**Preface to "New Advances in Marine Engineering Geology"**

The ocean is the cradle of life and is rich in natural resources. With the worldwide boom in exploration and application of ocean resources, a dramatically increasing amount of coastal engineering and offshore engineering facilities have been constructed in the last few decades. The rapid development of human economic activities and the global climate change have significant impacts on the marine environment, resulting in frequent geological disasters. Under this circumstance, there is an urgent demand for a platform for scientists and engineers to share their state-of-art research outcomes in the field of Marine Engineering Geology.

With 14 papers and an editorial overview published and more than fifty authors involved, this book presents some of the recent efforts made towards marine engineering geology and geotechnics, including theoretical advances, laboratory and field testing, design methods, and the potential for further development of these disciplines. Acknowledgements are due to the positive responses of all authors in their initial submissions and subsequent revisions, the many (mostly anonymous) reviewers, other members of the JMSE editorial board, and the professional services by the MDPI publisher.

> **Qing Yang, Dong-Sheng Jeng, Xiaolei Liu, Yin Wang, Hendrik Sturm** *Editors*
