Ocean Sciences

AS-OS11 - Regional Climate and Ocean Modeling of Southeast Asia and Surrounding Regions
*Prof. Elfatih Eltahir (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
Dr. Paola Rizzoli (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
Dr. Chien Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)

OS02 - Ocean Analysis, Modeling, and Prediction in Marginal/Shelf Seas
*Prof. Jianping Gan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Prof. Ruoying He (North Carolina State University, United States)
Dr. Jiang Zhu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

OS04 - Coastal Oceans and Inland seas
*Dr. Ram Yerubandi (Environment Canada, Canada)
Dr. Guoqi Han (Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canada)

OS06 - Ocean-Floor Network Observatories and Scientific Applications:Part2
*Dr. Yoshiyuki Kaneda (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan)
Prof. Shu-Kun Hsu (National Central University, Taiwan)

OS07-17 - Recent Tsunami Events and Lessons - Ecological and Societal Significance
*Dr. Yevgeniy Kontar (The University of Findlay & Federal GEOS Funding, Inc, United States)
*Prof. Shunichi Koshimura (Tohoku University, Japan)
Dr. Yuriy Ozorovich (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation)
Dr. Vicente Santiago-Fandiño (Freelance Consultant on Environmental Matters, Spain)
Prof. Tomoyuki Takahashi (Kansai University, Japan)
Prof. Koji Fujima (National Defense Academy, Japan)

OS08 - Western Tropical Pacific and Indo-Pacific Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate
*Prof. Markus Kienast (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Prof. Min-Te Chen (National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan)
Dr. Mahyar Mohtadi (University of Bremen, Germany)

OS09 - Pacific Western Boundary Currents and Air-sea Interaction
*Prof. Bo Qiu (University of Hawaii, United States)
Dr. Bunmei Taguchi (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan)
Dr. Niklas Schneider (International Pacific Research Center, United States)

OS11-16 - Storm Surges and Wind Waves in Changing Climate
*Prof. Pavel Tkalich (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Prof. Alexander Babanin (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Dr. Vethamony P (National Institute of Oceanography, India)
Dr. Georg Umgiesser (Institute of Marine Sciences, ISMAR-CNR, Italy)
Prof. Pavel Tkalich (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Dr. Madhusoodanan M.S. (The Energy and Resources Institute, India)
Dr. Rajeevan Madhavan Nair (National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, India)

OS12 - Physical and Biogeochemical Processes in the Indian Ocean: Recent Progress and Toward Future Collaborations
*Dr. Yukio Masumoto (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan)
Prof. Raleigh Hood (University of Maryland, United States)
Dr. Weidong Yu (The First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, China)
Dr. Ravichandran M (Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, India)

OS13 - Fluids in Subduction Zones – Deformation and Cycling of Solutes and Volatiles
*Prof. Miriam Kastner (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States)
Prof. Evan Solomon (University of Washington, United States)
Dr. Saneatsu Saito (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan)

OS14 - Coastal Change: the Response of Coasts to Sea-level Changes, Geological Processes and Catastrophic Events
*Dr. Adam Switzer (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Dr. James Terry (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Dr. Ben Horton (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
Dr. Robert Weiss (Virginia Tech, United States)

OS15 - Tectonic-sedimentary Evolution and Hydrocarbon Potential in SE Asia
*Dr. Zhen Sun (South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Prof. Peter Clift (Louisiana State University, United States)
Prof. Chunfeng Li (Tongji University, China)

OS18 - Ocean Mixing Matters
*Prof. Toshiyuki Hibiya (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Dr. Robin Robertson (University of New South Wales Canberra, Australia)
Dr. Zhiyu Liu (Xiamen University, China)

OS20 - Circumpolar Arctic Shelf System: Perspectives on Recent Climate Change
*Prof. Igor Dmitrenko (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Prof. David Barber (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Dr. Dorothea Bauch (Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Germany)
Dr. Vladimir Ivanov (Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russian Federation)
Dr. Robert Pickart (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, United States)
Prof. Jinping Zhao (Ocean University of China, China)
Prof. Paul Wassmann (University of Tromsø, Norway)

OS21 - Coast Erosion: Monitoring, Simulation and Protection
*Dr. Yongzhan Zhang (Nanjing University, China)
Prof. Zhi-jun Dai (East China Normal University, China)
Dr. Susumu Araki (Osaka University, Japan)

OS22 - Synthetic Organic Chemicals in the Ocean
*Dr. Irene Stemmler (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany)
Dr. Jordi Dachs (Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Spain)

OS23 - El Nino in a Changing Climate System: Observations, Theory, and Modeling
*Dr. De-Zheng Sun (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States)
Prof. Jin-Yi Yu (University of California, Irvine, United States)

OS-AS01 - Analysis and Predictability of Climate Variations for Developing Societal Applications
*Prof. Toshio Yamagata (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Dr. BN Goswami (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India)
Prof. Guoxiong Wu (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Prof. Shang-Ping Xie (University of Hawaii, United States)
Dr. Antonio Navarra (INGV/CMCC, Italy)
Dr. Swadhin Behera (Research Institute for Global Change/Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan)

OS-AS03 - Physical and Biogeochemical Interactions Between Tropical Cyclone and Ocean
*Prof. I-I Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Dr. DanLing Tang (South China Sea Institute of Oceanology,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Dr. Dongxiao Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Prof. Chun-Chieh Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)