Jamila Ngondo is a PhD student at the East China Normal University, Shanghai, and an assistant lecturer in the Department of Geography and Economics at the Dar es Salaam University College of Education, University of Dar es salaam, Tanzania. Her research interests include physical geography, spatial data modelling, and remote sensing.
Joseph Mango is a PhD student at the School of Geographic Sciences of the East China Normal University, Shanghai, and an assistant lecturer in the Department of Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His research interests include land surveying, temporal and spatiotemporal data modelling, and remote sensing.
Joel Nobert is a senior lecturer in the Department of Water Resources Engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam. He received a PhD degree from Yokohama National University, Japan, and Master's and Batchelor’s degrees from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His research areas include geospatial modelling, hydrological modelling, and integrated water resources management. He has conducted various studies in the area of water resources management and hydrological modelling.
Alfonse Muhunira Dubi is a professor of Marine Technology, focusing on port planning and development and engineering as well as coastal and offshore engineering and marine renewable energy. He is a Professional Engineer registered with the Engineers Registration Board (ERB) of Tanzania and a member of the Institution of Engineers, Tanzania. He holds a Dip. Ing. Degree in Structural Engineering, obtained at Sofia in Bulgaria (1981), a graduate diploma in Marine Civil Engineering obtained at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, University of Trondheim (1989), and a Dr. Ing. degree in Marine Technology obtained at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) at the University of Trondheim, Norway (1995).
He has vast teaching and research experience in port planning, development and engineering, marine environmental engineering, physical oceanography, and hydrodynamics. He has mentored students and given lectures on these topics at various local and regional Universities in Tanzania, Mauritius (University of Mauritius), Mozambique (Eduardo Mondlane University), and Namibia (University of Namibia). Prof. Dubi has published various research findings in both local and international journals.
Xiang Li is a professor at the School of Geographic Sciences of the East China Normal University. His research interests include spatio-temporal modelling, spatial optimization, and spatial big data application. He has published more than 100 research articles in the above areas.
Cheng Heqin is a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University. She received a Ph.D from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, a Master's degree from the Geoscience University, Beijing, China, and a Bachelor's degree from the Geoscience University, Wuhan, China. Her research interests include earth system science, global changes in the estuaries and coastal zones, estuarine and coastal morphodynamics and dynamic sedimentation, elemental cycles and their interactions in estuarine and coastal ecosystems, and integrated coastal zone management. She has published more than 130 research articles and three books focusing on the influence of sea level rise on the estuary of the Yangtze River, the discontinuity of sedimentation and stratigraphy, and human action and control in the coastal system (with a focus on fisheries).