MedGU - 6th Mediterranean Geosciences Union

Steering Committee

Honorary Chair

A.M. Celâl Sengör

Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye

General Chair

Attila Çiner

MedGU (Interim) President
Founding Editor-in-Chief, Mediterranean Geosciences Reviews (Springer)
Topical Chief Editor, Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer)
Professor, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Geography, University of Barcelona, Spain

Program Chair

Mustapha Meghraoui

Associate Editor, Mediterranean Geosciences Reviews (Springer)
Associate Editor, Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer)
Emeritus Professor, IPG Strasbourg, France

General Supervisor

Nabil Khélifi

Senior Publishing Professional
Ministerial Advisor for Scientific Publishing
MEDGU Founder & Publishing Manager
Germany

Advisory Committee

Hans Thybo

Past President of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
President of International Lithosphere Program (ILP)
Editor-in-Chief of Earth and Planetary Science Letters (Elsevier)
Professor at:
• Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye
• Center for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, University of Oslo, Norway

A.M. Celâl Sengör

Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye

François Roure

Topical Chief Editor, Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer)
IFP – Energies Nouvelles, France

Dorrik Stow

Emeritus Professor, Consultant and Author
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Organizing Committee

Local Chair

ElSayed A. Issawy

Professor of Applied Geophysics, National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), Helwan, Egypt
Head of the Aswan Branch of the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), Aswan, Egypt
Director of the Aswan Seismological Research Center, Aswan, Egypt

Members

Hesham E. Mossa

Professor of Seismology, Vice President of the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), Helwan, Egypt

Nadia H. Aboualy

Professor of Geophysics, Deputy Head of Geodynamics Department, National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), Helwan, Egypt

Mahmoud S. Salam

Professor of Seismology, Seismology Department, National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), Helwan, Egypt

Soha R. Hassan

Head of Gravity Laboratory, Geodynamics Department, National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), Helwan, Egypt

Shimaa H. Elkhouly

Egyptian National Data Center (ENDC), National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), Helwan, Egypt

Hany A. Amen

Seismology Department, National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), Helwan, Egypt

Program Committee

Chair

Mustapha Meghraoui

Associate Editor, Mediterranean Geosciences Reviews (Springer)
Associate Editor, Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer)
Emeritus Professor, IPG Strasbourg, France

Members

Sami Khomsi

University Tunis El-Manar, Tunis, Tunisia & King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Hasnaa Chennaoui Aoudjehane

Meteoritical Society Fellow Laureate, “Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet” from the French Academy of Sciences
Associate Editor, Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer)
Professor, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco

Catherine Kuzucuoglu

Associate Editor, Mediterranean Geosciences Reviews (Springer)
Research Director Emeritus
CNRS, Laboratoire de Géographie Physique
UMR 8591, Meudon, France

Elena Xoplaki

Topical Chief Editor, Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration (Springer)
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

Publications Committee

Chair

Attila Çiner

Members

Zeynal Abiddin Erguler

Topical Chief Editor, Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer)
Dumlupinar University, Kutahya, Türkiye

Alina Polonia

The National Research Council (CNR)
Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR)
Bologna, Italy

Zhihua Zhang

Distinguished Professor
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Big Data Mining for Global Warming (World Scientific)
Topical Chief Editor, Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer)
Shandong University, China

Amjad Kallel

Topical Chief Editor, Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer)
ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia

Tolga Görüm

Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye

M. Akif Sarıkaya

Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Mourad Bezzeghoud

School of Sciences and Technology (ECT)
Insititut of Earth Sciences (IIFA)
University of Évora, Portugal

Anastasia Kiratzi

Professor of Seismology
Faculty of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Santanu Banerjee

Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai, India

Syed E. Hasan

Chair, Environmental Characterization and Remediation Technical Working Group, AEG
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA

Zakaria Hamimi

President of the Egyptian National Committee for Geological Sciences at the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt
Member of the Egyptian Universities Promotion Committee at the Supreme Council for Universities, Egypt
President & Founding Member of the ArabGU
IAGETH VP for Africa & IAGETH National Chapter for Egypt
IUGS-Representative for Egypt
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of African Earth Sciences (Elsevier)
Associate Editor, Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer)
Professor, Benha University, Benha, Egypt

Broder Merkel

Topical Chief Editor, Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer)
Publisher of Freiberg Online Geoscience (FOG)
Institute of Geology, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

Hesham El-Askary

Professor of Remote Sensing and Earth Systems Science
Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling & Observations
Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, USA

Orkan Özcan

Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Ahmed Radwan

Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Nicola Perilli

Associate Editor, Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration
Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy

Technical Committee

Track 1. Atmospheric Sciences, Meteorology, Climatology, Oceanography

Chair(s): Zhihua Zhang (China), Nabil Khelifi (Germany), Panagiotis Nastos (Greece)

Track 2. Biogeochemistry, Geobiology, Geoecology, Geoagronomy

Chair(s): Haroun Chenchouni (Algeria), Jesús Rodrigo-Comino (Spain)

Track 3. Earthquake Seismology and Geodesy

Chair(s): Mourad Bezzeghoud (Portugal), Mustapha Meghraoui (France)

Track 4. Environmental Earth Sciences

Chair(s): Amjad Kallel (Tunisia), Md Firoz Khan (Malaysia), Rahim Barzegar (Canada), Carla Candeias (Portugal)

Track 5. Applied & Theoretical Geophysics

Chair(s): Cesare Comina (Italy), Arkoprovo Biswas (India), Luca Gasperini (Italy)

Track 6. Geo-Informatics and Remote Sensing

Chair(s): Orkan Özcan (Türkiye), Hesham El-Askary (USA)

Track 7. Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, Volcanology, Planetology

Chair(s): Domenico Doronzo (Spain), Hasnaa Chennaoui Aoudjehane (Morocco)

Track 8. Geological Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Geomechanics, Mining Sciences

Chair(s): Zeynal Abiddin Ergüler (Türkiye), Murat Karakus (Australia), Ali Karrech (Australia), Lysandros Pantelidis (Cyprus)

Track 9. Geomorphology, Geography, Soil Science, Glaciology, Geoarchaeology, Geoheritage

Chair(s): Jesús Rodrigo-Comino (Spain), Attila Çiner (Türkiye)

Track 10. Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Hydrochemistry

Chair(s): Helder Chaminé (Portugal), Mingjie Chen (Oman), Tajudeen M. Iwalewa (USA), Abdelazim Negm (Egypt)

Track 11. Petroleum and Energy Sciences and Engineering

Chair(s): Santanu Banerjee (India), Ali Ghalambor (USA)

Track 12. Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Paleontology, Geochronology, Marine Geosciences, Historical Geology

Chair(s): Attila Çiner (Türkiye), Dorrik Stow (UK), Jasper Knight (South Africa)

Track 13. Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geodynamics, Petroleum Geology

Chair(s): Ahmed Radwan (Poland), Wilfried Bauer (Oman), Zakaria Hamimi (Egypt), Afroz Ahmad Shah (Brunei Darussalam)

Track 14. Other Related Topics

Chair(s): Attila Çiner (Türkiye), Nabil Khelifi (Germany)

Track 15 (Special Session). Landslides: Processes, Hazard and Risk

Chair(s): Tolga Görüm (Türkiye), Ugur Ozturk (Germany)

Track 16 (Special Session). Weather Extreme Events in the Mediterranean: Spatio-temporal dynamic, Attribution, Physical mechanisms, and Future scenarios

Ahmed Kenaey (Spain), Juan I. López Moreno (Spain), Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano (Spain), Abdelazim Negm (Egypt)