Introduction to the thematic set of papers on: marine engineering geology

The First International Symposium on Marine Engineering Geology (ISMEG2016) was held in Qingdao, China, 21-24 October 2016. The symposium was sponsored by the Marine Engineering Geology Commission, International Association for Engineering Geology and Environment (IAEG-C34) and hosted by the Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Geological Engineering at Ocean University of China. Over 200 researchers worldwide participated in the symposium, which included 13 plenary reports, 17 keynote reports, and more than 40 oral presentations and posters. All papers appearing in this thematic issue of Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment are original scientific papers that have been internationally reviewed, focusing on the marine geohazards, engineering characteristics of marine soil, coastal and ocean engineering, and wave-soil interactions encountered in the latest practice of marine engineering geology.