Dr. M. Shah Nawaz Chowdhury serves as ‘associate professor’ for the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Chittagong. He joined University of Chittagong (CU) in March 2013. Before it, he served Coastal and Ocean Research Group (CORG) of Bangladesh as one of their researchers.
Dr. Tomas Tomascik is an interdisciplinary marine scientist with over 40 years of experience in shallow-water tropical and temperate marine environments. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto (Canada), and his Ph.D. from McGill University (Canada).