Coastal Zones and Oceanography

Head of the Laboratory of Geology and lithodynamics of the Southern Branch of the PP Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, professor, member of the Russian Ecological Academy, a member of the Krasnodar Regional Scientific and Technical Committee, member of the Russian National Oceanographic Committee, member of the EUCC, expert on the problems of the Black Sea for the IOC of UNESCO . Since 2010, a member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the International Center for Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal seas (Kobe, Japan). I supervised a number of Russian and international coastal and ocean expeditions, was a member of four crews underwater laboratory "Chernomor". In 1987 I directed the research of radionuclides in the rivers Pripyat and the Dnieper after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Prof.Kosyan Ruben Derenikovich known as the head of the 12 international and 40 Russian projects. One of the most significant is made under my leadership, the project Ministry of Economic Development of Russian Federation "Scientific support of a balanced business planning on the unique marine coastal landscape and suggestions on how to use them on the the example of the Azov-Black Sea coast." The author of 390 publications, including 11 monographs.

Mohamed El-Said Farghaly has completed DSc in Natural Sciences from USTL Montpellier, France. He has over 40 years of experience in biological and environmental problems in tropical and sub-tropical ecosystems, pollution control and management. Being a Founder Head of Marine Science Department, Technical Advisor and Consultant, he had participated and contributed in solving many environmental problems. From 1975 to till date, he is running and conducting researches on the Mediterranean and the Indo-Pacific seas with special interest to the reef problems in the red sea and adjacent coasts. He is also a member in many scientific societies in Europe having good contact with the scientific institutions visited in USA, Australia, Europe and Arab countries. He is the author of 118 research works, scientific or environmental reports, theses and notes.

Coastal Zones management

Dr. Hou worked for three years as a hydraulic laboratory director and chief research engineer with the Taichung Harbor Project, a man-made deep-water port construction on the West Coast of Taiwan. In 1976, Dr. Hou received his Ph.D. in civil and coastal engineering at the University of Florida. He then worked as the Director of the Graduate Institute of Harbor and Ocean Engineering at the National Taiwan Ocean University, and as an adjunct professor of the Institute of Naval Architecture at National Taiwan University. Dr. Hou subsequently became the Deputy Director of the Harbor Research Institute in Taichung for the following five years, whilst maintaining his two professorships. Soon after he accepted an offer to become the Division Director (and afterward Deputy Director-General) of the Institute of Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC), positions he held for a total of 12 years. In 1995, he was promoted to Director-General of Department of Railways and Highways within the MOTC. During his employment at the MOTC, Dr. Hou was responsible for much reform in the realm of highway policy, and was involved in many major and highly successful infrastructure projects. His great achievements in these two areas brought ground transportation in Taiwan into a new era of efficiency and safety. In light of his outstanding engineering and administration background and achievements Dr. Hou was in December 1998 invited by then Mayor of Kaohsiung to serve as Deputy Mayor. In this high responsibility role he was in charge of all municipal infrastructure development projects, and was also subsequently appointed to the position of Chief Commissioner of the Kaohsiung City Election Commission. After serving with the Kaohsiung City Government for four years, Dr. Hou was appointed by the President of Taiwan as a National Policy Adviser to the President. In this role Dr. Hou was able to discuss various transport development ideas directly with the President, and to further develop Taiwan’s key infrastructure. Dr. Hou was then the Administrative Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. In this role Dr. Hou has a broadened area of responsibility. He was a chief policy maker in multiple areas, including water resource management, energy production and industry, mining and natural resource management, geological science and survey, and state-owned enterprise administration and organisation. Dr. Hou is a registered civil and hydraulic engineer, and an active member of American Society of Civil Engineers, the Chinese Civil and Hydraulics Engineers Society, and many others professionally affiliated organizations. Dr. Hou has published more than 300 research and professional articles and received numerous awards from professional and government organizations. He was listed in the World Who’s Who in Science and Technology in 1998 as part of the World Top 2000. Dr. Hou has been recognised in the top 500 scientists of the new millennium for services to civil engineering, and is also one of the 500 Distinguished Professors of the BWW Society/IAPGS. Dr. Hou was also the President of PACON International and a Life Member.

Coastal Processes and Marine Environment

Prof. José Simão Antunes do Carmo has completed his M.Sc. in Hydraulics and Water Resources in 1990 from University of Lisbon, Portugal, his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences in 1995 from University of Coimbra, Portugal, and postdoctoral studies in Civil Engineering in 2003 from University of Coimbra. He has been Director of several Degree and Master Courses in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering in the period 1995-2010. He is Director of the Portuguese Journal of Water Resources, Coeditor of the International Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Editorial Board Member of the Ocean & Coastal Management journal, Elsevier. He has published over three dozen papers in ISI journals and more than a hundred publications in International Conferences.

Author of over three dozen papers published in ISI Journals; more than a hundred publications in National and International Conferences; about two dozen papers in National Journals (Portuguese); over four dozen scientific reports; about three dozen opinion articles, and more than two dozen lectures as invited speaker. • Author of nine book chapters of International Editions. • Author of the book: “Modeling in Fluvial Hydraulics and Environment”, 443p. • Author of the book: “Physical processes and computational methods in Coastal Engineering”, University of Coimbra Press, 420p (in press). • Co-Editor of three books: “Wastewater treatment”; “River Basin Management III”, and “Water Pollution VIII: Modelling, Monitoring and Management”. Main scientific and technical areas of research: Hydrodynamics; Morphodynamics; Coastal protection; Coastal management; Water quality; Oil spills; Renewable energy: hydropower, ocean waves and tides; Numerical modelling.

Prof.Kazuhiro KOGURE is the Director of Center for earth Surface System Dynamics, AORI.pastly his profile includes different positions as Visiting Professor at Ocean University of China,Vice Director of AORI Professor and Vice Director, Center for Earth Surface System Dynamics,Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo (AORI) Done his Ph.D. in Marine Microbiology, Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, 1980

Ecological Research, Bulletin of Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology,Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Journal of Oceanography,Bulletin of Japanese Society for Scientific Fisheries. Journal of Marine Biotechnology,PNAS,Environmental Microbiology, ISME Journal and others. More than 126 publications in various international journals. Regional Editor of Microbial Ecology Jan. 1999 – Dec. 2005.Editorial Board member of Microbial Ecology Jan. 2006 – Dec. 2010.Editor of Microbes and Environments Jan 2003 –Dec 2008,Editor of Journal of Oceanography Sept. 2003 -present.Editor of Fisheries Science April 2004 –March 2008,Editorial Board member of Journal of General and Applied Microbiology Jan. 2005 -present,The ISME Journal. Jan. 2007-Dec. 2010,Scientific Reports May 2015-present.

Hugh Kirkman has more than 37 years of marine research experience. He is a world authority on seagrass ecology and biology and completed a Ph.D. on seaweed. He has published 44 scientific papers in international journals, nine book chapters and nearly 50 reports. He has experience in marine systems and processes throughout Australia and has worked in many overseas countries. His scientific flexibility is reflected by his having published a number of papers on fauna in seagrasses, physiology in seaweeds and a proposal for growing trees in treated sewage. He also co-authored a paper on the effects of megacities on the marine environment and a review of the UNEP Regional Seas Programme. Kirkman mapped the southern half of Australia’s underwater features around the coast at a scale of 1:100,000. This work is of great interest to the states in their choices of marine protected areas and in planning harbours, marinas and granting fish farming licences, the maps were also used in oil spill contingency plans. He collaborated with a number of state agencies in this work and has wide experience in classifying coastlines and beaches in southern Australia. He became an Australian authority on remote sensing of underwater habitats. He led the CSIRO Marine and Estuarine Eutrophication Project for the Division of Fisheries at Marmion, Western Australia and has a wide knowledge of eutrophication problems in Australia. He was seconded to EPA Western Australia in 1989 for six months to work on seagrass policies and problems and collaborated with EPA, WA on concepts for management of marine ecosystems. Hugh Kirkman has experience in communicating his findings to all groups in society. He has presented his work at international conferences and been contracted to NOAA, USA to advise a US Select Committee on seagrass restoration. He has delivered talks at schools and to community groups on his scientific work. His interests lie in management of marine resources, sustaining community-based marine resources and building long-term databases suitable for assisting management with sustaining those resources. The establishment of marine protected areas is a priority in his work with mapping underwater habitats. From 1998 until 2003 he was the coordinator of the UNEP East Asian Seas Regional Coordinating Unit stationed in Bangkok. He began with the task of developing a long-term plan for the regional seas programme which was endorsed by member countries when complete. His efforts found funding for conservation of coral reefs and prevention of land-based pollution from entering the sea. He was called upon to give keynote talks on mangrove, coral reef and seagrass habitats. He led a team that sought and later obtained $US 32 million from the Global Environment Facility for the project "Reversing Environmental Degradation Trends in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand". In 2010 he completed the Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis for seagrass, mangroves and coral reefs in the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem for FAO and GEF. He was called upon as an expert for marine environmental issues in East Asian Seas and has experience with national and international agencies throughout the region. He initiated and prepared a proposal to the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA) for about $400,000 which was funded. Kirkman has been called on by state governments to review consulting reports and comment on issues relating to his expertise. advised on seagrass restoration and presented plans for seagrass monitoring, evaluation and reporting he advised governments on Environmental Impact Statements and for six years was on the Scientific Working Group for South Australian Representative System of Marine Protected Areas. He was a professional editor working part-time for a firm that edits journal papers for authors with English as a second language. He has more than 6,000 h underwater SCUBA experience and represented scientific diving in Australia at Standards Australia for four years. He had a position on the Review Board for the Port of Melbourne Dredging Project, one of Australia’s largest dredging projects. His suggestion and practical implementation of seagrass and kelp shading experiments for the Supplementary Environmental Effects Statement for the dredging project enabled it to pass government scrutiny. He later supervised experiments that gave a definitive time for dredging to run in Port Phillip Bay. Kirkman was on the Northern Territory Government Commonwealth Government mandated panel for overseeing the environmental monitoring and triggers for channel dredging in Darwin Harbour as part of the INPEX gas port. His knowledge of marine environmental agreements and conventions was called upon to review Multilateral Environmental Agreements with a view to passing on Australia’s ability to implement its MEAs. He developed a Strategic Plan for the South East Asian Global Ocean Observing System (SEA GOOS) and worked on project proposals for IOC/WESTPAC. He completed a contract with Fauna and Flora International to review the global use of large marine management areas. This report compared Seascapes, Marine Bioregions, Large Marine Ecosystems, Regional Seas Programmes and Integrated Coastal Zone Management used in developing countries. His east Asian experience was recognized when he was invited as a guest speaker to attend and supported by PEMSEA in two EAS Congresses and was supported by the Nippon Foundation and Kyoto University to attend and present a paper at an ICM symposium in Kyoto. He helped complete guidelines for Transboundary Marine Spatial Management for APEC, with a Malaysian consultant. This was followed by being the key-note speaker at a workshop for APEC on Spatial Marine and Coastal Management in Xiamen and he was invited to a workshop in Bangkok for experts on marine environmental issues in the South China Sea. He reviewed mangrove planting and restoration in Western Port Bay for the WP Seagrass Partnership and prepared a report on the effects of increasing the size of the Port of Hastings in Western Port. He prepared, with others, the definitive document on legislation and policy protecting Australia’s mangrove and salt marsh in Australia He was recently invited to be on a select group to review Marine Protected Areas in Australia. Recently he spent two weeks in Guangxi Mangrove Research Centre on the invitation of its director advising on seagrass research programs and assisting students with their research. He attended on invitation the UNESCO Conference on Marine Spatial Planning and has taken a keen interest in this in Australia.

Marine Research, Sea grass Ecology and Biology, Seaweed, Marine Environment, Underwater Features, Marine and Estuarine Eutrophication, Seagrass Restoration.

Dr.Oleg Makarynskyy has over 25 years’ experience and extensive skills in the fields of ocean and coastal program development and project management, numerical modelling, data analysis, as well as quantitative project risk assessments. His professional history embraces climate studies using earth system models; studies of sensitivities of wave and hydrodynamic models; wind, wave and current hindcast, prediction, data assimilation, and model validation studies. In consultation with industry and public stakeholders over the course of the projects, Oleg has been designing and conducting research field campaigns, hydrodynamic and hydrocarbon spill assessments, pollutant discharge and dredging studies.

My particular interests are in developing and implementing research programs, as well as in ensuring that research project outcomes are achieved on time and within allocated budgets.

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.

Sustainable management, Coastal Wetlands, Social ecology

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.

Ecological health impacts and risk assessment of persistent toxic substances, urban ecological planning and assessment, energy and environmental impacts, environmental management and policy, sustainable watershed management, environmental emergency response, and environmental technology innovation and diffusion policies.

President of Link Block Construction Company, B.S. Law School, National Taiwan University. Contributing to Shore Protection of Taiwan Coastal Zone.

Beach nourishment, shore protection.

Dr. R. Manivanan has twenty-six years of experience in working various organizations, which includes research and academic positions in India. Having wide experience in mathematical modeling and simulation of riverine, estuarine and reservoir flow dynamics (hydrodynamics), salinity intrusion, sediment transport, morphological changes and other transport process pertaining to coastal and environmental engineering problems. Also having experience in field visit, data collection, analysis of the problem, development of software and carrying out collaborative work.

Modelling of Water Resource Problems. Mathematical Modelling of Engineering problems, , Water Quality Modelling, Scientific Computation, Recycling of Industrial Effluents.

Hugh Kirkman has more than 37 years of marine research experience. He is a world authority on seagrass ecology and biology and completed a Ph.D. on seaweed. He has published 44 scientific papers in international journals, nine book chapters and nearly 50 reports. He has experience in marine systems and processes throughout Australia and has worked in many overseas countries. His scientific flexibility is reflected by his having published a number of papers on fauna in seagrasses, physiology in seaweeds and a proposal for growing trees in treated sewage. He also co-authored a paper on the effects of megacities on the marine environment and a review of the UNEP Regional Seas Programme. Kirkman mapped the southern half of Australia’s underwater features around the coast at a scale of 1:100,000. This work is of great interest to the states in their choices of marine protected areas and in planning harbours, marinas and granting fish farming licences, the maps were also used in oil spill contingency plans. He collaborated with a number of state agencies in this work and has wide experience in classifying coastlines and beaches in southern Australia. He became an Australian authority on remote sensing of underwater habitats. He led the CSIRO Marine and Estuarine Eutrophication Project for the Division of Fisheries at Marmion, Western Australia and has a wide knowledge of eutrophication problems in Australia. He was seconded to EPA Western Australia in 1989 for six months to work on seagrass policies and problems and collaborated with EPA, WA on concepts for management of marine ecosystems. Hugh Kirkman has experience in communicating his findings to all groups in society. He has presented his work at international conferences and been contracted to NOAA, USA to advise a US Select Committee on seagrass restoration. He has delivered talks at schools and to community groups on his scientific work. His interests lie in management of marine resources, sustaining community-based marine resources and building long-term databases suitable for assisting management with sustaining those resources. The establishment of marine protected areas is a priority in his work with mapping underwater habitats. From 1998 until 2003 he was the coordinator of the UNEP East Asian Seas Regional Coordinating Unit stationed in Bangkok. He began with the task of developing a long-term plan for the regional seas programme which was endorsed by member countries when complete. His efforts found funding for conservation of coral reefs and prevention of land-based pollution from entering the sea. He was called upon to give keynote talks on mangrove, coral reef and seagrass habitats. He led a team that sought and later obtained $US 32 million from the Global Environment Facility for the project "Reversing Environmental Degradation Trends in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand". In 2010 he completed the Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis for seagrass, mangroves and coral reefs in the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem for FAO and GEF. He was called upon as an expert for marine environmental issues in East Asian Seas and has experience with national and international agencies throughout the region. He initiated and prepared a proposal to the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA) for about $400,000 which was funded. Kirkman has been called on by state governments to review consulting reports and comment on issues relating to his expertise. advised on seagrass restoration and presented plans for seagrass monitoring, evaluation and reporting he advised governments on Environmental Impact Statements and for six years was on the Scientific Working Group for South Australian Representative System of Marine Protected Areas. He was a professional editor working part-time for a firm that edits journal papers for authors with English as a second language. He has more than 6,000 h underwater SCUBA experience and represented scientific diving in Australia at Standards Australia for four years. He had a position on the Review Board for the Port of Melbourne Dredging Project, one of Australia’s largest dredging projects. His suggestion and practical implementation of seagrass and kelp shading experiments for the Supplementary Environmental Effects Statement for the dredging project enabled it to pass government scrutiny. He later supervised experiments that gave a definitive time for dredging to run in Port Phillip Bay. Kirkman was on the Northern Territory Government Commonwealth Government mandated panel for overseeing the environmental monitoring and triggers for channel dredging in Darwin Harbour as part of the INPEX gas port. His knowledge of marine environmental agreements and conventions was called upon to review Multilateral Environmental Agreements with a view to passing on Australia’s ability to implement its MEAs. He developed a Strategic Plan for the South East Asian Global Ocean Observing System (SEA GOOS) and worked on project proposals for IOC/WESTPAC. He completed a contract with Fauna and Flora International to review the global use of large marine management areas. This report compared Seascapes, Marine Bioregions, Large Marine Ecosystems, Regional Seas Programmes and Integrated Coastal Zone Management used in developing countries. His east Asian experience was recognized when he was invited as a guest speaker to attend and supported by PEMSEA in two EAS Congresses and was supported by the Nippon Foundation and Kyoto University to attend and present a paper at an ICM symposium in Kyoto. He helped complete guidelines for Transboundary Marine Spatial Management for APEC, with a Malaysian consultant. This was followed by being the key-note speaker at a workshop for APEC on Spatial Marine and Coastal Management in Xiamen and he was invited to a workshop in Bangkok for experts on marine environmental issues in the South China Sea. He reviewed mangrove planting and restoration in Western Port Bay for the WP Seagrass Partnership and prepared a report on the effects of increasing the size of the Port of Hastings in Western Port. He prepared, with others, the definitive document on legislation and policy protecting Australia’s mangrove and salt marsh in Australia He was recently invited to be on a select group to review Marine Protected Areas in Australia. Recently he spent two weeks in Guangxi Mangrove Research Centre on the invitation of its director advising on seagrass research programs and assisting students with their research. He attended on invitation the UNESCO Conference on Marine Spatial Planning and has taken a keen interest in this in Australia.

Marine Research, Sea grass Ecology and Biology, Seaweed, Marine Environment, Underwater Features, Marine and Estuarine Eutrophication, Seagrass Restoration.

President of Link Block Construction Company, B.S. Law School, National Taiwan University. Contributing to Shore Protection of Taiwan Coastal Zone.

Beach nourishment, shore protection.

Dr. Hou worked for three years as a hydraulic laboratory director and chief research engineer with the Taichung Harbor Project, a man-made deep-water port construction on the West Coast of Taiwan. In 1976, Dr. Hou received his Ph.D. in civil and coastal engineering at the University of Florida. He then worked as the Director of the Graduate Institute of Harbor and Ocean Engineering at the National Taiwan Ocean University, and as an adjunct professor of the Institute of Naval Architecture at National Taiwan University. Dr. Hou subsequently became the Deputy Director of the Harbor Research Institute in Taichung for the following five years, whilst maintaining his two professorships. Soon after he accepted an offer to become the Division Director (and afterward Deputy Director-General) of the Institute of Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC), positions he held for a total of 12 years. In 1995, he was promoted to Director-General of Department of Railways and Highways within the MOTC. During his employment at the MOTC, Dr. Hou was responsible for much reform in the realm of highway policy, and was involved in many major and highly successful infrastructure projects. His great achievements in these two areas brought ground transportation in Taiwan into a new era of efficiency and safety. In light of his outstanding engineering and administration background and achievements Dr. Hou was in December 1998 invited by then Mayor of Kaohsiung to serve as Deputy Mayor. In this high responsibility role he was in charge of all municipal infrastructure development projects, and was also subsequently appointed to the position of Chief Commissioner of the Kaohsiung City Election Commission. After serving with the Kaohsiung City Government for four years, Dr. Hou was appointed by the President of Taiwan as a National Policy Adviser to the President. In this role Dr. Hou was able to discuss various transport development ideas directly with the President, and to further develop Taiwan’s key infrastructure. Dr. Hou was then the Administrative Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. In this role Dr. Hou has a broadened area of responsibility. He was a chief policy maker in multiple areas, including water resource management, energy production and industry, mining and natural resource management, geological science and survey, and state-owned enterprise administration and organisation. Dr. Hou is a registered civil and hydraulic engineer, and an active member of American Society of Civil Engineers, the Chinese Civil and Hydraulics Engineers Society, and many others professionally affiliated organizations. Dr. Hou has published more than 300 research and professional articles and received numerous awards from professional and government organizations. He was listed in the World Who’s Who in Science and Technology in 1998 as part of the World Top 2000. Dr. Hou has been recognised in the top 500 scientists of the new millennium for services to civil engineering, and is also one of the 500 Distinguished Professors of the BWW Society/IAPGS. Dr. Hou was also the President of PACON International and a Life Member.

Coastal Processes and Marine Environment

Prof.Kazuhiro KOGURE is the Director of Center for earth Surface System Dynamics, AORI.pastly his profile includes different positions as Visiting Professor at Ocean University of China,Vice Director of AORI Professor and Vice Director, Center for Earth Surface System Dynamics,Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo (AORI) Done his Ph.D. in Marine Microbiology, Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, 1980

Ecological Research, Bulletin of Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology,Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Journal of Oceanography,Bulletin of Japanese Society for Scientific Fisheries. Journal of Marine Biotechnology,PNAS,Environmental Microbiology, ISME Journal and others. More than 126 publications in various international journals. Regional Editor of Microbial Ecology Jan. 1999 – Dec. 2005.Editorial Board member of Microbial Ecology Jan. 2006 – Dec. 2010.Editor of Microbes and Environments Jan 2003 –Dec 2008,Editor of Journal of Oceanography Sept. 2003 -present.Editor of Fisheries Science April 2004 –March 2008,Editorial Board member of Journal of General and Applied Microbiology Jan. 2005 -present,The ISME Journal. Jan. 2007-Dec. 2010,Scientific Reports May 2015-present.

Prof. José Simão Antunes do Carmo has completed his M.Sc. in Hydraulics and Water Resources in 1990 from University of Lisbon, Portugal, his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences in 1995 from University of Coimbra, Portugal, and postdoctoral studies in Civil Engineering in 2003 from University of Coimbra. He has been Director of several Degree and Master Courses in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering in the period 1995-2010. He is Director of the Portuguese Journal of Water Resources, Coeditor of the International Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Editorial Board Member of the Ocean & Coastal Management journal, Elsevier. He has published over three dozen papers in ISI journals and more than a hundred publications in International Conferences.

Author of over three dozen papers published in ISI Journals; more than a hundred publications in National and International Conferences; about two dozen papers in National Journals (Portuguese); over four dozen scientific reports; about three dozen opinion articles, and more than two dozen lectures as invited speaker. • Author of nine book chapters of International Editions. • Author of the book: “Modeling in Fluvial Hydraulics and Environment”, 443p. • Author of the book: “Physical processes and computational methods in Coastal Engineering”, University of Coimbra Press, 420p (in press). • Co-Editor of three books: “Wastewater treatment”; “River Basin Management III”, and “Water Pollution VIII: Modelling, Monitoring and Management”. Main scientific and technical areas of research: Hydrodynamics; Morphodynamics; Coastal protection; Coastal management; Water quality; Oil spills; Renewable energy: hydropower, ocean waves and tides; Numerical modelling.

Mark J. Spalding has been the President of The Ocean Foundation since its founding 15 years ago. Under his leadership, it has grown exponentially from a $200,000 to $7 million/year budget, as he prioritized its focus on steering the human relationship with the sea to a brighter future through diverse, carefully chosen strategies and projects. Mark drove the design and establishment of the Alaska Oceans Program, the Shipping Safety Partnership, the Loreto Bay Foundation and the St. Kitts Foundation. Mark is the advisor to the Rockefeller Ocean Strategy (an unprecedented ocean-centric investment fund), and designed the first-ever blue carbon offset program, SeaGrass Grow. Mark is serving on the Sargasso Sea Commission. He is a member of the Pool of Experts for the UN World Ocean Assessment, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Blue Economy, at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. From 1994 to 2003, Mark was the Director of the Environmental Law and Civil Society Program, and Editor of the Journal of Environment and Development, at UCSD’s Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies (IR/PS). In addition to lecturing at IR/PS, Mark has taught at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD's Muir College, UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and University of San Diego's School of Law. He was a research fellow at UCSD's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, a Sustainability Institute – Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow and a SeaWeb Senior Fellow. He holds a B.A. in history with Honors from Claremont McKenna College, a J.D. from Loyola Law School, and a Master in Pacific International Affairs (MPIA) from IR/PS. He is a graduate of the British School of Motor Racing. Mark's deep connection with the ocean began as a young boy growing up in the Central Valley of California; each time he crested the coastal range and the Pacific came into view, it was like a breath of fresh air.

Oceans Program, Shipping Management,

President of Link Block Construction Company, B.S. Law School, National Taiwan University. Contributing to Shore Protection of Taiwan Coastal Zone. 2. Senior Adviser, Link Block Construction Company, Professor, Graduate School of Civil and Ecological Engineering, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Coastal Engineering, Offshore protection.

Mark J. Spalding has been the President of The Ocean Foundation since its founding 15 years ago. Under his leadership, it has grown exponentially from a $200,000 to $7 million/year budget, as he prioritized its focus on steering the human relationship with the sea to a brighter future through diverse, carefully chosen strategies and projects. Mark drove the design and establishment of the Alaska Oceans Program, the Shipping Safety Partnership, the Loreto Bay Foundation and the St. Kitts Foundation. Mark is the advisor to the Rockefeller Ocean Strategy (an unprecedented ocean-centric investment fund), and designed the first-ever blue carbon offset program, SeaGrass Grow. Mark is serving on the Sargasso Sea Commission. He is a member of the Pool of Experts for the UN World Ocean Assessment, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Blue Economy, at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. From 1994 to 2003, Mark was the Director of the Environmental Law and Civil Society Program, and Editor of the Journal of Environment and Development, at UCSD’s Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies (IR/PS). In addition to lecturing at IR/PS, Mark has taught at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD's Muir College, UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and University of San Diego's School of Law. He was a research fellow at UCSD's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, a Sustainability Institute – Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow and a SeaWeb Senior Fellow. He holds a B.A. in history with Honors from Claremont McKenna College, a J.D. from Loyola Law School, and a Master in Pacific International Affairs (MPIA) from IR/PS. He is a graduate of the British School of Motor Racing. Mark's deep connection with the ocean began as a young boy growing up in the Central Valley of California; each time he crested the coastal range and the Pacific came into view, it was like a breath of fresh air.

Oceanography

Prof. José Simão Antunes do Carmo has completed his M.Sc. in Hydraulics and Water Resources in 1990 from University of Lisbon, Portugal, his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences in 1995 from University of Coimbra, Portugal, and postdoctoral studies in Civil Engineering in 2003 from University of Coimbra. He has been Director of several Degree and Master Courses in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering in the period 1995-2010. He is Director of the Portuguese Journal of Water Resources, Coeditor of the International Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Editorial Board Member of the Ocean & Coastal Management journal, Elsevier. He has published over three dozen papers in ISI journals and more than a hundred publications in International Conferences.

Author of over three dozen papers published in ISI Journals; more than a hundred publications in National and International Conferences; about two dozen papers in National Journals (Portuguese); over four dozen scientific reports; about three dozen opinion articles, and more than two dozen lectures as invited speaker. • Author of nine book chapters of International Editions. • Author of the book: “Modeling in Fluvial Hydraulics and Environment”, 443p. • Author of the book: “Physical processes and computational methods in Coastal Engineering”, University of Coimbra Press, 420p (in press). • Co-Editor of three books: “Wastewater treatment”; “River Basin Management III”, and “Water Pollution VIII: Modelling, Monitoring and Management”. Main scientific and technical areas of research: Hydrodynamics; Morphodynamics; Coastal protection; Coastal management; Water quality; Oil spills; Renewable energy: hydropower, ocean waves and tides; Numerical modelling.

Mark J. Spalding has been the President of The Ocean Foundation since its founding 15 years ago. Under his leadership, it has grown exponentially from a $200,000 to $7 million/year budget, as he prioritized its focus on steering the human relationship with the sea to a brighter future through diverse, carefully chosen strategies and projects. Mark drove the design and establishment of the Alaska Oceans Program, the Shipping Safety Partnership, the Loreto Bay Foundation and the St. Kitts Foundation. Mark is the advisor to the Rockefeller Ocean Strategy (an unprecedented ocean-centric investment fund), and designed the first-ever blue carbon offset program, SeaGrass Grow. Mark is serving on the Sargasso Sea Commission. He is a member of the Pool of Experts for the UN World Ocean Assessment, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Blue Economy, at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. From 1994 to 2003, Mark was the Director of the Environmental Law and Civil Society Program, and Editor of the Journal of Environment and Development, at UCSD’s Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies (IR/PS). In addition to lecturing at IR/PS, Mark has taught at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD's Muir College, UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and University of San Diego's School of Law. He was a research fellow at UCSD's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, a Sustainability Institute – Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow and a SeaWeb Senior Fellow. He holds a B.A. in history with Honors from Claremont McKenna College, a J.D. from Loyola Law School, and a Master in Pacific International Affairs (MPIA) from IR/PS. He is a graduate of the British School of Motor Racing. Mark's deep connection with the ocean began as a young boy growing up in the Central Valley of California; each time he crested the coastal range and the Pacific came into view, it was like a breath of fresh air.

Oceans Program, Shipping Management,

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. 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 ChinaDr. 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. 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.

Environmental Engineering. Industrial Engineering, Logistic Management.

Prof.Kazuhiro KOGURE is the Director of Center for earth Surface System Dynamics, AORI.pastly his profile includes different positions as Visiting Professor at Ocean University of China,Vice Director of AORI Professor and Vice Director, Center for Earth Surface System Dynamics,Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo (AORI) Done his Ph.D. in Marine Microbiology, Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, 1980

Ecological Research, Bulletin of Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology,Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Journal of Oceanography,Bulletin of Japanese Society for Scientific Fisheries. Journal of Marine Biotechnology,PNAS,Environmental Microbiology, ISME Journal and others. More than 126 publications in various international journals.

Prof.Kazuhiro KOGURE is the Director of Center for earth Surface System Dynamics, AORI.pastly his profile includes different positions as Visiting Professor at Ocean University of China,Vice Director of AORI Professor and Vice Director, Center for Earth Surface System Dynamics,Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo (AORI) Done his Ph.D. in Marine Microbiology, Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, 1980

Ecological Research, Bulletin of Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology,Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Journal of Oceanography,Bulletin of Japanese Society for Scientific Fisheries. Journal of Marine Biotechnology,PNAS,Environmental Microbiology, ISME Journal and others. More than 126 publications in various international journals.

Prof.Kazuhiro KOGURE is the Director of Center for earth Surface System Dynamics, AORI.pastly his profile includes different positions as Visiting Professor at Ocean University of China,Vice Director of AORI Professor and Vice Director, Center for Earth Surface System Dynamics,Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo (AORI) Done his Ph.D. in Marine Microbiology, Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, 1980

Ecological Research, Bulletin of Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology,Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Journal of Oceanography,Bulletin of Japanese Society for Scientific Fisheries. Journal of Marine Biotechnology,PNAS,Environmental Microbiology, ISME Journal and others. More than 126 publications in various international journals.

• Consultant of Green Industry and Academic Cooperation Center of National Taitung University • Consultant of Innovation Incubation and Deep Ocean Water R&D Center, National Taitung University • Professor, Institute of Marine Environmental Engineering, National Sun-Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung • Administrative Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs • National Policy Adviser to the President • Deputy Mayor of Kaohsiung City Dr. Hou worked for three years as a hydraulic laboratory director and chief research engineer with the Taichung Harbor Project, a man-made deep-water port construction on the West Coast of Taiwan. In 1976, Dr. Hou received his Ph.D. in civil and coastal engineering at the University of Florida. He then worked as the Director of the Graduate Institute of Harbor and Ocean Engineering at the National Taiwan Ocean University, and as an adjunct professor of the Institute of Naval Architecture at National Taiwan University. Dr. Hou subsequently became the Deputy Director of the Harbor Research Institute in Taichung for the following five years, whilst maintaining his two professorships. Soon after he accepted an offer to become the Division Director (and afterward Deputy Director-General) of the Institute of Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC), positions he held for a total of 12 years. In 1995, he was promoted to Director-General of Department of Railways and Highways within the MOTC. During his employment at the MOTC, Dr. Hou was responsible for much reform in the realm of highway policy, and was involved in many major and highly successful infrastructure projects. His great achievements in these two areas brought ground transportation in Taiwan into a new era of efficiency and safety. In light of his outstanding engineering and administration background and achievements Dr. Hou was in December 1998 invited by then Mayor of Kaohsiung to serve as Deputy Mayor. In this high responsibility role he was in charge of all municipal infrastructure development projects, and was also subsequently appointed to the position of Chief Commissioner of the Kaohsiung City Election Commission. After serving with the Kaohsiung City Government for four years, Dr. Hou was appointed by the President of Taiwan as a National Policy Adviser to the President. In this role Dr. Hou was able to discuss various transport development ideas directly with the President, and to further develop Taiwan’s key infrastructure. Dr. Hou was then the Administrative Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. In this role Dr. Hou has a broadened area of responsibility. He was a chief policy maker in multiple areas, including water resource management, energy production and industry, mining and natural resource management, geological science and survey, and state-owned enterprise administration and organisation. Dr. Hou is a registered civil and hydraulic engineer, and an active member of American Society of Civil Engineers, the Chinese Civil and Hydraulics Engineers Society, and many others professionally affiliated organizations. Dr. Hou has published more than 300 research and professional articles and received numerous awards from professional and government organizations. He was listed in the World Who’s Who in Science and Technology in 1998 as part of the World Top 2000. Dr. Hou has been recognised in the top 500 scientists of the new millennium for services to civil engineering, and is also one of the 500 Distinguished Professors of the BWW Society/IAPGS. Dr. Hou was also the President of PACON International and a Life Member.

Coastal Processes and Marine Environment

Mark J. Spalding has been the President of The Ocean Foundation since its founding 15 years ago. Under his leadership, it has grown exponentially from a $200,000 to $7 million/year budget, as he prioritized its focus on steering the human relationship with the sea to a brighter future through diverse, carefully chosen strategies and projects. Mark drove the design and establishment of the Alaska Oceans Program, the Shipping Safety Partnership, the Loreto Bay Foundation and the St. Kitts Foundation. Mark is the advisor to the Rockefeller Ocean Strategy (an unprecedented ocean-centric investment fund), and designed the first-ever blue carbon offset program, SeaGrass Grow. Mark is serving on the Sargasso Sea Commission. He is a member of the Pool of Experts for the UN World Ocean Assessment, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Blue Economy, at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. From 1994 to 2003, Mark was the Director of the Environmental Law and Civil Society Program, and Editor of the Journal of Environment and Development, at UCSD’s Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies (IR/PS). In addition to lecturing at IR/PS, Mark has taught at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD's Muir College, UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and University of San Diego's School of Law. He was a research fellow at UCSD's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, a Sustainability Institute – Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow and a SeaWeb Senior Fellow. He holds a B.A. in history with Honors from Claremont McKenna College, a J.D. from Loyola Law School, and a Master in Pacific International Affairs (MPIA) from IR/PS. He is a graduate of the British School of Motor Racing. Mark's deep connection with the ocean began as a young boy growing up in the Central Valley of California; each time he crested the coastal range and the Pacific came into view, it was like a breath of fresh air.

Coastal Zones & Oceanography

Mark J. Spalding has been the President of The Ocean Foundation since its founding 15 years ago. Under his leadership, it has grown exponentially from a $200,000 to $7 million/year budget, as he prioritized its focus on steering the human relationship with the sea to a brighter future through diverse, carefully chosen strategies and projects. Mark drove the design and establishment of the Alaska Oceans Program, the Shipping Safety Partnership, the Loreto Bay Foundation and the St. Kitts Foundation. Mark is the advisor to the Rockefeller Ocean Strategy (an unprecedented ocean-centric investment fund), and designed the first-ever blue carbon offset program, SeaGrass Grow. Mark is serving on the Sargasso Sea Commission. He is a member of the Pool of Experts for the UN World Ocean Assessment, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Blue Economy, at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. From 1994 to 2003, Mark was the Director of the Environmental Law and Civil Society Program, and Editor of the Journal of Environment and Development, at UCSD’s Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies (IR/PS). In addition to lecturing at IR/PS, Mark has taught at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD's Muir College, UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and University of San Diego's School of Law. He was a research fellow at UCSD's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, a Sustainability Institute – Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow and a SeaWeb Senior Fellow. He holds a B.A. in history with Honors from Claremont McKenna College, a J.D. from Loyola Law School, and a Master in Pacific International Affairs (MPIA) from IR/PS. He is a graduate of the British School of Motor Racing. Mark's deep connection with the ocean began as a young boy growing up in the Central Valley of California; each time he crested the coastal range and the Pacific came into view, it was like a breath of fresh air.

Coastal Zones & Oceanography

Mark J. Spalding has been the President of The Ocean Foundation since its founding 15 years ago. Under his leadership, it has grown exponentially from a $200,000 to $7 million/year budget, as he prioritized its focus on steering the human relationship with the sea to a brighter future through diverse, carefully chosen strategies and projects. Mark drove the design and establishment of the Alaska Oceans Program, the Shipping Safety Partnership, the Loreto Bay Foundation and the St. Kitts Foundation. Mark is the advisor to the Rockefeller Ocean Strategy (an unprecedented ocean-centric investment fund), and designed the first-ever blue carbon offset program, SeaGrass Grow. Mark is serving on the Sargasso Sea Commission. He is a member of the Pool of Experts for the UN World Ocean Assessment, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Blue Economy, at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. From 1994 to 2003, Mark was the Director of the Environmental Law and Civil Society Program, and Editor of the Journal of Environment and Development, at UCSD’s Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies (IR/PS). In addition to lecturing at IR/PS, Mark has taught at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD's Muir College, UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and University of San Diego's School of Law. He was a research fellow at UCSD's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, a Sustainability Institute – Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow and a SeaWeb Senior Fellow. He holds a B.A. in history with Honors from Claremont McKenna College, a J.D. from Loyola Law School, and a Master in Pacific International Affairs (MPIA) from IR/PS. He is a graduate of the British School of Motor Racing. Mark's deep connection with the ocean began as a young boy growing up in the Central Valley of California; each time he crested the coastal range and the Pacific came into view, it was like a breath of fresh air.

Coastal Zones & Oceanography

Mark J. Spalding has been the President of The Ocean Foundation since its founding 15 years ago. Under his leadership, it has grown exponentially from a $200,000 to $7 million/year budget, as he prioritized its focus on steering the human relationship with the sea to a brighter future through diverse, carefully chosen strategies and projects. Mark drove the design and establishment of the Alaska Oceans Program, the Shipping Safety Partnership, the Loreto Bay Foundation and the St. Kitts Foundation. Mark is the advisor to the Rockefeller Ocean Strategy (an unprecedented ocean-centric investment fund), and designed the first-ever blue carbon offset program, SeaGrass Grow. Mark is serving on the Sargasso Sea Commission. He is a member of the Pool of Experts for the UN World Ocean Assessment, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Blue Economy, at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. From 1994 to 2003, Mark was the Director of the Environmental Law and Civil Society Program, and Editor of the Journal of Environment and Development, at UCSD’s Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies (IR/PS). In addition to lecturing at IR/PS, Mark has taught at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD's Muir College, UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and University of San Diego's School of Law. He was a research fellow at UCSD's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, a Sustainability Institute – Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow and a SeaWeb Senior Fellow. He holds a B.A. in history with Honors from Claremont McKenna College, a J.D. from Loyola Law School, and a Master in Pacific International Affairs (MPIA) from IR/PS. He is a graduate of the British School of Motor Racing. Mark's deep connection with the ocean began as a young boy growing up in the Central Valley of California; each time he crested the coastal range and the Pacific came into view, it was like a breath of fresh air.

Coastal Zones & OCeanography

• Consultant of Green Industry and Academic Cooperation Center of National Taitung University • Consultant of Innovation Incubation and Deep Ocean Water R&D Center, National Taitung University • Professor, Institute of Marine Environmental Engineering, National Sun-Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung • Administrative Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs • National Policy Adviser to the President • Deputy Mayor of Kaohsiung City Dr. Hou worked for three years as a hydraulic laboratory director and chief research engineer with the Taichung Harbor Project, a man-made deep-water port construction on the West Coast of Taiwan. In 1976, Dr. Hou received his Ph.D. in civil and coastal engineering at the University of Florida. He then worked as the Director of the Graduate Institute of Harbor and Ocean Engineering at the National Taiwan Ocean University, and as an adjunct professor of the Institute of Naval Architecture at National Taiwan University. Dr. Hou subsequently became the Deputy Director of the Harbor Research Institute in Taichung for the following five years, whilst maintaining his two professorships. Soon after he accepted an offer to become the Division Director (and afterward Deputy Director-General) of the Institute of Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC), positions he held for a total of 12 years. In 1995, he was promoted to Director-General of Department of Railways and Highways within the MOTC. During his employment at the MOTC, Dr. Hou was responsible for much reform in the realm of highway policy, and was involved in many major and highly successful infrastructure projects. His great achievements in these two areas brought ground transportation in Taiwan into a new era of efficiency and safety. In light of his outstanding engineering and administration background and achievements Dr. Hou was in December 1998 invited by then Mayor of Kaohsiung to serve as Deputy Mayor. In this high responsibility role he was in charge of all municipal infrastructure development projects, and was also subsequently appointed to the position of Chief Commissioner of the Kaohsiung City Election Commission. After serving with the Kaohsiung City Government for four years, Dr. Hou was appointed by the President of Taiwan as a National Policy Adviser to the President. In this role Dr. Hou was able to discuss various transport development ideas directly with the President, and to further develop Taiwan’s key infrastructure. Dr. Hou was then the Administrative Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. In this role Dr. Hou has a broadened area of responsibility. He was a chief policy maker in multiple areas, including water resource management, energy production and industry, mining and natural resource management, geological science and survey, and state-owned enterprise administration and organisation. Dr. Hou is a registered civil and hydraulic engineer, and an active member of American Society of Civil Engineers, the Chinese Civil and Hydraulics Engineers Society, and many others professionally affiliated organizations. Dr. Hou has published more than 300 research and professional articles and received numerous awards from professional and government organizations. He was listed in the World Who’s Who in Science and Technology in 1998 as part of the World Top 2000. Dr. Hou has been recognised in the top 500 scientists of the new millennium for services to civil engineering, and is also one of the 500 Distinguished Professors of the BWW Society/IAPGS. Dr. Hou was also the President of PACON International and a Life Member.

Coastal Processes and Marine Environment

Enayet Karim has obtained his Masters in Economics from the University of Dhaka and Ph. D from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He is the author of CAMELS Rating (Credit evaluation theory) which is now text book in the banking department of different Universities and training Institute of different banks. Dr. Enayet Karim has been elected President of Global Economist Forum, a United Nations Consultant Organization under its Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). He has also elected President of Global Sports Federation, another wing of UNOSDP. Dr. Karim is the founder of Enayet Karim Agriculture Institute and Enayet Karim Medical Institute.

Coastal Management, Blue Economy for the Sustainable Development, Environmental Science.

Enayet Karim has obtained his Masters in Economics from the University of Dhaka and Ph. D from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He is the author of CAMELS Rating (Credit evaluation theory) which is now text book in the banking department of different Universities and training Institute of different banks. Dr. Enayet Karim has been elected President of Global Economist Forum, a United Nations Consultant Organization under its Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). He has also elected President of Global Sports Federation, another wing of UNOSDP. Dr. Karim is the founder of Enayet Karim Agriculture Institute and Enayet Karim Medical Institute.

Coastal Management, Blue Economy for the Sustainable Development, Environmental Science.