World Conference on Climate Change October 24-26, 2016 Valencia, Spain

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