Kiichiro Kawamura (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0501-4033) is a Research Professor in Earth Science at Graduate School of Science and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Japan (https://researchmap.jp/read0192788?lang=en). He is a marine geologist specialising in processes and mechanisms of submarine mass movements, deep-sea microplastic sedimentation and early diagenesis of fine-grained sediments, and he has 48 peer-reviewed journal articles with an H-index of 18. He was the secretary general of 5th international symposium of submarine mass movements and their consequences (Kyoto University, November, 2011) in terms of IGCP585. He is currently the president of Society for Study of Submarine Geological Risks (SSSGR).

Char-Shine Liu (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0357-714X) is a Research Fellow and CEO of the Ocean Center, National Taiwan University and Professor Emeritus, National Taiwan University. He is a marine geophysicist specializing in seismic investigation of the ocean floor from deep crustal structures to high-resolution seafloor features. He has extensive working experiences on various seafloor mapping, marine geohazard analysis and hazard potential assessment projects. He has also involved in many international programs, such as ODP/IODP, ILP, InterMARGINS, Source to Sink study. He served as Chair of Taiwan SCOR Committee from 2004-2009, and has coordinated many international cooperative research projects with scientists from US, Japan, France, Germany, etc. Since 2016, he has led a team actively engaging in Taiwan offshore wind farm (OWF) geohazard analysis and ground model building projects.

Gregory F Moore (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8541-3194) is Professor Emeritus in University of Hawaii. He is a marine geophysicist. He spent 4 and 1/2 years on the research staff at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1 and 1/2 years as research geologist at Cities Service Research Lab, and 5 years as an associate professor at the University of Tulsa before joining the U.H. faculty in 1989. He has participated in 26 oceanographic expeditions, including 18 as Chief or Co-chief scientist and six cruises for the Ocean Drilling Program (two as co-chief scientist). He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, and a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. During 2006-2008, He worked at JAMSTEC in Yokohama, Japan as Advisor to Asahiko Taira, Director General of the Center for Deep Earth Exploration (CDEX). He was one of four co-chief scientists on Expedition 338, and participated in Exp 358.

Jose M R Pacheco (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9558-8868) is an Auxiliary Researcher at the Azores University. He was the director of the Geosciences Department of the Azores University from 2005 to 2009 and from 2014 to 2016. Since 2016 he is the director of the Institute of Volcanology and Risk Assessment (IVAR) of the Azores University and coordinates the IVAR’s Scientific Unit of Physical Volcanology and Magmatism. Since 2008 he is also a member of the Centre of Information and Seismo-volcanic Surveillance of the Azores (CIVISA), responsible for the seismo-volcanic monitoring of the Azores archipelago and the scientific advisory of the civil protection authorities. His research develops mostly on physical volcanology and main interests are the characterization of volcanic deposits and corresponding eruptive styles; volcanostratigraphy and geologic mapping; characterization of genetic processes associated with the development of subaerial and submarine volcanic eruptions; and volcanic hazard and risk assessment. These interests are especially aimed to determine the eruptive history and define eruptive scenarios for quiet volcanoes, such as the Azorean volcanoes.

Shinji Sassa (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0269-200X) is Head of Soil Dynamics Group and Research Director of International Research Center for Coastal Disasters, Port and Airport Research Institute, National Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology, Japan. He is best known for his seminal works on wave-induced seabed liquefaction that have been extensively cited worldwide. His main research areas are Soil Dynamics, Geodynamics, Coastal and Offshore Geotechnics, and Submarine Landslides and Tsunami.
Sassa served as a panelist leader at the UNESCO IGCP conference on Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, 2011, and is the recipient of numerous distinguished awards, including the Commendations by the Prime Minister for Disaster Prevention Merit, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Outstanding Research Accomplishment Award, Best Paper Award thrice, Best Technical Development Award twice, National Land Technology Development Award, and several outstanding review awards for Coastal Engineering, Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Applied Ocean Research, and Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering. His Liquefaction Prediction and Assessment Paper was Top-Read Paper in ASCE Most Read Articles 2017. He is currently Chair of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Technical Committee on Scour and Erosion, Editor for Landslides: Submarine Landslides and Tsunamis, and has been Editor in Chief of the Special Issue on Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations and Vice Chairman of Soils and Foundations. He is Director of the International Consortium on Landslides.

Vicki Ferrini (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6054-5040) is a Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO). Her research focuses on using mapping techniques to understand the processes that shape the seafloor in a variety of environments. She has participated in research expeditions around the world mapping shallow water and deep-sea environments using ships, boats, submersibles and towed platforms. Most of her work is in the field of geoinformatics and is focused on ensuring that high-quality marine geoscience research data are made available to the science community and to the public. She is the Head of the Seabed 2030 Regional Center for the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

David Tappin (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3186-8403) is Principal Researcher at the British Geological Survey, where he leads Tsunami Hazard research, and Honorary Professor in the Earth Sciences Department at University College, London. He is a marine geologist specialising in submarine landslide and volcanic tsunamis and their onland sedimentary signatures. His research on the Papua New Guinea event of 1998 was seminal in proving the hazard from submarine landslide tsunamis. Since this time, he has researched all recent major tsunami events including those in the Indian Ocean (2004) and Japan (2011). Most recently he has been researching the Krakatau and Anak Krakatau tsunamis of 1883 and 2018. His research is internationally recognised and is extensively cited.

Hajime Naruse (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3863-3404) Assoc Prof Hajime Naruse, Kyoto University (KU) is a leading researcher in geohazard sediment transport. Naruse specialises in, and in CHaRTS will support, the use of AI in inversion of flow processes from geologic records, including ancient tsunami deposits. His expertise covers geological surveys of turbidites and tsunami deposits, numerical modelling and flume experiments of suspended sediment transport. Naruse has conducted field surveys of modern tsunami deposits, including the 2011 Tohoku-Oki and 2004 Indian Ocean events. He has 12 grants, from JSPS and MEXT, 46 peer-reviewed journal articles and an H-index of 18. He is Associate Editor for Frontiers in Earth Science, and is on the International Editorial Board for Depositional Record. Naruse is a director of JpGU.

Jan Sverre Laberg (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3917-4895#3054) is a Professor in marine geology at the University of Tromso, the Arctic University of Norway. His primary scientific interests are in Geomorphology, Continental margin processes and evolution, Continental shelf and fjords landforms. The concepts of his Geomorphological studies are interwoven with issues related to paleoclimate, paleoceanography and slope stability. His studies deal with the Paleogene, Neogene, and Quaternary.

Jih-Hsin Chang (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7666-2911) is Assistant professor in Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University. He is a marine geologist specializing in sedimentology, stratigraphy and reflection seismic interpretation. He has wide research interests and currently works for the sedimentation of modern sediments (Taiwan Strait) and the evolution of tectonic basins (South China Sea).

Uisdean Nicholson (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0746-8549) is a marine geologist at Heriot-Watt University, where he leads the Seismic Stratigraphy and Sedimentology research group. He specialises in the interpretation of seismic reflection and bathymetry data, integrated with sedimentological observations from core. He has recently (since 2019) been a Principal Investigator on three research grants focused on oceanography and submarine landslides (Falkland Plateau and Indonesia) and one research grant focused on deepwater sediment waves. He is also a member of the Science Evaluation Panel of the Integrated Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and sailed on the NanTroSEIZE expedition offshore Japan in 2007/2008. He has an active research collaboration with AIST in Japan, focused on the impact of ocean currents (principally the Kuroshio) on sediment distribution and seabed mobility in the Okinawa-Ryukyu region.

Abdelaziz Abdeldayem (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5786-4307; https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-abdeldayem-7baa12a0) is a Research Professor in Geophysics at the Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Egypt (http://tdb2.tanta.edu.eg/staff/aabdeldayem). He is a specialist in the paleomagnetic and magnetic rock fabric applications on all types of rocks and deep-sea marine sediments. During a long-term visit to Geological Survey of Japan (1997-2000) he participated in a cruise to the Japan Sea where he shared conducting several deep-marine geophysical measurements and collection of several cores. He also had the chance to study the magnetic/ rock magnetic properties of a vast collection of samples from many deep-sea sediment cores raised off the Japanese islands (Japan Sea and off-Tokai) and China. In an interesting study he, together with a Japanese active team, managed to use these tools to trace the flow path of the 1993 Hokkaido Nansei-oki earthquake through the study of the AMS of seismoturbidite located at the southern margin of the Japan Sea north basin (https://doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02210.x). Abdeldayem further participated in projects to study the accretionary prism sediments from Boso peninsula (southern Japan) and granite (Yakushima, southwestern Japan). More recently he took part in a collaborative project with US research team to carry out a Magnetosusceptibility and Cyclostratigraphy (MSEC) comparative study to correlate Cretaceous and Paleogene sections, including GSSP sections, from Egypt and the US. Most recently, he participated in a studies concerning the development of the Nile Delta (https://doi.org/ 10.3390/rs13101934; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142214699).

James Gilbert (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4932-938X) is Professor of Engineering at the University of Hull and has extensive experience of researching innovative sensing schemes, particularly for monitoring manufacturing processes. His current focus is on offshore wind energy including being UoH PI on the £7.6M EPSRC/industry funded Prosperity Partnership: A New Partnership in Offshore Wind with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) – the world’s largest manufacturer of offshore wind turbines, Ørsted – the world largest developer of offshore wind farms and Durham and Sheffield Universities. He leads on novel blade technologies, including fibre optic sensors for manufacturing process monitoring. He is a co-director of the £9M EPSRC Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy Hubwhere he works on the application of distributed (fibre optic) sensors in large scale offshore structures as well as leading on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). He also leads on industry interaction for the £5.8M EPSRC/NERC funded Aura Centre for Doctoral Training in Offshore Wind Energy and the Environment In addition to delivering research projects, he leads on the Research Development and Innovation programme for Aura, a collaboration led by UoH including Sheffield and Durham Universities, SGRE, Ørsted and Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult. This programme of research and associated commercialisation provides key underpinning for the Aura Innovation Centre, a £12M ERDF/Greenport Hull/UoH funded facility focussed on supporting innovation in offshore wind and the low carbon economy.

Robert Dorrell (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4257-7273) is Reader in Environmental Fluid Dynamics at the University of Hull, with a background in experimental, numerical and theoretical fluid dynamics of natural and industrial systems. Dorrell holds a current NERC Independent Research Fellowship (NERC NE/S014535/1) and a Royal Society Apex Award (RS APXR1180148) on fluid transport of particulates. Further, Dorrell holds a NERC Capital Call Award for the development advanced metrology of multiphase flows (NERC NE/V017160/1). He also has significant experience across the offshore renewables sector, including research on Wave Energy Convertor design (EPSRC EP/V040561/1), as well as in resource modelling, forecasting, evaluation of wave energy resources and science policy.
Dorrell’s research has included: fluvial microplastic fluxes, National Geographic (National Geographic NGS-56269R-19); Coriolis and Rotational Effects on Stratified Turbulence (EU FP7 European High-Performance Infrastructures in Turbulence 312778); environmental risks to marine infrastructure (NERC NE/P009190/1); and six joint industry projects, cumulatively worth >£2M. Dorrell leads international research collaborations on marine hydrodynamics (RF-2018-16, JSPS 18KK0378, JSPS 18J22211). He is Deputy Director of the £5.8M EPSRC-NERC Centre for Doctoral Training in offshore wind energy and the environment (Aura CDT). He has >40 peer-reviewed papers and is the recipient of the Gerhard Jirka Award by the IAHR and the Humber Renewables Award for Renewable Education.

Yasukuni Okubo is Specialized manager of Geothermal Energy Research & Development Co., Ltd., Member of Science Council of Japan, Technical advisor of Society for Study of Submarine Geological Risks, Member of Engineering Academy of Japan and Chairman of Mottainai Society. He is a geophysicist, specializing in analysis of aerial magnetic data. The main research results are the mapping of a crustal temperature distribution by Curie point depth analysis and the modeling of the crustal structure. He was the chair of IUGS Task Group on Geohazards in 2017-2020.