Prof. in Civil Eng. Department

Faculty of Eng., Qassim University, KSA

Dr. Urbi Basu has obtained her BSc (Geology) from the Presidency College, Kolkata and Masters in Applied Geology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB). She has received her doctorate degree (PhD Geophysics) in May 2019 from the Center for Earthquake Research and Information, University of Memphis, USA. She is currently working as a geophysicist in ExxonMobil India. Her PhD research was seismic tomography and anisotropy structure underneath the central United States. She did graduate research work for the Reelfoot Rift region in central United States using Pn tomography and the Rayleigh wave azimuthal anisotropy to model the lower crust and upper mantle velocity and anisotropy structure. She recently published one journal paper in JGR Solid Earth (Basu, U., & Powell, C. (2019). Pn Tomography and Anisotropy Study of the Central United States. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(7), 7105-7119.) and is currently in the review process for another first author paper in JGR Solid Earth.

Topic: 

The European H2020 Projects Cheap-GSHPs & GEO4CIVHIC: Innovative coaxial heat exchangers for shallow geothermal installations

Biography:

Eng. Luc Pockelé, graduated at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel as electro-mechanical engineer. Worked 34 years in multi-national companies, respectively Procter and Gamble, UCB and Tate and Lyle. Started in engineering and project management on processing plants. Moved into managerial and executive positions in manufacturing, quality, environment, safety and supply chain. For the last 11 years he is managing an Italian SME, active in renewable energies in buildings, shallow geothermal in particular. Co-inventor of the patent request of the drilling methodology developed in European research project Cheap-GSHPs (grant agreement n° 657982).

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H2020 Project GEO4CIVHIC: Innovative Applications for shallow geothermal installations

Biography:

Eng. Giulia Mezzasalma has graduated in Energy Engineering from the University of Padova in 2015. She has a master certification in project management in 2019. She works in RED Srl as project manager in European Project and as thermal engineer. She is expert in Renewable system, mostly Geothermal System. She is expert in Energy simulation and modelling, qualified as energy certificator.

Keynote Topic: 

Geochemical study of the giant Bayan Obo Fe-REE-Nb ore deposit, Inner Mongolia (Northern China): A clue to its genesis 

Biography:

Dr. Xiaoyong Yang is a full professor in School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China. His major is geochemistry, his study is mostly interesting in mineral deposits.

Topic: Borosilicates in high-pressure and ultra-high-pressure lithologies

Biography:

Dr. Andreas Ertl obtained his BSc (Geoscience) and his PhD (Natural Science) from the University of Vienna, Austria. He previously worked as Visiting Professor in Heidelberg where he gave lectures about crystallography for geoscientists and about X-ray diffraction and X-ray spectroscopic analysis of rocks and minerals. He is member of the Subcommittee on Tourmaline Nomenclature of the International Mineralogical Association’s Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification. His PhD research was based on the characterization of tourmalines from different environments. He currently has a project about the behavior of borosilicates during subduction and in different geotectonic settings. His area of interest is borosilicates and investigations of metamorphic tourmaline as geothermometer. He has published more than 60 papers in peer reviewed journals.

Topic: Metallogeny of gold in the Western Altai-Sayan folded area

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Alexandr I. Chernykh is the Director General of the FSBI "TsNIGRI" - the leading enterprise of the State Geological Service of the Russian Federation in the field of geology and metallogeny of diamonds, non-ferrous and noble metals. He holds PhD degree in geology and mineralogy. Dr Chernykh is a member of the editorial board of leading Russian geological journals, the author and co-author of more than 100 publications. A.I. Chernykh is an expert in the metallogeny and in the mineral exploration and prospecting methods for solid mineral deposits

Topic: The Forecasting, Assessment and Management of Natural and Technogenic Geodynamic Risks (on Example of Exploitation of oil-and-gas Deposit)

Biography: 

Professor Natalia A. Kasyanova obtained her Postgraduate program (doctoral degree) Ph.D (Geology) from the Moscow State Lomonosov University (1995). She develops the new scientific direction - “Present-day geodynamics and it influence of the crust deformation and fluid migration processes”. Her area of scientific interests is “Forecasting, search and prospecting oil and gas deposits”, “Present-day natural and technogenic geodynamic risks: forecast, assessment, management”, “Geodynamic ensuring of environmental and industrial safety” (for oil-and-gas, coal, atomic-chemical, building industries). She currently lectures “Forecasting and search of mineral deposits” at the Sergo Ordzhonikidze Russian State University Geological Prospecting. She published over 200 papers.

Keynote Title: Getting big in the Archean

Biography:

Stanley Awramik is Professor of Biogeology in the Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, where he’s been a faculty member since 1974. He obtained his BA (geology) from Boston University and his PhD (geology) from Harvard. His research interests focus on stromatolites in time and space as well as microbial fossils. His field work has taken him all over the globe, but the main work has been in Australia, China, Canada, eastern California, and Wyoming. He found some of the oldest evidence of life on Earth – fossil bacteria about 3.5 billion years old. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America.

Topic: Relationship between geology and old worship sites in mountain areas of Japan

Biography:

Prof. Kawamura obtained his BSc (Geology) from the Hiroshima University and his PhD (Geology) from the Osaka City University. He is previously worked for Akita University in science education department of Faculty of Education and Human Studies as a professor. One of his research field is based on the application of field geology for historical science in the local area in Japan. He currently lectures geology at the University of Hyogo. His area of interest is Science education, Quaternary geology, and Geopark research. He has published various papers in peer reviewed journals.

Topic: Air Quality Modeling with Urban WRF-Chem system over a high altitude tropical City

Keynote Title: Effect of Hydraulic Properties on the Formation of Mineral Deposits: Insight from Reactive Mass Transport Modelling

Biography:

Dr. Jianwen Yang obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto, Canada, and is currently a full professor at the School of the Environment, University of Windsor, Canada. His research interest is mainly in lab- and field-based computational numerical modeling of subsurface fluid flow, heat transfer, and non-reactive/reactive mass transport in relation to applications in earth and environmental sciences.

Topic: Delineating the Source of Lead in the Urban Atmospheric Dust Based on Stable Isotopic Ratio: A Case Study fromPanzhihua City of Southwest China

Biography:

Yi Huang is a Professor in College of Geosciences at Chengdu University of Technology, China. She is a Principal Investigator at Mining Area Environment, State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection (SKLGP). She obtained her PhD in 2007 from Chengdu University of Technology. She did her postdoctoral research at Chengdu University of Technology. Her main research areas are studies on the migration and transformation of heavy metals in soil, water, air and other environmental media near the earth surface, stable isotope geochemistry, as well as the heavy metal pollution prevention and control techniques. 

Topic: Groundwater Depletion: The Unintended Consequence of Surface Water Trade

Biography:

Dr. Hao Zhao obtained his BSc (Finance) from Peking University and his PhD (Economics) from California Institute of Technology. His PhD theses used economic principles to understand water use institutions in California, US, and discussed mechanism designs to achieve optimal groundwater aquifer management.  He currently works at the Economic Science Institute of Chapman University as a post-doc research associate. His current project includes using laboratory methods to understand the behavior of traders in common-pool resource markets under different market institutions. His area of interest is environmental and resource economics, and experimental economics. He has published various papers in peer reviewed journals.