Professor Dr. Md. Nazrul Islam is a permanent Professor at the Department of Geography and Environment in Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh. Prof. Nazrul has completed his PhD. from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Besides, he has completed Two Year Standard JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Prof. Nazrul fields of interest are environmental and ecological modeling, climate change impact on aquatic systems, modeling of phytoplankton transition, harmful algae, and marine ecosystems regarding to deal with hydrodynamic ecosystems coupled model on coastal seas, bays and estuaries, application of computer based programming for numerical simulation modeling etc. Prof. Nazrul is an expert on scientific research techniques and methods to develop the models for environmental systems modeling research. Prof. Nazrul also visited as an invited speakers in several foreign Universities in Japan, USA, Australia, UK, Canada, China, South Korea, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam etc. Prof. Nazrul has been awarded “Best Young Researcher Award” by the International Society of Ecological Modeling (ISEM) for the outstanding contribution to the Ecological Modeling fields, 2013, Toulouse, France and he has also been awarded “Best Paper Presenter Award 2010” by SautaiN in Kyoto, Japan. He has also been awarded as a “Best Poster Presenter Award” in the Techno Ocean Conference, Kobe City Exhibition Hall at Kobe in Japan. Prof. Nazrul has made more than 40 scholarly presentations in more than 20 countries around the world, authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and authors of 15 books and research volumes. Currently Prof. Nazrul has published an excellent textbook entitled “Environmental Management of Marine Ecosystems” jointly with Prof. Sven Erik Jorgensen by the CRC press (Taylor & Francis). He has also currently published an excellent book entitled: Bangladesh I: Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing Countries, Springer Publication, the Netherlands & Germany. Prof. Nazrul is currently serving as an “Executive Editor-in-Chief” of the journal “Modeling Earth Systems and Environment”, Springer International Publications (Journal no. 40808). Prof. Dr. Andre Ronald van Amstel is an Assistant Professor at Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands. Andre van Amstel studied Physical Geography and Planning in Amsterdam and has a long standing expertise in Integrated Environmental Assessment. He contributed to the development of Integrated Model to Assess the Global Environment at the Institute of Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands. He is particularly interested in the global environment and the risk of a runaway greenhouse effect by methane from melting of the permafrost in the Arctic. Van Amstel contributed to the IPCC 2006 Guidelines on Agriculture, Forestry and Land use and as such contributed the Nobel Peace Prize 2007 for Al Gore and the IPCC. Since 2014 he is a member of the Nordforsk Scientific Advisory Board for the Arctic Council of Ministers on Arctic Integrated Environmental Research.
