Dr.Yoshimasa Tanaka National Institute of Polar Research, Japan |
Biography
Yoshimasa Tanaka received his Ph.D. in Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyushu University, Japan in 2000. After that, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Venture Business Laboratory, Kyushu University (from 2002 to 2003), an expert researcher at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (from 2003 to 2006), a project researcher at Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center, Research Organization of Information and Systems (from 2006 to 2009), and a project assistant professor at National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), Japan (from 2009 to 2015). He has been a project associate professor at NIPR and at Department of Polar Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies) since April 2015. His research interest includes the development of metadata database and analysis software of upper atmospheric data as well as the study on magnetosphere – ionosphere coupling processes in the auroral region. |
Dr. Zahra Bouya Australian Bureau of Meteorology |
Biography Zahra is a space weather researcher at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology Space Weather Services. She has previously worked at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. She obtained her PhD in Atmospheric Physics from New South Wales University in 2008. She has been a space weather forecaster at the Australian Space Forecast Centre since 2011. Zahra’s research mainly concern the regional Ionospheric specification and forecasting using Global Navigation Satellite System techniques. She is the secretary of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Solar Terrestrial section. She collaborates with the Asia Oceania Space Weather Alliance to join international efforts on increasing awareness of space weather and the future directions of space weather forecasting. Title: The Australian Bureau of Meteorology activities for the regional ionospheric modelling |
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Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia |
Biography
Mastura Mahmud is a Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). She is currently the Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation at the Faculty. She was previously the Head of the Earth Observation Centre (EOC), which is a centre of excellence at the Faculty, from 2004 to 2012. Mastura’s area of specialisation is meteorology and she has written a book on the haze report published by the Department of Environment, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in 2007, entitled Report on the Scientific Event Haze Peninsular Malaysia in August 2005: Part I – Major Contributors of Haze Which Hit Malaysia in 2005. She has also written a book on Transboundary Pollution: Tracking through Remote Sensing for her Professorial Inaugural Lecture in 2014. She was also involved as a representative of the Global Observation of Forest Cover Dynamics-Global Land Observation (GOFC-GOLD) Regional Network and was a member of the GOFC-GOLD Fire Network implementation team under the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In addition, she was appointed by the Department of Environment as a member of the expert group on the formation of the ambient air quality standards in 2012 and a member of the working group on the preparation of greenhouse gas inventories for the 3rd Report of the National Communication to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Title: Remote Sensing Applications in Monitoring Forest Fires |
 Prof. Dr. Liu, Jann- Yenq (Tiger)
National Central University, Taiwan |
Biography
LIU, Jann-Yenq (Tiger) is a chair professor at National Central University, Taiwan. His research specialty is ionospheric pulsation, ionospheric radio, GPS geoscience applications, ionospheric modeling, and lithosphere-atmosphere-ionospheric coupling. He is the member of AGU, EGU, AOGS, CGU, and JpGU. Prof. Liu received BS, Atmospheric Physics Department, National Central University, TAIWAN in 1980, as well as MS and PhD, Physics Department, Utah State University, USA in 1988 and 1990, respectively. He was Associated Professor at Institute of Space Science, as well as Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, TAIWAN during 1990-1997, and has been Professor since 1997. He also served as Chief Scientist of National Space Organization (NSPO) in Taiwan during 2011-2015. His research areas are in ionospheric space weather (solar flare, solar eclipse, and magnetic storm signatures), ionospheric data assimilation, ionospheric radar science, space- and ground-based GPS geosciences applications (ionospheric total electron content, TEC), seismo-traveling ionospheric disturbance (ionospheric tsunami signature), and seismo-ionospheric precursors. He has been publishing more than 250 referred journal papers since 1988. Title: Ionospheric Space Weather Probed by GNSS Radio Occultation Soundings |
Prof. Dr. Mastura Mahmud