4^th World Conference on Climate Change October 19-21, 2017 Rome, Italy

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).

Sea level change, Paleoclimate, Paleoseismics, Neotectonics, Paleomagnetism and Earth rotation

Annemarie Bastrup-Birk has 20+ years of professional experience on forests and forestry issues. She has been strongly involved in the assessments of forest resources as the co-coordinator of the Danish Forest Inventory and as vice-chair of the ENFIN (European National Forest Inventory Network), coordinating the monitoring of forest habitats, and the monitoring of forest ecosystems (ICP-Forests). She contributed to production of Danish land cover and land use maps from satellite imagery for reporting to the Kyoto Protocol and UNFCC. She chaired the COST Action FP1001 USEWOOD on ‘Improving Data and Information on the Potential Supply of Wood Resources: A European Approach from Multisource National Forest Inventories‘ which aims to improve and harmonise data and information on the potential supply of wood resources at European level. She is currently responsible for Forests and Environment at the European Environmental Agency (EEA).

Ecology, Remote Sensing and Sustainability

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

Space Monitoring of Essential Climate Variables

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

Mathematics, Mechanics and Seismology

Alexander Baklanov (PhD in Physics & Mathematics (Geophysics) – 1983, Dr.Sci. in Physics & Mathematics (Meteorology and Climatology) – 1998, Professor in Meteorology – 2008) has more than 30 years of experience in environmental and atmospheric research, in particular in developing a new generation of online coupled meteorology-chemistry models. He has published about 400 scientific publications, including 14 books and almost 200 peer-reviewed papers. He led many international research projects, supervised 10 PhD students, he is a visiting/adjoint/honour professor in four European universities, organiser of several international scientific conferences and young scientist summer schools, Editor in chief of the Urban Climate journal. Worked in international research teams in Russia, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland.

Environmental and Atmospheric Science

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

Prof. Franco Maranzana is General Manager of Stratex Djibouti from the year of 2010. He was Consulting assignments in Egypt (Stratex and Terra), in Croatia, as a follow up of the Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia in Slavonia. He served Director of Project UN-Ministry Foreign Affairs, "SEISMED" on the subject of seismic risk in the Mediterranean Basin in the period of 1988 to 1992. A multidisciplinary activity is involving collaboration with experts and institutions of the 16 countries in the area, promoting and assessing methodologies of risk evaluation and reduction. Aspects of climate changes, he completed his education in Arts and classical studies in Trieste and degree in geology at Rome University (1959) Post graduate course at the Imperial College, London (1963 -64).

Mineral exploration, Geoethics,Climate Change, Natural resources, evaluation of mineraI potential, Natural risks mitigation, Environment

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

Biometeorology and Climate Change

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

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

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

Sustainability and Water Resources Engineering

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

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

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

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

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

cyclone statistics and climate variability

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Renewable, Sustainable and Low-carbon energy technologies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Urban Renewal and Heritage conservation
Green buildings/cities promotion

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jaime Senabre (1966). Graduated in Psychology, is currently developing his PhD thesis in the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the UNED. He has extensive postgraduate training, achieving a total of five Masters, including: Masters in Occupational Health, Safety and Workplace Risk by Camilo José Cela University, Madrid; Master of Psychopathology and Health, UNED; Master of Civil Protection and Emergency Management, University of Valencia. He is also a Diploma in Psychological Intervention in Emergencies and Disasters, Environmental Consultant, Expert in Human Resources and Criminology. His multidisciplinary background has led him to exercise his professional work as a wildland firefighter for 18 years and is currently Chief of the Wildland Fire Brigade. Exerts Clinical Psychology at several private centers and provides training to the various emergency services and police. Director and Chairman of the Scientific-Professional Committee of the National Symposium on Forest Fires -SINIF (2008-2014) and creator of SINIF Awards, for Innovation and Technological Research, Prevention and Management Development on Forest Fires.Member of: Spanish Society for the Study of Anxiety and Stress, Spanish Association for Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology, and Spanish Association of Behavioral Psychology.

Wild Fire, Climate Change, Ecology

Chavalit Ratanatamskul is The Director of Research Unit on Waste Treatment, Faculty of Engineering and The Vice Director of Technopreneurship and Innovation Management Program, Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. He received Ph.D. and Master degree of Engineering in environmental engineering from The University of Tokyo, Japan in 1996 and 1993, respectively, and B.Eng. degree in environmental engineering from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand in 1991. His major research interests are focused on anaerobic digestion, waste management and water reuse. He has published research works in international journals and proceedings more than 80 publications. Moreover, he is presently The Chairman of Project Committee and The Vice Chairman of Environmental Engineering Committee at The Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) under the King’s Patronage.

Water Environment and Anaerobic Digestion

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

Biological Engineering, Applied Microbiology AND Chemical Engineering

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

Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry

Marisa Escobar is an environmental engineer with over a decade of experience emphasizing interdisciplinary linkages between socio-ecological and physical processes and conducting climate change analysis. Her current work is related to applying SEI’s Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP). Dr. Escobar works in California and Latin America to support a growing WEAP user community in the region. Examples of this work include the use of WEAP to define water management alternatives for the Santa Clara Water District in California, to support negotiations around water benefit sharing mechanisms in Andean Rivers, and to integrate a glacier routine within WEAP as part of a World Bank supported investigation in Peru. Dr. Escobar has done substantial project work to link WEAP to ecosystem assessment tools related to anadromous fish management in California rivers under an EPA STAR Grant, focusing on analysing the trade-offs between power production and other water management objectives.

Her expertise on water, including water quality, the physics of water, and the movement of water through watersheds, to produce information on the implications of decisions about water on the overall ecosystem