Title of Speeach: Multiscale effects and drivers of landscape heterogeneity for water-related ecosystem services in urban agglomerations

Biography: Dr. Xiaohong Chen is a Distinguished Professor and a Yat-sen Eminent Scholar at Sun Yat-sen University, China. He is designated the Director of the Scientific Committee for School of Civil Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University and the Director of  Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center of Water Security Regulation and Control for Southern China. He is the Co-president  of the International Commission of Water Quality in the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (ICWQ-IAHS). He serves as a science and technology advisor for several local governments in Guangdong Province of China. He has fulfilled about 300 programs with funds over US$ 30 million, among which there are 2 National Key R&D Programs of China and 4 Key Programs of National Natural Science Foundation of China, including:

(1)  National Key R&D Program of China “Multi-objective Regulation of Water Resources in the Pearl River Basin”. (2) National Key R&D Program of China “Key technologies for derivative composite disaster assessment and emergency adapting in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area”. (3) Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China “Coordinating regulation of water resources system with game and mutual feds among runoff – supply – hydropower – ecoenvironment under changing environment in the Lancangjiang river, upper Mekong”, and (4) Key Program of Guangdong Province “Comprehensive planning of water resources for Guangdong Province”.

He has published 12 books and more than 700 journal papers with citations of over 15000 times. He obtained over 40 invention patents and 12 awards including 4 first prize of science and technology progress at provincial or ministry level.

Title of Speeach: TBD

Biography: Dr. Huang is a Professor at Sophia University, Japan, and currently serves as the Deanfor the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies. He received BSc from FudanUniversity, China, Master and Doctoral degrees from the University of Tokyo.Before joining Sopha in 2011, his career included Associate Professor at the Universityof Tokyo, Kanazawa University, and Niigata University, and Professor at the NationalGraduate Institute for Policy Studies. From 2015 to 2022, he was the Director of theInstitute for Studies of the Global Environment, Sophia University.Passionate about water environment, his study has evolved from fluid dynamics to waterquality modeling and monitoring, urban flood risk analysis and management, andfurther to integrated watershed science and management. In recent years, his mainresearch focus has been sustainability science from a water perspective, such as wetlandconservation and wise use, flood vulnerability and resilience analysis, andenvironmental impact assessment. Wording differently, he uses water as a nexus to linkthe three pillars of sustainability.In 2019, he received an award of distinguished scientist from International Society forEnvironmental Information Sciences (ISEIS). Currently, he is the Editor in Chief forInternational Journal of Global Environmental Issues.For flood-related studies, he has been advocating the paradigm shift from control tomanagement. He will deliver a talk about integrated watershed management for floodrisk reduction at this conference.