MDPI World Wetlands Day 2024 Webinar
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In order to commemorate World Wetlands Day 2024 (https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-wetlands-day), MDPI is launching a special webinar to encourage researchers to join together, take action, and raise awareness as to how the exchange of findings facilitates efforts to restore degraded wetlands.
We aim to encourage connection and collaboration among education researchers and the international open access community. Sharing knowledge is a human right, and tackling wetlands restoration requires the rapid exchange of knowledge across different boundaries.
We are very much looking forward to seeing you at the MDPI World Wetlands Day Webinar 2024. Please find below an up-to-date outline of presenters.
Webinar Secretariat
journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet the Event Chair
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Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Stephen Tooth
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences (DGES), Aberystwyth University, UK;
Stephen Tooth graduated with a Geography BSc degree from the University of Southampton, England, and completed a PhD at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Following a short period as a Temporary Lecturer at the University of Nottingham, England, he undertook post-doctoral work at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and then joined Aberystwyth University, Wales, in April 2000. His main research interests focus on geomorphology and sedimentology, especially in drylands. Particular research themes include: wetlands in drylands; channel-vegetation interactions; bedrock-influenced rivers; controls on gully erosion; long-term fluvial landscape development; and palaeoenvironmental change, including human-environment interactions. He is also interested in environmental issues more generally, including current debates about global climate change and the Anthropocene, and in science education.
Prof. Dr. Miklas Scholz
aconium GmbH (previously atene KOM), Innovation Management Department, Germany;
DProf. Miklas Scholz, cand ing, BEng (equiv), PgC, MSc, PhD, DSc, CWEM, CEnv, CSci, CEng, FHEA, FIEMA, FCIWEM, FICE, Fellow of IWA, Fellow of IETI is a Senior Expert in Water Management at atene KOM, Germany, and a Distinguished Professor at Johannesburg University, South Africa. Miklas holds the Chair in Civil Engineering as a Professor at The University of Salford, United Kingdom. He is also a Technical Specialist for Nexus by Sweden and a Hydraulic Engineer at Kunststoff-Technik Adams, Germany. He has published 8 books and 316 journal articles. Prof. Scholz has total citations of about 14200 (8300 citations since 2019), resulting in an h-index of 57 and an i10-Index of 230. He belongs to the top 2% academics regarding the i10-index in the past five years. Miklas also belongs to the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University. A bibliometric analysis of all constructed wetland-related publications and corresponding authors with a minimum number of 20 publications and 100 citations indicates that Miklas is on place 5 in the world of about 70 authors (including those who have sadly passed away). In 2019, Prof. Scholz was awarded EURO 7M for the EU H2020 REA project Water Retention and Nutrient Recycling in Soils and Streams for Improved Agricultural Production (WATERAGRI). He received EURO 1.52M for the JPI Water 2018 project Research-based Assessment of Integrated approaches to Nature-based SOLUTIONS (RAINSOLUTIONS).
Dr. Krish Jayachandran
Agroecology Program, Earth and Environment Department, Florida International University, USA;
Dr. Krish Jayachandran is a professor of environmental microbiology/soil science in the Department of Earth and Environment. Using microbiology as a central tool, he is specialized in nutrient cycling and soil health, microbial diversity and activity, isolation and characterization of pesticide degrading microorganisms, biocontrol of invasive plant species, marine and freshwater toxins and microbial degradation, and soil-plant-microbial interactions. His research projects have been funded by the ENP, SFWMD, USDA, NIEH, DOE, Silver Consortium, and World Bank/FAO. He has more than 300 publications, including referred articles, research reports, book chapters, conference publications, and over 50 invited lectures. Dr. Jayachandran co-founded the ongoing FIU Agroecology Program, which he built with the support of USDA grants of more than 15.0 million dollars towards research, education, student training, and outreach activities. Dr. Jayachandran has supervised directed research projects for >300 undergraduate students, graduated 50 master’s students, 15 PhD students, and served on several doctoral and master’s students committees. In his professional field, Dr. Jayachandran served as an Associate Editor for one of the premier environmental journals, Journal of Environmental Quality (2002-07), several journal’s Editorial Board, and Associate Editor for NACTA journal. He also served on ~35 research panels (as panel member and panel manager) that included EPA, NSF, USDA agencies. Dr. Jayachandran received several awards for his teaching, research, mentorship, service, community engagement from FIU and Fellow of American Society of Agronomy. Dr. Jayachandran is promoted to Distinguished University Professor, and a recognition from his alma mater as TNAU Distinguished Alumnus Award.
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Recording:
Applied Sciences
River and Lake Catchments: Ecological Challenges, Hydrological Changes, Environmental Problems
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Christian Opp and Dr. Tom Lotz
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2024
Environments
Monitoring and Assessment of Environmental Quality in Coastal Ecosystems Volume III
Guest Editor: Dr. Sílvia C. Gonçalves
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2024
Hdrobiology
Ecosystem Disturbance in Small Stream
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Baik-Ho Kim
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024
Forests
Research on Vegetation Change in Forest Wetlands
Guest Editor: Dr. Jasmin Mantilla-Contreras
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2024
Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing for Mapping and Monitoring Wetlands and Their Ecosystems
Guest Editor: Dr. Andy Hardy
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024
Remote Sensing of Forest and Wetland Hydrology
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Sudhanshu Sekhar Panda
Deadline for manuscript submissions:31 March 2024
Future of the Wetlands in Megacities under Rapid Urbanization: Geospatial Analysis and Modeling of the Land-Use Changes Using Remotely Sensed Data and GIS
Guest Editor: Dr. Darshana Athukorala, Prof. Dr. Yuji Murayama
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 26 June 2024
Remote Sensing for Wetland Restoration
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Xiyong Hou, Prof. Dr. Weiwei Sun, Prof. Dr. Dehua Mao, Dr. Chao Chen, Dr. Dong Li
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024
Diversity
Knowledge and Conservation of Peatlands and Their Biodiversity
Guest Editor:Prof. Dr. Xabier Pontevedra Pombal；Dr. Martín Souto
Deadline for manuscript submissions:15 November 2024
Ecology, Diversity and Conservation of Aquatic and Helophytic Plants, Plant Communities and Their Environments
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Jarosław Proćków
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024
Biodiversity Conservation in Metacommunities
Guest Editor: Dr. Alessandro Ferrarini
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024
Land
Ecosystem Services and Coastal Management: Tools to Counteract Sediment Losses
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Margherita Palmieri; Prof. Marucci Angelo; Prof. Dr. Marcello Di Risio
Deadline: 31 July 2024
Recent Advances in the Ecological Conservation of Coastal Landscapes
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Augusto Pérez-Alberti
Deadline: 30 April 2024
Soil Security of Peatland Ecosystems: Risk Assessment, Pollution Prevention and Restoration
Guest Editor: Dr. Oskars Purmalis; Dr. Marios Drosos
Deadline: 26 April 2024
Surface Runoff and Soil Erosion in the Mediterranean Region
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Hanoch Lavee; Dr. Lea Wittenberg
Deadline: 30 April 2024
Ecological and Cultural Ecosystem Services in Coastal Areas
Guest Editor: Dr. Mita Drius; Prof. Maria Laura Carranza; Prof. Dr. Robert Philipp Wagensommer
Deadline: 30 April 2024
Global Change in Mediterranean Regions: Potential Impact of Climate Drift and Land Use on Soil Erosion and Land Degradation
Guest Editor: Dr. Rossano Ciampalini; Dr. Feliciana Licciardello; Dr. Damien Raclot; Dr. Armand Crabit
Deadline: 26 June 2024
Effects of Land Use on the Ecohydrology of River Basin in Accordance with Climate Change II
Guest Editor: Dr. Wiktor Halecki; Dr. Dawid Bedla; Dr. Marek Ryczek; Prof. Dr. Artur Radecki-Pawlik
Deadline: 15 March 2024
Monitoring and Simulation of Wetland Ecological Processes
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Zhenguo Niu, Prof. Dr. Bin Zhao, Prof. Dr. Zhaoqing Luan, Dr. Bo Guan
Deadline: 25 June 2024
Monitoring and Simulation of Wetland Ecological Processes
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Zhenguo Niu, Prof. Dr. Bin Zhao, Prof. Dr. Zhaoqing Luan, Dr. Bo Guan
Deadline: 25 June 2024
Water
Microbial Transformation and Transport of Organic Pollutants within Paddy-Ditch-Pond Water
Guest Editor: Dr. Jing Chen,Dr. Xiang Gao
Deadline: 25 May 2024
Internal Nutrient Cycling in Lakes and Reservoirs
Guest Editor: Dr. Xiaolong Yao, Dr. Xingyu Jiang
Deadline: 28 February 2024
Wetland Ecosystems—Functions and Use in a Changing Climate
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Jianghua Wu
Deadline: 29 February 2024
Ecohydrological Processes, Environmental Effects, and Integrated Regulation of Wetland Ecosystems, Volume II
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Junhong Bai, Dr. Tian Xie, Dr. Laibin Huang
Deadline: 31 July 2024