Keynote speakers

Dr. Hervé Claustre

Senior scientist, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), France

Prof. Mohammad Qurban

Executive Chairman, National Center for Wildlife Development, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Sarah L.C. Giering

Researcher, Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK

Prof. David Siegel

Distinguished Professor, Department of Geography, Marine Science Institute, UC Santa Barbara, USA

Prof. Stein Kaartvedt

Professor of Marine Science, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Norway

Prof. Xosé Anxelu G. Morán

Research Professor, Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), Spain; Adjunct Associate Professor of Marine Science, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Zouhair Lachkar

Senior Scientist, Center for Prototype Climate Modeling (CPCM), NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Malika Kheireddine

Research Scientist, Red Sea Research Center, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Speakers

Mustapha Ouhssain

​Lab and Field Engineer, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Susann Rossbach

Environmental Chemical Science Manager, The Red Sea Development Company, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Christian Lønborg

Marine scientist, Aarhus University, Denmark

Prof. Shuangling Chen

Associate Professor, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, China

Prof. Adi Torfstein

Associate Professor, Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Dr. Cátia Carreira

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Denmark

Prof. Craig Lee

Professor, Senior Principal Oceanographer, University of Washington, USA

Dr. Robert Brewin

Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Prof. Chin-Chang Hung

Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Prof. Xiaodong Zhang

Endowed Chair and Professor, Division of Marine Science, The University of Southern Mississippi, USA

Dr. Xiaogang Xing

Associate Researcher, State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, China

Dr. Wentao Ma

State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, China

Michelle Nicole Havlik

PhD Student, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Syed Haleem Shah

Postdoctoral Fellow, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Russell 'Rusty' Brainard

Chief Environment Officer, The Red Sea Development Company, Saudi Arabia; Courtesy Professor of Marine Science, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Aislinn Dunne

PhD Candidate, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Peter Croot

Marine biogeochemist, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Dr. Vincent Saderne

Research Scientist, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Florian Roth

Postdoctoral Researcher, Baltic Sea Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden