3rd International Convention on Geosciences and Remote Sensing October 19-20, 2018 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Lisa Goddard is the Director of Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society and leads IRI’s research efforts on understanding and predicting climate change on the 10-20 year horizon. She is also an adjunct associate professor in Columbia’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Dr. Goddard is a globally recognized expert on El Niño and La Niña, decadal prediction and near-term climate change. She sits on the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the U.S. National Academies of Science, as well as four others. She also co-chairs CLIVAR, which advises and coordinates international research on climate and the oceans under the World Climate Research Programme. In 2007, she developed PACE, a national post-doctoral program that explicitly links recent climate Ph.D.s with decision making institutions.

Tropical Oceanography, Climate Modeling, Paleoclimate, Impacts of Climate on Society, El Niño forecasting, DataAnalysis Methods.

Dr. Aruna Saxena obtained B.Arch. (Architecture) in 1992 and MUP (Urban Planning) from School of planning & Architecture, New Delhi in 1994. She did Ph.D. in Architecture using Remote Sensing & GIS technology in 2002. She did Specialization in Advance Remote Sensing and GIS from International Institute of Aerospace Survey & Earth Sciences (ITC), Enschede, the Netherlands in 2006. She has traveled to USA, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, France, Singapore, Dubai,Egpyt, Australia for academic purpose.

Geo-spatial techniques, Lake water quality, Fuzzy set

Ivlev has completed his PhD at the age of 27 years from Chemical Technology Institute of D.I.Mendeleyev and postdoctoral studies from Stanford Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the Professor of Russian State Agrarian University of K.A. Timiryazev. He has published more than 200 papers in reputed journals and 4 scientific monographs. He has been serving as an editorial board member of Journal of Ecosystems & Ecography and of Allied Journal of Enviromental Earth Sciences. In 2005 he was awarded the medal of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences “To Author of Scientific Discovery” .

Geochemistry, Evolution

Nobuyoshi Imura was born in Japan on Feb. 23, 1948. He received the B.Eng. degrees in Faculty of Engineering, Keio University, Japan in 1970, then he started his career at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in the same year to develop satellite onboard synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems (JERS-1 SAR, ALOS PALSAR, IGS SAR etc.) , satellite systems (JERS-1, ADEOS, IGS etc.) , ground system and remote sensing system for about 40 years (including Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to be transferred to later). He is currently as a project manager of small SAR satellite in Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University. His main research interests are SAR system, satellite bus system, deployment structure and system, Research and Development (R & D) model of SAR antenna, satellite onboard SAR components. His Remote Sensing Laboratory is also developing unmanned aerial vehicle, small satellite for observation of global disaster and environmental change, scattering wave analysis and its applications in microwave remote sensing etc.

His main research interests are SAR system, satellite bus system, deployment structure and system, Research and Development (R & D) model of SAR antenna, satellite onboard SAR components. His Remote Sensing Laboratory is also developing unmanned aerial vehicle, small satellite for observation of global disaster and environmental change, scattering wave analysis and its applications in microwave remote sensing etc.

Dr. Subhasis Sen : completed his PhD in 1974 from Nagpur University and worked in Central Fuel Research Institute of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India, as a geologist from where he retired in 1996. He has published more than 170 papers in reputed Indian and International journals and has published two books ‘Earth – the Planet Extraordinary’ and ‘Decoding the Solar System’. Dr. Sen has developed a global tectonics termed ‘Unified Global Tectonics’ for understanding the earth system. He also served as an Editor of the Gondwana Geological Magazine.

Earth’s expansion; Geospheres; Virtually void or Pseudofluid zone; Reverse gravity

Dr. Bahman Zohuri is currently at the Galaxy Advanced Engineering, Inc. a consulting company that he stared himself in 1991 when he left both semiconductor and defense industries after many years working as a chief scientist. After graduating from University of Illinois in field of Physics and Applied Mathematics, he joined Westinghouse Electric Corporation where he performed thermal hydraulic analysis and natural circulation for Inherent Shutdown Heat Removal System (ISHRS) in the core of a Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor (LMFBR) as a secondary fully inherent shut system for secondary loop heat exchange. All these designs were, used for Nuclear Safety and Reliability Engineering for Self-Actuated Shutdown System. He designed the Mercury Heat Pipe and Electromagnetic Pumps for Large Pool Concepts of LMFBR for heat rejection purpose for this reactor around 1978 where he received a patent for it. He then was, transferred to defense division of Westinghouse later, where he was responsible for the dynamic analysis and method of launch and handling of MX missile out of canister. He has later on joined Lockheed and Rockewell International working on Sattelite system for SDI as well as working and developing sensor system on board for remote sensing as well GIS. He later on was a consultant at Sandia National Laboratory after leaving United States Navy. Dr. Zohuri earned his first Bachelor's in Applied Matematics and his second one in Physics along with his Master’s degrees in Physics from the University of Illinois and his second Master degree in Mechanical Engineering as well as his Doctorate in Nuclear Engineering from University of New Mexico. He has been, awarded three patents, and has published 26 textbooks and numerous other journal publications.

Natural Disasters

Xinhang Shen has graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (BEng in Naval Architecture & MSci in Mechanics) in China and Royal Institute of Technology (Technical Licentiate in Computational Fluid Mechanics) in Sweden and worked in a few organizations including University of Toronto. In 1995, he has developed Natural Area Coding System and founded NAC Geographic Products Inc., since then, he has been running the company, developing various software and web applications and providing consulting and geo-services for more than 20 years. Recently, he has been working on theoretical physics and produced a paper to disprove the special theory of relativity.

Remote Sensing and GIS

James Lein obtained his docotrate from Kent State University and is currently Professor of Geography at Ohio University. His research focuses on applied geomatics with a concentration in remote sensing, environmental monitoring and land resource analysis. Lein has published numerous research papers and several books including Environmental Sensing: Analytic Techniques for Earth Observation (2012) and Futures Research and Environmental Sustainability: Theory and Method (2016).

His research interests are focused on monitoring of land-use/land-cover change, the integration of remote sensing and GIS in natural hazard risk assessment, and the incorporation of artificial intelligence methods in environmental decision making. He has been an active member of the EGLR Membership Committee.

Dr. Mukesh Singh Boori is Senior Scientist in Samara University Russia (03/2015–Present, funded by Russian Federation), Visiting Professor in JKLU University India (10/2016-11/2016), Visiting Senior Scientist at University of Bonn, Germany (05/2016–07/2016), Visiting Scientist/Professor at Hokkaido University Japan (12/2015–02/2016) and Adjunct Professor in American Sentinel University Colorado USA (07/2015–Present). He was involved in European Union Project as well as Visiting Assistant Professor in Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic (04/2013–06/2015), Ruhr University Bochum Germany (09/2014–12/2014) and University of Leicester, UK (Honorary Fellow 2014) funded by European Union; at the same time he was Assistant Professor in JECRC University India (01/2013–06/2015). He was Scientist in Satellite Climate Studies Branch (NOAA/NASA) selected by National Research Council (NRC) Central Govt. of USA Washington DC. During that time he 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) funded by Brazil–Italy Govt. fellowship. He has done Predoc (Earth & Environmental Science) from Katholieke University Leuven Belgium (08/2008) selected by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) New Delhi India and funded by Govt. of Belgium. He has done MSc (Remote sensing & GIS) from MDS University Ajmer (2004) and BSc (Bio-group) from University of Rajasthan Jaipur India (2002). In early career he was scientist in JSAC/ISRO (2006-2007) and before that Lecturer (PG) at MDS University Ajmer (2005-2007Sessions). He received international awards/fellowships from UK, USA, Brazil, Italy, Indonesia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Russia, China, Japan and India. He known Six Language and visit four Continents for Awards, Meetings, Trainings, Field Trips, Seminars and Conferences. He is an active Organizing Committee Member in Earth & Space Science Conferences, Co-Chaired a session and gave Conference Opening Ceremony Speech as Reynold Speaker (08/2012) Chicago USA and (05/2017) Barcelona Spain. He is editor and member of more than 10 International Scientific Societies/Journals/Committees related to Earth & Space Science; which include organize conferences. His prime research interest is “EIA and Management of Natural Resources through Remote Sensing & GIS Technology”. He has more than 100 Peer-reviewed International Publications including Books as a first author on Vulnerability, Risk Assessment and Climate Change.

Remote Sensing & GIS, Vulnerability & Risk Assessment, Digital Image Processing, Thermal & Microwave remote sensing, Satellite Generate Brightness Temperature, Earth Observation, Land Use/Cover Change Trajectories, Geoscience/Geo-informatics, Bio-Geography, Biodiversity, Hydrology, Climate Change, Environmental Impact Assessment, Management of Natural Resources, Land Resources Management, Sustainable Development & Disaster Management, Remote Sensing Applications in: Forest, Agriculture, Ecosystem, Ecology, Urban & Desert Study.

Prof. Yehia Abdel-Aziz has received his doctoral degree in orbital Mechanics (2002) from the Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. He received his MSc. in Attitude Dynamics and Control of spacecraft (1998) from Mansoura University, Egypt. In February 2015 he has got the academic ranking full professor of Space Flight Dynamics and Control at Space Research Laboratory, NRIAG, Egypt. He is the Head of Space Research Laboratory at NRIAG, Egypt since March 2016. He is the Founder of the Spacecraft Charging Laboratory at NRIAG, Egypt. He was the Secretary General of the National Egyptian Committee of Space Research for COSPAR in the period of February 2005 - 2014. Professor Abdel-Aziz has more than 35 scientific research papers published in prestigious international journal covering such diverse topics as Attitude dynamics and control of spacecraft, orbital mechanics, Formation Flying satellites, Space Debris and Ground test for spacecraft charging and Discharging, in addition the interaction of spacecraft with space environments.

Attitude dynamics and control of spacecraft, Geomagnestism, orbital mechanics, Formation Flying satellite, space Debris and spacecraft charging