Preface

Abstract

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I would like to extend our warmest regards to all participants of the 6th International Conference on Tropical and Coastal Region Eco-Development (ICTCRED) 2020. This annual conference was held on 27-28 October 2020, organized by the Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia.We brought an essential global topic the Sustainable Development in Coastal Area . The conference aims to provide a forum to exchange ideas and their current achievements for researchers, academicians, professionals, and industries to expose and exchange innovative ideas, methods, and experiences in the areas related to tropical life sciences and coastal development.We have accepted 107 abstracts for oral and poster presentations coming from different universities and research centers from Indonesia, Japan, USA, UK, Netherlands, South Korea, Belgium, and Malaysia, which were consisted of 15 big interests. Besides, we have cordially invited ten highly respected researchers as keynote speakers with different fields to share their knowledge and expertise. We are grateful for each one of them for setting aside their valuable time to participate in this conference.The 6th ICTCRED 2020 was firstly planned to be held offline in Semarang, Indonesia. However due to the pandemic COVID-19 situation, we had to adapt the new normal regulation which restrict the face to face meeting to avoid the massive virus transmission. Therefore, the 6th ICTCRED 2020 was held in virtual format using Zoom application. This event could not be postponed since it has become the annual event of the Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Universitas Diponegoro. Despite virtual event, we guarantee that the 6th ICTCRED 2020 was held professionally, following the rule of scientific conference. Starting with the plenary session with the presentation from the keynote speakers, the participants have their presentation in the panel sessions with 10 minute presentation and 10 minute discussion. The presentation of participant was in video recording format to avoid the technical problems during the presentation. However, the presence of participant was an obligation to answer the questions emerging during discussion session. The recording of the plenary session in the first and second day of the 6th ICTCRED 2020 can be seen on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7uZx6ebRQg&t=3094s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQqZrAsvEJg&t=2990s, respectively.The committee extent very kind thank all participants for the success of the conference. They were Rector of Universitas Diponegoro, Dean of Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, the keynote speakers. We also would like to acknowledge the Institute of Physics (IOP) for the collaboration in publishing the conference proceedings, our sponsors the Universitas Diponegoro, COREM Undip, ICZM Center Undip, WCU Undip, ISOI, NIOZ, NWO, Tufts University, and TU Delft.Finally, we proudly present 62 selected papers in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. We do hope that the 6th ICTCRED 2020 event brings a fruitful knowledge and be a memorable event not only from the scientific perspective but also in the joy of meeting with other scientists for mutual collaboration.List of Guest Editor, Scientific Committee/Editor, Organizing Committee are available in this pdf.