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1 INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE AND MARINE ENVIRONMENT 2021
st
(IPCoSME 2021)
“Environmental Sustainability Enhancement Through the Collaboration of Sciences”

PLENARY SPEAKER ABSTRACT

PSU

FRONTIER RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY TO PROTECT MARINE

ENVIRONMENT

PONLACHART CHOTIKARN 1,2

1 Coastal Oceanography and Climate Change Research Center, Prince of Songkla University,
Hat Yai, 90110, Thailand
2 Marine and Coastal Resources Institute, Faculty of Environmental Management, Prince of
Songkla University, Hat Yai, 90110, Thailand

Corresponding author email: ponlachart.c@psu.ac.th

Since the last century, climate change and anthropogenic activities such as overfishing,
agricultural runoff, deforestration, tourisms, and industrialization has led to an increase in

global temperature caused by rising CO2 concentration, ocean warming, ocean acidification,
sea level rise, coastal erosion and marine pollution. Marine and coastal resources and

ecosystems are therefore suffering serious decline. This impact can be lessened with a better
understanding of the marine and coastal ecosystems and with monitoring future climate change,

anthropogenic change and pollution using technology. Technology such as Geographic

Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used
to understand and monitor marine and coastal environment. The talk will discuss the recent

research on the role of planted and natural mangrove on leaf litter production, effect of marine

debris on ecophysiology of corals, and the use of integrated biomarker response (IBR) to
identify the impact of warming on key tropical marine primary producers. The opportunities

with the use of GIS, RS and AI in sustainably managing marine and coastal environment will
be discussed.

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