Committee

Honor Committee

Mike is the Director of International Estuarine & Coastal Specialists (IECS) Ltdand also the Professor of Estuarine and Coastal Sciences at the University of Hull, UK. He was Director of the former Institute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies (IECS)at the university from 1996-2017. He is a marine biologist with a wide experience and interests and histeaching, research, advisory and consultancy includes estuarine and marine ecology, policy, governance and management. Mike has published widely, co-authoring/co-editing 20 books/proceedings and >300scientific publications. This includes co-authoring 'The Estuarine Ecosystem: ecology, threats and management' (with DS McLusky, OUP, 2004), 'Ecology of Marine Sediments: science to management' (with JS Gray, OUP, 2009), and ‘Estuarine Ecohydrology: an introduction’ (with E Wolanski, Elsevier, 2015). He was an editor and contributor to the ‘Coasts and Estuaries: the Future’ (Wolanski, Day, Elliott and Ramachandran; Elsevier, 2019), Fish and Fisheries in Estuaries (Whitfield, Able, Blaber& Elliott; Wiley, 2022) and the Treatise on Estuarine & Coastal Science (Eds.-In-Chief - E Wolanski&DS McLusky, Elsevier). He has advised on many environmental matters for academia, industry, government and statutory bodies worldwide. Mike is a past-President of the international Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA) and is now Vice-Chair of Future Earth Coasts and aCo-Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Estuarine, Coastal & Shelf Science; he currently is or has had Adjunct Professor and Research positions at Murdoch University (Perth), Klaipeda University (Lithuania), the University of Palermo (Italy), Xiamen University (China) and the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity.He was awarded Laureate of the Honorary Winberg Medal 2014 of the Russian Hydrobiological Academic Society.He is also a member of many national and international committees linking marine science to policy.

David Bowers is Emeritus Professor of Physical Oceanography at Bangor University in the UK. He studied Physics at Manchester at the tail end of the 1960’s and came to oceanography as a mature student during an oil crisis in the mid-1970’s. He obtained his Masters and PhD degrees at the University College of North Wales and worked on a post-doc at Flinders University in Australia before taking up a post as lecturer at Bangor. He retired in 2016 as head of physical oceanography at Bangor with a career researching tides, turbulence, particle flocculation and marine optics. He has written several books and is currently finishing a popular science account of the oceanography of shelf seas.

K. L. Priya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala, India. She is a pronounced researcher in estuarine studies and her research interests include estuarine contaminant dynamics, energy from estuaries, flocculation and settling of suspended sediments, groundwater quality studies, water and wastewater treatment involving flocculation. To her credit, she has over 36 international publications in reputed journals, 6 book chapters, 1 book and over 30 papers in conferences and the recipient of over 5 awards. She has completed 4 funded research projects, 5 major consultancy projects, and guided 4 IAESTE interns, 2 research scholars and over 40 U.G./P.G. projects. She is involved in collaborative research with 15 universities/institutions worldwide. She is a State-level core team member of the evaluation committee of the DPRs for pollution abatement of rivers in Kerala, Core-Committee member for the Conservation and Management of Ashtamudi wetland and served as the Lead Chair of the scientific session of the International Conference of Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation USA. She is a Guest Editor of Regional Studies in Marine Science, Elsevier and active reviewer of reputed journals of Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer, etc.

A. M. Hoguane is a Full Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Eduardo Mondlane University. He graduated in Physical Oceanography and Mathematics in 1993 and obtained his PhD degree in Physical Oceanography in 1997, at the University College of North Wales, UK. He was a post-doc research fellow at the Institute of Geophysics, University of Bergen. Currently is the Director of the Centre for Marine Research and Technology and holds the UNESCO Chair in Marine Sciences and Oceanography at the Eduardo Mondlane University. His main research interest areas include tides and tidal currents, hydrodynamics of estuaries and coasts, marine physical-biological coupling and energy from the sea. He has several articles published in peer-reviewed journals and contributed chapters in books.


Technical Program Committee Chairs
Dr. S. Haddout, Faculty of Science, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco.
Dr. I. Ljubenkov, Water Development, Croatia.
Dr. Joan Cecilia C. Casila, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines

International Technical Program Committee
Dr. D. G. Bowers, Universite of Bangor, UK.
Dr. D. Abessa, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil.
Dr. F. Matic, Institute of oceanography and fisheries - Split, Croatia.
Dr. V. Baiju, Department of Mechanical Engineering, TKM College of Engineering Kollam, India.
Dr. K. R.Renjith, Ecology and Environment Research Group, KSCSTE-Centre for Water Resources Development and Management, India.
Dr. C. C.Boaventura, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique.
Dr. M. A. Quirapas-Franco, Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore.
Dr. S. Junianto, Electronic Engineering Polytechnic Institute of Surabaya (EEPIS), Indonesian.
Dr. Z. Bolatova, Department of Science and Commercialization, Almaty University of Power Engineering and Communication, Kazakhstan.
Dr. Ronaldo B. Saludes, Agrometeorology and Farm Structures Division, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines.
Dr. Y. Haddout, Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate, Ibn Zohr University, Ouarzazate, Morocco.
Dr. A. Rafiki, Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate, Ibn Zohr University, Ouarzazate, Morocco.
Dr. E. Essaghir, Faculty of Science Ain Chock, Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco.
Dr. D. Elemam, Environmental Sciences, Department Faculty of Science- Damietta University, Egypt.
Dr. S. Mesbaholdin, Department ofIndustrial Engineering, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Dr. G. T. Gimiliani, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil.
Dr. K.L. Priya, TKM College of Engineering, India.
Dr. A.M. Hoguane, Centre for Marine Research and Technology, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique.
Dr. A. Haddout, Faculty of Science, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco.
Dr. Joan Cecilia C. Casila, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines.
Dr. I. Ljubenkov, Water Development, Croatia.
Dr. Decibel V. Faustino-Eslava, School of Environmental Science and Management, University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippine.
Prof. Jian Zhang, School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China.
Dr. Yasser Mahmoudi Larimi, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester, UK
Assoc. Prof. Tuba Hatice DOĞAN, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ataturk University, Turkey