K Thomas Klasson received his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville in 1988. Currently, he is working as Research Leader at the Southern Regional Research Center of the US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service in New Orleans Louisiana Prior to this position. He worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as Group Leader and Engineer. He has served as coeditor of Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemical a special edition of Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology. He has authored over 125 research articles, book chapters proceeding manuscripts and technical reports in the areas of biotechnology, environmental remediation and alternative uses of agricultural resources. He is an member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers and American Chemical Society.

Biological conversion of gaseous substrates Treatment of mercury waste streams Water treatment Adsorbents from agricultural by-products

Chong-Yu Xu obtained his Master and PhD Degrees in Hydrology from Free University of Brussels, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He graduated from Nanjing University in 1982 with a bachelor\'s degree in surface water hydrology. He is currently Professor of Hydrology at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway. He serves as adjunct Professor at Uppsala University in Sweden and several universities in China including Nanjing University and Wuhan University. He has been awarded WMO Research Awards for Young Scientists, Outstanding Overseas Chinese Scholars Awards, etc. He is currently the Editor for international journal of “Hydrology Research”, and Associate Editor for “Journal of Hydrology” and “Hydrological Sciences Journal”. He is an author of more than 130 ISI Journal papers with a h-index of 29. He is an Expert reviewer of IPCC WG-I AR5 report and expert reviewer of IPCC WG II AR5 report

Hydrological modelling at global, regional and catchment scales,Regional evapotranspiration and its role in linking climatic and hydrological system,Modelling of hydrological impact of climate and environment changes at global, regional and catchment scales, Regionalization of hydrological variables and model parameters, Uncertainty analysis and time series analysis

Lijun Hou received his Ph.D from East China Normal University in 2004. He ever worked with Professor Wayne Gardner at Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and 2009. Now, he is a professor of State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, China. So far, he has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals, with high impact factors.

My research field mainly concerns about the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in estuarine and coastl ecosystems. Recently, my work is particularly focused on the nitrogen transformation processes (e.g. nitrification, denitrification, dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium, anaerobic ammnoum oxidation) and their interactions with microorganisms in marine environments.

Simonovic has over thirty years of research, teaching and consulting experience in water resources engineering. He is teaching courses in civil engineering and water resources systems. He actively works for national and international professional organizations. He has received a number of awards for excellence in teaching, research and outreach. Dr. Simonovic has been invited to present special courses for practicing water resources engineers in many countries. He is assisting in the publication of water resources Journals, and participates actively in the organization of national and international meetings. He has published over 350 professional publications and three major textbooks.

Simonovic’s primary research interest focuses on the application of systems approach to, and development of the decision support tools for, management of complex water and environmental systems. Most of his work is related to the application of computerized simulation, optimization and multi-objective analysis tools in deterministic, probabilistic and fuzzy form. The second focus area of Dr. Simonovic’s research includes risk management. He is developing, and implementing, probabilistic and fuzzy set methods for water resources risk management. He has undertaken applied research projects that integrate the mathematical modeling, spatial and temporal data-base management and intelligent interface development into decision support tools for water resources decision makers. Most of his research is being conducted through the Facility for Intelligent Decision Support (FIDS) at the University of Western Ontario.

Aijie Wang is a Director of International Joint Institute of Environment bioenergy, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Professor, State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, China. Adjunct Professor, Oklahoma University, USA. She has received a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China and Postdoc in Michigan State University, USA. She received 3 National Science Technology Awards and 4 provincial Science Technology Awards in the field of wastewater treatment and bioenergy. She is serving as an editorial board member of reputed journals e.g. Applied Environmental Microbiology. Guest Editor of International Journal of Environment and Pollution, and reviewer of 7 journals Environmental Science Technology, Applied Environmental Microbiology, Bioresource Technology, Journal of Hazardous Marterial, et al.

Waste water or waste cascade bioconversion and waste-to-bioenergy, Novel technologies and principles for swage or wastewater biotreatment, On-line or off-line activated sludge reduction and sludge-to-biochar technologies.

Monzur Imteaz is working as a Senior Lecturer within Civil Engineering group of Swinburne University of Technology at Melbourne, Australia. He has received his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology and M.Eng. in Water Resources Engineering from Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand). He has completed his Ph.D. in 1997 on Lake Water Quality Modelling from Saitama University (Japan). After his PhD, he was working with Institute of Water Modelling (Bangladesh) in collaboration with Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI). Later he has completed his post-doctoral research at University of Queensland, Brisbane. Before joining at Swinburne he has been involved with several Australian local and state government departments. At Swinburne, Dr Imteaz is teaching subjects ‘Sustainable Design’, ‘Urban Water Resources’ and ‘Integrated Water Design’. Also, he has been actively involved with various researches on sustainability, water recycling and modelling, developing decision support tools, rainfall forecasting using Artificial Neural Networks.

Development of decision support systems, Artificial Neural Network modelling, Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling and general water modelling.forecasting using Artificial Neural Networks.

Wen Long grew up in Wangcheng District, suburb of Changsha City, Hunan Province, China. Northern Hunan is China’s heartland for farming and Wen, at his youth, was essentially growing rice year after year with his parents, during which he developed interests in studying the nature. In 1993, Wen was selected to go to Tianjin University for college majoring mechanics, where he also took electrical engineering as a minor, which helped him understand how computers work. Prof. Jianhua Tao introduced Wen Long into the field of hydrodynamics in 1995. Since then Wen has been working on applications of computational fluid mechanics with a focus on hydrodynamics. In 2000, Wen was admitted to The University of Delaware Center for Applied Coastal Research to study coastal and ocean engineering with a dissertation on wave and sediment transport under the supervision of Dr. James T. Kirby. During the 6 years at UD, Wen Long produced a suite of widely used water wave and sediment transport models, which are open source and bundled in CoastalSpace available on Source Forge. After graduation in 2006, Wen started applying his skills and knowledge in coastal ecological modeling. He was a postdoctoral fellow and later assistant research scientist at The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), where he developed the Chesapeake Bay HAB prediction system, the community Chesapeake Bay Regional Ocean Modeling System (ChesROMS, Lead PI: C. Brown, R. Hood). Recently, Wen has also developed the following models for the Chesapeake Bay region: MACROMS--Mid Atlantic Coast Regional Ocean Modeling System; ChopROMS--Choptank River Regional Ocean Modeling System. These models are being used for studying blue crab larvae transport and oyster larvae transport supported by MD Sea Grant and US Army Corps. of Engineering (Co-PI with E. North). Wen Long is currently (2012) working on FVCOM modeling of the Puget Sound watershed integrated with the well celebrated CE-QUAL-ICM model. Wen Long continues his research collaboration with Chesapeake research community through an adjunct professor position at UMCES.

Nearshore Wave Current Modeling; Coastal/Estuarine/River Water Quality Modeling, Biogeochemical Cycles; Sediment Transport Modeling; Computational Hydrodynamics, Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Ong Soon An received his PhD in Environmental Engineering from Oita University (Japan) in 2006 sponsored by Monbukagakusho Scholarship. He obtained JSPS postdoctoral fellowship and worked as a researcher at Niigata University (Japan) from 2007 to 2009. Currently, he is working as a senior lecturer in School of Environmental Engineering, University Malaysia Perlis. He is serving as an editorial member of the Universal Journal of Environmental Research and Technology and reviewers in various international journals. He has published more than 20 journal articles with high impact factor.

Development of biological wastewater treatment system for treating wastewater containing toxic, persistent and less biodegradable pollutants Treatment of domestic and industrial wastewater by constructed wetland Simultaneous energy production and wastewater treatment Photocatalytic degradation of industrial wastewater

Stylianos G. Skias serves, since 2007, as Assistant Professor of Engineering-Environmental Geology, at the Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace.  He graduated in 1974 from the Department of Natural Sciences and Geography of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Next he attended the postgraduate program, M.Sc. course, (jointly) in the Departments of Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Leeds, G. Britain, and received his M.Sc. in Engineering Geology and Geotechnics in 1975. He has also a diploma (five years studies) in Civil Engineering at Democritus University of Thrace. Besides he has attended various scientific seminars in Universities and Research Institutions in Greece and Abroad (e.g. Imperial College-GB, Colorado-USA, Bratislava-SL, Paris-Fr, Antwerp-Be, Patras-Gr). He has participated in many NATO’s, Scientific Division’s, CCMS and ARW programmes. Recently, he participated in the three years project “RiverCross” (2005-7), “Change on Borders” of the Interreg IIIC programme, regarding the scientific and policy measures for improving and enhancing cooperation on transboundary river basin management, regarding water uses and problems, through the exchange of relative experiences and the evaluation of their successes and failures. His professional experience and employment is briefly as follows: 1979-1996, Registered Consultant (official license by the Greek State) in the fields of Geology, Hydrogeology and Geophysics. 1988-1996, Consultant in Geotechnical Engineering. 1980-‘84 and 1989- ’99: Research Associate, 1999-2007, Lecturer (in all cases) at the Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace.

His area of specialization consists of the assessment and mitigation of geological hazards (mainly: floods, landslides, earthquakes and land-sea coast erosion), natural degradation processes, natural slope stability and geotechnical evaluation of soft and complex rock formations. Besides his research interests include engineering geological aspects of waste disposal and landfill (sitting, construction, monitoring), Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Sustainable Development (regarding the geoenvironment), geoenvironmental education and environmental legislation.