Xiaonong Hu (Bill X. Hu), Professor and Dean of the School of Water Conservancy and Environment at the University of Jinan. He previously held a tenured professorship and Directorship of the Groundwater Research Center at Florida State University in the United States. Prof. Hu was an inductee into the China National-level Overseas Outstanding Talent Program and a winner of the NSFC’s Outstanding Youth Fund Project (Class B). He has long been dedicated to scientific research in the fields of grou
Suam Kim, a Professor Emeritus at Pukyong National University in Korea. He is also a Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST). He served as Director of the Polar Research Center of the Korea Ocean Research Development Institute (KORDI), Chairman of Korean Committee of Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC), and as President of the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC). His fields of interest include the environmental factors causing the recruitment variability
Jianping Li is a full professor and dean of Academy of Future Ocean (AFO), Ocean University of China (OUC). He is also Vice-Director of Committee of Directors of Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System/OUC, Director of Center for Ocean Carbon Neutrality/OUC, and “AoShan Talent” Outstanding Scientist at Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, China. He is Chair of the Union Commission on Climatic and Environmental Change (CCEC) of IUGG (Interna
Guanghui Lin is currently a professor of ecology at the Tsinghua University of China, and the Chief Scientist for Hainan International Blue Carbon Research Center. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Ecology from University of Miami, followed by a postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Utah and Associate Research Professor at Columbia University, USA. After returning to China in 2003, he holds positions of Principal Scientist in the Institute of Botany, CAS, Professor Associate Dean in the
Jiawen Liu serves as a visiting scholar at University of Portsmouth. She received her BA (Hons) degree in Accountancy and Financial Management in 2017 and the Master’s degree in Forensic Accounting in 2018 from the University of Portsmouth. She was awarded a PhD in Accounting, Economics and Finance in October 2024 by the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the University of Portsmouth. Her research interests include blue economy accounting and blue carbon accounting.TopicBlue carbon a
Zhaosu Meng is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics, Ocean University of China. She received her Ph.D. in Marine Science from the University of New South Wales, Australia. With an interdisciplinary background spanning economics, management, and marine science, her research focuses on climate economics, marine economics, and financial markets. Meng has led several major research projects, including those funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China and the Shandong Provi
Haoran Pan was a professor in economics at School of Economics and Resource Management, Beijing Normal University. He specializes in using quantitative economic techniques to analyze environmental and resource policy issues. His background was in statistics, econometrics, economic modelling, and applied economics. His current research interests include integrated assessment modelling, green CGE modelling, climate change, ocean management, green growth, etc. He has extensive international experie
Yisheng Peng completed a post-doctoral research position in the Department of Ecology at Sun Yat-Sen University from August 2008 to November 2011. Subsequently, he has been serving as an Assistant/Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at the same university since February 2012. Additionally, he held a Research Fellow position at the Australian Rivers Institute (ARI), Griffith University, from March 2015 to March 2016. Currently, he is a council member of the
