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Day 2 :

Keynote Forum

Yonglong Lu

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Keynote: Ecological Impacts of Emerging pollutants

Time : 09:15-10:00

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Biography:

Dr. Yonglong Lu is a Distinguished Professor and Co-Director of  Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Chair of Regional Ecological Risk Assessment and Environmental Management Group at RCEES, CAS; Fellow of TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences); past President of Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE); President of Pacific Society Association (PSA); Member of International Resource Panel, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP/IRP); Science Advisor of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); former member of Committee on Scientific Planning and Review, International Council for Sciences (ICSU/CSPR); Vice President of Ecological Society of China; Chair of Committee on Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Chinese Society for Sustainable Development. He also serves as a Science Advisor to UNESCO Biotechnology Research Center, National Research Institute of Humanity and Nature (RIHN) of Japan, and a jury member for the category of Ecology and Conservation Biology, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards. His research interests include: Ecological impacts and risk assessment of emerging pollutants, sustainable watershed management, coastal environmental impacts, urban ecological planning and assessment, energy and environmental impacts, environmental management and emergency response, and environmental technology innovation and diffusion policies. As an active environmental ecologist, he has published more than 260 papers in the peer reviewed journals such as Science, Nature, Science Advances, Environ Int., Environ S&T, Environ Pollution, J Hazardous Mat., Sci. Total Environ, Chemosphere, J Environ Management, J Environ Quality, Environ Sci. and Policy, Environ Management, AMBIO, Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, and Energy Policy. He has authored or co-authored 16 books, and his papers and books have been widely cited and appreciated with some of them listed as classical citations. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability jointly appointed by the Ecological Society of America and Ecological Society of China through a global search process, an Associate Editor of Science Advances, the founder and Associate Editor of Environmental Development: Trans-disciplinary Journal of SCOPE, Associate Editor of Acta Ecologica Sinica, and an editorial board member of Chemistry and Ecology, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transformation, and other peer-reviewed journals. He was the Guest Editor of a supplementary issue of Science magazine “Science in the Chinese Academy of Sciences” (2012). He has accumulated more than two decades experience in international development and in the coordination of international activities, taking leadership positions in national or multinational organizations. He has been invited by the UNEP, UNESCO, UNDP, APEC, ICSU, SCOPE, IAC, TWAS and IIASA many times to make presentations or keynote speeches at international conferences or forums, and to serve on various expert panels. He has been a project leader/coordinator or chief scientist for some 40 national or international cooperative projects, and served on several expert consultation groups for environmental decision-making at various levels of the Chinese government. He has obtained various awards and honors from the State Council of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences and other national or international organizations, including the 2nd Prize of National Award for Advancement of Science and Technology, National Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Scientist, Green Design International Contribution Award, and SCOPE Distinguished Achievement Award.

Abstract:

Emerging persistent organic pollutants (ePOPs) are newly released organic compounds to the environment, or ‘old’ organic compounds which are subject to the concern of hazards risk, or those pollutants that may be candidates of POPs list of Stockholm Convention. Because of their persistence, bio-accumulation, and potential for long-range transport, the ePOPs may bring great impacts to ecosystem and human health. In this presentation, the Bohai Coastal Region is taken as case study area for coastal ecosystem research. Multi-disciplinary methods, including ecological field survey, eco-toxicological analysis, spatial analysis using geographic information system, simulation and modelling, social survey and policy analysis, are applied.

For a decade, my research group has made extensive investigation of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFASs) along the coast of the Bohai Sea in north China. Major efforts have been devoted to source identification of the emerging pollutants through sampling analysis and its correlation with industrial and domestic emissions. We found that industrialization and urbanization along the coast have had great impacts on the source and fate of emerging pollutants in environmental media. Compared the field data with modelling results, natural degradation and new input have been found, and spatial diffusion of their environmental risks in multi-media has been simulated and validated. Strategies and management guidelines were presented for prevention and remediation of ecological and health impacts of the emerging pollutants.

 

Keynote Forum

Robert Hewat

Independent Environmental & Social Impact management consultant, Papindo / Clear Intercultural

Keynote: Sensitivity of suspended sediment simulations to the selection of open boundary conditions in applied three-dimensional modelling

Time : 11:15- 12:00

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Biography:

Robert Hewat is an independent consultant with over 25 years’ experience working with government, communities, NGOs, bi- and mulit-lateral development organizations and resource companies with a focus on social ecology, indigenous community empowerment and sustainable management of natural resources in Indonesia and Melanesia.  This includes working as the Papua Landscape Advisor for the USAID Indonesia Forest and Climate Support Program (2013-2015), which involved   facilitating participatory social, economic and ecological research and supporting multi-stakeholder planning for adaptive-collaborative management of the Mimika-Asmat coastal wetlands.

Abstract:

The Mimika-Asmat Coastal Wetlands of south-west New Guinea include approximately 575,000 ha of mangroves and 2,000,0000 ha of swamp forest and are amongst the World’s most extensive, bio-diverse and carbon rich coastal wetlands.  They are home to the indigenous Kamoro, Semapan and Asmat people, who depend heavily on mangrove and swamp forest resources.  Contrary to the trend of rapid deforestation and degradation of mangrove and swamp forests in Western Indonesia, up until around 2001 these and most of Papua’s other coastal wetlands remained largely intact, but since then threats from logging, mining, plantations, infrastructure development and urban encroachment have resulted in the rate of degradation and deforestation rising to approach the national average.  The Mimika-Asmat Coastal Wetlands Program was initiated by the USAID Indonesia Forest and Climate Support Program in 2013 with the aim of building multi-stakeholder commitment and capacity for sustainable utilization and management of these forests.  Activities undertaken to date include: 1) Vegetation and carbon stock mapping; 2) Formation and capacity building of a Mangrove and Swamp Forest Working Group; 3) Participatory mapping, land-use planning and development of Community Conservation and Livelihoods Agreements; 4) Identification of threats and modeling of the impacts of climate, land-use and coastal change; 5) Social-ecological resilience assessment, economic valuation and preliminary assessment of the sustainability of existing and potential resource exploitation; 6) Coastal Field Schools pilot program; and 7) Development of regional mangrove management strategy, an adaptive-collaborative management plan and local regulations.  Whilst this initiative is still in its infancy significant progress has been made towards highlighting the local, regional and global significance and building local capacity towards sustainable management.

Coastal Zones 2018 International Conference Keynote Speaker Dr. Synudeen Sahib photo
Biography:

Dr. Sainudeen embodies several personalities- Environmental scientist, science manager, educator, author, editor and communicator- all rolled into one.  There are few Indian scientists who have done so much in so many different fields, and have done it with such fervour.  Dr. Sainudeen has been a pioneer in Environmental research and among of his work have been recognized internationally. Considering his research work and environmental awareness programme among public NASA and International Astronomical Union (IAU) had named a minor planet after his name called " Pattazhy planet 5178" in 2008.  Due to the efforts of Dr. Sainudeen the name of his native place Pattazhy in Kerala state has been elevated to the celestial orbit and has become part of the world history. 
He has acclaimed wide recognition among global scientific community through his research.  He has to his credit, 300 publications, which include scientific papers, reports of research projects as well as science articles in newspapers. He has authored more than 15 books internationally. He has been expert member of Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India to study possible impacts of mobile towers, Expert member of Indian Council of Medical Research  (ICMR ) to study impacts of mobile phones on living organisms, Expert member , Kerala State Wildlife Advisory Board and Expert member of Environmental  Impact Assessment Authority etc. He had received more than 100 national and International Awards. 
 
 

Abstract:

India has a vast coastline of 8000 km, of which, 5, 423 km belong to Peninsular India and 2, 094 km to the Andaman, Nicobar, and Lakshadweep Islands, and with an EEZ of 2.02 million sq. km. There are about 13,000 recorded marine species  in India.  Indian coastal zones have a variety of habitats like mangrove, estuarine, coral reefs, sea grass beds, lagoons, sand dunes, rocky shore, cliffs, intertidal mud flats, etc. Coastline of India has also supports nearly 250 million people and the ecological services of marine and coastal ecosystems of India play a vital role in India’s economy growth. The marine floral diversity includes 844 species of marine alga (sea weeds) belonging to 217 genera, 14 species of sea grasses and 69 species of mangroves. The marine faunal diversity includes a wide variety of life forum. The Indian coastal water harbours 451 species of sponges, more than 200 species of corals, more than 2900 species of crustacean, 3370 species of marine molluscs, more than 200 species of bryozoans, 765 species of echinoderm, 47 species of tunicates, more than 1300 marine fishes, 26 species of sea snakes, 5 species of sea turtles and 30 species of marine mammals including dugong, dolphins, whales etc. In addition a wide variety of sea birds can be observed around the coast. There are ten species of sharks and rays including whale shark, all species of sea horses,  all cetaceans, dugong, nine species of shells, five species of sea turtles, one species of otter, all species of corals, all species of sponges and all holothurians that occur in coastal and marine areas of India are considered under threat, therefore, protected under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 by listing them in the Schedule.  Major anthropogenic direct drivers of ecosystem degradation and destruction include habitat conversion to other forms of land use, overexploitation of species and associated destructive harvesting practices, spread of invasive alien species, and the impacts of pollution from agricultural, domestic and industrial effluents. In this paper, the major issues related to coastal and marine biodiversity conservation and measures taken to address them have been highlighted.

Keynote Forum

Quang Nguyen

The University of Mississippi, USA

Keynote: Assessment of coastal hazards from extreme rainfall floods and sea level rise
Coastal Zones 2018 International Conference Keynote Speaker Quang Nguyen photo
Biography:

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.

Abstract:

Coastal areas are prone to many natural hazards such as extreme rainfall floods and sea level rise (SLR). Coastal areas are home to more than one billion people across the globe and up to 310 million of those live in 100-year floodplain areas. Moreover, U.S. $11 trillion worth of infrastructure assets were constructed below the 100-year flood mark. The natural hazards also affect coastal ecosystem. The primary objective of this presentation is to present the one-dimensional (1-D) HEC-RAS floodplain modeling and a CAIT methodology using high resolution laser-based digital elevation model (DEM) data of the terrain and Landsat-8 imagery to evaluate the impact of extreme rainfall floods and SLR on coastal regions. The coastal regions of Miami in the United States and Hai Phong in Vietnam were selected for this study. The key results of the floodplain modeling for these cities indicated that 409.64 km2, or 56.76% of the study area in Miami and 177.84 km2, or 84.31% of the study area in Hai Phong are inundated by floodwater, respectively. The affected population due to an extreme rainfall flood is around 1.42 million in Miami and 0.62 million in Hai Phong. The results of the SLR simulation show that the submerged land due to 2 m SLR is 412.0 km2 (57.1 % of the study area) in Miami and 35.3 km2 (16.7% of the study area) in Hai Phong. The affected population from a 2 m SLR is close to 1.43 million in Miami and 0.07 million in Hai Phong. In this study, a resilience management plan was recommended to protect people, infrastructure, and ecosystem from coastal hazards.