2023 MANGROVE CONFERENCE (MangCon 2023)

Main organizer:

Dr. Pei Sun LOH, Ocean College, Zhejiang University, China

Jointly organized by:

Dr. Chantha OEURNG and Dr. Ty SOK, Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Cambodia

Dr. Jianjun WANG, Yangzhou University, China

Dr. Selvaraj KANDASAMY, Central University of Kerala, India

Professor Gusti Z ANSHARI, Tanjungpura University, Indonesia

Professor Che Abd Rahim MOHAMED, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia

Dr. Choon Weng LEE and Dr. Chui Wei BONG, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Professor Xixi LU, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Dr. Siriporn PRADIT, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand

Dr. Thi Phuong Quynh LE, Institute of Natural Product Chemistry, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam.

17th October:

Arrival and Registration

18th October:

Oral and poster presentation

More details on the conference agenda will be updated soon!

Distinguished plenary speakers:

Professor Guanghui LIN, Tsinghua University, China

Professor Xiaoguang OUYANG, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, China

Professor Luzhen CHEN, Xiamen University, China

Professor Dixon GEVAÑA, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines

Dr. Hai-Hoa NGUYEN, Vietnam National University of Forestry, Vietnam

Dr. Nguyen Tai TUE, VNU University of Science, Vietnam

Dr. Bijeesh Kozhikkodan VEETTIL, Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Dr. Nicole KHAN, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Distinguished virtual speakers:

Professor Oleg SHIPIN, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

Dr. Maria Fernanda ADAME, Griffith University, Australia

Dr. Virni Budi ARIFANTI, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia

Dr. Ahmad Aldrie AMIR, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia

Dr. Sigit SASMITO, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Open for registration: 

10th August 2023 to 30th September 2023.

FREE REGISTRATION! 

We will provide  on-site participation lunch on the 18th October 2023

Registration method: 

Please download the Registration form, fill in the information and send it to MangroveConference@hotmail.com, provide your name, institution and designation, and the following information: 

(a) Online presentation (and title) or online participation;

(b) Participate in person:

- indicate whether you would like to give a title of your talk, or poster, or participation only.

- lunch preference: normal, vegetarian, or halal.

Note: talk will be around 20 minutes per person (15 minutes talk + 5 minutes Q & A)

Hotel suggestion (but not limited to):

1. Atour Hotel, Dinghai, Zhoushan, 舟山定海亞朵酒店: https://hk.trip.com/hotels/zhoushan-hotel-detail-82815017/atour-hotel-dinghai-zhoushan/

2. Vyluk·J Hotel (Zhoushan Dinghai), 蔚徠J酒店（舟山定海店）: https://hk.trip.com/hotels/zhoushan-hotel-detail-71327164/tiangang-manfei-hotel/

3. Zhoushan Dinghai Renmin South Road Qingju Hotel, 舟山定海人民南路轻居酒店: https://hotels.ctrip.com/hotels/104167990.html

4. Kebin Yuty Hotel, 舟山凱賓悦廷酒店: https://hk.trip.com/hotels/zhoushan-hotel-detail-26485520/kebin-yuty-hotel/

Conference assistants:

Chuanyi GUO

Zengxuan CHEN

Speaker biographies:

“Dr. Guang Hui Lin is a Professor in the Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, and the Chief Scientist, Hainan International Blue Carbon Research Center, China. He obtained his PhD from Department of Biology, University of Miami, USA. He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Utah, and an associate research scientist at Biosphere 2 Center, Columbia University, USA. Prior to his current positions, he was a principal scientist at Institute of Botany, CAS, and a professor and associate dean in School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, China. He has been studying plant diversity, ecosystem functions and blue carbon potentials in various coastal wetlands such as mangroves, salt marshes and seagrass beds, under the influence of global and regional environmental changes. He also specializes in applications of controlled experiments, stable isotopes and eddy covariance techniques to ecological and environmental science research.”

“Dr. Xiaoguang Ouyang is a Professor at Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou). He obtained his PhD from Griffith University, Australia. He was a postdoctoral fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a visiting scientist at WasserCluster Lunz-Biologische Station GmbH, Austria. His current research interest focuses on carbon cycling and ecosystem services of blue carbon ecosystems. He has published in international top journals, including but not limited to Nature Communications, Earth-Science Reviews, Global Change Biology, Environmental Science & Technology, Current Biology, and Science of the Total Environment. He is the editorial member of Frontiers in Marine Science and Carbon Research.”

“Dr. Luzhen Chen is a professor of ecology at the College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University. She received her Ph.D. from Xiamen University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academic of Science, and visited the National Wetland Research Centre (Wetland and Aquatic Research Center) of the U.S. Geological Survey as visiting scholar.  Her research focuses on the structure and ecological functions of coastal blue carbon responding to global changes of warming, sea-level rise, and atmospheric CO2 elevation.”

“Dr. Dixon T. Gevaña is a Professor and UP Scientist at the Department of Social Forestry and Forest Governance, College of Forestry and Natural Resources (CFNR), University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). He is also the Director of the Forestry Development Center (FDC-CFNR), a policy research center of the University of the Philippines. He has worked on mangrove blue carbon and coastal forest governance studies for almost two decades now. His collaborative researches extend to several countries in Asia such as Japan, China, Singapore, India, Malaysia and Myanmar.”

“Dr. Hai-Hoa Nguyen is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Forest Resources and Environmental Management (FREM), Vietnam National University of Forestry, Vietnam (VNUF). He obtained his PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia for Geography and Environmental Management in 2013. At present, he is the vice-dean of FREM and head of Environmental Enginering Dept in VNUF. He has expertise in geospatial technology (GIS, RS, GPS) applied in mangrove forest cover mapping, estimation of mangrove biomass/carbon stocks, C-PFES/PFES, LULC maping in Vietnam. In addition, Assoc/Prof. Dr. Hai-Hoa has successfully completed the national project of ‘Development of remotely sensed satellite data-based models for mangrove biomass and carbon stock estimations as a basis for proposed carbon payment schemes in the North of Vietnam’, which was funded by NAFOSTED. The completion of the project has been approved with 7 national and international ISI/Scopus-indexed articles published. Hai-Hoa is interested in developing regional and national blue-carbon trading markets and guiding sustainable mangrove conservation in Vietnam.”

“Dr. Nguyen Tai Tue is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Geology, University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU). He obtained his PhD degree from Ehime University, Japan in 2012. He worked as a JSPS postdoctoral fellowship at Ehime University from 2012-2014. Now, he is the Vice Dean of Faculty of Geology and Director of Key Laboratory of Geoenvironment and Climate change Response at the VNU. His research interest includes coastal ecosystems and the application of stable isotopes in ecological and environmental research. He has authored and co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed national and international publications and 9 books.”

“Dr. Bijeesh Kozhikkodan Veettil is a researcher at Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He obtained his PhD in remote sensing from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and his Master’s degree in the same from the University of Dundee, UK. He has more than 10 years of research experience in the areas of remote sensing, glaciology, and coastal environmental studies with more than 50 publications in ISI journals as the main author. He is currently serving as the Associate Editor of the Brazilian Journal of Geophysics and an editorial board member of PLOS One.”

“Dr. Nicole Khan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. In her research, she uses sedimentary, microfossil and geochemical indicators to produce and synthesize records of present and past storms, floods and sea levels, and their extent of geological and ecological impacts. These records provide means to assess future risk, reveal the spatial and temporal variability of coastal inundation, and decipher the relationship of these events to global climatic changes. She currently serves on the editorial board of Communications Earth and Environment, Global and Planetary Change, and Quaternary Science Reviews. She was also a contributing author to Chapter 2 and 9 of the International Panel on Climate Change Working Group I Sixth Assessment Report.”

“Dr. Oleg Shipin is an Adjunct Professor at Environmental Engineering and Management Program, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Dr Shipin obtained his MSc in Biochemistry from Saratov State University, Russia. He obtained his PhD in Microbiology from the Inst. of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia. While living in South Africa and Thailand his expertise included ecological engineering of mangroves, microbial biotechnology and nanotechnology, microbial aspects of environmental engineering, natural systems (ponds and wetlands), as well as wastewater treatment systems, environmental and strategic impact assessment for climate change adaptation.”

“Dr. Fernanda Adame is a Senior Researcher at the Coastal & Marine Research Centre, Australian Rivers Institute at Griffith University. She works collaboratively with the Department of Environment and Sciences, Queensland Government, creating useful science for wetland management, conservation and restoration. She graduated from the National Autonomous University in Mexico, where she is originally from, and obtained her PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia. The main focus of her work is the ecosystem services that wetlands provide, such as carbon sequestration, improvement of water quality, and their protection from tropical storms and flooding. Her current projects include the role of wetlands to improve water quality in the Great Barrier Reef Region and the restoration of mangroves to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Australia and Mexico.”

“Dr. Virni Budi Arifanti, Ph.D. is a senior researcher at the National Research and Innovation Agency Republic of Indonesia (BRIN). In BRIN she is leading a research group on Mangrove Ecosystem Restoration and Conservation (MERCi). Virni has been appointed as the Secretary of the Implementation Committee of Man and Biosphere (MAB) UNESCO Program for Indonesia (2023-2025). Since 2022 Virni was appointed as Indonesia’s Focal Point for Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) of the Ramsar Convention and as a Technical Expert of the STRP of the Ramsar Convention for the 2023-2025 triennium. She specializes in tropical mangrove ecosystems, wetlands ecology, blue carbon, greenhouse gas inventory and climate change studies. Virni holds a PhD in wetlands ecology from Oregon State University, USA. Her MSc was obtained from Ghent University, Belgium, in forest geospatial science.”

“Dr. Ahmad Aldrie Amir is a Research Fellow and Head of the Environmental, Economic and Sustainability Research Centre (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Dr Amir has a Master in Environmental Managament from University Kebangsaan Malaysia. He obtained his PhD in Marine Science, specializing in Mangrove Ecology, from The University of Queensland, Australia. Dr Amir has extensive experiences in studying mangrove ecosystems in Malaysia, specializing in mangrove ecology, conservation, management and governance.”

“Dr. Sigit Sasmito is Research Fellow at the NUS Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Dr Sasmito is a wetlands ecologist whose research interests is to study the impacts of contemporary global change on tropical wetland ecosystems (mangrove and peatland). His research aims to improve understanding of terrestrial carbon cycle in tropical peatlands using global scale sytematic approach and landscape field assessmment. He is currently working on the assessment of carbon fluxes mechanism between vegetation-soil-atmosphrer interfaces under different peatland management regimes. Dr Sasmito obtained his BSc from IPB University, Indonesia. He obtained his PhD from Charles Darwin University, Australia. He has extensive working experiences with the The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).”

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