The 2nd International Conference on Climate Change and Ocean Renewable Energy (CCORE 2023)

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.Priyais 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, hydrodynamicsof 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.

I. Ljubenkovis a researcher and an authorized civil engineer employed in his own company Water Development, Split, Croatia. His scientific interest refers to hydrology, hydraulics, estuary analysis, river engineering and water resource management, while the professional work focuses on designing and supervising the construction of utility facilities and hydraulic systems. He has several articles published in peer-reviewed journals and contributed chapters in books.