” of Vatican City, year 2013. “Hyppocrates” award for the Medicine year 2015.

Biometeorology and Climate Change

Baike Xi received her Ph.D degree from the Department of Meteorology at Penn State University in 1999 under the guidance of Dr. Dennis Lamb. Her B. S. degree was from Beijing University, P. R. China. From 1999 to 2002, she worked as a postgraduate research associate at the University of Utah. While there she was involved with the NASA TRMM project and validated the satellite measured precipitation by using aircraft in-situ and ground based measurements during TEFLUN-A, TEFLUN-B/CAMEX3, LBA, KWAJEX, and CEMEX4. She is currently an associate research professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of North Dakota.

Cloud Microphysics retrieval from ground base measurements, atmospheric Radioative transfer, cloud and radiation parameterizations in climate model, ground and satellite remote sensing of clouds and radiation, heterogeneous reaction in clouds

Miklas Scholz, cand ing, BEng (equiv), PgC, MSc, PhD, CWEM, CEnv, CSci, CEng, FHEA, FIEMA, FCIWEM, FICE, Fellow of IWA, is Prof. in Water Resources Engineering at Lund University, Sweden.He also holds the Chair in Civil Engineering at The University of Salford, UK. He is the Head of the Civil Engineering Research Group in Salford. Prof. Scholz has shown individual excellence evidenced by world-leading publications, postgraduate supervision and research impact. His main research areas in terms of publication output are as follow: treatment wetlands, integrated constructed wetlands (ICW), sustainable flood retention basins (SFRB), permeable pavement systems, decision support systems, ponds and capillary suction time. About 47% and 45% of his research is in water resources management and wastewater treatment, respectively. The remaining 7% are in capillary processes and water treatment.

Sustainability and Water Resources Engineering

Liming Zhou is an Associate Professor with the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at University at Albany, State University of New York. He has a strong publication record in the fields of land-surface remote sensing, land-atmosphere/climate interactions, and land surface/climate modeling (e.g., author or coauthor of 3 book chapters including the IPCC AR4 Report and ~80 peer-reviewed papers in journals including Nature). His peer-refereed publications since 2000 have a total citation of >9500 times (h-index: 36) according to Google Scholar and >5500 times (h-index: 33) according to Web of Science as of March 16, 2017. Prof. Zhou has been active in professional service activities as a NSF program director (2008-2011) and as a reviewer for major highly regarded geophysical journals including Nature and for NSF and NASA proposals. Before coming to US, he was a weather forecaster (1994-1998) at National Meteorological Center in China.

Land-atmosphere/climate interaction, land-surface remote sensing, remote sensing of vegetation dynamics, land-surface modeling, climate modeling, and applications of various remote sensed products in weather, climate, and environmental sciences

Lei Shen is currently a professor and director of Key Lab for Resources Use and Environmental Restoration (RUER), Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He was the consultant of the World Economic Forum in Minerals and Metals Council in 2010 and the World Bank in 2006, and the academic committee of Word Mine Ministry Forum in 2008. He was granted the “Excellent Scientist by China Society of Natural Resources in 2012 and 2013”. More recent his expertise is focused on energy policy and mineral economics, involving the areas of regulatory systems surrounding resource extraction, energy intensive industry, cement manufacturing and regional development planning in China, resources-based city transformation and sustainable development, and energy and mineral security and multi-lateral resource cooperation. He also has particular experience in policy for small-scale mining in China.

Energy policy and mineral economics, involving the areas of regulatory systems surrounding resource extraction, energy intensive industry

Xiaojun Yuan is a Lamont Research Professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, USA. She has engaged in studies of variability of the Antarctic atmosphere-ocean-sea ice system and its role in global climate since 1995. Her research has progressed from the identification of polar-global linkages, expanded to an ENSO-Antarctic Dipole teleconnection mechanism study, and finally resulted in an Antarctic sea ice forecast. At the same time, she has utilized space-born scatterometer observations and developed a series of studies focused on air-sea interactions on synoptic time scales, ranging from cyclone-sea ice interaction, high wind evaluations to satellite enhanced cyclone statistics in the Southern Ocean.

cyclone statistics and climate variability

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Renewable, Sustainable and Low-carbon energy technologies

Alvina Reihan is an Associate Professor of the Environmental Engineering Department, Tallinn University of Technology. She received her PhD degfee in civil engineering from the Tallinn University of Technology. She has more than 20 peer-reviewedarticles. Her main interests include climate change impact on surface water resources and water quality, river run off modelling, water balance, water resources estimation and management, scenarios for water management and renewable resources. She coordinates several projects connected to climate change impact on water ecosystems and other environment issues.She is an editorial board member of the Euro - Asian Journal of Sustainable Energy Development Policy.She is a member of UNESCO Estonian Advisory Commission and Estonian State Water Commission.

Climate Change impact on surface water resources and Water quality, River run off modelling, Water balance, Water resources estimation and Management, Scenarios for water management and Renewable resources

Gordon Huang is a Professor in Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at University of Regina; Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering; President of International Society for Environmental Information Sciences; Canada Research Chair Tier 1 of Energy and Environment; Executive Director of Institute for Energy; Environment and Sustainability Communities and Editor-in-Chief of J. of Environmental Informatics. Gordon Huang was featured as one of the University of Regina's Canada Research Chairs. Dr. Huang's research focuses on developing complex models to understand and plan for climate change.

Waste management, site remediation, and risk assessment, Simulation and optimization of hydrological and environmental systems, Modeling of energy and environmental management systems, Climate modeling, impact assessment, and adaptation planning

Guoqian Chen is a Professor, Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Sustainability Science, College of Enginnering, Peking University, Beijing, China completed his education from Huazhong Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China. He is a recipient of the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers Award, and among the Thomson Reuters China Citation Laureates. He is an editorial board for dozens of international journals. He has more than 100 international publications in reputed prestigious journals.

Numerical Simulation and Systems Modelling, Systems Ecology Bio-fuels and ecological engineering Renewable Energy and Resources

Edwin Hon-Wan Chan studied Architecture in England and then learnt Law at London University and Hong Kong University. He obtained his PhD degree from King’s College, London University. He is a Chartered Architect (Authorized Person), Chartered Surveyor and also a Barrister-at-Law called to the UK and Hong Kong Bars. Before joining the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he had worked in industry for over 10 years with practical experience in property development and building control in the UK and Hong Kong. He is currently involved with teaching research and consultancy on urban studies, urban community planning, urban renewal, etc. He has published over 100 international journal papers, and serves as an editorial board member of research journals. He also serves committee members of a number of government committees and professional bodies.

Urban Renewal and Heritage conservation
Green buildings/cities promotion

Daniele De Wrachien is currently Retired Professor of Agricultural Hydraulics at the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of the State University of Milan and Member of the Board of Director of the Wessex Institute of Technology ( WIT ), Southampton,UK. He graduated from the State University of Milan as geologist and obtained his PhD in Advanced Engineering Geology. He performed his duties as, Director of the Institute of Agricultural Hydraulics (2000-2006) ,Director of Computer Centre of the Faculty of Agriculture,(1992-95), Tutor of MPhil and PhD students of the Faculty of Agriculture, External Examiner to MPhil and PhD students,Visiting Professor at the Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT). Daniele received the following Honours and Awards: Award for Truthful Support and Help in Organizing and Improving Scientific Level of the Symposia "Actual Tasks on Agricultural Engineering", Croatian Agricultural Engineering Society, Award in Recognition of Services to the European Society of Agricultural Engineers, Award for outstanding contribution to Engineering Sciences,WIT, Award for the Best Performing Working Body, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage.

Flood control and mitigation measures, Desertification and environmental impact of climate change

Tijian Wang is a professor and vice director of School of Atmospheric Science of Nanjing University, committee member of IGAC-China, Deputy Secretary-General of Atmospheric Environmental Society of Chinese Environmental Science Society and vice director of Atmospheric Composition Society Chinese of Meteorological Society. More than 200 papers have been published in the domestic and international professional journals.

Atmospheric environment and chemistry modeling, air pollution and climate change, atmospheric deposition and air-soil exchange

Pierluigi Siano (M’09–SM'14) received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and electrical engineering from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He is an Associate Professor (with accreditation for Full Professor) of Electrical Energy Engineering with the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno.. He has co-authored more than 270 papers including more than 140 international journal papers. He is Editor of Intelligent Industrial Systems, Springer, an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, member of the editorial board of more than thirty International Journals.

His research activities are centered on the integration of distributed energy resources in smart distribution systems and on planning and management of power systems.

Jaime Senabre (1966). Graduated in Psychology, is currently developing his PhD thesis in the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the UNED. He has extensive postgraduate training, achieving a total of five Masters, including: Masters in Occupational Health, Safety and Workplace Risk by Camilo José Cela University, 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. His multidisciplinary background has led him to exercise his professional work as a wildland firefighter for 18 years and is currently Chief of the Wildland Fire Brigade. Exerts Clinical Psychology at several private centers and provides training to the various emergency services and police. Director and Chairman of the Scientific-Professional Committee of the National Symposium on Forest Fires -SINIF (2008-2014) 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, and Spanish Association of Behavioral Psychology.

Wild Fire, Climate Change, Ecology

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

Moktar Hamdi attended the University Provence (France), where he took a Engineer degree in industrial and applied microbiology and He subsequently obtained a PhD degree in microbiology, followed by a post-doctoral period at INSA Toulouse (France) In 1999, Moktar Hamdi joined National Institute of Applied Sciences and technology as an associate professor being promoted in 2004 to full Professor in Biological Engineering, where he was Head of Department of biological and Chemical Engineering from 2003 to 2008, and Head of doctoral school from 2009 to 2012). Professor Moktar Hamdi is also director of research laboratory in Microbial ecology and technology in the university of Carthage since 2004. Dr. Hamdi has published over 180 papers, over 10 patents and some chapters in several books. He is a scientific advisory boards and he has served on many editorial boards of many indexed scientific journals.

Biological Engineering, Applied Microbiology AND Chemical Engineering

Ildefons Pla is Emeritus from Universitat de Lleida, Spain. His research areas are Conservation and degradation of soil and water; Management of soil and water in soils vine; Methodology and models for assessing physical and hydrological soil and Modeling processes and salinization of soils under irrigation sodification

Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry

Nils-Axel (”Nikas”) Mörner took his Ph.D. in Quaternary Geology at Stockholm University in 1969. He was head of a personal institute at Stockholm University and the Swedish National Council on Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics (P&G) from 1991 up to his retirement in 2005. He has written many hundreds of research papers and several books. 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).

Global sea level changes, Paleoclimate, Paleoseismics, Neotectonics, Paleomagnetism, Earth rotation, Planetary-Solar-Terrestrial Interaction

Xiangrong Wang is currently the director and professor of the Centre for Urban Eco-Planning & Design, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering of Fudan University in Shanghai China, the director of National Centre for Virtual Simulation of Environmental Science at Fudan University,the President of Shanghai Ecological Society, the Deputy Chairman of Urban Ecological Commission of Ecological Society of China. In addition, he is the Chair of Environmental Science and Greening Division of Shanghai Municipal Construction Commission, and the editorial members of some academic journals, such as the editor-in-chief of Journal of World Forestry (Hans Press, USA), editors of Acta Ecological Sinica, Chinese Journal of Ecology, Chinese Journal of Eco-Agriculture, Journal of Environmental Science & Technology, etc, and reviewers of some International Journals such as Ecological Engineering, Landscape and Urban Planning, and Journal of Environmental Management.He also served as a regional vice-chair of East Asia, the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication during 2004-2012 and a steering member of INTECOL Association. Prof. Wang got his Ph.D of Environmental Ecology in 1991 at East China Normal University and carried out his post-doctoral education of urban ecology and Planning at Tongji University in 1993. He was also a senior visiting scholar at the Univrsity of Liverpool, UK during 1994-1996 and a Fulbright Scholar at the State University of New York at New Paltz and Bard College, USA during 2004-2005.

Environmental ecology assessment and Ecological planning, Global change and Environmental policy & Sustainability, and Urban ecosystem research

Christopher Bryant completed his PhD at the age of 24 years at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was Professor in Geography, University of Waterloo, from 1970-1990 and then in Géographie, Université de Montréal,from 1990-2014. He is currently Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Montréal and Guelph. He has published almost 100 articles in peer-reviewd journals, over 30 books and over 150 chapters in books and has made several hundred presentations at conferences. See his Research Gate profile.

Territorial dynamics, Peri-urban agriculture, Urban Agriculture, Conservation of agricultural land, Local and community development, Development, Adapting to change and climate variability

Yuri Latypov has completed his Pd. Geol. At the age of 36 from Institute Geology and Geophysics and Dr. Biol. Sic at the age of 47 years from Paleontological Institute Academy of Science USSR. He is the principal officer of A,V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology. HE is Academic New York Academy of Sciences and Russian Ecological Academy. He has published more than more 170 papers in reputed journals (16 monographs, 5 in English and Vietnamese) and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute: International Journal of Biodiversity; American Journal of Climate Change; Advances in Natural Sciences; Life Science; Journal Environmental Ecology.

Climate Change, Natural Sciences, Environmental Ecology

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Isaac Moradi has completed his first PhD from Kharazmi University in Climatology and Environmental Planning and his second PhD in Radio and Space Science from Chalmers University of Technology and postdoctoral studies from ESSIC, University of Maryland. He is currently a Research Scientist at University of Maryland collaborating with NOAA and NASA on different topics including developing long-term climate data records from satellite data, data assimilation, radiative transfer modeling, and product retrieval. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. Additionally, in the past he has served as convener and co-convener of many sessions at AGU Fall Meeting and EGU General Assembly.

Retrieving geophysical variables from microwave satellite data, Solar radiation resource assessment, Developing new sensor concepts especially for measuring tropospheric humidity

Jinsheng You completed his PhD12 years ago at Utah State University and postdoctoral studies at University of Nebraska – Lincoln School of Natural Resources. He is an Associate Geoscientist in University of Nebraska – Lincoln, School of Nature Resources. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute: Journal of Water Resource and Protection, and American Association of State Climatologists Journal of Service Climatology. He has reviewed articles for more than 15 journals and funding request proposals for several funding agencies such as US Geological Survey, US Department of Agriculture, and NOAA. He is interested in hydrologic and earth system modeling, monitoring climate, soil, and hydrologic system. His work contributes to the quality assurance and management of climate data, development of big data, climate analysis, systematicanalysis, crop water use, extreme event analysis, hydrologic modeling and etc.

Monitoring Climate, Climate data management, Climate analysis, Extreme event analysis, Hydrologic and Earth system modeling, Soil, and Hydrologic system

Woo-Kyun Lee finished his PhD course at the College of Forestry at Goettingen University in Germany. His research focuses mainly on forest planning, forest growth model, climate change impact assessment and adaptation. He is also an expert in GIS/RS (Geographic Information System/Remote Sensing), and spatial data analysis. He is currently a professor at the Division of Environment Science & Ecological Engineering at Korea University. He is also the Director of BK21+ Eco-Leader Education Center, Korea University. He serves as President of Korean Society of Forest Management Information, Vice President of Remote Sensing Society, Korean Society of Geospatial Information, Korean Society of Geographic Information, and Special Advisory Committee of Korean Society of Climate Change. Currently his researches are focused on Assessing Impact and Vulnerability in Environmental Sectors (especially Agriculture, Forest Ecosystem, Urban Area) in relation to Climate Change and Carbon Cycle and preparing Vulnerability Map with different spatial scale for making Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in National and Local Level. Assessing Ecosystem Services (Support, Provision, Regulation, Culture) by using GIS and Spatial Analysis and preparing Ecosystem Service Map for reasonable Decision-making in Environmental sectors.

Forest Ecosystem, Climate Change and Carbon Cycle, Adaptation and Mitigation Measures

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Climate Change, CO2 emissions reduction,

Alexander A. Kokhanovsky graduated from the Department of Physics of the Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus, in 1983. He has received Ph. D. degree in optical sciences from the B. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus, in 1991. The PhD work has been aimed at studies of light scattering properties of aerosol media and foams. His habilitation work (Main Geobphysical Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2011) has been devoted to the development of advanced cloud and snow remote sensing techniques based on spaceborne observations. Dr. Kokhanovsky has worked at the atmospheric optics group in the Laboratory of Light Scattering Media Optics at Institute of Physics in Minsk (1983-2004) and also he has belonged to the SCIAMACHY/ENVISAT algorithm development team (Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, 2001-2013). He is currently working with aerosol and cloud remote sensing algorithms for the imaging polarimeter (3MI) to be launched in 2021 on board EUMETSAT Polar System-Second Generation (EPS-SG). His research interests are directed towards studies of light propagation and scattering in terrestrial atmosphere. Dr. Kokhanovsky is the author of books Light Scattering Media Optics: Problems and Solutions (Chichester: Springer-Praxis, 1999, 2001, 2004), Polarization Optics of Random Media (Berlin: Springer-Praxis, 2003), Cloud Optics (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006), and Aerosol Optics (Berlin: Springer-Praxis, 2008). He has published more than 300 papers in the field of environmental optics, radiative transfer, and light scattering.

Directed towards studies of light propagation
Scattering in terrestrial atmosphere

Vincenzo Isabella Valenzi is the Director Biomedical Science Department, UNIMEIER, Milano, Italy and Presedent of CIFA. He has been conducting research on meteoropathy since 1980. With a group of physicists and doctors, he founded a Center for the study of biometeorology in Rome. He has conducted extensive research on Climate therapy of the thermodynamics of biological systems.

Climatology and Meteorology

Jaime Senabre (1966). Graduated in Psychology, is currently developing his PhD thesis in the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the UNED. He has extensive postgraduate training, achieving a total of five Masters, including: Masters in Occupational Health, Safety and Workplace Risk by Camilo José Cela University, 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. His multidisciplinary background has led him to exercise his professional work as a wildland firefighter for 18 years and is currently Chief of the Wildland Fire Brigade. Exerts Clinical Psychology at several private centers and provides training to the various emergency services and police. Director and Chairman of the Scientific-Professional Committee of the National Symposium on Forest Fires -SINIF (2008-2014) 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, and Spanish Association of Behavioral Psychology.

Wild Fire, Climate Change, Ecology

A. W. Jayawardena is a retired professor with over 40 years of experience in the fields of hydrology, water resources and environmental engineering in academia, government, consulting engineers and international organizations. At present, he is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Hong Kong where he has been teaching for many years, and has in the past been a Technical Advisor to the Research and Development Centre of Nippon Koei Co. Ltd (Consulting Engineers), Japan, Research and Training Advisor to the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) under the auspices of UNESCO, Japan, Professor in the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan, a Guest Professor of Beijing Normal University, China, Honorary Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences of the University of Hong Kong and a Visiting Professor in Tsinghua University of China. He has been the recepient of the 2013 International Award of the Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources, has authored the book "Environmental and Hydrological Systems Modelling", and authored or co-authored over 175 reseach publications.

Hydrology and Water Resources

J.P. Paredes-Sánchez is a lecturer in the Department of Energy at the University of Oviedo, Spain. He received his PhD in Energy Engineering in 2010, at the University of Oviedo (Spain), and has been associated with national and internationalresearch projects at the Oviedo Higher Technical School of Mining and Engineering since 2007. He is the author or co-author of tens of papers and conferences on renewable energy and energy efficiency. He has published books about university education and energy sources. He is also involved in European programs for updating renewable energy research and higher education.

Research focus has been on the theory and application in the combination of conventional and non-conventional energy and Modelling of Biomass Energy Systems (BES), with a background in bioenergy research and hybridization techniques using energy sources.

José Sánchez del Río Sáezhas been working in biotechnology with photonic biosensors for more than 4 years. He did his PhD in photonic bio-sensing and DNA mutations detection at Madrid Microelectronics Institute (IMM-CNM-CSIC). Then he worked in a private company as a patent researcher in Biometrics and novel sensors and after as a postdoc in the Face Recognition and Artificial Vision (FRAV) group of the Computer and Statistics department at Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC). He has done 2 postdocs in the Nuclear Physics Department at the Matter Structure Institute (IEM-CSIC) and was specialized in high energy ions, protons and gamma radiation detection. Nowadays, he is working as a SW/HW testing engineer in the aerospace field for ALTER TECHNOLOGY.

Photonic Biosensors and Radiation detection

Gene Fry grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA. He received his PhD in Resource Economics from Cornell University in 1989. He testified before the Maine and New York utility commissions and a nuclear plant siting board. He became policy & planning director at the Maine energy office in 1988. In 1990 Dr. Fry joined the Massachusetts utility commission staff. He spent half his time on energy efficiency programs, analyzing savings estimates and reviewing program plans. During 2009-11, he was in charge of evaluating many energy efficiency programs for Western Massachusetts Electric and Connecticut Light and Power. In a 1991 case to assign prices to air pollution, Dr. Fry was point person for CO2. He reviewed scores of studies on the evidence for it and its consequences. He recommended $22 / ton of CO2. Over 2005-2009, he wrote hundreds of summary articles about climate change for 2 monthly newsletters. His research has included how CO2 and CH4 relate to temperatures over millions of years via albedo changes and natural feedbacks; recent warming rates for US cities; economics of home solar water heating; and the economics of nuclear power plants as they age. The 1st shows that we can expect 5°C warming or more from current CO2 and CH4 levels, mostly over the next 300 years, as well as even more warming if humans emit even more carbon. Dr. Fry has presented information on global warming to some 40 audiences. He has distributed his CDs, with a library on climate change, to more than 20,000 people over 10 years. He has made three 2,000 mile bicycle trips, most recently from Seattle to Boston with his son in 2003.

1. Temperatures trends in the US, mostly summer highs over 41 years, for 348 US cities. 2. Analysis of temperatures over the past 15 million years to project global temperature changes over the coming decades and centuries. I connect changes in albedo (ice, snow, clouds, sulfates) and natural emissions (permafrost, methane hydrates, peat and forest fires, and outgassing from a warming ocean) to future temperature trends.

Prof. Hoeppe joined Munich Re in 2004. He was appointed Head of the Geo Risks Research Department in January 2005. Currently he is heading the Munich Re division “Geo Risks Research/Corporate Climate Centre”.
Before joining Munich Re Prof. Hoeppe has worked in different institutes at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and as a post doc at Yale University (USA). Most time of his university career Prof. Hoeppe spent at the Insitute of Bioclimatology and Applied Meteorology and the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. His academic education is in meteorology (Masters and PhD) and human biology (PhD).
Prof. Hoeppe is scientific member of many scientific societies, from 1999 to 2002 he has been the President of the International Society of Biometeorolgy. He has held expert functions in different UN-Organisations. He is the Chairman of the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative, which he has founded in 2005. In 2007 Prof. Hoeppe has been appointed as Global Warming Advisor of the Bavarian State Government and Chair of the “Finance-Forum: Climate Change” of the high-tech Strategy of the German Federal Government. In 2009 he has been one of the initiators of the Desertec Industrial Initiative. In 2014 he became Chairman of the “Münchener Universitätsgesellschaft”, the sponsoring association of the “Ludwig-Maximilians-University”.
Prof. Hoeppe currently is member of several caucuses, advisory boards and associations:
-Board Member of the Global Climate Forum
-Member of the Steering Committee of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at LSE
-Member of High Level OECD Advisory Board on Management of Large Scale Catastrophes
-Chair of MCII (Munich Climate Insurance Initiative)
-Member of Advisory Board of Munich Re Foundation
-Member of Working Group "Extreme Events and Climate Risks” of the Geneva Association
-Chair of “Muenchener Universitaetsgesellschaft”
-Board member of VfU (Verein für Umwelt-management und Nachhaltigkeit in Finanzinstituten) and coordinator of "Finanz-Forum: Klimawandel“

His main areas of research have been effects of atmospheric processes (heat/cold, UV radiation, air pressure fluctuations) and air pollutants (ozone, particles) on humans and the general assessment of environmental risks. Currently his research focus is on trends of natural catastrophes and their drivers and on strategies to increase the resilience of societies against these perils. A major topic also is the analysis of effects of climate change on insurance and the development of strategies on how this industry can contribute solutions for the adaptation and mitigation of global warming.

Professor V.P. Singh is a University Distinguished Professor, a Regents Professor, and Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering at Texas A & M University. He received his B.S., M.S., Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in engineering. He is a registered professional engineer, a registered professional hydrologist, and an Honorary diplomate of ASCE-AAWRE. He has published more than 900 journal articles; 25 textbooks; 59 edited reference books; 104 book chapters; and 315 conference papers in the area of hydrology and water resources. He has received more than 85 national and international awards. He is a member of 10 international science/engineering academies. He has served as President of the American Institute of Hydrology (AIH). He is editor-in-chief of three journals and two book series and serves on editorial boards of more than 25 journals and three book series.

Watershed modeling, Erosion and Sediment Transport in Upland Watersheds, Streamflow Forecasting, Dam Break Analysis, Entropy-Based Modeling, Network Design,Groundwater Modeling and Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change.

J. Sciare is the director of the Energy Environment and Water Research Center (EEWRC) of the Cyprus Institute (CyI). His main expertise covers the experimental characterization of atmospheric pollutants; addressing issues related their impacts on air quality, health and climate. He is currently leading the development of several major research infrastructure in Cyprus, contributing to the long-term observation of key climate forcers in the Eastern Mediterranean Middle East (EMME) region. These facilities represent a major constrain to the Air Quality and Climate models used at CyI to evaluate the various impacts of human-made air pollution. J. Sciare is (co-)author of more than 100 international refereed publications (H-index 35) and more than 200 presentations at international conferences devoted to atmospheric chemistry and physics.

My main expertise covers the experimental characterization of atmospheric pollutants(sources, geographic origin, atmospheric processes); addressing issues related their impacts on air quality, health and climate. I am currently leading the development of several major research infrastructure in Cyprus, contributing to the long-term observation of key climate forcers in the Eastern Mediterranean Middle East (EMME) region. These facilities represent a major constrain to the Air Quality and Climate regional models used at the Cyprus Institute to evaluate the various impacts of human-made air pollution. They also aim at promoting (through transnational access and training) the development of the first atmospheric network in the Middle East complying with international standards.

Wendy Lynne Lee is professor of philosophy at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania where she has taught for over 25 years. Her primary objectives have long been to realize a philosophically informed life both professionally, as a public intellectual, and as a citizen dissident. She is deeply committed to teaching, writing, and a life as an engaged feminist, particularly in the environmental movement as a writer, researcher, and amateur photographer. Lee has published about 40 scholarly essays in her areas of expertise--philosophy of language (particularly later Wittgenstein), philosophy of mind/brain, feminist theory, theory of sexual identity, post-Marxian theory, nonhuman animal welfare, ecological aesthetics, aesthetic phenomenology, and philosophy of ecology. She was a founding member of the Shale Justice Coalition, ran for Lt. Governor on the Pennsylvania Green Party 2014 ticket, and was vice president of the National Community Rights Network (CELDF). She writes an incendiary current issues blog called The Wrench. Her most recent book is "Eco-Nihilism: The Philosophical Geopolitics of the Climate Change Apocalypse," Lexington Press. She is now hard at work drafting "This is Environmental Ethics" for Blackwell, and completing her first Trumpian era scholarly essay tentatively titled "The New Fascism: The Retrofit of Karl Marx in the Quest for the Fully Capitalized Planet.

Philosophy of language (particularly later Wittgenstein), philosophy of mind/brain, feminist theory, theory of sexual identity, post-Marxian theory, nonhuman animal welfare, ecological aesthetics, aesthetic phenomenology, and philosophy of ecology.

Hans Joachim Mueller has completed his PhD in Geophysics at the Academy of Sciences Berlin, Germany in 1988. During the last 30 years he published multiple papers in reputed journals about high pressure geophysics, mineral physics and the deep interior of terrestrial planets. The international program Deep Carbon Observatory was link and cause for starting to care about special aspects of climate change few years ago.

Geophysical large volume high pressure research in conjunction with light and neutron sources, High pressure ultrasonic interferometry, High pressure falling sphere viscosimetry, Seismic attenuation, Elastic and inelastic properties of natural rocks and its artificial representatives under extreme conditions, Experimental investigation of elastic properties in the seismic frequency range by the LVP deformation technique, Multi-staging in DIA-type LVPs – bridging the pressure gap between large volume and diamond anvil cell hp technology, Comparative study of long term climate development of terrestrial planets and Earth, Development and political enforcement of real negative emissions on planet Earth before the ongoing climate change gets irreversibly.

Dr Taha B.M.J. Ouarda’s specialization is in hydrometeorology, environmental and public health modeling, and risk analysis. Prior to joining Masdar Institute, Mr. Ouarda was Chairman of the Canada Research Chair on the Estimation of Hydro-meteorological Variables, and also Chairman of the Industrial Chair in Statistical Hydrology, where his research team represented one of the largest Canadian teams in the field of hydrology. Mr. Ouarda has also served as President of the National Canadian Committee on Statistical Hydrology. Mr. Ouarda holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University. He has developed several approaches for the estimation of extreme hydro-meteorological events on local and regional scales, developed several methodologies for the modeling of hydro-meteorological variables under changing environments, and developed several computer softwares that deal with a range of problems in the fields of water resources and environmental engineering. He has also led several international projects dealing with hydro-meteorological modeling, environmental analysis and the links between climate evolution, the environment, and public health. Mr. Ouarda is the recipient of a number of prestigious awards and is a member of the editorial Board of a number of international scientific journals such as the Journal of Hydrology and the Hydrological Sciences Journal

Estimation of extreme hydro-meteorological events, modeling of hydro-meteorological variables, computational hydrology, environmental analysis, links between climate evolution, the environment, and public health.

1951: Born in Japan.
1974: Graduated from Department of Physics in Waseda University, Japan.
1974: Assistant in Department of Geo Sciences, National Defense Academy, Japan.
1989: Lecturer in Department of Geo Sciences, National Defense Academy, Japan.
1990: Ph. D. from University of Tsukuba, Climatological and numerical studies of deep local depressions on the lee side of the Hidaka mountain range in Hokkaido.
1991: Associate professor in Department of Earth Sciences, National Defense Academy, Japan.
1998 to present: Professor in Institute of Earth and Ocean Sciences, National Defense Academy, Japan.

Aviation weather, Turbulence, Lightning, Fog, Artificial cloud seeding

Xiangrong Wang is currently the director and professor of the Centre for Urban Eco-Planning & Design, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering of Fudan University in Shanghai China, the director of National Centre for Virtual Simulation of Environmental Science at Fudan University,the President of Shanghai Ecological Society, the Deputy Chairman of Urban Ecological Commission of Ecological Society of China. In addition, he is the Chair of Environmental Science and Greening Division of Shanghai Municipal Construction Commission, and the editorial members of some academic journals, such as the editor-in-chief of Journal of World Forestry (Hans Press, USA), editors of Acta Ecological Sinica, Chinese Journal of Ecology, Chinese Journal of Eco-Agriculture, Journal of Environmental Science & Technology, etc, and reviewers of some International Journals such as Ecological Engineering, Landscape and Urban Planning, and Journal of Environmental Management.He also served as a regional vice-chair of East Asia, the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication during 2004-2012 and a steering member of INTECOL Association. Prof. Wang got his Ph.D of Environmental Ecology in 1991 at East China Normal University and carried out his post-doctoral education of urban ecology and Planning at Tongji University in 1993. He was also a senior visiting scholar at the Univrsity of Liverpool, UK during 1994-1996 and a Fulbright Scholar at the State University of New York at New Paltz and Bard College, USA during 2004-2005.

Environmental ecology assessment and Ecological planning, Global change and Environmental policy & Sustainability, and Urban ecosystem research

A. W. Jayawardena is a retired professor with over 40 years of experience in the fields of hydrology, water resources and environmental engineering in academia, government, consulting engineers and international organizations. At present, he is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Hong Kong where he has been teaching for many years, and has in the past been a Technical Advisor to the Research and Development Centre of Nippon Koei Co. Ltd (Consulting Engineers), Japan, Research and Training Advisor to the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) under the auspices of UNESCO, Japan, Professor in the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan, a Guest Professor of Beijing Normal University, China, Honorary Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences of the University of Hong Kong and a Visiting Professor in Tsinghua University of China. He has been the recepient of the 2013 International Award of the Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources, has authored the book "Environmental and Hydrological Systems Modelling", and authored or co-authored over 175 reseach publications.

Hydrology and Water Resources

Queena K QIAN is Assistant Professor at OTB research for Research Institute for the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands since December 2014. Prior to this appointment, She was employed as Research Assistant Professor at Building and Real Estate Dept., the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK PolyU). She received her PhD, entitled “Barriers to Promote Building Energy Efficiency- A Transaction Costs Perspective”, at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2012. She has received prestigious awards from different countries. For example, Delft Technology Fellow (2014) at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Endeavour Australian Cheung Kong Fellow (2013) at University of South Australia, Australia. She was a Fulbright recipient (2010) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at UC Berkeley and Washington University in St Louis, USA.

green building promotion, building energy efficiency, transaction costs, low carbon city development, elderly friendly precinct design, sustainable urban planning, energy retrofit, governance and incentive schemes, etc.

Qiang Zhang has his expertise in evaluation of risk of floods and droughts, modelling of hydrological and meteorological extremes. His achievements include finding of nonstationarity in occurrence rates of precipitation extremes and effects of topographical characteristics on spatial patterns of precipitation extremes. Besides, he proposed detrending methods in multi-scale detrending fluctuation analysis which make feasible application of MDFA in modelling of hydrometeorological series. Moreover, he achieved new finding of clustering phenomenon of precipitation extremes and this finding can help to development human understanding of clustering phenomenon of floods and droughts.

Hydrometeorology, Natural hazards: modelling and mechanisms; nonlinear hydrology; modelling of hydrological and meteorological extremes.