Md. Shahadat Hossain is an oceanographer with a particular interest in interdisciplinary research approaches. Shahadat completed his postgraduate studies in Observational Oceanography at the Ocean Frontier Institute, Dalhousie University, Canada, and earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in oceanography from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet, Bangladesh.

His research focuses on improving our understanding of regional-scale oceanographic processes, bio-physical interaction, and climate change in marine ecosystems through an interdisciplinary lens.

Shahadat specializes in oceanographic observational data, with core competencies in numerical modelling, population dynamics, and time-series analysis of ecological and geospatial data. He has participated in 18 field trips to collect in situ oceanographic data in Bangladesh’s coastal areas. He has personally interviewed 350+ stakeholders and facilitated several multistakeholder workshops. He also led community-based citizen science projects and trained coastal communities on ocean literacy.