Md Ataul Gani is pursuing his PhD in the Department of Water Resources and Ecosystems, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education and Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Jagannath University, Dhaka with specialization in Limnology and Hydrobiology. He has working experience in different projects that mainly dealt with the river and coastal ecosystems of Bangladesh, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Bangladesh and The University Grants Commission of Bangladesh.