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.