Dr. Kalkhan (Citizen of USA) has over 35 years of diverse experience in academic, higher education institutes, international development (Capacity Building, Technology Transfer), scientific journal editing- peer review paper publications and technical reports, government, business, and industrial research including project management administration, and proposal writing-funding-reporting. His focus is the implementation of statistical analysis, sampling and survey methods, integration of geospatial information sciences-technology, and computational applications for sustainable earth resources and sustainable environment. Dr. Kalkhan specializes in Biometrics, Remote Sensing, GIS, Spatial Statistics, Quantitative Methods, Sampling-Survey - Designs, Scientific data management and Information Dissemination and Reports, and the use of Statistical-GIS-Remote Sensing Commercial/ Industrial (QA Product/ Processes) /Utility/Microsoft Office software, and Data mining. Applications have and continue included natural resource management (NRM), land use and land cover change, land tenure practices, ecological-environmental forecasting, public health (dust, sand storms, infectious disease), biological invasion of ecosystems, biodiversity, agriculture and water resources, crops monitoring and forecasting, wetlands ecosystem, wildlands fire, urban planning, monitoring Ozone/UV, public health, renewable/ energy resources, environmental sustainability- evaluation and prediction of change (resilience-vulnerability to climate change and adaptation), and improving economic and social growth practices/ policy. Applications vary in scale from local to global.

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Biometrics (Methods, Analysis, Modeling, Applications) Geospatial Information Sciences and Technology (Remote Sensing, GIS, GPS, Aerial Photography) Thematic Mapping Accuracy Assessment Spatial Statistics, Sampling Survey-Design, Statistics (Parametric and Non-Parametric) Monitoring and Evaluation, Learning Methods including Sampling Designs and Survey Methods, Pilot Studies. Landscape Ecology, Ecological and Environment (Modeling, Mapping, Forecasting, Assessment-Impact) Land Degradation, Deforestation, Integrated Water Recourses and Management Land Degradation, Deforestation, Integrated Water Recourses and Management Crops Monitoring, Forecasting and Agriculture Information System and Precision Faming Biological Invasion, Biodiversity and Conservation, Sustainability of Renewable Resources Climate Change and Adaption, REDD+, Pollution (Dust Storm, Sand, Lands, Water, Air, Traffic, Public Health) Environmental Sciences and Physical Planning, Wildlife Conservation and Monitoring Natural Resources Management, Forest Wildfire (Ecology, Inventory, Modeling and Mapping Fire Severity-Burn) Environment and Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Business and Risk Analysis, & Quality Insurance (QA).

Biography By Naiyang Ma Naiyang Ma was born in Jiangsu Province, China. He graduated with a B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering in 1982 from Chongqing University, China. He received his M.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering in 1985 from Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Technology (now the University of Science and Technology Beijing), China. After he had taught as a lecturer and later as an associate professor from 1985 to 1995 at East China Institute of Metallurgy (now Anhui University of Technology), China, he took a visiting research position at the University of Birmingham, Britain and studied smelting reduction of ilmenite by carbon in molten pig iron from 1995 to 1996. He then attended the University of Utah, USA for a doctoral study, and received his Ph.D. degree in Metallurgical Engineering in 2000. From 2000 to 2006, he was working as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Utah. He joined ArcelorMittal Global R&D – East Chicago Laboratories in 2006, and currently he is a Scientist. Since 2011, Dr. Ma has been appointed as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Utah. Dr. Ma has had near sixty research publications and he was awarded one US patent and one international patent in pending. In 2012, he was awarded AIST Environmental Technology Award for Best Paper and Presentation. In 2015, he received American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) Medal Finalist award. Naiyang’s past research experience includes pulverized coal injection into blast furnaces, optimization of blast furnace slag compositions, sintering, pelletization and cold-bonded agglomeration of iron-containing solid wastes, smelting reduction of ilmenite by carbon in molten pig iron, modeling with stochastic process and experimental testing with techniques of scanning electron microscope (SEM) imaging and automated image analysis (AIA) for understanding liberation characteristics of pyrite and other ash-forming minerals from coal, modeling and simulation of grinding ores in large ball mills with discrete element method (DEM), and modeling and simulation of nano-structured materials. At present, Naiyang’s main research interest is in recycling of steel making plant solid wastes by in-process separation of beneficial components from unwanted components in economic manners.

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research interest is in recycling of steelmaking plant solid wastes by in-process separation of beneficial components from unwanted components in economic manners.

Gang Pan is a physical and environmental chemist and a freshwater ecologist. He works on management of nutrient cycling and pollution control in natural waters and is recognized as a founding member for geo-engineering for lake restoration. He pioneers in developing cost-effective and safe technologies for toxic harmful algal bloom and water-pollution controls and fundamental physicochemical theories and methods in environmental and geochemical interfacial and nano sciences. He has a track record in multidisciplinary studies in chemical, environmental, ecological, water, nano, agriculture and aquatic geo-engineering areas. He was awarded National First Prize of Environmental Science and Technology of China(2009); “Scientists of the Year”(2010, Chinese national annual award); and 2014 Excellence in Review Awards (ES&T). He is Chairman of Global Phosphorus Recycling Initiative (GPRI), associate editor for Frontiers in Environmental Sciences, and editorial board of several international journals. He has published > 200 peer reviewed papers (H index 40 Google Scholar) and filed 50 patents. The MLS technology developed by he and his team has been successfully commercialized in China and has produced market cap of > £10 Million. He is now leading a study of Integrated Water, Energy, and Food (IWEF) security at Nottingham Trent University, where wastewater can be purified by turning pollutants into biofuel, electricity, anti-toxin biochar (for food safety), and other products, through innovative technologies. Work experience:

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Aquatic ecological engineering: lake restoration; eutrophication and algal bloom control,Environmental interfacial chemistry: adsorption and flocculation reactions, Environmental nanomaterials: nanobubbles and its application to biofuel cells and hypoxia/anoxia remediation in deep water/ sediment, Microalgae bio-refinery technologies, Biogeochemical cycling of P, N, S, C, Hg, As in natural waters and sediment Biogeochemical cycling of P, N, S, C, Hg, As in natural waters and sediment, Integrated Water-Energy-Food security (pilot model).

Professor Dr. Phoebe Koundouri holds a PhD (2000), MSc (1996) and MPhil (1995) in Economics from the University of Cambridge (UK). She is Professor in Economic and Econometric Theory and Applications (with special emphasis on Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment) at the School of Economics, Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece). She is also Founder and Scientific Director of the Research Laboratory: (ReSEES): Research tEam on Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability (http://www.icre8.eu/resees) at the same University. Since 2013 she is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics (UK). Phoebe Koundouri is the Founder and Scientific Director of the non-for-profit ICRE8: International Center for Research on the Environment and the Economy (www.icre8.eu). ICRE8 is the host of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN)-Greece (www.unsdsn.gr) and Prof. Koundouri is the Co-Chair of UNSDSN-Greece. She has published 15 edited books and monographs, and more than 250 articles in academic journals and edited volumes. She is a highly cited academic author ranked in the top 1.5% of all female economists in the world. She is co-editor of the official journal of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, associate editor and editorial board member in 23 academic journals. She was elected Council Member (2012-2015) and Vice President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2014-2015). She is Visiting Professor and Research Fellow in many Universities and Research Centers around the world. In the past she held fixed-term and tenure track academic positions at the University of Cambridge, University College London, University of Reading, and many visiting positions around the world. She has been acting as an advisor, consultant and research evaluator for the European Commission, World Bank, OECD, UN, NATO, WHO, various Foundations and Governments. Since 1996, she has coordinated and/or participated, in more than 60 research projects on natural resources management issues. She has organized a number of international conferences and supervised numerous PhD students, all of them now working in academia. Over the last two decades Phoebe Koundouri has given keynote and public lecturers all over the world, and received scholarships and prizes for academic excellence from various academic institutions and foundations. Central to Koundouri’s research is the concept of the ‘total economic value of public goods’ and in particular the value humans derive from natural resources and their ecosystem services. Her main research goal is to refine the theoretical models and empirical methods used in the field of natural resource, ecological & agricultural economics, towards: (a) better understanding of the concept and determinants of the total economic value of ecosystem goods and services, (b) more accurate modelling of this value, (c) more robust estimation of this value, (d) more efficient integration of this value in interdisciplinary resource management and policy-making. Areas of research as per EconLit: Environmental, Natural Resources and Agricultural Economics and Econometrics; Economic Sustainability, Cost-Benefit Analysis and Discounting; Non-market Valuation; Agricultural Economics and Finance; Interdisciplinary Approaches to Natural Resources Management and Policy; Econometric Methods; Philosophy of science. Phoebe Koundouri was born in Cyprus in 1974. She is married to Prof. Nikitas Pittis. They have two daughters, Chrysilia and Billie, and live (mainly) in Kifisia, Athens.

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My main research goal is to produce a structured and methodologically sound approach towards capturing the total economic value of public goods, demonstrating this approach to policy makers and achieve its integration in natural resource economic policy.

Katerina Kabassi has received a first degree in Informatics (1999) and a D.Phil. (2003) from the Department of Information, University of Piraeus (Greece). She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Technology, School of Applied Sciences, Technological Educational Institute of the Ionian Islands (Greece). Her current research interests are in the areas of Knowledge-based Software Engineering, Evaluation Experiments, Human Computer Interaction, Personalization Systems, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, User Modeling, Web-based Information Systems and Educational Software. She has organized two summer schools and a special session in an international conference. She has served as the principal investigator or co-investigator in 19 research or development projects.

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Environmental Technology

Michael AB Naafs is a Dutch internist-endocrinologist with a long clinical career in internal medicine and endocrinology. His Ph.D Endocrinology was obtained at Leiden University (1988) and focused on the renal end-organ resistance to PTH (Parathormone) infusion in normo-and hypercalcaemic patients with solid tumors secreting a PTH-like factor. Other area�s of interest are clinical pharmacology where he was in the front of clinical research of transdermal nitroglycerin patches. (1984) Recently he participated in the standard book project �Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Methods in Clinical Pharmacolgy �Eds Hock FJ Gralinski MR 2nd Edition, 2017, Springer Verlag, providing the section �Pharmacodynamic Evaluation: Endocrinology �. In infectious medicine he was one of the first to report about HIV-2 infection (1990) Experience in HIV,MDRTB and tropical Infectious medicine was acquired during a one year stay at Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital, Umthata, South Africa. (2008) At present he works as an independent health consultant (Naafs International Health Consultancy) and as a Medical Writer. Michael is an editorial board member of a number open access journals and the author of tenfolds of publications

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Fedor N. Lisetskii. Date of Birth: 08/03/1958. Born in Nikolayev (Ukraine). He studied at the I. I. Mechnikov Odesa University (1975-1980), being a disciple of professor H. I. Shvebs who is a hydrologist, geographer, and a founder of the new branch of Erosion Science. Graduated under the guidance of H. I. Shvebs postgraduate studies (1983) and doctoral studies (1993). D. Sc. (Biogeography and Soil Geography), 1994; Ph.D. (Biogeography and Soil Geography), 1984. All degrees were received from the Odessa State University (now – Odessa National University), Ukraine. Professor (2000). Belgorod State University: The chairmen of the Environmental Management and Land Survey (1998-2010); The chief of the department of sciences and research, vice-rector in science (1999-2002). The director of the Federal-regional center of aerospace and surface monitoring of the objects and natural resources (2006-present). Professor of the Environmental Management and Land Survey Chair (1997-present). Author, co-author of over 500 publications, including 15 books, 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and 30 of the objects of intellectual property (databases, computer programs).

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Ecology, Soil science, Soil geography, Geomorphology, Geoarchaeology, Pedoarchaeology, The study of ancient systems of land use new scientific methods (GIS, remote sensing)

Doctoral degree of Moscow State university. He worked as Senior researcher Armenian Institute of Agriculture and Technological Institute of Amino Acids of USSR, director of Armenian Institute of Biotechnology, director of Yerevan Vitamin plant and deputy director of Nairit Chloroprene Rubber plant. Sole founder of Research & Industry Centre of Photosynthesizing Organisms, Feed Additives & Physiologically Active Compounds; Expert of EU Horizon 2020, ERA.NET and International Cooperation programs and Council of Chemistry and Petrochemistry of CIS countries. Academic Member of the Greece ATINER Academia, Member of American Chemical Society and Society of Chemical Industry (USA), Member of Editorial Boards of the journals: “Journal of Chemical, Environmental and Biological Engineering" (USA), SM Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering" (USA) and “Modern Management Forum” (Singapore). Laureate of “The International Presidents Award for Iconic Achievement” and “Top 100 Professionals” (IBC, England), "The Albert Einstein Award for Excellence" (Top 50 Geniuses of World, ABI, USA), Marquis Whos Who “2017 and 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award” (USA), awards of the Armenia and former USSR

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System biology, Environmental Science. Its environmental building recommendations of the “THEORY OF GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BASED ON THE USE OF MICROALGAE IN BIO AND INDUSTRIAL CYCLES. NEW DESIGN AND BUILDING OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM” (Amazon) aimed towards new environmental policies and development of Live Conserve Industry and management changing decisions with the promotion of solutions for large-scale mitigation GHG emission, waste, generating of O2 and manufacturing of advanced biofuel as well as value-added products. It is a principal step from the non-efficient protection of the environment to its cultivation which opens an important shift towards a new design and building of a biological system.

Dr Tarek Mohamed Kamal Mohamed Metawie, Professor of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University. Egyptian, date of birth 6/3/1955. Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1984; M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1979; B.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, 1976

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He has an M.Sc (1986) in Palynology and Micropaleontology from the Alexandria University. He obtained his Ph.D in Palynology, Micropaleontology and Paleoenvironment in 1993 from the University of Alexandria and the Technical University of Berlin (channel program). He is the author of more than 50 research articles on Palynology, micropaleontology, paleoecology and Environmental Sciences. He was the National Coordinator and Member of the IGCP 381 "South Atlantic Mesozoic Correlation" and member of AASP, BMS, GSE, EPS, and ESQUA. In 2003, he awarded the Alexandria University Scientific Prize and in 2004, he awarded the State of Egypt Prize. He got the Ministry of Environment Affairs prize in 2013 as one of the Environment Pioneers in Egypt. In 2016, he awarded the Alexandria University Appreciation prize. He was a team member and PI of many national and international research projects dealt with Palynology, Geology, climate change and Environmental Impact Assessment. He got a Fulbright scholarship from January to June 2006 and afterword he is one of the Fulbright panelist for selection of scholars in the field of Geology and Environmental Sciences. He is the manager of ENPI CBC-MED "Mid Algae" European Project, and Alexandria University coordinator of Internationalization in Higher Education Institutions BUCUM Project. He is the author of about 50 research articles in peer-reviewed journals.

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Palynological, Micropaleontological, stratigraphical, paleoenvironmental and organic thermal maturation researches dealing with pollen grains, spores, dinoflagellates and foraminifera of the Paleozoic to Recent sediments from the Western & Eastern Desert, Nile Delta, North Sinai, and the Gulf of Suez, Egypt and Arabian Gulf (Qatar and Kuwait). 2) Pollen analysis of Quaternary and Recent sediments for inferring the vegetation history and climate change. 3) Ecological and environmental researches on the use of Foraminifera as bio-indicator for pollution monitoring. 4) Environmental Impact Assessment studies.

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Professor of fish biology and aquatic ecology, since 1993 at Minufiya University, Egypt. B.Sc., (Zoology and Chemistry) from Cairo University 1968, M.Sc. in Ecology F.Sc., Azhar University in 1977, Ph.D., Ecology, Minufiya and Michigan University , 1982, Associate professor in 1987, 1993.

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Fish Biology, Aquatic Ecology, Water Treatment, Water Quality, Fresher water, Ecotoxicology.

Has been the “Member Secretary “to the Rajasthan Pollution Control Board, Jaipur, also has been Senior visiting Prof. L.D.College of Engineering and CEPT University, Ahmedabad and Director , Kalol Institute of Technology and Research Centre, Kalol, Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat. Also was Director, Jyoti Rao Phoole University, Jaipur and Technical Advisor/ Environmental Advisor to various consultancy organizations, Presently Senior Professor Civil Engineering, Global Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad

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