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Steering committee
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The GTOS Steering Committee (GTSC) assists in the implementation of the terrestrial observing system and advises the co-sponsors and the Secretariat on the technical content and direction of the programme. It also establishes and updates the programme requirements, reviews the effectiveness of existing programmes and recommends new initiatives.

 

Chairman

Berrien MOORE
Director
Institute for the Study of
Earth, Oceans, and Space
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH, 03824, USA
e-mail:
b.moore@unh.edu
     
 

Sponsor representatives

Jeff TSCHIRLEY
Environment Assessment and Management Unit (NRCE)
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100, Roma, Italy
e-mail: Environment@fao.org

Thomas ROSSWALL
Executive Director
International Council for Science (ICSU)
51, boulevard de Montmorency
75016 Paris, France
e-mail: secretariat@icsu.org

Norberto FERNANDEZ
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Avenue, Gigiri
PO Box 30552
Nairobi, Kenya
e-mail: norberto.fernandez@unep.org

Mario HERNANDEZ
World Heritage Centre
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
7 Place de Fontenoy
75352 Paris, France
e-mail: Ma.Hernandez@unesco.org

Buruhani S. NYENZI
Director, World Climate Programme (WCP)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
7 bis, avenue de la Paix, CH-1211 Geneve 2, Switzerland
e-mail: BNyenzi@wmo.int

 

Scientific representatives To be further expanded

On rotation selected by the GTOS Sponsors on their scientific and institutional merits:

André BASSOLE
Directeur Général du CERPINEDD
Burkina Faso

Eric LAMBIN
Department of Geography, University of Louvain
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

H.E. Nadia MAKRAM EBEID
Executive Director
CEDARE
Cairo, Egypt

Jacqueline McGLADE
Director
European Environment Agency (EEA)
Copenhagen K, Denmark

Diane WICKLAND
Manager
Terrestrial Ecology Programme - NASA
Washington, United States of America


Panel Chairs

Coastal Panel (C-GTOS)
Robert R. CHRISTIAN
Biology Department
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858, USA
e-mail: christianr@ecu.edu


Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD)
Anthony C. JANETOS
Joint Global Change Research Institute
8400 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 201
College Park, MD 20740, USA
e-mail: anthony.janetos@pnl.gov

Terrestrial Carbon Observation (TCO)
Riccardo VALENTINI
Dept. of Forest Science & Resources, University of Tuscia
Via S. Camillo de Lellis, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
e-mail: rik@unitus.it


Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate (TOPC)

Han DOLMAN
Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
e-mail: han.dolman@geo.falw.vu.nl

 

 

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