International Conference on Geology June 22-23, 2015 Florida, USA

Filippos Vallianatos is a Professor of physics from Geophysics-Solid Earth Physics, Technology Educational Institute of CRETE, School of Natural Resources & Environment, Department of Geoenvironment, Laboratory of Geophysics & Seismology & Senior Research Fellow in Geophysics. He received his degree in Physics. With Honours, from University of Athens, Physics Department from 1981-1985. He has done his PhD in Geophysics-Solid Earth Physics (University of Athens, Physics Department). The title of his PhD thesis is: Magnetotelluric investigation of the electrical conductivity in the areas of Thiva and Ioannina (Greece).1985-1989. He has done his Postdoctoral research at Department of Solid Earth Physics, University of Uppsala from 1989-1990. He collaborated with the Dept. of Seismology of the University of Uppsala for the installation of seismological and magnetotelluric stations at various sites in Greece (1986).

Telluric & electromagnetic earthquake precursors, Electromagnetic wane propagation in geostructures with stochastic or fractal properties, Conductivity structure of the Earth using Electromagnetic waves, Thermodynamics of the Earth Interior, Seismic Hazard and Environmental Seismology, Non linear dynamics in seismology and geophysics, Environmental Geophysics and GeoHazards.

Bill X Hu is the Professor of the department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science at Florida State University. He is also the Adjunct Faculty Member of the Department of Geosciences at Nanjing University He has done his Ph.D. from Purdue University in the year of 1996. He has more than 45 publications in many Journals.

Developing geostatistical and stochastic methods to simulate groundwater flow and solute transport in heterogeneous media, and applying these methods in environmental projects, such as the DOE Yucca Mountain Project, Developing stochastic inverse methods to calibrate statistical distributions of conductivity and chemical sorption coefficient in heterogeneous media through pumping and tacer test data, Developing new modeling approach for groundwater flow and solute tranpsort in Karst aquifers, Field and laboratory study of conductivity and chemical sorption coefficient distribution

Lijun Liu, Assistant professor, Department of Geology, University of Illinois, USA. He completed his Ph.D. Geophysics, California Institute of Technology, USA. He has got John Miles Postdoctoral Fellowship (IGPP/UCSD) 2010-2012. Other awards and fellowships include: Outstanding Student Paper Award (AGU)2009, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Student Abroad 2008, Benioff-Moore Fellowship (Caltech) 2005-2009, EPS Department Fellowship (JHU) 2003-2004, Outstanding Leadership for student affairs (USTC) 2001 and many more. He was the Associate editor for scientific journal: Geochem., Geophy., Geosys.(2011-2013), Referee for professional journals: like Nature Geosci., PNAS, EPSL, Geology, JGR, G-Cubed, GRL, GJI, GSAB, etc and Co-convener of two sessions at AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, USA. He has published more than 20 research publication in various international repute journals.

Adjoint geodynamic modeling with data assimilation, Reconstructing subduction backward in time based on tomography, Mechanisms for vertical motions of N. American continent, Driving forces of the orogeny and extension, High-resolution forward subduction modeling, Nature of mantle structures and seismic anisotropy, Formation of continental volcanism and flood basalts, Constraining mantle velocity structure with multi-bouncing ScS waves, Modeling geomagnetic dipole moment collapse

Mukesh Singh Boori is an Assistant Professor at JECRC University, India since 01/2013. He was Scientist in Satellite Climate Studies Branch (NOAA/NASA) USA and at the same time completed his Postdoc. from University of Maryland, USA (10/2012). He has done PhD (EIA & Management of Natural Resources) from Federal University – RN (UFRN), Natal –RN, Brazil (08/2011) and Predoc (Earth & Environmental Science) form Katholieke University Leuven, Belgium (08/2008). He has done MSc (Remote sensing & GIS) from MDS University Ajmer (2004) and BSc (Bio-group) from Uni. of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India (2002). In early career he was scientist in JSAC/ISRO (2006-2007) and before that Lecturer at MDS University Ajmer (2005-2007Sessions). He has many international awards/fellowships from USA, Brazil, Italy, Indonesia, Belgium, Czech Republic and India. He visits four Continents for Meetings, Field Trips, Conferences, Trainings and known Six Languages. He is an active Organizing Committee Member in Earth Science Conferences, Successfully Completed a Session as a Co-Chair and also gave Conference Opening Ceremony Speech at Chicago, USA. He is member of many International Scientific Societies and review many international articles. His prime research interest is “EIA and Management of Natural Resources through Remote Sensing and GIS Technology”. He has more than 40 International Publications Including Books on Vulnerability, Risk Assessment and Climate Change. Recently he involve in USA and European Union Projects.

Remote Sensing & GIS, Vulnerability & Risk Assessment, Earth Science/Observation, Land Use/Cover Change, Geoscience/Geo-informatics, Hydrology, Climate Change, Environmental Impact Assessment, Management of Natural Resources, Land Resources Management, Sustainable Development, Disaster Management, Biodiversity, Forest & Agriculture Study, Ecosystem & Ecology, Urban & Desert Study.

Yimin Zhang is the Director Center of Watershed Conservation and Water Pollution Control,Nanjing Institute of Environmental Science, Nanjing University, China. She has done her Ph.D in the year 2001-2006 from the School of Environmental Science, Nanjing University, China. BA and MS in the year 1983-1990,Department of Environmental Science, Nanjing University, China.

Research on theory and technology of water pollution control and ecological rehabilitation, mechanism on eutrophication of lakes and reservoirs, experimental simulation and control technology, and non-point source pollution control in the rural area.

Dr. Wael Abdel Kawy is a Professor, Department of Soil Science, Cairo University, Egypt. He completed his Ph. D., Soil Science, Cairo University, Egypt.2002. He is a Consultant of many national and international Projects in soil science field and principal investigator of many national and international projects in soil science field. He honored with Cairo University International Publication Awards (2014). He is the Country representative for Egypt in the International Societies in soil science field and the Associate Editor of the Arabian Journal of Geoscience (Springer). He has published more than 50 research publication in various repute international journals.

Soil Morphology and Classification. Land Resources Assessment, Evaluation and Conservation. Land Resource Management, Soil Mineralogy & Chemistry. Soil Erosion and Watershed Management, Dry Land Agriculture, Remote Sensing. Geographic Information Systems, Arid Lands Remote Sensing Soil Genesis, Pedology, Land Evaluation and land suitability, Geographic Information System Land and water resourses Res

Turki Mohammed A. Habeebullah is the Head of Environmental and Health Research Department, Associate Prof. in Environmental Pollution, The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Institute for Hajj and Umrah Research, Umm Al Qura University, Saudi Arabia. He has Collaborated on several research projects associated with air quality, climate and other environmental impacts to Makkah and Al-Madinah cities, Saudi Arabia. Some distinguished works includes: Installation and operation of air quality mobile stations and air quality portable instruments in Makkah and Madinah, Saudi Arabia (associated activates on-going since 1998), Installation and operation of 10 meteorological stations in Makkah, Saudi Arabia (associated activities on-going since 2000). He completed his PhD. In Air Pollution Meteorology, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, 2006-2010. He has 5 patents, 9 research grants, more than 25 research publication and associated with more than 10 journals as editorial or review member.

Meteorology, Biometeorology, Microclimate, Hydrology, Air pollution and its impact on health, Environmental sampling & analysis, Heavy metals and organic compounds, Emission inventories, Dispersion of air pollution and Risk assessment.

Mohamed Bahnassy is the Professor of Soil Science, Alexandria University, Egypt. He has completed his Graduation from the department of soil and water sciences.He was faculty of agriculture, Alexandria University in 1982, He got MS in 1987 in soil survey and land evaluation,and obtained PhD in 1993 about the application of GIS for the analysis of dryland watershed. He became a full professor in 2003, and worked in several projects as a database administrator and GIS specialist. Moreover, He supervised several national, international and Arab Master and Doctoral students. In 1998, He won a Fulbright scholarship to carry out research related to GIS and remote sensing for the sustainable development. Moreover, He carried out a training course in 2003 at the Arabian Gulf University, about handling soil survey data using arc view GIS. Recently, He is the principal investigator for the project "Assessment of Potential Climate Change Impact on Nile Delta and Developing Adaptation Strategies" funded by Alexandria UniversityResearch Enhancement Program (ALEXREP).

Soil and land use surveys using the advanced techniques of GIS and remote sensing, watershed characterization and management, applying spatial analysis (geostatistics) for characterizing and mapping of soil attributes, temporal analysis, change detection, land evaluation, and studying the impact of climate change on the land and water resources.

Dr.Farid Makroum is the Professor of structural Geology at Mansoura University, Egypt.He has done his PH.D. in Structural geology and mineralization from Mansoura University, Egypt in co-operation with University of Aix Marseille I, France in the year 1996. He has done his MSc. in Rocks and minerals from Mansoura University, Egypt in the year 1991.He has More than 20 articles in different geological topics while structural geology and tectonics represents the main field of interest. He is the - Leader and Co-leader of different research group in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, Gulf of Suez, Red sea, Tunis and Chad.The research collaboration with different institutes as University of Montpellier II, France, University of Graz, Austria and University of Tunis El Manar. He is also the - Consultant of structural geology and courses instructor for different petroleum and mining companies, among them: OGS, GTSC, Gupco, Petrobell, Mica star in Egypt; ETAP in Tunis; and Star petroleum and SP mining in Chad and Sudan.

Structural geology, Tectonics, Sub surface geological mapping, Geology of the Afro-Arabian Shield, Rocks of the Egyptian monuments

Dr.Mohamed Ibrahim Dosouky Helal is the Professor of Soil Chemistry at cairo University, Egypt.He published 8 articles in international journals as recorded by Scopus data base. He has done his B.Sc. in Agricultural Science in 1976, M.Sc. in Soil Science in 1982 from from Cairo University. The M. SC. Thesis entitled “ Status of some micronutrients “Boron” in the soils of Egypt.He has done Ph. D. in Soil Science from Cairo University in the year 1988. The Ph. D. thesis entitled “ Status of potassium in the soils of Egypt”. He is the Reviewer in the Journal of Hazardous Materials (ELSEVIER Publisher) and the Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology, Islamic Republic of Iran. He has more than 25 publications in many Journals. He also attended more than 11 Conferences and meetings. He has membership in Egyptian Soil Science Society, Since 1984 and African Soil Science Society, since 1988.

His research activities deal with application of nanotechnology in remediation of heavy metals polluted soil. Various nano-particles; nano scale zero valent iron “nZVI”, nZVI-bentonite, nano alginate and nano carbon; are used as a potential sorbents to eliminate heavy metals from polluted soil. These nanoparticles are prepared in lab either using bottom-up or top-down methods, then characterized using transmission electron microscope (TEM). Also, these nano particles could be potentially used to decontaminate heavy metals polluted water.

Hamdy H. Seisa is a Prof. of Applied Geophysics at El Mansoura University. He received his B Sc in special Geology and M Sc in Geophysics both from El Mansoura University and his Doctorate (Dr rer nat) in shallow refraction seismic interpretation from TU Berlin, Germany. He awarded 3 Post Doctor Fellowships from DAAD (Germany) 1996, OEAD (Austria) 1997and DFG (Germany) 2000. Prof. Seisa jointed several workshops and seminars in several countries and was an invited speaker in many institutes and conferences in Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan, Denmark and KSA. He published several articles on near surface refraction seismic in local and international journals.

His research interest includes near surface geophysics, environmental problems related to groundwater pollution and solid waste management and disposal

Ahmed El Mahmoudi is a professor of Applied Geophysics and currently working at Water Studies Center, King Faisl University, Saudi Arabia. He awarded his Ph. D in "Applied Geophysics" in 1995 from Wales University/UK and Mansoura University/Egypt according to Channel System of Egyptian Universities. He worked at Mansoura university/Egypt (from 1985 to 2000) and UAE University (from 2000 to 2006) before joining King Faisl University, kSA, in 2006. Ahmed El Mahmoudi served as a Principal and Co-Investigator for many funded research projects in the field of Engineering and environmental Geophysics and water resources, in the Editorial board and as a Referee to many Scientific International Journals. He also served as acting Chair for Geology Dept., UAE University & as Vice Director of Water studies Centre, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. He did many scientific consultations for many Ministries in UAE, Egypt & Saudi Arabia and for International Organization like FAO and for International Companies like Schlumberger. His research interest is in the field of "Engineering and environmental Geophysics". He published more than fifty papers in the referred Journal and in the proceedings of International conferences. He awarded some incentive prizes for his scientific activities. He has also supervised Eleven PhD and M Sc. students in the field of Applied Geophysics and water resources.

Engineering , Environmental, Agricultural Geophysics and Archaeogeophysics, Implementing new modern geophysical techniques in Agriculture (Agricultural Geophysics, Geophysical prospecting for Groundwater in Arid regions, Salt-water intrusions and Karst mapping, Locating of Landfill sites in the different geological environments, Geophysical prospecting for petroleum and natural gas.

Dr. Hudson Nkotagu is the Associate Professor at University of Dar es Salaam. He is the regional team member of the Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA) and UNEP Consultative Team on Water Quality and Environmental Monitoring developing strategy for the Lake Tanganyika during the period.2009 – 2012. He is also the Visiting Scholar at Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS) in 2010. He was the research fellow at US Geological Survey National Centre DURING the period of 1986 – 1987.

His current research interests are to understanding the influence of the climate change variability /change on the quantity and chemical character of groundwater resources in basement aquifers of semi arid and arid regions.

Yoko Ota is the distinguished chair professor of department of Geoscience at National Taiwan University. She has done her BS from Tokyo University of Literature and Science in the year of 1952 and PhD in geography from Tokyo University of Education in 1960. She has many experiences in the field of Geography form many reputed Universities. She has won many awards from many Geological Societies like Japanese Geographical Society, International Union for Quaternary Research and many more. She has more than 95 Publications in different scientific journals and books.

Tectonic geomorphology and Quaternary tectonics and sea level changes in the Japanese Islands and circum Pacific areas (Taiwan, Korea, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Americas)

Dr.Subhasish Das is the professor of Geology & Geophysics at IIT Kharagpur, India. He has done his M.Sc in 1978, Ph.d in 1987 and Post doctoral Research Fellowship from 1987-1990.He is the reviewer in mire than 27 journals like Gondwana Research (Japan), Journal of Geosciences (Osaka City University, Osaka), Sedimentology (UK), Arabian Journal of Earth Science, Journal of Geography and Geology (Canada), International Journal of Earth and Engineering Sciences, Journal of Sedimentary Research (Tulsa Okhlahoma, USA) and so on. He has Membership of scientific Societies, Associations and Editorial Board.He is the member in Apex Committee, AMD, Govt of India, Research Board of Advisors in American Biographical Institute and American Biographical Institute, USA. He is the Senior Fellow in New York Academy of Sciences, USA. He has 50 publications In leading National and International Journals, Conferences and workshops. He has more than 54 research publications in different journals.

He has research intersest in different fields like Petrology, Field Geology, Sedimentology, Sedimentary Geology, Basin Analysis, Sequence Stratigraphy, Energy Resources,Sequence Stratigraphy, Basin Tectonics.