Dr. Dilip Kumar Jha has 23 years of research experience in the field of coastal area management, marine ecology, mariculture, and geospatial modeling. He completed his Ph.D. in Environmental Management from Bharathidasan University. He published more than 40 research papers in peer-reviewed national and International Journals. He participated and presented about 30 papers in various conferences/workshops/seminars. He worked as Team Leader or Team co-leader to complete about 90 projects on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and guided 20 project students from different universities. In addition to that, he also trained students on Arc GIS in association with ESRI India. He is a PADI-certified open water diver. Further, he is a reviewer of International journals like Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Pollution, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Journal of Sea Research, Ocean & Coastal Management, etc. Presently, he is guest editor for a special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441) ("Origin and Dynamic of Micropollutants in Contaminated River, Estuary, and Surrounding Coastal Water Systems").