With the flourishing exploitation and development of the ocean oil and gas engineering, port engineering, submarine communication engineering as well as the coastal reclamation engineering, quite a number of engineer ing geological pr oblems have been encountered in the process of planning, construction and service in coastal and submarine regions. In order to make sure the rational development of marine engineering geology, the International Symposium on Marine Engineering Geology (ISMEG 2016) will be held in Qingdao, China on 21-23 October, 2016. The theme of this symposium is “Marine Engineering Geology and Geo-environmental safety”. ISMEG 2016 aims to gather academic scientists, leading engineers, industrial researchers and students to exchange their ideas, experiences and share their research results about marine engineering geology.