Organization
General Chair
Hyo Choi
Professor, Gangneung-Wonju National University, South Korea.
Research Interests: Weather and climate change; Severe weather and disaster; Health GIS and modeling; Air pollution modeling and data analysis; Physical oceanography.
Dr. Hyo Choi is meteorologist, environmental scientist and physical oceanographer with over 40 years experiences in numerical modeling researches as Overseas invited senior researcher (by Korean Government) of Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute (KORDI; now KIOST), Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Ministry of Science & Technology, a High level-finserly researcher of National Fisheries & Research Development Institute (NFRDI), Ministry of Maritime Affairs & Fisheries, Korea, and full Professor of Gangneung-Wonju National University, Korea. He has been Director General of East Sea Regional Research Institute (1989~1991) and Dean of the Graduate School, Gangneung-Wonju National University two times (2009~2011, 2011~2012). In present, he is Director General of Atmospheric & Oceanic Disaster Research Institute, Korea (2014~present), High-end Foreign Expert of South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academia Sinica (CAS), China (2015~present), Adjunct Professor of Zhejiang Ocean University, China (2013~present) and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO—WESTPAC Working Group Member on Tropical Cyclones, etc. He has been also acting as Editor-in-Chief of 15 International journals (USA, Singapore, India, Korea) and editor of 35 ones (USA, United Kingdom (England), Switzerland, Italy, Singapore, India, Nigeria, Canada, Hong Kong) in the fields of Environment & Pollution, Disaster, Agriculture, Water resources, Hydrology, GIS, Physical sciences, Fluid Mechanics, Civil Engineering, Oceanography, Ocean Engineering, Fishery and Meteorology. He has served as not only Committee Member, Keynote Speaker, Invited Speaker and Plenary Lecturer but also more than 100 times Session Chair or Convener of many International Conferences in the world.
Co-Chair
Levent Kavvas
Professor, University of California, Davis, USA.
Research Interests: Mathematical modeling of the integrated hydrologic- atmospheric processes at global, continental, country and watershed scales for the simulation and prediction of hydrologic water balances and hydrologic extremes toward quantifying phenomena such as floods and droughts; Mathematical modeling of hydrologic processes at regional, watershed and hillslope scales; Mathematical modeling of groundwater systems, contaminant transport by inland surface waters, unsaturated flow and groundwater flow, and physical hydraulic modeling and mathematical modeling of environmental fluid flows.
Dr. Kavvas graduated with a master's degree in Civil Engineering, in the Hydrology and Water Resources Program, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado (as Fulbright Scholar). And he received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering in the Hydraulics and Systems area of Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana (as Fulbright Scholar and Purdue University Victor O 'Schaunessy Fellow). Dr. Kavvas received ASCE/EWRI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023, Distinguished Member of ASCE 2016 Croess Medal from ASCE in 2019, Best Paper award from ASCE JHE in 2016, International Award from The Japan Society of Hydrology and Water in 2015. And he served as chair of the national review panel for the review of the internal USDA/ARS projects, chair of ASCE/EWRI Hydroclimate Committee, vice chair of ASCE/EWRI Watershed Council, and member of California Climate Change Advisory Board. In addition, Dr. Kavvas has served as editor-in-chief and on the editorial boards of several journals, including Hydrological Sciences Journal, Journal of Hydrology, Advances in Water Resources, and Journal of Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics.
Bing Chen
Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.
Research Interests: Environmental engineering and management; Environmental emergency response; Marine and coastal environmental protection; Environmental nanotechnology and biotechnology; Sustainability and climate change adaptation.
Dr. Bing Chen obtained his B.Eng. and M.Sc. from Jilin University and Peking University in China, respectively, as well as his PhD from the University of Regina, Canada. He worked as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia and conducted visiting research with Environment Canada before joining Memorial University in 2006. He is currently a professor and head of the Department of Civil Engineering and director of the Northern Region Persistent Organic Pollution Cntrol Laboratory (NRPOP Lab). He has served as a senior expert of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), vice president (International) of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), vice-president (Atlantic) of the Canadian Association on Water Quality (CAWQ), vice-president (Avalon Chapter) of Sigma Xi - the Scientific Research Honor Society, Member of Canada’s Oceans Protection Plan (OPP)’s National Advisory Committee on Multi-Partner Response Research Initiative, Member of Royal Society of Canada (RSC)’s Expert Panel in oil spills, Alternate Chair/Member of Research Grant Evaluation Group (1509) of Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Member of Research Tool and Instruments (RTI) Selection Committee (1609) of NSERC, Executive Member and rep of CSChE in Environmental Chemistry Division of Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC), Chair of Scholarship Committee of the Atlantic Canada Water & Wastewater Association (ACWWA), and Chair of Memorial University Senate Committee on Research, etc. He is an Affiliated Faculty with University of California Berkeley and Adjunct/Visiting Professor of five other institutions worldwide. He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Systems Research (Springer), Associate Editor of 4 refereed journals, Editorial Board Member of 7 refereed journals, and Guest Editor for many others.
Academy Committee
Abdelkader Hamlat, University of Laghouat, Algeria
Abdeltif Amrane, Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, France
Adenike Akinsemolu, Afe Babalola University, Nigeria
Ait Mouheb Nassim, Paris-Saclay University, France
Bahram Choubin, West Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Iran
Bo Yu, Mianyang Teachers' College, China
Carla Ferreira, Stockholm University, Sweden
Collin G. Joseph, University Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
Hossam Gabbar, Ontario Tech University, Canada
Hongwei Guo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Issam A. Al-Khatib, Birzeit University, Palestine
John Zhou, University of Technology, Australia
K. Ravi Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik, Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
Khalid S. Hashim, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Levent Kavvas, University of California, USA
Maciej Dzikuć, University of Zielona Góra, Poland
Martyna Grzegorzek, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Michael Nones, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland
Minh Tan VU, University of Rouen Normandy, France
Mona Akbari, University of Hormozgan, Iran
Norazlianie Sazali, University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia
Omid Rahmati, Agricultural Research Education And Extention Organization, Iran
Riccardo G. Boschetto, Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy
Seyed Hamidreza Sadeghi, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran
Suman Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India
Zoran Kapelan, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Sponsor
International Association of Applied Science and Technology (IAAST)
