Zhijun Dai is a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. He received his B.S. degree in Physical Geography from Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China, in 1997, his master’s degree in Environmental Oceanography from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, in 2000, and his Ph.D. in Coastal Oceanography from Sun Yat-sen University in 2003. He is the Associate Editor for Frontiers of Earth Science, and an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports, Marine Geology, Geomorphology, Ocean & Coastal Management, and Water. His research interests include hydrological processes and water resources utilization, riverine, estuarine, and coastal morphodynamics, sediment transport in the coastal and estuarine zone, coastal and estuarine resource management using remote sensing image analysis techniques, and coastal biomorphodynamics and deltaic ecology.